Maiara Walsh and 5 Lesser Known Facts About the Brazilian-American Actress

For anyone who’s never missed an episode let alone a season of ABC’s comedy-drama mystery series Desperate Housewives, the name Ana Solis – played by Maiara Walsh still rings a bell.

This American actress and singer of Brazilian origin has She acquired great expertise not only in the role of her roles, but also in that of Ana Solis in Desperate Housewives. She is also famous for playing Simone Sinclair in the ABC Family series. Switched at birth and appearing as Meena Paroom on the Disney Channel sitcom Cory at Home.

Here are some lesser-known facts about this talented Brazilian-American actress.

Complex ancestry/ethnicity

Maiara Walsh was born on February 18, 1988 in Seattle, Washington, to an American father of Irish, English, German and French-Canadian descent and a Brazilian mother.

Maiara’s paternal grandfather, Laurence Mason Walsh was the son of Royal Hill Walsh and Ina Mae Swihart, of English descent, while her paternal grandmother was Margaret “Peggy” Cahail, daughter of Ira Earl Cahail and d ‘Alice Stella Kellogg, of Canadian origin.

Maiara Walsh is multilingual

Probably due to her ethnic diversity, apart from English, Maiara is also fluent in Portuguese and she is fluent in Spanish.

She left home at 11 to pursue an acting career

The Desperate Housewives star and her family moved to São Paulo, Brazil when she was just two years old, but moved to Simi Valley, California when she was eleven to pursue a career in acting . In 2010, she had the chance to guest star on CW’s The Vampire Diaries. The following year (2011), she appeared as Mandi Weatherly in Mean Girls 2 – a teen comedy television film directed by Melanie Mayron. Then she performed on Dr Phil Show

Walsh took over from Emma Stone as the TV series’ female lead. Zombie land. In 2012, she played the lead role of Simone Sinclair Switched at Birth.

She has appeared in many other movies, check the list below

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Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Remarks
2008	Lullaby before I wake up	Megan
2010	the prankster	Wise Ryan
2011	empty sky	Samantha McDonnell	Short film
2012	General Education	Katie
2012	Last hours of suburbia	jennifer
2013	I chocolate milk	Lucy	Short film
2013	hungry games	Kantmiss Evershot
2014	The armadillo	Molly Gardner	Short film
2014	The Jazz Funeral	Emily
2015	Vanish	Emma
2015	glitch	Sophia
2015	“Summer camp”	Michelle

Television

Year	Title	Role	Remarks
2005	Unlikely	Cousin	Episode: “The Bar Mitzvah”
2007-2008	Cory at home	Meena Paroom	32 episodes
2009-2010	Desperate Housewives	Ana Solis	12 episodes
2010	The Secret Life of an American Teenager	Girl in light blue pajamas	Episode: “Lady Liberty”
2010	The Vampire Diary	Sarah	2 episodes
2011	Mean girls 2	Mandi Weatherly	tv movie
2012-2013	Switched at birth	Simone Sinclair	18 episodes
2013	zombieland	witchita	Unreleased Amazon Studios Driver
2014	Agents of SHIELD	Callie Hannigan	Episode: “Seeds”
2016	hopelessly romantic	Summer	tv movie
2016	Popular	willow	2 episodes

She is a philanthropist

Maiara Walsh is a grassroots philanthropist, in spite of her busy schedule, she still finds time to do humanitarian work. She spends much of her time volunteering, coordinating community projects and helping children with disabilities. She also devotes time to writing a personal advice blog.

In addition to his philanthropic work, Walsh also takes the time to personally write to his fans via his official Facebook page.

Maiara Walsh is also a singer

Few people know that Walsh also sings. Its most popular track is Six Feet Under from the album Six Feet Under.

She has also made appearances on some music videos. For example, she was in the clip of DJ TOKIMONSTA Go with (2013). She also appeared in DJ Dillon Francis’ collab with Kygo (DJ Norweigan) and singer James Henderson’s music video for their song. Come here in 2016.

Music Videos

Year	Title	Artist
2008	“7 things”	Miley Cyrus
2013	“Goes with”	Tokimonsta with the MNDR
2015	“The warrior”	Diego Boneta
2015	“Six feet Under ground”	Se
2016	“Come here”	Dillon Francis, Kygo with James Hersey

Relationship status

Maiara Walsh is currently single, but she has similar relationships to Jason Dolley, Corbin Bleu and Kyle Massey. She was once linked to Sean Marquette.

His favorite foods are pasta and olives and Brazilian barbecue, his favorite sports are soccer and softball. Besides acting, Maiara is set to further her knowledge by studying psychology, which she says gives her an edge.