On “Succession” Sundays, Hope Davis is Sandi Furness.

The polished scion of a business giant is strategically enmeshed with Waystar Royco, the rival corporation in free fall at the center of the hit HBO drama.

On “Perry Mason” Mondays — same network, different era — Davis is Camilla Nygaard, a forward-thinking oil magnate and society lady in 1930s Los Angeles.

And as recently as March, she was Gina Baxter, a formidable New Orleans mob wife who casts a long shadow over her husband in Showtime’s “Your Honor.”

Just how is Davis in everything, everywhere, all at once?

Mastering a trio of prestige dramas can be a tricky affair, says the three-time Emmy-nominated Jersey actor, who grew up in Tenafly.

“It’s funny because these jobs all intersected and there was this month or two when I was flying between the three jobs and I got really tired,” Davis, 59, tells NJ Advance Media.

“I’d be in New York and then I’d be in New Orleans and then I’d be in Los Angeles. When I was getting ready to walk on the set, sometimes I had to pick some of my hair up and look down at which wig I was wearing. This is the world I’m in.”

Adding to Davis’ ubiquity is her part in the all-star ensemble of Wes Anderson’s latest film, “Asteroid City,” premiering at the Cannes Film Festival in May and opening in June.

With all of this, spring 2023 may just be the Hope Davis-sance — peak Hope Davis.

“I’ve had kind of an embarrassment of riches in the past year or two,” she says, acknowledging the confluence of key roles. “I feel very, very grateful to be part of these shows.”

Slick oil queen of ‘Perry Mason’

The actor’s talents will be on display in grand fashion for the season finale of “Perry Mason,” airing Monday, April 24 on HBO.

Wig check: Davis will be wearing a wavy blond bob.

In the film noir-styled series, her artful Camilla Nygaard, an intriguing sophisticate, applies her manicured hands to the levers of power.

Davis joined the LA-set show in its second season. The latest take on Erle Stanley Gardner’s Mason novels — Raymond Burr played the character in the CBS series of the ‘50s and ′60s and a string of related TV movies — stars Emmy winner Matthew Rhys as a private eye-turned-criminal defense lawyer.

The justice-seeking Angeleno and his hangdog expression take on the case of two men accused of murdering the son of a prominent oil tycoon. Nygaard, the oil baroness, is the man’s business associate.

Before she was cast, Davis was quite a fan of the show, which has a moody, jazzy soundtrack (via composer Terence Blanchard) and fidelity to a retro California look.

“I had been just obsessed with the first season because living in Los Angeles, it’s just utterly fascinating to see ... HBO really knows how to produce and to see how they transformed the city into 1930s Los Angeles blew my mind ... I just couldn’t get over watching Perry drive out of the city and into the orange groves.”

Some personalities in “Mason” take cues from the Golden State’s heady history — “I was really excited to play a character that was based on somebody who’s real,” Davis says.

Nygaard is inspired by Emma Summers, a Kentucky-born piano teacher who moved to LA at the turn of the century, invested in half an oil well and became an industry mogul dubbed the California “oil queen.”

Instead of Mason, Nygaard shares most of her scenes with Della Street, his sharp law partner and former secretary played by Juliet Rylance. Nygaard, an astute, cultured powerbroker and patron of the arts, serves as a mentor to the younger professional, who is glad for a break from Mason’s more exasperating qualities.

“It was very, very rare for a woman to be an entrepreneur, to have any say in any business or any agency whatsoever,” Davis says. “You see it with Della’s character as well. You think about what what kind of guts it takes to take yourself west ... what kind of person is savvy enough to launch herself into a burgeoning business?”

“Mason” creators Ron Fitzgerald and Rolin Jones (”Friday Night Lights”) left the series after the first season. Davis was interested to see where the series would go with new showrunners Michael Begler and Jack Amiel (”The Knick”) at the helm.

“The scripts were such page-turners, and then I would come across this wonderful thing of Camilla speaks Japanese, Camilla is playing piano ... all of these things I kind of had to learn how to do,” she says.

Davis relished the chance to play a woman well ahead of her time. Nygaard is an early adherent of pilates, enjoys the “calming effect” of marijuana and espouses the merits of plant-based meals (”If it gets stuck in your teeth, it’s good for you,” she tells Street).

“I loved playing Camilla,” Davis says. “I was really sad when the season ended.”

Sandi, Stewy and ‘Succession’

Weeks after “Mason” returned in March, so did HBO’s “Succession” — for its fourth and final season.

