CR 090: Sonya Walger on Acting, Writing, and Her Stunning New Novel, ‘Wifehouse’

The “Lost” and “For All Mankind” star discusses her lifelong love of reading and her newfound success as an author.

Sonya Walger, photo by Kayt Jones

Film and TV fans know Sonya Walger primarily from her work on Lost, For All Mankind, and dozens of other films and television series. But the award-winning actress is also an extraordinarily talented writer with a degree in English Literature from Oxford. Her first book, Lion—published last year in the wake of the Los Angeles fires that destroyed her home—was called “a piercing autobiographical novel” by Publishers Weekly and was longlisted for the 2026 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction. Her latest, Wifehouse, is a brilliant work of fiction in which a middle-aged married mother of two, Annie, makes the complicated choice to put her own needs before those of her family.

But despite her recent success as an author, Walger isn’t planning to give up acting. In fact, in addition to promoting Wifehouse, she’s currently juggling the writing of her third novel with her portrayal of Freya in the highly anticipated live-action adaptation of God of War. And she says…