Background

Ethnicity: Stella Maeve has stated that she has Cherokee and Blackfoot Native American ancestry. It is not clear whether this Native American ancestry has been verified/documented. It's also known that Stella’s maternal grandmother is Doris L. Greifer was born into a Jewish family of a Russian immigrant.

Stella Maeve was born on November 14, 1989, in New York City, New York, the United States. Like herself, her parents are also in the entertainment industry. Her mother was an aspiring actress in the ’80s, while her father was a musician who toured with dance companies.

Education

Stella Maeve has been reportedly receiving acting lessons from Ann Ratray. Her fellow classmates include Katrina Bowden, Adam Scarimbolo, Yaya DaCosta, Addison Timlin, and Odeya Rush.

Career

In 2005, Stella Maeve began her career in writer-director Jess Bond’s (credited as Jess Manafort) short film Liminality, portraying the role of Kat. She then worked with the likes of Felicity Huffman, Kevin Zegers, and Fionnula Flanagan in writer-director Duncan Tucker Transamerica. The film received multiple awards, including the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in Drama for Huffman.

In 2005, Stella Maeve also began her long-standing professional relationship with Dick Wolf by guest-starring in the season-four episode, No Exit, of NBC’s police procedural television drama series Law & Order: Criminal Intent. She also appeared in another episode that season, playing a different character, and in a season 16 episode of Law & Order.

In 2006, she starred in the short film Euthanasia, and in the following year, portrayed the role of Lighty in the comedy-drama Remember the Daze. Between 2008 and 2009, she appeared in two episodes of The CW teen drama series Gossip Girl, playing the role of Emma Boardman, the niece of Dean Berube from Yale. Maeve worked with Richard Gere, Don Cheadle, and Ethan Hawke in the 2009 crime-drama Brooklyn's Finest.

In 2010, she portrayed the late singer-songwriter and musician Sandy West in the biographical drama The Runaways. In the same year, she starred in the telefilm My Super Psycho Sweet 16: Part 2, which was a sequel to the 2009 telefilm My Super Psycho Sweet 16. She portrayed Tracy Bernstein and her clone Tracy 2 in the 2012 sci-fi thriller Cloned: The Recreator Chronicles. In the critically acclaimed indie drama Starlet, Maeve delivered a powerful performance as an adult film actress and neurotic flatmate of the main character, Jane (Dree Hemingway).

In 2013, Stella Maeve was cast as Agnes Clark, the younger sister of the protagonist, Walter William Clark Jr. (Theo James), in the short-lived crime-drama series Golden Boy. Despite garnering mixed to positive reviews from the critics, it never became popular among the general public and was canceled by CBS after airing 13 episodes.

Maeve joined the cast of Chicago P.D. in the season one episode, Now Is Always Temporary, in 2014. Her character, Nadia Decotis, was initially a prostitute and drug addict but later becomes an employee of the police department. She was associated with the show until 2015 when she left to star in The Magicians.

Based on American novelist Lev Grossman’s The Magicians trilogy, the Syfy fantasy drama The Magicians (2015-2020) revolves around Quentin Coldwater (Jason Ralph), who starts attending Brakebills University for Magical Pedagogy to become a magician. Maeve portrays Julia Wicker, Coldwater’s childhood friend. She is denied entry into the university and subsequently joins a secret magical society.

Stella Maeve first appeared in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit in 2006 in a season seven episode titled Influence. She returned to the show in 2015 to portray her Chicago P.D. character, Nadia Decotis, in the season 16 episode, Daydream Believer. She reprised the same role in the season 17 episode, Nationwide Manhunt, in 2016.

Over the course of her career, Maeve has guest-starred in a number of TV shows, including CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2009), Bones (2010), House (2010-2011), Grey’s Anatomy (2012), Rizzoli & Isles (2014), Noches con Platanito (2017), and God Friended Me (2019). She is set to star in the upcoming crime-drama film Manson Girls, about the female devotees who joined Charles Manson's flock in the 1960s and helped carry out brutal killings meant to start an apocalyptic race war.

