Margene Heffman
Margene "Margie" Heffman is a character on Big Love, the fictional HBO television series set among contemporary polygamists in Utah. The role is played by Ginnifer Goodwin. The show focuses on the family of Bill Henrickson; Margene is the third of Henrickson's three wives, and the mother of three of Henrickson's children: Aaron, Lester, and Nell.
Biography
Margene is Bill Henrickson's third wife, and his youngest. She was raised by her single mother Virginia Evelyn "Ginger" Heffman in a small town in Colorado, after her father left when she was 3. Later, she and her mother moved to Salt Lake City where she attended high school, She was enrolled in a Catholic school. Margene mentions an aunt who lost everything to a gambling addiction. Her mother had an uncle, Morris, who lived in rural Illinois with his wife, Dot. Morris and Dot's marriage was childless and they had lost touch with Ginger for 25 years and were unaware of Margene's existence.After Margene graduated from high school, she began working for Bill at the Home Plus as a customer-service representative. When Bill hired her to babysit his children, she grew close to the family, and soon Bill, Barb, and Nicki made Margene their third sister-wife. She is generally easier for Bill to deal with than his other wives; Nicki has been in trouble several times in several ways, and Barb stands up to Bill more. This changed with the season-five revelation that Margene was underage when she married Bill.
The most sexual and amorous of the three wives, Margene has given birth to three babies, but she yearns for a sense of purpose beyond being sister-wife and mother. In seasons 3-5 she discovers her entrepreneurial talent.