Maeve Quinlan
Encyclopedia
Maeve Anne Quinlan is an American actress and former professional tennis
player. She is best known for starring in the critically acclaimed hit series South of Nowhere
, which received two nominations in a row for Best Drama at the GLAAD Media Awards
, and she has a recurring role on 90210
.
and Northwestern
universities, where she studied theater. After an injury, she quit tennis and pursued an acting career, starting with parts in commercials for Nike
and Gatorade
.
Prior to South of Nowhere she was a regular on the soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful
, where from 1995–2005 she played Megan Conley. She returned for a three-week guest-starring role on the show in March 2006, while on hiatus from South of Nowhere. One of her more notable roles was that of "Rhonda" in the 2002 movie Ken Park
, a controversial film in which her character is seen receiving oral sex from her daughter's boyfriend. She also starred in the unsuccessful comedy Totally Blonde
in 2001, and in 2007, the popular web series Girltrash!
.
She starred in the 2009 movie Not Easily Broken
with Morris Chestnut
and Taraji P. Henson
. She both co-produced and starred in 3Way, a web series
about roommates which featured lesbian
characters, with Jill Bennett
, Maile Flanagan
, and Cathy Shim
.
citizenship. She is divorced from actor Tom Sizemore
.
Tennis
Tennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all...
player. She is best known for starring in the critically acclaimed hit series South of Nowhere
South of Nowhere
South of Nowhere is an American teen drama television series created by Thomas W. Lynch. Aimed primarily at teenagers, it first aired on November 4, 2005 and was one of six original series on The N. The second half of the third and final season aired October 10, 2008 and the final episode aired on...
, which received two nominations in a row for Best Drama at the GLAAD Media Awards
GLAAD Media Awards
The GLAAD Media Award is an accolade bestowed by the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation to recognize and honor various branches of the media for their outstanding representations of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community and the issues that affect their lives...
, and she has a recurring role on 90210
90210 (TV series)
90210 is an American teen drama television series developed by Rob Thomas, Jeff Judah and Gabe Sachs, and the fourth series in the Beverly Hills, 90210 franchise created by Darren Star. 90210 is the first series produced by CBS Productions under the company's re-launch, but is now produced by CBS...
.
Career
Quinlan entered the professional tennis circuit at age 16, appearing in several major tournaments and eventually reaching seed position #95 in world rankings, which earned her full scholarship to both USCUniversity of Southern California
The University of Southern California is a private, not-for-profit, nonsectarian, research university located in Los Angeles, California, United States. USC was founded in 1880, making it California's oldest private research university...
and Northwestern
Northwestern University
Northwestern University is a private research university in Evanston and Chicago, Illinois, USA. Northwestern has eleven undergraduate, graduate, and professional schools offering 124 undergraduate degrees and 145 graduate and professional degrees....
universities, where she studied theater. After an injury, she quit tennis and pursued an acting career, starting with parts in commercials for Nike
Nike, Inc.
Nike, Inc. is a major publicly traded sportswear and equipment supplier based in the United States. The company is headquartered near Beaverton, Oregon, which is part of the Portland metropolitan area...
and Gatorade
Gatorade
Gatorade is a brand of sports-themed food and beverage products, built around its signature product: a line of sports drinks. Gatorade is currently manufactured by PepsiCo, distributed in over 80 countries...
.
Prior to South of Nowhere she was a regular on the soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful
The Bold and the Beautiful
The Bold and the Beautiful is an American television soap opera created by William J. Bell and Lee Phillip Bell for CBS Daytime. It premiered on March 23, 1987....
, where from 1995–2005 she played Megan Conley. She returned for a three-week guest-starring role on the show in March 2006, while on hiatus from South of Nowhere. One of her more notable roles was that of "Rhonda" in the 2002 movie Ken Park
Ken Park
Ken Park is a 2002 drama film. The screenplay was written by Harmony Korine, who based it on Larry Clark's journals and stories. The film was directed by Larry Clark and Ed Lachman....
, a controversial film in which her character is seen receiving oral sex from her daughter's boyfriend. She also starred in the unsuccessful comedy Totally Blonde
Totally Blonde
Totally Blonde is a 2001 comedy film written and directed by Andrew Van Slee, and starring Krista Allen, Maeve Quinlan and Michael Bublé. The musical soundtrack was released as the album Totally Bublé....
in 2001, and in 2007, the popular web series Girltrash!
Girltrash!
Girltrash! is a web series written and directed by Angela Robinson. It originally aired on ourchart.com from June to August 2007. It stars Michelle Lombardo, Lisa Rieffel, Gabrielle Christian, and Mandy Musgrave.-Plot:...
.
