Floriana Lima

Floriana Lima (born March 26, 1981^[1]) is an American actress. She played Maggie Sawyer on The CW's Supergirl. She began playing recurring character Darcy Cooper in season 2 of the ABC drama A Million Little Things, and was promoted to the main cast for season 3.

Early life[]

Floriana was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, the daughter of Dennis Lima and Angela Maynard.^[2][3] She is of Italian, Irish, English, Spanish and Portuguese descent.^[4] She graduated from Fairfield Senior High School in 1999^[5] and went on to study Communications at Ohio State University.^[3]

After college, she worked as a production assistant at NBC4 in Columbus, Ohio.^[6] She then decided to move to Los Angeles to pursue an acting career.^[3][7]

Career[]

Lima was a series regular in the internet comedy Poor Paul (2008-2009) and later became a series regular in Fox's medical drama The Mob Doctor (2012-2013).^[8] She had a recurring role in NBC's spy series Allegiance (2015), was a series regular in ABC's thriller The Family (2016) and had a recurring role in Fox's action drama Lethal Weapon from 2016 to 2018. From 2016-2017, Lima played lesbian Detective Maggie Sawyer in season two & three of The CW's Supergirl.^[9]

In 2018, Lima played the character of psychiatrist Krista Dumont in the second season of Netflix's The Punisher.^[10]

In 2019, Lima joined the second season of ABC's A Million Little Things as military veteran and physical therapist Darcy Cooper. She became a series regular in season 3 (2021).

Lima made one-off appearances in episodes of How I Met Your Mother (2008), Ghost Whisperer (2009), Melrose Place (2009), House (2010), In Plain Sight (2010), Franklin & Bash (2011) and CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2014).^{[citation needed]}

Personal life[]

Lima is passionate about nonprofit work and has dedicated her time to LollipopTheater.org, Art Feeding Families, Stories From Tomorrow and Every Mother Counts. She now resides in Los Angeles with her rescue dog, Bella.

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