Maggie Lawson Biography, Age, Husband, Net worth, Actress, Movies, Tv Shows, Acting, Salary

June 2024 · 9 minute read

Maggie Lawson Biography

Maggie Lawson (Margaret Cassidy “Maggie” Lawson) is an American actress who is best known for her role as Detective Juliet “Jules” O’Hara in the TV show Psych. From 2018 – 2019, she held the recurring role of Nathalie Flynn on Fox’s Lethal Weapon’s third and final season.

Maggie Lawson was interested in acting at an early age. At the age of 8, she performed in local community and dinner theater productions as a child artist. Maggie earned on-air commercial gig at a Louisville TV station at the age of 10.

Maggie started her career carrying her own camera through the streets of the Bronx as a multimedia journalist and reporter for News 12 The Bronx and Brooklyn. Maggie Lawson eventually became the evening anchor, and it was there that she was nominated for an Emmy Award for her series “Wheels in Motion.”

The story follows the lives of two paralyzed New Yorkers who have founded a non-profit helping others regain their mobility. In 2016, Maggie joined the team at WCBS in New York City. There, she covered a wide range of stories including the 2016 Presidential Debate at Hofstra University, terrorist attacks, storm coverage, and countless local and international issues.

Maggie Lawson Age | Maggie Lawson Height

Maggie Lawson is an American actress born on August 1980 in Louisville, Kentucky, U.S. She was born and raised in Louisville, Kentucky. Maggie Lawson is 39 years old as of 2019. Maggie Kent was born on 19 June 1990 as Magdalena Doris in South Philadelphia. Lawson stands at a height of 1.61 m. (she has a weight of 55 kg).

Maggie Lawson Family

Maggie Lawson was born in Louisville, Kentucky, the U.S to Chris Lawson (father) and Judy Lawson (mother). Her mother was a homemaker and her father was a hotel manager. She is very close to her parents and continually posts pictures with her family on social media. Maggie has not revealed information about her siblings yet

Maggie Lawson’s Past Affairs and Relationship

Maggie Lawson hopelessly fell in love with her Back fellow in the Game co-star, Ben Koldyke. They started dating in January 2014 and before they got married in a rustic wedding on their family’s ranch in New Mexico on 8th August 2015. Sadly, their marriage didn’t last long.

As per some sources, Lawson and Koldyke got divorced in early 2017. The news of their split spread like a wildfire when Lawson was spotted without her wedding ring in public. She even changed her name on Instagram after the split.

Is Maggie Lawson married | Maggie Lawson Dating | Maggie Lawson Husband

Maggie Lawson has been in relationships with James Roday (2006 – 2014) and Eric Christian Olsen (2003 – 2006). James and Maggie Lawson, they first met on the set of the series Psych which they co-starred back in 2006.

It’s a show that elevated their careers tremendously. The two had a love interest for each other onscreen which even developed in real-life.

They had a thriving relationship in their eighth season of the series and also bought a house in Los Angeles. Moving in together was the sign of a serious relationship between the two lovers.

An alternative fate awaited them. After seven strong years of dating, James and Maggie broke up with the cause of the split unknown to date. This period was the same year that the show ended. You can imagine how heart-broken the fans of the show were.

Eventually, she ended up and married James Roday who is also an American actor. However, in 2017, the two were reunited in the making of Psych the movie where both acted the same roles as before and even ended up getting married onscreen. This movie was no consolation for the fans however since, in real life, their love life was over and done.

 Why did James Roday and Maggie Lawson break up

Since the split, James seems focused on his career and has been performing different roles in various movies.  James played the lead role of Dan Schauble in the film, Pushing Dead(2016) and appeared as Marty in Gravy. 

Further, he also acted in some TV movies like Nerd Herd and Good Session. As for dating, James seems to be enjoying singlehood as he remains fairly silent regarding his dating status and his social media is also of no help in the matter.

James’ girlfriend, however, dated her Back in the Gameco-actor Ben Koldyke after the split. She also got married to him on 8 August 2015 on Ben’s family ranch in New Mexico.

Unfortunately, Maggie’s marriage was short-lived lasting less than two years. Both James and Maggie are single, but there is the possibility of reuniting again by fixing their broken relationship.

Maggie Lawson Education

Maggie Lawson attended St. Stephen Martyr School, a Catholic grade school, from there she attended Assumption High School, a school of all-girls Catholic in Louisville.

Maggie studied at Central High School and completed her education at Montclair State University, where she gained a Bachelor’s degree in Broadcasting. Apart from Journalism, Maggie is also a shopaholic and a talkative person.

