Patricia Heaton is known for playing Frankie Heck, one of our favorite TV moms from the 2010s on The Middle. The incredibly memorable show about a quirky middle-class family from the Midwest ran for nine years. It felt like a refreshingly honest take on class and what it was really like to grow up in, well, “the middle” of everything. In 2018, the series came to a close in an emotional finale, which Heaton said was a perfect ending for the hit ABC sitcom.
