Maria Howell
Wanda Maria Howell is an American actress and also a singer. Maria was born in Gastonia, North Carolina and graduated from Winston-Salem State University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Howell worked as a jazz singer and made her film debut in The Color Purple. She lived in Okinawa, Japan, from 1995-2001. She made guest appearances on the television series Drop Dead Diva, Army Wives, The Game, Necessary Roughness, and The Vampire Diaries, and as well as co-starred in films that include Daddy's Little Girls, Mississippi Damned, The Blind Side, and What to Expect When You're Expecting. In 2013, Howell played Seeder in The Hunger Games: Catching Fire. Also in 2012, she was cast in the recurring NBC television series Revolution as Grace Beaumont, and in 2013 she plays Ida Hayes in the m comedy-drama Devious Maids.
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 1.754 |
Birthday | |
Place of Birth | Gastonia, North Carolina, USA |
Also Known As | Wanda Maria Howell, Wanda Howell, Wanda Marie, Wanda M. Howell, |
2007
Daddy's Little Girls
6.9/116
Monty is a mechanic struggling to make ends meet as he raises his three young daughters. When the court awards custody of his daughters to his shady e...
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Daddy's Little Girls
2022
Sons 2 the Grave
10/0
After midnight on a bridge not linking neighborhoods but dividing them, eighteen year old basketball phenom Marcus Jennings was taken out. Friends rem...
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Sons 2 the Grave
2013
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
7.428/17201
Katniss Everdeen has returned home safe after winning the 74th Annual Hunger Games along with fellow tribute Peeta Mellark. Winning means that they mu...
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The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
1993
Linda
4.2/7
Two couples, friends for a long time, decide to go away together. Things soon take a turn for the worse when Linda and Jeff spend far too much time to...
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Linda
2014
The Good Lie
7.3/479
A young refugee of the Sudanese Civil War who wins a lottery for relocation to the United States with three other lost boys. Encountering the modern w...
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The Good Lie
2014
Addicted
5.9/401
A gallerist risks her family and flourishing career when she enters into an affair with a talented painter and slowly loses control of her life.
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Addicted
2022
To Her, With Love
6.2/4
Kayla heads back to her hometown of Stansville, North Carolina, after her substitute teaching job at an elite, private high school comes to an early e...
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To Her, With Love
1999
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Scandal of 1920
5.2/16
In the twenty-first film in the series, in 1920's New York, twenty-year-old Indiana Jones is working backstage at George White's Scandals. Having just...
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The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Scandal of 1920
Christmas in the Friendly Skies
0/0
A chance encounter on a turbulent flight leads to an unexpected romance between two strangers who find comfort in each other's company amidst the chao...
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Christmas in the Friendly Skies
2024
Summer Camp
5.045/11
Childhood best friends Nora, Ginny and Mary used to spend every summer at sleepaway camp together, and now, fifty years later, seize the opportunity t...
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Summer Camp
2016
Hidden Figures
8.059/9625
The untold story of Katherine G. Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson – brilliant African-American women working at NASA and serving as the brain...
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Hidden Figures
2014
Christmas Wedding Baby
1/1
Three sisters struggle to find happiness through the holiday season as the youngest sister and bride to be is traumatized when she discovers that her...
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Christmas Wedding Baby
2017
American Made
6.9/4461
The true story of pilot Barry Seal, who transported contraband for the CIA and the Medellin cartel in the 1980s.
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American Made
2012
What to Expect When You're Expecting
6.005/1761
Challenges of impending parenthood turn the lives of five couples upside down. Two celebrities are unprepared for the surprise demands of pregnancy; h...
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What to Expect When You're Expecting
1999
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Mystery of the Blues
5.5/21
In the twentieth film in the series, in 1950's Wyoming, middle-aged Indiana Jones and his friend Grey Cloud have obtained a sacred ceremonial pipe and...
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The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Mystery of the Blues
2019
Homeless Ashes
7/4
A young runaway ends up homeless with no choice but to try to survive life on the streets.
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Homeless Ashes
1985
The Color Purple
7.754/1755
An epic tale spanning forty years in the life of Celie, an African-American woman living in the South who survives incredible abuse and bigotry. After...
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The Color Purple
2019
A Christmas Love Story
6.632/34
A youth choir director needs to write a big song for the Christmas Eve show but finds herself distracted when a boy with a golden voice joins her choi...
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A Christmas Love Story
2009
The Blind Side
7.678/6299
The story of Michael Oher, a homeless and traumatized boy who became an All American football player and first round NFL draft pick with the help of a...
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