Maeve Quinlan (born November 16, 1964,
Chicago
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) is an American actress. She is best known for starring as
Megan Conley for 11 years in ''
The Bold and the Beautiful
''The Bold and the Beautiful'' (often referred to as ''B&B'') is an American television soap opera created by William J. Bell and Lee Phillip Bell for CBS. It premiered on March 23, 1987, as a sister show to the Bells' other soap opera ''The Yo ...
'' and for the series ''
South of Nowhere
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''. Raised in Northfield, a North Shore suburb, she attended
New Trier High School
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(in Winnetka).
Career
Quinlan entered the professional tennis circuit at age 16, appearing in several major tournaments and eventually reaching
seed
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position #95 in world rankings, which earned her full scholarship to both USC and Northwestern University, where she studied theater. After an injury, she quit tennis and pursued an acting career, starting with parts in commercials for
Nike
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and
Gatorade
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.
Prior to ''South of Nowhere'', she was a regular on the soap opera ''
The Bold and the Beautiful
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'', 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
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'', 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!
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''
She starred in the 2009 movie ''
Not Easily Broken
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Plot
Dave and Clarice Jo ...
'' with
Morris Chestnut
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and
Taraji P. Henson
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. She co-created, co-produced, and starred in ''3 Way'', a web series about
roommates, which featured
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characters, with
Jill Bennett,
Maile Flanagan
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, and Cathy Shim.
Personal life
Quinlan is a first-generation American, the daughter of Irish immigrants, and holds dual US/
Irish
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citizenship. She is divorced from actor
Tom Sizemore
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.
Filmography
Film
Television
Web
References
External links
*
1964 births
Living people
Actresses from Chicago
American people of Irish descent
American female tennis players
Tennis people from Illinois
USC Trojans women's tennis players
New Trier High School alumni
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