Margot Bingham

Margot Bingham is an American actress and singer-songwriter. She is best known for her role as jazz singer Daughter Maitland in the HBO period drama series, Boardwalk Empire. In 2015, Bingham began starring as one of lead characters in the ABC drama series, The Family. In 2021, she starred in the eleventh and final season of The Walking Dead.

Life and career Bingham was born in August 1988 and raised in the Green Tree suburb of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the daughter of Craig Bingham, a former Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker, and Lynne Bingham. She graduated in 2006 from the Pittsburgh High School for the Creative and Performing Arts, and attended Point Park University for two years before relocating to New York City. She began appearing on stage there in 2010, and had a role in the 2011 revival of Rent. During that same time, she co-starred in the web series In Between Men, and performed in BAM Cafe at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. In 2014, she had the recurring role in the short-lived El Rey Network series, Matador. In 2015, Bingham was cast as one of the female lead characters opposite Joan Allen in the ABC drama series, The Family created by Jenna Bans.

Personal life Bingham is of Jamaican descent on her father's side, and of German-Jewish and Russian-Jewish descent on her mother's side. Bingham is Jewish, and had a Bat Mitzvah ceremony.

Filmography Film Year Title Role Notes 2013 Burning Blue Devon 2014 Fugly! Black Girl 2015 Her Composition Gila 2015 Destined Maya 2016 Barbershop: The Next Cut Bree 2017 The Unattainable Story Alma 2017 Saturday Church Amara 2017 Anything Brianna 2018 A Vigilante Joyce Richards 2018 Then Came You Lucy

Television Year Title Role Notes 2010–2013 In Between Men Kendra Sharpe 2013 Golden Boy Uniform Episode: "Next Question" 2013–2014 Boardwalk Empire Daughter Maitland Recurring role, 11 episodes 2014 Matador Billie Recurring role, 6 episodes 2016 The Family Sergeant Nina Meyer Series regular 2017 Queen Sugar Tamar Judith 2017 She's Gotta Have It Clorinda Series regular 2017 Blue Bloods Special Agent Maureen Bell Episode: "Pain Killers..." 2018 The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel Steiner Resort Band Singer Uncredited, episode: “We’re Going to the Catskills!” 2018 One Dollar Cass Recurring role 2018–2023 New Amsterdam Evie Recurring role 2019–2022 The Walking Dead "Stephanie" / Maxxine "Max" Mercer Uncredited voice (S9), guest (S10), also starring (S11); 16 episodes 2023 Lawmen: Bass Reeves Sara Jumper 2025 Watson Nurse Carlin DaCosta