To an entire generation, Calista Flockhart, will always be ‘Ally’ from the hit legal drama, Ally McBeal, which emerged in the late 1990s.

To another generation, she will be the Republican political pundit from the lesser-known television series, Brothers & Sisters where Sally Fields played her mother, Rob Lowe played politician and husband, and the Emmy-award-winning actor, Matthew Rhys, played her younger brother Kevin.

Somewhere between these two shows, fans also remember her as the actress who fell in love with Indiana Jones star, Harrison Ford, and gave up her thriving career to be a mother.

To yet another generation, none of these facts mattered. To younger millennials and Gen Z, Calista Flockhart moves in the vast world of superheroes or heroines, to be precise. While she was never (by choice) in a lead role, she played an empowered businesswoman called Cat Grant, as a supporting cast member of DC Comics’ Supergirl. It is, as a series, one of their least irritating and more charming, to date.

Just recently, she joined her former Ally McBeal fellow cast members at the 75th Emmy Awards, as Ally, where they danced to Barry White’s ‘You’re the First, the Last, My Everything’ - something that was first shown in the series 21 years ago.

But all those prominent and not-so-prominent roles had one thing in common: they were never really dark characters.

Now, at the age of 59, Ally, sorry, Calista is coming back to television as Lee Radziwill in Ryan Murphy’s latest anthology series: Feud: Capote vs. the Swans. In the series, she will join illustrious co-actors, or other swans, such as Naomi Watts, Diane Lane, Chloe Sevigny and Demi Moore, to name a few. The period series, as Calista Flockhart, admits, is her darkest, edgiest role in television and not for the faint-hearted.

And while the series is going to be a masterclass in ‘50s and ‘60s New York style, the 59-year-old actor is not one who is decked in designer-only off-camera.

And no, the series will not have an imaginary dancing baby. In a recent interview, she confessed that while she doesn’t have nightmares about the dancing baby from her days on Ally McBeal, she does find him rather creepy.