Interview with Amy Rutberg

Actress Amy Rutberg has been lighting up the small screen since the late 1990s, appearing in such shows as Everwood, Law & Order, and The Good Wife. Since 2015, she’s been a television mainstay with featured roles in Blindspot, The Blacklist, Taken, and NCIS: NOLA. She’s also well known in the Marvel television universe as high-powered attorney Marci Stahl from the Daredevil franchise, which returned for a much-anticipated third season in October on Netflix.

The Los Angeles native began pursuing an acting career at 17 years old and has worked steadily since in both L.A. and New York. Though her character Megan Sutter died on NBC’s NCIS: NOLA last season, she’s making an exciting return to the series for its 100th episode — and beyond. Season 3 of Netflix’s Daredevil also promises new opportunities for Marci Stahl, who announced that she’d been taken on as an attorney for another Marvel law firm: Hogarth, Chao, and Benowitz, from the Netflix/Marvel series, Jessica Jones. With exciting arcs for her characters on both shows, Rutberg’s star in on the rise.

Congratulations on 100 episodes of NCIS: NOLA. That’s a huge milestone. What can we expect from this extravaganza? I was on NCIS: NOLA last season, and my character died … so I was pretty shocked that I was coming back. I’m basically the angel of death to Scott Bakula. I exist in his head and follow him around for the season. They get really deep character-wise this season.… And this is NCIS: New Orleans, so it’s got that mystical edge to it. It’s unclear if I’m good, if I’m bad — it’s an interesting plot twist. … I help Dwayne Pride [Bakula’s character] look at his life and the decisions he’s made. … You’re going to see a side of Dwayne that you’ve never seen before. They go into his past, and it’s pretty fascinating since we’ve followed this character for five years, but we don’t know where he came from. We also have an incredible band on for the 100th episode: Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats.