Best known for playing a lawyer in Better Call Saul and a lone holdout against a hive mind in Pluribus, Rhea Seehorn has made a career of characters with secrets. But the most remarkable secret in her family, she says, belonged to her father, who helped bring down the Navy’s most damaging spy case.
Seehorn shared the story on the Nov. 9 episode of Armchair Expert, telling Dax Shepard and Monica Padman that her father, a Navy counterintelligence agent, worked the Walker family spy case. “I know we came back to Virginia for the Walker spy family case, which was fairly famous,” she said.
John Walker, a Navy communications specialist, had been directing a Russian spy ring for the past 17 years before his 1985 arrest, eventually John Anthony Walker Jr. and his son, Michael Lance Walker, were indicted 28 May 1985. The FBI called the ring “the biggest cryptographic disaster since WW II,” and the Norfolk FBI squad that cracked the Cold War-era Walker spy ring worked alongside Navy investigators.
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Seehorn said her father rarely discussed his work. “So he was in the field as an agent and like deep undercover before my sister and I were born,” she explained. By the time she came along, he worked out of a regular office, though she once glimpsed an interrogation room. “I just like immediately got the creeps,” she said.
She learned about his role in the case through a magazine. He handed her a copy of Newsweek with the arrest on the cover, showing agents escorting the Walkers onto a plane, photographed only from behind. Seehorn said she recognized her father instantly by the way his knees locked backward. “I totally knew it was him,” she recalled.
As a teenager, though, she was unimpressed. “I don’t even think I read the article. I was like, whatever. So stupid,” Seehorn said, adding with a laugh that she would have preferred Seventeen magazine.
Her father served for 33 years. He died of alcoholism at 52, when Seehorn was 18, and she said she believes he was self-medicating an untreated depression. He had served in Vietnam, including during the Tet Offensive, and never talked about that either. “Now I have all these questions that I can’t get answered,” she said.
Some of what he passed down was simpler. “When he was in a healthier state, he would say things like really wanting me to make sure that I am independent as a woman and I have financial independence,” Seehorn said.
That drive carried her through a decade of failed auditions before Better Call Saul and, eventually, to a Golden Globe for Pluribus. She told Shepard she has already read the first script for the show’s second season, which will again shoot in New Mexico.
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