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Birthname:
Maeve Anne Quinlan
Hometown:
Chicago, Illinois
Maeve Anne Quinlan is currently 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 has a recurring role on the new Beverly Hills 90210 spin-off "90210," which began in September 2008.
Prior to "South of Nowhere" she was a regular on the soap opera "The Bold and the Beautiful" from 1995–2005 where she played Megan Conley. She returned for a three week guest starring role on the show in March of 2006 while on hiatus from South of Nowhere. One of her more notable roles was that of "Rhonda" in the movie Ken Park (2002), the controversial film in which her character is seen receiving unsimulated oral sex from a male friend of her daughter. She also starred in the unsuccessful comedy Totally Blonde in 2001, and in 2007, the popular web series GirlTrash.
She is a first-generation American, the daughter of Irish immigrants, and holds dual US/Irish citizenship. She was formerly married to actor Tom Sizemore.
She recently finished filming Not Easily Broken (2008) with Morris Chestnut and Taraji P. Henson, and is both co-producing and starring in "3Way," a lesbian web series, with Jill Bennett, Maile Flanagan, and Cathy Shim.
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