Davis was back as Sandi Furness, the role that earned her a guest actor Emmy nomination last year.

Sandi is a well-positioned denizen of the New York moneyed set, daughter of Sandy Furness (Larry Pine), a corporate rival of Waystar Royco founder Logan Roy (Brian Cox). She serves as a representative for her disabled father and as her own advocate in the business. In Waystar shorthand, she’s known as one half of “Sandi and Stewy,” the other half being investor Stewy Hosseini (Arian Moayed).

Sandi and Stewy, members of the Waystar board, urge Logan’s children, Kendall (Jeremy Strong), Shiv (Sarah Snook) and Roman Roy (Kieran Culkin), to push for a better deal as the company approaches its big sale to streaming tech giant GoJo. But a sudden, seismic development shoves all their maneuverings — and the company stock — off a ledge.

Davis was elated to reprise her role in the immensely popular show, having joined the prior season. (Fellow Jerseyan Dagmara Dominczyk, who lives in Montclair, plays Waystar public relations chief Karolina Novotney.)

“I had to pinch myself when that call came through for season three,” Davis says. “I could kind of tell by the steps that we shot in season three that the character would be needed somehow in season four.”

The show has racked up 13 Emmys, including two wins for best drama series.

“It’s as thrilling as you can imagine it is to be in the room with all those people,” Davis says. “They’re so gifted, they’re so talented, the characters are all just iconic ... Everyone who works on these shows is just the top of their game. It’s always hard to say goodbye to an experience like that.”

With just a few episodes left until the May 28 series finale, fans are bracing for how the drama’s ongoing power struggle will shake out.

“I really admire (series creator) Jesse Armstrong’s decision to end it with season four,” Davis says. “It’s an incredible season. The writing, it never flags for a second.”

The glory of wigs, ‘Asteroid City’ and ‘Home Alone’

“Succession” may be leaving New York, but Davis is getting ready to return.

After six years in LA, she’s coming back. She misses Zabar’s and the theater, but she’s making the move because the youngest of her two daughters is graduating from high school.

“Now they’re both heading to college, so we’re moving back to Brooklyn,” says Davis, who is married to actor Jon Patrick Walker.

Growing up in Tenafly, she wrote and starred in a play with her neighbor, future Oscar winner Mira Sorvino.

The performance was a product of backyard playtime, says Davis, who still recalls the thrill of putting it on.

“I wasn’t really thinking about what I wanted to be then,” she says. “I mean, I wanted to be a ballerina ... But I do remember being really excited. The entire neighborhood came and they were really into it.”

Davis studied ballet as a child and pictured herself becoming a dancer. Then she signed up for a class with Tenafly High drama teacher James Collins.

“It was just a total revelation,” she says. “Mr. Collins gave me a big part in the fall play. And I walked on to the stage, and I was like, ‘Oh, this is what I like to do.’”

Today her film credits include one of the highest-grossing holiday movies in history, Oscar-nominated dramas, indie flicks and a slice of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (more on those in a moment).

The upcoming “Asteroid City,” which Davis calls “extraordinary,” marks her first time working with director Wes Anderson, though they’ve known each other for a while.

“It’s a beautiful kind of poem to what it is to be just alive in this world and how bittersweet every little moment is,” she says of the film.

The actor figures prominently in the film’s supremely Wes Anderson trailer, in which every sunny frame appears painted by the filmmaker. He emailed Davis to see if she’d join the star-studded cast, which includes Tom Hanks, Jeffrey Wright, Tilda Swinton, Bryan Cranston, Scarlett Johansson, Hong Chau, Margot Robbie, Liev Schreiber, Jeff Goldblum and Willem Dafoe.

“I couldn’t believe it,” Davis says. “My whole family, we’re the biggest Wes Anderson fans. We have seen every single movie multiple times. My daughters have gone as the kids from ‘Moonrise Kingdom’ for Halloween.”

Davis, who studied acting at the HB Studio in New York, says she was always naturally shy, not one to be “banging on doors” to be seen.

“I kind of came in through the side door.” she says. “I did not expect to have such a long and varied career. I attribute some of it to the wigs that I’ve gotten to wear over the years.”

She donned a long, dark wig — with bangs! — for the “American Splendor” (2003) role that landed her a Golden Globe nod, playing real-life comics writer Joyce Brabner opposite Paul Giamatti as Brabner’s husband, fellow comic book writer Harvey Pekar.

