Marvel actor Deborah Ann Woll ‘struggling with self-doubt’ following Daredevil cancellation: ‘I haven’t had an acting job since’

'If I’m not acting, I’m not sure who I am,' the True Blood star said

Marvel actor Deborah Ann Woll has opened up about her “period of self-doubt” after struggling to score an acting role for two-and-a-half years.

During an interview with the studio’s creative director Joe Quesada on Joe Q’s Mornin’ Warm Up, the actor – who played Karen Page in cancelled Netflix series Daredevil – said: “I haven’t had an acting job since, and that’s been really hard for me.”

“I’m just really wondering whether I’ll get to work again, whether anyone wants to work with me again, and whether I still have it, all of those scary things.”

Tearing up, Woll continued: “Part of my brain goes, ‘No, you’re just being crazy, calm down.’ But the part of me that loves [acting] and the problem with being an artist and an actor, and any of these professions where you put a piece of your soul into your work, is that it becomes a part of your identity.

“Even before Covid-19 kind of flipped the world on its head, I was struggling with this,” she said.

“If I’m not acting, I’m not sure who I am. And since it’s been so long since I’ve really gotten to do it, I’m struggling a little bit with how to maintain my self worth, my sense of my own value.”

Daredevil was cancelled in 2018 alongside Netflix’s other Marvel shows Iron Fist, Jessica Jones and Luke Cage, leaving the cast “heartbroken and surprised”.

Woll's character also appeared in The Defenders and The Punisher, and her other credits include HBO show True Blood and 2019 film Escape Room.