The Hulu original series Tell Me Lies became a huge and somewhat unexpected hit after its first season aired in 2022, and that's probably because its story of a deeply toxic college relationship is just so universal. Based on the book of the same name by Carola Lovring and adapted by Megan Oppenheimer (who previously worked on "Fear the Walking Dead" and "Queen America"), Tell Me Lies splits its timeline into two parts, telling the twisted "love" a story. of Lucy Albright (Grace Van Patten) and Steven DeMarco (Jackson White), who meet at Baird College in upstate New York and proceed with an on-again, off-again relationship that ends up creating a lot of collateral damage. In 2008, Steven and Lucy are carefree students at Baird, but in 2015, they're trapped together at a wedding ... and it's clear that things aren't quite over between them.

Van Patten, like her co-star White, comes from a Hollywood family (White is the son of small screen legend Katey Sagal). Dick Van Patten is the "Tell Me Lies" star's uncle, and her father, Tim Van Patten, is a TV director known for high-profile projects such as "Sex and the City," "The Sopranos," "Game of Thrones." HBO's Black Mirror and Perry Mason are getting reboots. (Young Van Patten's cousin is also actress Talia Balsam.) Aside from her Nepo Baby credits, Van Patten worked on a bunch of movies and TV shows before joining the main cast of Tell Me Lies. so where have you seen her before?

A romantic comedy with a quirky (and kind of dark) twist, the 2016 Netflix original film The Tramps stars Grace Van Patten as Ellie, a girl in desperate need of money who offers to work as a getaway driver for a young man named Danny (Callum Turner) in New York. Why? Well, Danny's brother Darren (Michael Vondel) asks Danny to deliver a mysterious suitcase to him - Darren, recently incarcerated, can't do it alone - and when Danny messes up by leaving the briefcase with the wrong person, Ellie is forced to stay behind around, realizing that he would not get paid unless Danny had a successful delivery. From that moment on, Ellie and Danny are stuck together... so naturally, they form a surprising bond as they travel out of town to retrieve the briefcase.

The Tramps is one of those Netflix movies that came and went in the blink of an eye, but to Turner and Van Patten's credit, they carry the film quite well — and have a decent supporting cast around them, including Mike Birbiglia, Luis Cancelmi and Margaret Collin. "The Tramps" was a great start for Van Patten, and as an added bonus, it proved that she can successfully lead a project - especially a romantic one.

In 2017, writer-director Noah Baumbach assembled an all-star cast for his sardonic comedy The Meyerowitz Tales, including Adam Sandler, Ben Stiller, Dustin Hoffman, Emma Thompson, Adam Driver, Candice Bergen, Elizabeth Marvel and Grace Van Patten. The story of the sprawling and delightfully dysfunctional Meyerowitz clan, Baumbach's film first introduces us to Danny Meyerowitz (Sandler), who, struggling with unemployment and a recent separation from his wife, returns to his father Harold (Hoffman) in New York. . Along with his brother Matthew (Stiller), sister Jean (Marvel) and Harold's fourth wife, Maureen (Thompson), Danny navigates his father's health problems and family feuds, discovering along the way that his daughter Eliza (Van Patten) began by making sexually explicit art films starring herself. (This goes about as far as you'd expect.)

Van Patten more than holds his own against some serious Hollywood heavyweights, and honestly, Eliza plays a seriously pivotal role in the film (at the very end, she discovers a sculpture made by her grandfather Harold that everyone previously believed was lost). The Meyerowitz Stories is a phenomenal entry in Baumbach's filmography and a fantastic showcase for Van Patten.

David Robert Michell's 2018 surrealist neo-noir Under the Silver Lake is a truly strange film in all the best waysand if you look at Grace Van Patten's acting resume, you'll gather as much based on the fact that her role in the movie is simply called "Balloon Girl." The story of "Under the Silver Lake" begins with a disgruntled millennial named Sam (Andrew Garfield), who is obsessed with conspiracy theories and "hidden" messages and takes a special interest when billionaire Jefferson Sevens (Chris Gunn) mysteriously disappears. From there, Sam finds himself on a bizarre journey that begins when his neighbor Sarah (Riley Keough) also disappears and encounters a whole host of strange people, including Van Patten's so-called balloon girl.

Balloon Girl usually appears while Sam is under some sort of influence—he spends much of the film eating a drugged cookie—and Van Patten plays her breezy and perfectly, ballooning, wearing bright colors, and rocking space buns and wild makeup while she coolly communicates with the increasingly evasive Sam. "Under the Silver Lake" is a fun, if wild, ride, and the best thing about Van Patten's performance is that she totally understands the tone of the film—as the kids would say, she "got the job."

After Liane Moriarty's book Big Little Lies was adapted for HBO and won a truckload of Emmysother networks and streamers have tried to recapture lightning in a bottle — though Hulu's original series Nine Perfect Strangers may have taken things further than most. Not only did David E. The show was created by Kelly, who also worked on Big Little Lies, and Emmy winner Nicole Kidman returned to the Moriarty cinematic universe for the series, which centers around a mysterious wellness retreat called Tranquilum House where you work you start to go wrong a lot quickly. Kidman plays retreat founder Masha Dmitrichenko, and the supporting cast includes an all-star cast including Melissa McCarthy, Michael Shannon, Luke Evans, Manny Jacinto, Samara Weaving, Regina Hall and Bobby Cannavale — and Grace Van Patten.

Van Patten plays Zoe Marconi, a girl who comes on vacation with her father Napoleon (Shannon) and her mother Heather (Asher Cady) as they all mourn the loss of Zoe's twin brother, Zach (who died before the family's time in Tranquilum). Along with the other guests, the Marconi's try to unpack their trauma and heal, only to discover that Masha is involved in some shady dealings as the owner of the resort - and Van Patten plays perfectly against Shannon, Cady and the rest of the cast.

Tell Me Lies is available to stream on Hulu now.