Who played the role of Andrea Phillips in the film "Captain Phillips"?

Catherine Keener played Andrea Phillips, the wife of Captain Richard Phillips, in the 2013 film “Captain Phillips.” Keener’s role is relatively brief, but her opening scenes establish the emotional and personal stakes before the story moves aboard the Maersk Alabama.

The film dramatizes the 2009 hijacking of the American container ship Maersk Alabama by Somali pirates. Tom Hanks plays Captain Phillips, while Barkhad Abdi portrays pirate leader Abduwali Muse. Directed by Paul Greengrass, the movie adapts Phillips’s memoir, “A Captain’s Duty,” co-written with Stephan Talty.

Viewers sometimes confuse Catherine Keener’s character with the real-life people among the ship’s crew, since the film quickly shifts from Phillips’s home life to the maritime crisis. Andrea Phillips is a supporting character and is not part of the Maersk Alabama crew. Keener’s casting is also notable because she brings a familiar dramatic presence to the film’s domestic framing scenes.