Melanie Lynskey and Jason Ritter have been together for more than a decade and share one daughter Lia Beck is a contributing writer at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2022.

Philip Cheung for The New York Times Liane Hentscher/HBO For the past decade, in shows like “Yellowjackets” and “The Last of Us,” Melanie Lynskey has embodied women who seem meek and bland ...

Both the actresses were shocked to learn the famous faces they're related to on 'Finding Your Roots' Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty; Corey Nickols/Getty Debra Messing and Melanie Lynskey's family trees ...