Bonnie Dee Peacock Angela Bettis After a chance encounter with Uncle Daniel, Bonnie Dee Peacock, a new arrival to town from backwoods Polk, becomes Mrs. Daniel Ponder and quickly accustoms herself to the family fortune, spending with reckless abandon. Angela Bettis, a native of Austin, Texas, made her film debut in Franco Zeffirelli's Storia de una Capinera (Story of a Sparrow), starring Vanessa Redgrave, Sinead Cusack, and Valentina Cortese. She won rave reviews for her performances in the recent films Girl, Interrupted and The Last, Best Sunday. Recently, she appeared in an adaptation of Perfume, the international best-selling novel, as well as the feature films Vallen and Coastlines. In Welty's words: Meantime! Here traipsed into town a little thing from away off down in the country. Near Polk: you wouldn't ever have heard of Polk -- I hadn't. Bonnie Dee Peacock. A little thing with yellow, fluffy hair. ... Bonnie Dee was one of nine or ten, and no bigger than a minute. A good gust of wind might have carried her off any day. The Ponder Heart, chapter 2