The actress shoots a special appearance for the HBO hit’s last episode.

Amanda Seyfried has established herself as a movie leading lady but she will be making her small screen return for the final episode of the Big Love‘s five-season run.

For four seasons, Seyfried played Sarah, the eldest daughter of polygamist Bill (Bill Paxton) and Barb (Jeanne Tripplehorn). At the end of season four, her character ran off with her husband Scott Quittman.

Breaking Bad’s Aaron Paul will also return for the finale to reprise his role as Quittman.

“Both Amanda and Paul really wanted to be a part of the last episode, even though they were both shooting movies,” co-creator Will Scheffer told TV Guide.

The episode was shot in mid-December and will air in March.

His partner Mark Olsen added, “It was special. Literally and figuratively it was a family getting back together.”

Season five is set to premiere January 16.

Source: The Hollywood Reporter

Big Love‘s upcoming fifth season will also be its final one, and while I’ll miss the Henricksons, this is definitely the right time to bring the series to a close. While its high points are still some of the best moments I’ve ever seen on television, its low points were more and more frequent, and the stories were getting repetitive. Plus I’ll miss Sarah.

Big Love sometimes struggled to figure out which story it was telling. It started as sort of an allegory for gay marriage, then pushed towards a family drama, but then flailed while searching for its true sustaining narrative. The store? The casino? Politics? The compound? Roman? Ana? Fundamentalism?

The various plots drained each other: every time we switched from some crazy thing on the compound — um, a genetics lab? — to something back in typical society — Sarah getting married at 19? — they just didn’t click together. After a certain point, everything was a crisis, but nothing really felt urgent. Oh no, they’re going to be exposed as polygamists! Wait, that happened every season.

And yet. “Come Ye Saints” is still at the top of my “shows I’d put in a time capsule” list, and the third season in general gave us scene after scene of high stakes that felt earned. The acting on the show, particularly from Jeanne Tripplehorn, Chloë Sevigny, Ginnifer Goodwin, and Amanda Seyfried, is untouchable, and when the show focuses on the nuclear Henrickson family (Bill, Barb, Nikki, Margene, and their kids), it’s a gorgeous story about what we do for and what we do because of the people we love — the good acts, and the awful ones.

Source: Entertainment Weekly

Our favorite Allentown actress, Amanda Seyfried (“Mamma Mia” and the upcoming “Dear John” and “Chloe”), will be leaving the HBO series “Big Love” to become a full-time movie star.

“She’s been exploring her movie career for a couple of years now, and we’ve been giving her a lot of room to do that,” “Big Love” creator Will Scheffer told TV Guide. “I know having a commitment to a show for six months definitely cuts into her ability to pursue that career.”

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Variety has confirmed that the Season 4 premiere date for the critically acclaimed HBO series Big Love is set for January 10, 2010. Can’t wait!

Thanks to Chloe Sevigny Online for the heads up!

I have added four gorgeous HQ pictures from Miss Amanda’s photoshoot with Lucky magazine.

Amanda Seyfried was photographed in this shoot for the February 2009 cover, which you can see scans of here.

Big Love returned last night with it’s third season. The show went off just around August of 2007 so needless to say it’s been a long, long wait for new episodes. I haven’t watched the new episode myself but I will soon. I can’t wait to see how the show progresses and what will happen with Amanda’s character this year. I hope Sarah wont be leaving the show, or pull the “gone to college” thing after this season, but given Amanda’s rising star and Sarah’s feelings about her family, it does seems likely, or at the least possible. We’ll just have to see!

Today I began capping the first season of the show. I captured episodes 1-4. View them in the gallery!

I have added plenty more pictures from the The 66th Annual Golden Globe Awards and the season three premiere of Big Love. Amanda Seyfried wore a navy Chloe Fall 2008 dress with Jimmy Choo cage sandals at the premiere. At the Globes Amanda wore a Stella McCartney gown. It’s caused a bit of a “fashion faceoff” with Salma Hayek who wore the dress previously at an event last year. I do prefer Amanda’s more modern take vs. the retro one Salma went with, but both ladies look fabulous and that’s really all that matters!

Speaking of Big Love, Sofa Chip is having a Season 1 & 2 DVD giveaway, be sure to enter the contest!

Last night in Hollywood was the premiere for HBO’s Big Love third season. Amanda was there along with the rest of her on air family. I have added the first pictures from the event. I truly can’t wait for the show to premiere this Sunday!