Mary Wiseman

Mary Wiseman is an American actress. She is best known for starring as Sylvia Tilly in the Paramount+ science fiction drama series Star Trek: Discovery (2017–2024).

Early life Wiseman is the youngest daughter of Dorothy and Kevin Wiseman and has three older brothers. She was raised in Milford, Pennsylvania and Gaithersburg, Maryland. Wiseman attended the DC Shakespeare Theatre’s high school outreach program. She graduated from Quince Orchard High School in 2003 and later earned her BFA in Theatre Arts at Boston University. She went on to study at Juilliard School's Drama Division between 2011 and 2015, where one of her classmates was future Star Trek: Discovery cast member Mary Chieffo. Ariel Carson's I Wanted it to Have a How & I Wanted it to Have a Verb (2011, Dixon Place), and Betsy/Lindsay in Clybourne Park (2013, Chautauqua Theater Company).

Wiseman has performed in productions and workshops of new plays in Playwrights’ theatres like PS 122, The Public, Soho Rep, and New York Theatre Workshop.

In 2022, Wiseman's portrayal of the character Carlo from the Off-Broadway play At The Wedding garnered her a Lucille Lortel Award nomination in the category of Outstanding Lead Performer in a Play.

In February 2023, it was announced that Wiseman was cast in an upcoming Shondaland series The Residence as White House executive chef Marvella.

It was announced at the 2024 San Diego Comic-Con that Wiseman will reprise the role of Sylvia Tilly in Star Trek: Starfleet Academy.

Personal life In 2013, Wiseman began dating actor Noah Averbach-Katz who was her Juilliard School classmate. The couple married on February 16, 2019.

Wiseman identifies as queer, stating in 2021: Before Noah, I dated and loved people of all genders. I never liked it when straight-presenting women dominated conversations about bisexuality/pansexuality when I was with women, so I try not to do it now, but I also don’t want it to feel like I’m hiding anything because I’m queer and proud!

Filmography Film Year Title Role Notes 2014 Three Dates Stacey Short film 2018 Health to the King Nurse Short film 2019 Marriage Story Theatre Actor 2023 Type 1 Laura Short film 2024 Carole & Grey Carole 2026 Office Romance Clair

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