Maria Howell

Acting

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.

Filmography

• Beyond the Gates — Tracy, Tracy Tyler
• 2024Christmas in the Friendly Skies — Rochelle
• 2024Summer Camp — Judy
• 2022Gigi & Nate — Chairman Filling
• 2022Sons 2 the Grave — Ruth Jennings
• 2022To Her, With Love — Maya
• 2019A Christmas Love Story — Carol
• 2019Homeless Ashes — Virginia
• The Resident — Judge Lola Rawlins
• 2017American Made — NSC Woman
• 2016Allegiant — Council Member
• 2016Hidden Figures — Ms. Sumner
• Speechless — Christine (voice)
• 2014Addicted — Nina
• 2014Christmas Wedding Baby
• Finding Carter — Delilah Castro
• 2014The Good Lie — INS Agent
• Devious Maids — Ida Hayes
• 2013The Hunger Games: Catching Fire — Seeder
• 2012Firelight — Mrs. Easle
• Revolution — Grace Beaumont
• 2012What to Expect When You're Expecting — Jules' Doctor
• Past Life — Mrs. Connors
• 2009The Blind Side — CPS Welfare Worker
• The Vampire Diaries — Mrs. Halpern, Ayana
• 2008Living Proof — Kate
• Army Wives — Major Barcenilla, Counselor
• 2007Daddy's Little Girls — Wife
• Criminal Minds — Dr. Lode Barren
• 1999The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Mystery of the Blues — Goldie
• 1999The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Scandal of 1920 — Goldie
• 1993Linda — Shirley
• The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles — Goldie
• 1985The Color Purple — Church Choir Soloist (uncredited)