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Dominique Mcelligott

Dominique McElligottis a retired Irish actress. She has appeared as a series regular on Raw (2008), Hell on Wheels (2011–2012), The Astronaut Wives Club (2015), House of Cards (2016–2017), and The Last Tycoon (2016), playing Maggie Shaw / Queen Maeve in The Boys (2019–2022) and The Boys Presents: Diabolical (2022).

Career

She starred in Moon (2009) and the RTÉ television series Raw before leaving to film Leap Year (2010). In 2011, she appeared in the movie The Guard. From 2011 to 2012, she played a lead role in the AMC series Hell on Wheels. In 2015, she starred in ABC's The Astronaut Wives Club.

In 2016, McElligott played Hannah Conway, wife of the Republican presidential nominee, in the fourth and fifth season of the Netflix show House of Cards. She played Queen Maeve on Amazon Prime Video's original series The Boys, which is based on the comic book series of the same name. In a 2026 interview, series creator Eric Kripke said that she retired from acting.

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