Biography

Marlane has made good use of her Scotch-Irish roots, being best known for playing Maggie of the Irish coven in The Twilight Saga Breaking Dawn.

Major television credits include Mad Men opposite Vincent Kartheiser and Ray Donovan with Paula Malcomson (another Irishwoman!), as well as recurring roles on Sons of Anarchy opposite Katy Segal, The Fosters, and Masters of Sex alongside Lizzy Caplan. Other film credits include Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life where she shot with Jessica Chastain and the feature films Somebody Marry Me with Michael Lerner and Sake Bomb for which she received a nomination for Best Actress from New York's Winter Film Awards.

She attended the University of Arkansas where she earned a Bachelor's Degree in English Literature. She graduated Summa Cum Laude with Honors from the Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences. She has her Masters of Fine Arts in Acting from the University of Texas at Austin, and volunteers in animal rescue through fostering and spreading awareness.
- IMDb mini biography by: Consortium Entertainment [us]

Graduated from The University of Texas at Austin with a Masters of Fine Arts in Acting.

She lives in Los Angeles, California.

Marlane is the National Spokesperson for the Spay/Neuter Advocacy organization SpayFirst.

Born in Portland, Maine, but raised in Fort Smith, Arkansas.

I don't know if I'd want to direct, but I can really see myself writing at some point. I would love to work with (director) Terrence Malick. Terrence Malick is one of my favorite directors, and it would be great to work with him in the future.

I love that vampires are like humans, but they have all the capabilities of animals. They combine death, immortality, and sex, all in this impossibly beautiful way-they're the ultimate predators.

Am I telling the truth? I try not to do anything in an empty way, just because I think I should. So there are the mechanics of working on a set, doing publicity, preparing for an audition, and I do all of those but at the same time I ask myself if it's really me, and if it's not I look harder. Because there's no point trying to figure out what other people want. That is an impossible task. And it's boring.

I try to audition as though that thirty seconds in the room is the job, so Twilight was a really enjoyable audition to do.

Being originally from the east coast I somehow never took on a Southern accent, even though it completely lives in me. So growing up I never felt like I belonged in the South, or anywhere in particular, really, and was always searching for where that might be. I am sure that figures in my attraction to acting and especially the characters I most like to play. They always have a strong regional identity - I absolutely love doing dialects.