She starred in the 2009 movie Not Easily Broken
Not Easily Broken
Not Easily Broken is an 2009 drama film directed by Bill Duke. The film is written by Brian Bird based on T. D. Jakes' 2006 novel of the same name.-Plot:...
with Morris Chestnut
Morris Chestnut
Morris L. Chestnut is an American film and television actor. He is known for his roles as teenage father Ricky Baker in the 1991 film Boyz n the Hood, groom-to-be Lance Sullivan in the 1999 film The Best Man, as Tracy Reynolds, NBA star in the 2002 film Like Mike, and as the Visitor Ryan in the...
and Taraji P. Henson
Taraji P. Henson
Taraji Penda Henson is an American actress and singer. She is best known for her roles as Yvette in Baby Boy , Shug in Hustle and Flow and Queenie in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button , for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 2009...
. She both co-produced and starred in 3Way, a web series
Web series
A web series is a series of episodes released on the Internet or also by mobile or cellular phone, and part of the newly emerging medium called web television. A single instance of a web series program is called an episode .While the popularity of web series is continuing to rise, the concept...
about roommates which featured lesbian
Lesbian
Lesbian is a term most widely used in the English language to describe sexual and romantic desire between females. The word may be used as a noun, to refer to women who identify themselves or who are characterized by others as having the primary attribute of female homosexuality, or as an...
characters, with Jill Bennett
Jill Bennett (American actress)
Jill Bennett is an American actress. She may be best known for her role in the hit lesbian film And Then Came Lola...
, Maile Flanagan
Maile Flanagan
Maile Flanagan is an American actress known for her role as the protagonist ninja Naruto Uzumaki in Naruto, Geri O'Flanagan in 3Way, and Janet in Yes Man.-Personal life:...
, and Cathy Shim
Cathy Shim
Cathy Shim is a Korean-American actress and film producer. She has appeared in a variety of television shows, most notably Reno 911!, MADtv and Drake & Josh. She can currently be seen in 3Way, a lesbian web series.-Television:-Filmography:-Other work:-External links:*...
.
Personal life
Maeve Quinlan is a first-generation American, the daughter of Irish immigrants, and holds dual US/IrishRepublic of Ireland
Ireland , described as the Republic of Ireland , is a sovereign state in Europe occupying approximately five-sixths of the island of the same name. Its capital is Dublin. Ireland, which had a population of 4.58 million in 2011, is a constitutional republic governed as a parliamentary democracy,...
citizenship. She is divorced from actor Tom Sizemore
Tom Sizemore
Thomas Edward "Tom" Sizemore, Jr. is an American film and television actor and producer. He is known for his roles in films such as Saving Private Ryan, Strange Days, Pearl Harbor, Heat and Black Hawk Down....
.
Filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1999 | The Florentine The Florentine The Florentine is a 1999 film directed Nick Stagliano and produced by Francis Ford Coppola's American Zoetrope. It stars Jeremy Davies, Virginia Madsen, Luke Perry, Mary Stuart Masterson, Michael Madsen, Chris Penn, Hal Holbrook, Tom Sizemore, Maeve Quinlan, James Belushi, and Burt Young... |
Claire | |
| Play It to the Bone Play It to the Bone Play It to the Bone is a 1999 sports/comedy-drama film, starring Antonio Banderas and Woody Harrelson, written and directed by Ron Shelton.... |
Tiffany | Uncredited role | |
| 2001 | Instinct to Kill | Receiving Nurse | |
| Totally Blonde | Liv Watson | ||
| 2002 | Ken Park Ken Park Ken Park is a 2002 drama film. The screenplay was written by Harmony Korine, who based it on Larry Clark's journals and stories. The film was directed by Larry Clark and Ed Lachman.... |
Rhonda | |
| 2003 | Net Games | Detective Sandra Simmonds | |
| Heart of America Heart of America (film) Heart of America is a 2003 drama film by German director Uwe Boll about a fictional school shooting in a suburban high school. It is believed to have been inspired by such shootings as the Columbine High School Massacre... |
Becky Shultz | ||
| 2004 | Nobody's Perfect | Crazy girl | Short film Short subject A short film is any film not long enough to be considered a feature film. No consensus exists as to where that boundary is drawn: the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences defines a short film as "an original motion picture that has a running time of 40 minutes or less, including all... |
| Criminal Criminal (film) Criminal is a 2004 American film based upon the Argentine film Nine Queens. Directed by Gregory Jacobs, it stars John C. Reilly, Diego Luna, Maggie Gyllenhaal, and Maeve Quinlan and is a production of Section Eight, the production company of Steven Soderbergh and George Clooney.-Plot:John C. Reilly... |
Heather / Soccer mom Soccer mom The phrase soccer mom broadly refers to a middle-class suburban woman who spends a significant amount of her time transporting her school-age children to their sporting events or other activities. Indices of American magazines and newspapers show relatively little usage of the term until a 1995... |
