Supporting Cast: Carl’s First Sentencing – Shameless by VJ · March 16, 2015 Here are some members of the supporting cast who appeared in “Carl’s First Sentencing”, the 9th episode of Season 5 of Shameless (3/15/2015). Sasha Alexander played Helene Runyon, the professor of the Critical Theory class Lip signed up for. Michael Reilly Burke played her husband, Theo, who returned home from a business trip to find his nude wife in the bedroom with a very nervous Lip. But the Runyons have an open marriage and Theo offered to make Lip breakfast.