Maeve Quinlan

Maeve Quinlan (born November 16, 1964 in Chicago) is an American actress and former professional tennis player. She is best known for starring as Megan Conley for 11 years in The Bold and the Beautiful and for the series South of Nowhere. Raised in Northfield a North shore suburb, she attended New Trier high School in Winnetka and later Northwestern University and USC on tennis scholarships. Maeve played Wimbledon, the French open and was a world-class tennis player making many friendships on the court. She is the daughter of a medical doctor and a pharmacist.

Maeve Quinlan
Quinlan at Camp As Sayliyah, Qatar, in 2009
Born
Maeve Anne Quinlan

(1964-11-16) November 16, 1964
OccupationActress
Spouse(s)
(m. 1996; div. 1999)

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 USC 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.[1]

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 she received oral sex from the boyfriend of her character's daughter. 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-created, co-produced and starred in 3 Way, a web series about roommates which featured lesbian characters, with Jill Bennett, Maile Flanagan and Cathy Shim.

Personal life

Maeve Quinlan is a first-generation American, the daughter of Irish immigrants, and holds dual US/Irish citizenship. She is divorced from actor Tom Sizemore.[2]

She is close friends with Chris Evert.

Filmography

Film

Year Title Role Notes
1999 The Florentine Claire
1999 Play It to the Bone Tiffany
2001 Instinct to Kill Receiving Nurse
2001 Totally Blonde Liv Watson
2002 Ken Park Rhonda
2002 Heart of America Becky Schultz
2003 Net Games Det. Sandra Simmonds
2004 Nobody's Perfect Crazy Girl Short film
2004 Criminal Heather
2004 The Drone Virus Colleen O'Brian
2005 Tennis, Anyone...? Siobhan Kelly
2005 The Nickel Children The Mother
2006 High Hopes Sarah
2009 Not Easily Broken Julie Sawyer
2010 Dirty Girl Janet
2011 Sound of My Voice Diane Winston
2011 Cougars Inc. Kitty Lowell
2012 Divorce Invitation Pam
2013 Another Dirty Movie Mrs. Prussy
2016 Liquorice Mariam Glass In production

Television

Year Title Role Notes
1995-2006 The Bold and the Beautiful Megan Conley Regular role (330 episodes)
1997 L.A. Heat Teresa Episode: "Old Scores"
2001 JAG Susan Evans Episode: "New Gun in Town"
2004 A Boyfriend for Christmas Diane TV film
2005 McBride: The Chameleon Murder Whitney Collier TV film
2005-2008 South of Nowhere Paula Carlin Main role (41 episodes)
2006 South Beach Jennifer Episode: "I'll Do What I Want to Do"
2007 Dirt Kitty Ryder Episode: "The Sexxx Issue"
2007 Primal Doubt Holly TV film
2008 Life Lynn Gray Episodes: "Not for Nothing", "Crushed"
2008-2011 90210 Constance Tate-Duncan Recurring role (8 episodes)
2012 Hawaii Five-0 Sandra Fryer Episode: "Ua Hala"
2012 Teenage Bank Heist Joyce TV film
2017 The Stalker Club Karen TV film

Web

Year Title Role Notes
2007 Girltrash! Judge Cragen 2 episodes
2008–2009 3 Way Siobhan McGarry 13 episodes
2013 Cowgirl Up Buckshot Betty Recurring role (6 episodes)

References

  1. "About the Actors - Maeve Quinlan".
  2. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-01-31. Retrieved 2013-04-18.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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