Marguerite MacIntyre
American actress (born 1965)
Marguerite MacIntyre is an American actress, writer and producer. She is known for her role as Nicole Trager in Kyle XY, Elizabeth Forbes in The Vampire Diaries (2009–2017) and as Miss Rhode Island in the 1994 Seinfeld episode "The Chaperone".
Biography
She has also appeared in Broadway or Off-Broadway productions of Jane Eyre, City of Angels, No Way to Treat a Lady, Annie Warbucks, Weird Romance, and Mata Hari.
She starred on The Vampire Diaries as Sheriff Forbes until season six and Kyle XY as Nicole Trager. For The Vampire Diaries spin-off show The Originals, she is credited as a staff writer, story editor and for the final season as writer and supervising producer.
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