In the film, telecast Saturday night as part of the network’s ongoing cheerleader-themed programming event, Angie Patterson is a stern but loving mother who’s disappointed by some of the life choices her now 30-year-old daughter Vicky (Maiara Walsh, pictured below) has made. Vicky’s decisions to drop out of high school in her senior year, work a dead-end retail job and have a relationship with an unmotivated boyfriend don’t sit well with Angie, who simply wants the best for her daughter. So, when the opportunity to have a high school do-over and impress her mother presents itself, Vicky leaps at it -- albeit with someone else’s identity. As Vicky re-enrolls in high school and begins to ace her final year re-do, suspicions as to whom she might be arise, driving the unbalanced student to protect herself and her newly acquired identity at any cost.
Gail O'Grady on Playing a Sympathetic "Smother" in Lifetime's "Identity Theft of a Cheerleader"
Publish date
September 06, 2019 (ET)Channel
A+E Networks InSitesIn a career that’s seen her portray the loving mother more often than not, actor Gail O’Grady (pictured above) takes a decidedly different approach to parenting with her latest character in the Lifetime movie Identity Theft of a Cheerleader. For O’Grady, the chance of taking on over-achieving, demonstrative smother Angie Patterson was simply too good an opportunity to refuse. “I think I read two pages of this,” O’Grady laughed during a recent exclusive chat with MediaVillage. “As soon as I read the title and it had the word ‘cheerleader’, and ‘identity theft’, I was in. Actually, during the first few pages I started dialing my manager and said, ‘Take it!’”