Maeve McGuire (born July 24, 1937 in Cleveland, Ohio) is an American actress, best known for her role as "Nicole Travis Drake" on the soap opera The Edge of Night, which she played from 1968 to 1974 and from 1975 to 1977. She was then replaced by actress Jayne Bentzen, almost twenty years her junior.Between her two stints on The Edge of Night, she played Maude Lassiter Palmer on the short-lived nighttime show Beacon Hill.McGuire was also well known for playing the role of Elena DePoulignac on Another World from 1981 to 1983, and has appeared on other daytime programs, such as One Life to Live and Search for Tomorrow, on which she appeared with William Prince, the actor who had originated the role of her father Ben Travis, and Ann Flood who played her friend Nancy Karr on The Edge of Night.She later played Judith Sheffield, the mother of a gay teen played by Ben Jorgeson, on the soap opera All My Children.She also filled in for Eileen Fulton as Lisa on As the World Turns a number of times during the early 1990s.
She was inducted into the Cleveland Playhouse Hall of Fame in 2014.
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Auditioned for a role on the NBC soap opera Hidden Faces, but was not cast. She was cast as Nicole on the CBS soap opera The Edge of Night the next week.
Actress
Title
Year
Status
Character
Mozart in the Jungle
2015
TV Series
Board Member
Marci X
2003
Woman at Auction
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
2002
TV Series
Bonnie Vernon
28 Days
2000
Groom's Mother
A Perfect Murder
1998
Ann Gates
Law & Order
1990-1998
TV Series
Betty Sanger / Celeste Foxx / Dr. Walters
All My Children
1997
TV Series
Judith Sheffield
New York News
1995
TV Series
Six Degrees of Separation
1993
Polly
The Baby-Sitters Club
1990
TV Series
Bettina Tronell
Working Girl
1988
Trask Secretary
Masquerade
1988
Aunt Eleanor
The House on Carroll Street
1988
Mrs. Byington
Search for Tomorrow
1986
TV Series
Kate McCleary
Another World
1982
TV Series
Elena dePoulignac
The Edge of Night
1976
TV Series
Nicole Drake
Beacon Hill
1975
TV Series
Maude Palmer
The American Parade
1974
TV Mini-Series
Angelina Grimke
End of the Road
1970
Receptionist
Last Summer
1969
Younger woman (uncredited)
Macbeth
1968
TV Movie
Second Witch
For Love of Ivy
1968
Cashier
One Life to Live
1968
TV Series
Beverly Crane (1994-1995)
As the World Turns
1956
TV Series
Lisa Miller Mitchell (1992) (temporary replacement)