Maimie McCoy

Mary McCoy, professionally known as Maimie McCoy is an English actress. She portrayed Milady de Winter in The Musketeers (2014–2016), and is the female lead in the ITV reboot series Van der Valk (2020–). Early life McCoy was born in Yorkshire, where she attended Stokesley School. Initially a dancer, she then studied Performing Arts at London Metropolitan University, graduating with a BA (Hons) in 2001. McCoy is the daughter of restaurateurs Eugene and Barbara McCoy, once managers of Tontine restaurant near Stokesley, who now run the Crathorne Arms pub in Crathorne, North Yorkshire. Her elder brother Rory is the owner of London restaurants Ducksoup and The Picklery Little Duck, and her younger brother is actor, singer and dancer Eugene McCoy. Her maternal uncle is the impressionist Kevin Connelly. Career McCoy's extensive screen career includes episodes of Doctors, The Bill, Waking the Dead and Taggart. In 2009, she appeared in Personal Affairs as Nicole Palmerston-Amory, a "man-eating, cynical realist (who) favours money over love". This was McCoy's first leading role, for which she was nominated for a TV Quick Award as best supporting actress.