Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
19
Gender
Female
Place of Birth
Gastonia, North Carolina, USA
Also Known As
Wanda Maria Howell
Wanda Howell
Wanda Marie
Wanda M. Howell
Maria Howell
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.
Known For
Daddy's Little Girls
2007-02-14Sons 2 the Grave
2022-02-05The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
2013-11-15Linda
1993-10-08The Good Lie
2014-09-10Addicted
2014-10-10To Her, With Love
2022-09-11Summer Camp
2024-05-31