Achievements

• As a member of the cast of the 2012 drama film Starlet, Stella Maeve won the Robert Altman Award at the 2013 Film Independent Spirit Awards.
  
  Stella was listed among the 55 faces of the future in Nylon Magazine's Young Hollywood Issue (May 2010).

Works

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• movie

  • Transamerica

    (Transamerica tells the story of Bree (Felicity Huffman), ...)

    2006
  • Buttwhistle

    (Ogden Confer is a community college student living with h...)

    2014
  • The Park Bench

    (When Emily, a librarian-to-be, is assigned to tutor Mateo...)

    2014
  • The Runaways

    (The film follows two friends, Joan Jett and Cherie Currie...)

    2010
  • Brooklyn's Finest

    (In the course of one chaotic week, the lives of three con...)

    2009
  • Dark Summer

    (While home alone under house arrest, a teenager undergoes...)

    2015
  • Long Nights Short Mornings

    (An examination of the romantic life of a young man in New...)

    2016
  • Asylum Seekers

    (Six people on the verge of a breakdown decide to check th...)

    2009
  • Remember the Daze

    (In this glimpse into the teenage wasteland of 1999 suburb...)

    2007
  • Cloned: The Recreator Chronicles

    (When a group of teenagers stumble upon a secret lab, they...)

    2012
  • Starlet

    (Starlet captures the rhythms of everyday life in San Fern...)

    2012
  • Harold

    (A teenager with an early onset of male-pattern baldness b...)

    2008

• TV series

  • The Magicians

    ("The Magicians" stars Jason Ralph ("A Most Violent Year, ...)

  • Golden Boy: The Complete Series

    (A young, ambitious police officer rises quickly within th...)

  • Chicago P.D. Seasons 1-5

    (A riveting police drama about the men and women of the Ch...)

Views

Stella Maeve is working to end sexual harassment, she appeared in The More You Know video to raise awareness about women, who suffer from sexual harassment. In the video, after being cat-called on set, Maeve reveals that 66 percent of women report sexual harassment in a public space. She calls on all men to be a hero and "make it zero."

Quotations: "I want to exist in that moment and make the art that other people can enjoy."

"My biggest thing to say is just don't worry about money."

"It's a nice challenge to escape your reality. I think that's why actors do what we do. We like to play other people. It's therapeutic."

"Things aren't always easy, but you just have to keep going and don't let the small stuff bog you down."

Personality

Stella Maeve stated that she never watches her show The Magicians. She said that she is afraid that she wouldn't enjoy her work.

Interests

• playing the guitar

• Writers

  The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales by Jon Scieszka, Three Tall Women by Edward Albee, Just Kids by Patti Smith

• Music & Bands

  Van Morrison, Tom Waits, Talking Heads, Led Zeppelin, Prince

Connections

Steve Maeve had been dating actor Benjamin Wadsworth for a while. Wadsworth is best known for his performance as Marcus Lopez Arguello in the Syfy series Deadly Class (2019). In April 2019, she revealed on Reddit that they were engaged. The couple exchanged wedding vows on 10 May 2019.

In August 2019, Maeve and Wadsworth revealed via social media that they are expecting their first child together, a baby girl.

Stella Maeve also had a short-termed romance with singer, rapper, record producer, and actor, Kid Cudi, in the year 2013.

Spouse:

Benjamin Wadsworth

When their relationship was revealed, Stella Maeve and Benjamin Wadsworth received lots of negative comments for their age difference, Stella is 10 years older than Benjamin. However, these comments did not affect their relationship.

ex-boyfriend:

Kid Cudi

colleague:

Felicity Huffman

colleague:

Brie Larson

colleague:

Kristen Stewart

colleague:

Richard Gere

colleague:

Blake Lively

colleague:

Sophia Bush

colleague:

Theo James

colleague:

Hugh Laurie

References

• Stella Maeve on Instagram
• Stella Maeve on Twitter