socialite

But she calls her latest role, as a “wild” suburban socialite on NBC’s new series “Grosse Point Garden Society,” an “actor’s dream.”

She said in the year 2000, she met Maxwell, a British socialite.

The US actress was best known for playing Buffy the Vampire Slayer's younger sister Dawn Summers, and later took on the role of manipulative socialite Georgina Sparks in Gossip Girl as an adult.

“The experience of playing a socialite means you are in the hair and makeup chair far longer than you are when you’re playing a detective,” said Fumero, laughing.

Soon Tompkins enters this free-for-all theater of the mind as a Truman Capote-coded socialite named “Hoover Personae” — who at one point observes that the masked vigilante “The Shadow” “was a butterface.”