Maiara Walsh

About

Maiara Walsh (; Brazilian Portuguese: [maˈjaɾɐ]; born February 18, 1988) is an actress and singer of Brazil and the United States citizenship. She played Ana Solis on the sixth season of the ABC show Desperate Housewives, Meena Paroom on the Disney Channel sitcom Cory in the House and Simone Sinclair on the Freeform series Switched at Birth. She also portrayed Vicky Patterson in the film Identity Theft of a Cheerleader by Lifetime and Mandi Weatherly in the film Mean Girls 2 on Freeform.

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…