Eaddy Mays an American actress and producer was born in New York and raised by her mother At eight years old Mays transformed the basement of their home into the Magic Theater where her mother and dozens of stuffed animals were subjected to countless recreations of blockbuster films and Broadway plays with Mays starring in every role By the age of ten Mays was strongly encouraged by her mother to pursue this passion outside the home she was cast in a community theatre production of Hans Christian Andersens fairy tale The Snow Queen In the years that followed Mays put her passion into the newly formed family business by hosting video presentations for the production company owned by her stepfather Bob Haymes singer actor and songwriter who is known best for his song Thats All an oft recorded tune now part of the Great American Songbook This hosting work brought the teenage Mays to China in 1984 and later to Hong Kong and Japan After graduating college and dabbling in commercial radio and television for several years Mays began her acting career in earnest in 2009 when she was cast as Elaine in the Academy Award winning film The Blind Side in which she appeared opposite Sandra Bullock in the infamous ladies who lunch scenes Before the film was released Mays was cast as a cancer patient for a medical center commercial in which she agreed to shave her head completely bald Mays surprised producers by eagerly insisting that she be allowed to do the actual shearing herself and excitedly requested that the event be captured on video and posted on YouTube This radical change in appearance prompted a shift in her career and shortly thereafter she was cast in MTVs supernatural thriller TV seriesTeen Wolf She appeared occasionally in season one But throughout seasons two and three she was featured as a chilling memorable villain garnering attention and praise from critics for her performance and gathering hate mail from more radical fans for her part as the evil nemesis of their beloved werewolves Throughout the years the same passion that led the eightyearold Mays to create Magic Theater in her basement sent her to diving into the murky waters of film and television producing Mays cowrote produced and starred in the fulllength independent feature film Highland Fling a romantic comedy about a funloving Scotsman and a straightlaced southern belle shooting a reality TV show at a Scottish Highland Festival in small town America Simultaneously Mays and her angelically patient sleepdeprived crew shot the actual series pilot for the television show featured in the film Mays has a long history of volunteer work with kids beginning first in college where she was a big sister in Big Brothers Big Sisters of America Later she served as the Custodian and Legal Guardian for two displaced young girls in the custody of the States Foster Care program These experiences compelled Mays to help create and manage The Highland House a homeless shelter for atrisk youth displaced from their home Mays still volunteers with youth today works in Los Angeles she has three children with a basement theater of their own Cali a Percheron mare Kidiot a barn cat and almost enough hours in the day
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