“I honestly feel so grateful to have hung in this long,” Davis says. “I love what I do. I love being on sets, I love meeting up with a whole new group of people every six months, and just be reminded of how many beautiful people there are in the world and how many gifted people. ... I just feel very, very lucky.”

She played Jack Nicholson’s daughter in “About Schmidt” (2002), which brought him an Oscar nomination, and starred opposite Anthony Hopkins and Gwyneth Paltrow in the 2005 screen adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play “Proof.”

In 2009, Davis, who made her Broadway debut in the ’90s, received a Tony nomination alongside her Jersey co-star James Gandolfini for the play “God of Carnage.”

The versatile actor pops up in big studio films like the 2016 Marvel movie “Captain America: Civil War” (playing Iron Man/Tony Stark’s mother, Maria Stark). But she’s also known for roles in independent films like “The Daytrippers” (1996), and has an Independent Spirit Award as part of the ensemble of Charlie Kaufman’s “Synecdoche, New York” (2008).

Davis officially made her entry into films in 1990, in Joel Schumacher’s “Flatliners.” But that’s not the movie she’s most remembered for that year. Months later, she was a French airline ticket agent trying to help Kevin McCallister’s (Macaulay Culkin) panicked parents find a flight back home to see the son they left there.

“Madaaaame, we are doing everything we can,” Davis assures an imploding Kate McCallister (Catherine O’Hara) in “Home Alone.”

Thanks to her high school and college French classes — she’s a Vassar alum — she could list the language as a special skill on her resume. She never thought that would lead to one of her most seen performances, which still gets a reaction in 2023.

The actor was at a “For Your Consideration” Emmy event for “Your Honor” recently when a moderator asked about first jobs. When she brought up “Home Alone,” people in the audience “gasped,” she says.

Then she put on the French accent: “I’m so sorree. We cannot get you a ticket on dees flight. I’m so sorree.”

“This crowd of adults just went absolutely nuts,” Davis says.

“It’s so funny, because when I look at that movie, I remember I was young, out of college, waiting tables. I was dead broke.”

And, no wig.

“I was dyeing my hair blond in the bathtub with this bottle of Clairol stuff,” she says. “It’s like buttercup yellow and it just looks so crazy in that movie. The next time you watch that movie, take a look at my hair color.”

The rage of ‘Your Honor’

While Davis is having quite a TV moment, it isn’t her first.

In 2009 and 2010, she landed consecutive Emmy nominations for playing lawyer Mia Nesky in the HBO series “In Treatment” and Hillary Clinton in the HBO movie “The Special Relationship,” about the ties between former British prime minister Tony Blair and former President Bill Clinton.

The actor has steadily logged memorable roles in TV dramas.

For two seasons starting in 2015, Davis played teacher Megan Fisher on Fox’s “Wayward Pines,” then Jill Carlan, a federal public defender on the ABC legal drama “For the People,” which debuted in 2018.

She touched down in New Orleans in 2020 as the intense Gina Baxter opposite Michael Stuhlbarg as her husband, mob boss Jimmy Baxter, in Showtime’s “Your Honor.” The imposing Baxter family becomes inextricably linked to Bryan Cranston’s Michael Desiato, a judge who has to live with the fallout of an impossible decision.

Over two seasons, Davis has moved from grieving mother desperate for revenge to rage-filled daughter of a Mafia chief who thinks she can do a much better job than her husband.

“To me, Gina represents, for centuries, the wife who waited in the wings and didn’t have access to power. I remember thinking my own mother was in my father’s shadow until she was in her 40s ... I feel like Gina is one of those women who is so capable and has lived in a society where she wasn’t given an outlet for her gifts, for her talents, and it’s made her really angry.”

The show, based on Israeli drama “Kvodo,” was originally billed a limited series, but proved so compelling it got a second season. Now Davis says there could be even more on the way.

“I’d be curious to see what would happen with Gina if there is a season three because she has managed to seize the reins,” Davis says. “And it’s like, now what is she going to do?”

The season finale of “Perry Mason” airs 9 p.m. ET Monday, April 24 on HBO. The series is also available on HBO Max. “Succession” airs 9 p.m. ET Sundays on HBO/HBO Max. “Your Honor” is available on Showtime. “Asteroid City” will be in limited release June 16 and theaters nationwide June 23.

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Amy Kuperinsky may be reached at akuperinsky@njadvancemedia.com and followed at @AmyKup on Twitter.