Maiara Walsh

Walsh was born in Seattle, Washington to a Brazilian mother and an American father. Her family moved to São Paulo, Brazil when she was one year old where Portuguese became her first language. Walsh has said she was bullied as a child. After a few years, they moved back to Seattle where Maiara took an interest in music and the arts, diving into every musical and play offered by her school. At 11, she moved to Simi Valley, California, to pursue her acting career and graduated from Royal High School.

Walsh first appeared in the spin-off series Cory in the House (2007-2008) based on Disney Channel's original series That's So Raven (2003-2007). Walsh played the character Meena Paroom, who is an ambassador's daughter that attends the same private school as Cory Baxter. Meena (Maiara Walsh) is a series regular playing Cory Baxter’s best friend along side Newt (Jason Dolley), heir to a political dynasty, become Cory's new friends. In 2010, Walsh appeared in the second season of The Vampire Diaries as Sarah. In 2011 she co-starred in Mean Girls 2 as Mandi Weatherly, an A-list cliché girl also known as a "Plastic". Walsh was the female lead in the television series Zombieland as Wichita, taking over the role from Emma Stone. After the pilot episode, the series was not picked up. Walsh had a recurring role as Simone Sinclair, in the ABC Family drama series Switched at Birth. In 2019, Walsh starred in the Lifetime film Identity Theft of a Cheerleader as Vicky Patterson, a woman in her 30’s who pretends to be a high school student to have a second chance at education and becoming a Cheerleader. Walsh’s character was modeled after the real-life case of Wendy Brown. In 2020, she starred in Lifetime original movie Killer Dream Home alongside John DeLuca.