Margene Heffman

Margene "Margie" Heffman is one of the protagonists of the HBO show Big Love. She is the third wife of the shows central character, Bill Henrickson. They have three children.

Life Pre-Show
Margene "Margie" Heffman is the daughter of Ginger Heffman. Her father left when she was three years old, and she was raised by her mother in a trailer in Colorado. When she was older, her mother moved her to Salt Lake City and enrolled her in a Catholic school.

Some time before she was sixteen, Margene began working at Henrickson's Home Plus in Sandy, UT, as a customer-service representative. She was not very good at this job, constantly getting yelled at by customers, so the store's owner, Bill Henrickson, hired her to babysit for his family. She grew close to the family in this capacity, and Bill, under the belief that Margie was eighteen, took her as his third wife. While this was accepted by Nicki, it was not as much by Barbara, who had mixed feelings about polygamy, but grew to love Margene. Barb also had latent animosity towards Bill for getting Margene pregnant prior to his wedding, an issue that would repeat itself when he attempted to court Ana years later.

Bill's marriage to Margene also caused rifts in his relationship with his mother. Bill's marriage to Nicki had turned his relationship with his mother into a strained one due to her being a daughter to Roman Grant, who had usurped the Hendrickson's in being prophet to the UEB compound. However, that marriage was still within church guidelines. Margene, never having been raised in the LDS faith, was unfamiliar with the concept of plural marriage, and Bill's mother considered this "unequally yoked".