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| The Drone Virus The Drone Virus The Drone Virus is a 2004 sci-fi thriller based on a novel by Gerald Clarke. It was directed by Damon O' Steen and starred Billy Wirth.-Plot synopsis:... |
Colleen O'Brian | ||
| A Boyfriend for Christmas | Diane | TV movie | |
| 2005 | McBride: The Chameleon Murder McBride (TV series) McBride is a series of two-hour movies for the Hallmark Channel that premiered on January 14, 2005, and stars John Larroquette as a lawyer. Along with the movie series Mystery Woman, Murder 101 and Jane Doe, it is broadcast in rotation under the umbrella title Hallmark Channel Mystery... |
Whitney Collier | TV movie |
| Tennis, Anyone...? | Siobhan Kelly | ||
| Nice Guys | Sarah | ||
| The Nickel Children | The Mother | ||
| 2007 | Primal Doubt | Holly | TV movie |
| 2009 | Not Easily Broken | Julie Sawyer | |
| 2010 | Dirty Girl Dirty Girl (2010 film) Dirty Girl is a 2010 coming of age comedy, written and directed by Abe Sylvia. It stars Juno Temple, Milla Jovovich and William H. Macy. It premiered at the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival on 12 September 2010... |
Janet | |
| 2011 | Cougars, Inc. | Kitty Lowell | |
| Dirty Move II: The Student Film | Mrs. Prussy | post-production | |
| Divorce Invitation | Pam | post-production |
Television
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1993 | General Hospital General Hospital General Hospital is an American daytime television drama that is credited by the Guinness Book of World Records as the longest-running American soap opera currently in production and the third longest running drama in television in American history after Guiding Light and As the World Turns.... |
Betsy Kensington | |
| 1999 | L.A. Heat | Teresa | Episode: "Old Scores" |
| 2001 | JAG JAG (TV series) JAG is an American adventure/legal drama television show that was produced by Belisarius Productions, in association with Paramount Network Television and, for the first season only, NBC Productions... |
Susan Evans | Episode: "New Gun In Town" |
| 1995–2006 | The Bold and the Beautiful The Bold and the Beautiful The Bold and the Beautiful is an American television soap opera created by William J. Bell and Lee Phillip Bell for CBS Daytime. It premiered on March 23, 1987.... |
Megan Conley | Regular character |
| 2006 | South Beach South Beach (2006 TV series) South Beach is a primetime television drama that ran from January 4, 2006 until February 22, 2006 on UPN. Created by Matt Cirulnick, one of its executive producers was singer/actress Jennifer Lopez. The program was panned by critics and shunned by viewers, finishing 152nd in the Nielsen TV ratings... |
Jennifer | Episode: "I'll Do What I Want to Do" |
| Night Stalker Night Stalker (TV series) Night Stalker is a television series that ran for six weeks in the Fall of 2005 on ABC. The series starred Stuart Townsend as Carl Kolchak, an investigative reporter whose wife was murdered. Kolchak spends his time investigating other strange murders, believing they are linked in some way to his... |
Cheryl Parks | Episode: "Ascendant" | |
| 2007 | Dirt Dirt (TV series) Dirt is an American television serial broadcast on the FX network. It premiered on January 2, 2007 and starred Courteney Cox as Lucy Spiller, the editor-in-chief of the first-of-its-kind "glossy tabloid" magazine DirtNow, which was previously two separate publications: drrt and Now Dirt (styled... |
Kitty Ryder | Episode: "The Sexxx Issue" |
| 2005–2008 | South of Nowhere South of Nowhere South of Nowhere is an American teen drama television series created by Thomas W. Lynch. Aimed primarily at teenagers, it first aired on November 4, 2005 and was one of six original series on The N. The second half of the third and final season aired October 10, 2008 and the final episode aired on... |
Paula Carlin | Regular character |
| 2008- | 90210 90210 (TV series) 90210 is an American teen drama television series developed by Rob Thomas, Jeff Judah and Gabe Sachs, and the fourth series in the Beverly Hills, 90210 franchise created by Darren Star. 90210 is the first series produced by CBS Productions under the company's re-launch, but is now produced by CBS... |
Constance Duncan | Mother of Adrianna Duncan |
| 2008 | Life | Mother of Bethany | Episode: "Crushed" |
Other work
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 2007 | Girltrash! Girltrash! Girltrash! is a web series written and directed by Angela Robinson. It originally aired on ourchart.com from June to August 2007. It stars Michelle Lombardo, Lisa Rieffel, Gabrielle Christian, and Mandy Musgrave.-Plot:... |
Judge Cragen | Web series Web series A web series is a series of episodes released on the Internet or also by mobile or cellular phone, and part of the newly emerging medium called web television. A single instance of a web series program is called an episode .While the popularity of web series is continuing to rise, the concept... |
| 2008 | 3Way | Siobhan McGarry | Web series |