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Maeve Jinkings Melo Silva (born 4 August 1976) is a Brazilian actress.

Early life

Maeve Jinkings was born in Brasília, Brazil's capital, the daughter of a merchant and a photojournalist. At the age of five, she moved with her mother Leila Jinkings to Belém, Pará, where she grew up and graduated in Social Communication. When she was 22, she went to São Paulo to study drama at the CPT (Centro de Pesquisa Teatral – Center for Theater Research), headed by director Antunes Filho. She was also accepted at EAD – Escola de Arte Dramática (School of Dramatic Arts) of the University of São Paulo.

She is of African-Brazilian and Scottish descent, with some English ancestry from her maternal grandfather.

Career

Jinkings' first experience in cinema was in the 2007 feature film Falsa Loura by Carlos Reichenbach. In 2009 she made a short film, Passageira S8º, in Recife. Her breakout was in 2011, with Neighbouring Sounds, directed by Kleber Mendonça Filho. She would work with Mendonça Filho again in Aquarius. With the 2012 production Amor Plástico e Barulho, she won the Best Actress Award in the 46th Festival de Brasília and the Brazilian Film Festival of Toronto. Jinkings also worked as a casting associate in the films Sem Coração and Big Jato.

Her debut on television was in 2015, in the Rede Globo telenovela A Regra do Jogo.