Mary McCoy - the name Maimie being due to brother Rory's inability to pronounce Mary - was born in November 1980 to restaurateur Eugene McCoy and his wife Barbara. An uncle, Kevin Connolly, is a well-known impressionist and another uncle John owned a club in the area playing host to many international artists. Growing up in Staddlebridge near Northallerton in North Yorkshire, Maimie attended Stokesley School and, with her brother Eugene, who would also become an actor, went to local dance classes. In fact she started out as a dancer before enrolling at London Metropolitan University, graduating with a BA in Performing Arts in 2001. Over-night stardom did not beckon and Maimie spent some time as an extra, a receptionist and a waitress. Having inherited her father's culinary skills, she has found her way onto the books of several catering companies as an ancillary career. The television breakthrough occurred in 2009 when she was one of the quartet of leading ladies in Personal Affairs (2009), described as the British Sex and the City (1998), and played a tempestuous model in Desperate Romantics (2009), a fictionalized account of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. Since 2014 she has been on screen as duplicitous Milady de Winter in The Musketeers (2014), the TV series based on the characters created by Alexandre Dumas. Based in London since the turn of the century, the man in her life is fellow actor James Buller.