Maggie Lawson Actress

Lawson started her career at the age of 8 in local community and dinner theater productions. She later became a youth TV host on WDRB Fox 41 Kid’s Club in Louisville and moved to Los Angeles for her first pilot at 15.

At age ten, she hosted Kid’s Club on WDRB Fox 41 for six consecutive years. At fifteen, she moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career in acting. In 2011, Lawson briefly returned to her roots in the theater to star in the play Greedy, directed by James Roday, which played for a few weekends in Los Angeles.

Lawson starred in various sitcoms like Cybill, Boy Meets World and Home Improvement throughout her early career in both guest starring and supporting roles. She also made guest appearances on television series such as Smallville and Fear Itself, and co-starred in It’s All Relative and Crumbs.

For Disney Channel, Lawson starred in a double role in Model Behavior featuring Justin Timberlake, and in the 2002 installment of Nancy Drew in the title role. Other film credits include Pleasantville, Nice Guys Sleep Alone and Cleaner. From 2006 to 2014, she co-starred in the USA Network original series, Psych, as Detective Juliet O’Hara.

She then reprised her role in 2017 in Psych: The Movie and in the sequel set to air late 2019. Following Psych, she scored leading roles in ABC’s 2013 sitcom Back In The Game, of CBS’s 2014 sitcom pilot Saved on the Date of CBS’s 2016 fantasy sitcom Angel from Hell.

She also had short arcs on Two And A Half Men, The Great Indoors, and Netflix’s The Ranch’’. She starred in the recurring role of Christa on the second and third seasons of horror-comedy series Santa Clarita Diet as well as the movie Spivak in 2018.

For Hallmark Channel, Lawson has starred in My Favourite Wedding and Christmas Encore in 2017, and The Story of Us in 2019. Most recently, Lawson starred in a recurring role as Dr. Natalie Flynn on the 3rd season of Lethal Weapon and was featured in Treehouse, the 6th episode of Hulu’s monthly horror movie anthology Into The Dark.

She will play Cay, the female lead opposite Jason Biggs, in the upcoming FOX comedy series Outmatched (fka Geniuses), “about a blue-collar couple […] in South Jersey trying to get by and raise four kids, three of whom just happen to be certified geniuses.”

Lawson starred in various sitcoms like Home Improvement, Boy Meets World, Cybill, and made guest appearances on TV series such as Smallville and Fear Itself. Her other outstanding performances cuts across movies as well as television films.

She starred in sitcoms like It’s All Relative, Crumbs, Inside Schwartz, and was also in the television movie Nancy Drew alongside Jill Ritchie, Charlie Finn, and many others. She also starred as Miss McMartin in the final season of CBS’s sitcom Two and a Half Men.

Maggie Lawson Net worth | Maggie Lawson Salary

Maggie Lawson is an American actress who has an estimated net worth of $ 2 million dollars as of 2019. Maggie Lawson works as a reporter at 6ABC in WPVI-TV; she joined the channel in April 2018. Before working at 6ABC, she worked at WCBS-TV as a reporter/fill-in anchor in the New York City.

Maggie has also worked as a freelance reporter at News 12. In her interview, she revealed that she left her job at WCBS-TV and moved to 6ABC so that she would be closer to her family in Philadelphia. Maggie spent most of her life in Philadelphia but had to move to New York in 2007 because of her job.

She now covers the breaking, feature and general assignment stories around Philadelphia. For her outstanding work at WPVI-TV, she is provided with a hefty salary. Even though the exact figures are in shadows, Maggie earns an average of $45K per year.

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Maggie Lawson Acting

After her move to Los Angeles, she made her professional acting debut in 1996, with a role in the TV film, Unhappily Ever After, in which she appeared as Madelyn in four episodes of the film. After that, she appeared as Kim in an episode of Hang Time (1996).

The following year, she appeared in an episode of several TV films including Step by Step, Boy Meets World, and Meego. She got her big break in late 1997, with a role as Jennifer in the TV film Cybill. In 1999, she appeared as Hope Harrison in 6 episodes of Family Rules.

In 2002, she played the lead role as Amanda Maddox in the TV film Heart of a Stranger. The following year, she got a regular role as Liz Stoddard-Banks in the TV series It’s All Relative (2003-2004).

Her performance in the series was highly appreciated by the audience and she started getting more roles in other TV films. In 2006, she was cast in the lead role as Juliet O’Hara in Psych (2006-2014).

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