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After guest appearances on "CSI: NY" and "Psych," Valorie finally got to show off her acting chops in a gritty new drama in 2013, nabbing a major supporting role on Fox's dark series, "The Following." The show stars Kevin Bacon as an FBI agent named Ryan Hardy who desperately tries to hunt down a serial killer named Joe Carroll (James Purefoy). 

Valorie Curry plays the blindly loyal Emma Hill, Carroll's partner in crime, as well as his lover. Emma is raised by her single mother, who she eventually stabs to death in a rage. She recalls her mother never showing her any love or warmth, and how she would constantly bring men home and have "loud sex with them," within hearing range of a young Emma. 

Despite her character being a murderer, Valorie admitted in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter that she loved Emma, and viewed her as the greatest victim of Carroll: "She's in a miserable existence of loving this man she can't escape," said Curry about the role. She continued, saying that when Emma "was on her own she didn't exist, really, and she can't exist without [Joe]. She just wants the peace."