Margaret "Maggie" Lawson (born August 12, 1980, in Louisville, Kentucky) is an American actress who has starred in the sitcoms Family Rules, Inside Schwartz, It's All Relative, and Crumbs, as well as the movie Nancy Drew. In 2000, she starred in an ABC-TV movie featuring Justin Timberlake called Model Behavior. She has also made guest appearances on television serials such as Smallville.
Lawson is an Assumption High School graduate.
She now co-stars in the USA Network original series Psych as Junior Detective Juliet O'Hara. She is currently in a relationship with her Psych co-star, James Roday.
Maggie Lawson was born and raised in Louisville, Kentucky. When she was eight, she began appearing in local community and dinner theater productions, and at 10, she earned an on-air commercial gig at a Louisville TV station, which soon led to a steady six-year role as a TV personality who filed news reports targeted for her fellow kids. At 17, she moved to Los Angeles for her first professional TV appearance in a recurring role on the sitcom "Unhappily Ever After" (1995). She finished her senior year in high school with a correspondence course. In 2000, she starred in twin roles as a model and a nerdy student in the movie Model Behavior (2000) (TV). In her free time, she enjoys singing and songwriting.
