Maisie Richardson-Sellers

Maisie Richardson-Sellers was born and raised in London. Her mother Joy Richardson is black Guyanese and her father is white British.^[1][2] She comes from a family of stage actors.^[3]

She grew up attending private schools through bursaries and scholarships.^[4]

In 2013, Richardson-Sellers graduated, with a degree in archaeology and anthropology, from Hertford College, University of Oxford,^[5] where she participated in and directed several plays, including Mephisto and There Will Be Red.^[6]

While studying at Oxford University, Richardson-Sellers began directing theatre, including a production of For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf.^[7] After graduating, she started auditioning, and landed her debut feature film role in the Star Wars sequel Star Wars: The Force Awakens,^[8][9] in the cameo role of Korr Sella.^[10]

Richardson-Sellers was then cast as Rebekah Mikaelson in the CW series The Originals in 2014, where the character of Rebekah inhabits a different body after a spell gone wrong.^[11] She later played the character of Eva Sinclair on The Originals.^[12] Executive producer Michael Narducci praised her performance.^[13]

In early March 2015, it was announced that she would play a starring role in Of Kings and Prophets, a short-lived ABC drama series that was filmed in South Africa.^[14] In June 2016, it was reported that she would be playing Amaya Jiwe / Vixen on the second season of the CW series Legends of Tomorrow, who is the grandmother of the titular character in the CW Seed animated series Vixen.^[15] Her mother guest starred as a distant ancestor of Jiwe on two episodes, "Zari" and "No Country for Old Dads".^[2] After two seasons, she was cast in the new role of shapeshifter Charlie.^[16][17] She exited Legends of Tomorrow in 2020 at the end of the series' fifth season.^[18]

In 2018 she began shadowing directors on Legends of Tomorrow, and was accepted into the Warner Brothers Directors Program.^[19] She then went on to direct two episodes of Legends of Tomorrow.

In May 2019, it was announced that Richardson-Sellers would star in The Kissing Booth 2 as Chloe, directed by Vince Marcello for Netflix.^[20] In 2021, Richardson-Sellers then starred in the sequel, The Kissing Booth 3.

In 2021, she co-wrote and directed the short film, Sunday’s Child, which won acclaim at numerous film festivals.^[21]

In 2022, Richardson-Sellers starred in the political drama The Undeclared War directed by Peter Kosminsky, opposite Mark Rylance and Simon Pegg.^[22]

In June 2023, it was announced that she had been cast in the upcoming season 2 of Nine Perfect Strangers, starring opposite Nicole Kidman, Murray Bartlett, and Liv Ullmann.^[23]

Richardson-Sellers is queer.^[25][26]

In 2017, along with her Arrowverse co-stars Caity Lotz and Candice Patton, Richardson-Sellers co-founded Shethority ("She + Authority"), an online global collective described as "a positive place for women and the feminine to inspire, empower, and share."^[27][26]