Nancy Botwin Quotes and Sound Clips

Nancy Botwin Reyes (née Price, previously Scottson) is the main character in Showtime's dramedy Weeds. A widowed mother of three living in an affluent suburb near Los Angeles, California, she makes ends meet by selling cannabis, often with disastrous consequences to herself and others. How exactly she became a drug dealer has never been revealed, though in the pilot episode it's revealed that she met her supplier Heylia James through her brother-in-law Andy, who is close friends with Conrad Shepard. Nancy Botwin is played by Mary-Louise Parker, who won a Golden Globe and a Satellite Award for her portrayal, as well as being nominated for several Emmy Awards. Nancy Botwin met her husband Judah while attending Berkeley, where he was doing performance art and hired Nancy as a dancer for one of his performance pieces. The two of them dated for several years before getting married shortly after Judah's graduation. Nancy herself never graduated, but did say she intended to be a dancer. The...