23 Facts About Nicole Maines

Nicole Amber Maines was born on 1997 and is an American actress, writer, and transgender rights activist.

Nicole Maines is the first to portray a transgender superhero on television.

Nicole Maines currently plays the recurring role of Lisa in the second season of Yellowjackets.

Nicole Maines herself said she knew she was not a boy as young as three years old and started explicitly telling her family who she was by the age of four.

Nicole Maines initially wanted to be called Quinn from the same show, but she kept making spelling errors when writing the name, so she settled on Nicole.

Nicole Maines chose her middle name, Amber, just because she liked how it sounded.

Nicole Maines did not officially change her name until later because of the Maine law that any name change must be announced in the newspaper, and she and her family wanted to keep her identity private for her safety.

The judge accepted their petition to the name change law, meaning that Nicole Maines was exempt from having to publish her name change in a newspaper.

In July 2015, Nicole Maines had gender-affirming surgery in Philadelphia, a month after graduating from high school.

Nicole Maines attended high school at Portland, Maine's Waynflete School, and attended the University of Maine alongside her brother Jonas.

However, according to her father, Nicole Maines chose not to return in the fall of 2018 in order to pursue acting.

Many articles about the Nicole Maines family were published, many focusing on how one identical twin can be transgender and one can be cisgender.

In 2007, when Nicole Maines was in 5th grade in elementary school at Asa Adams Elementary School in Orono, Maine, the grandfather of a male classmate complained about Nicole Maines using the girls' bathroom.

In June 2015, Nicole Maines appeared on the USA Network show Royal Pains as a transgender teen whose hormones might be endangering her health.

In 2016, Nicole Maines was one of 11 individuals featured in an HBO documentary titled The Trans List.

In July 2018, it was announced that Nicole Maines would appear as a series regular in the fourth season of The CW series Supergirl.

Nicole Maines appeared as Nia Nal, a distant relative of Legion member Dream Girl, and played the first transgender superhero on television.

Nicole Maines's character is described as a "soulful woman with a fierce drive to protect others".

Nicole Maines would remain on the series until its end in November 2021, and reprise the role in a final season episode of The Flash in 2023.

In 2019, Nicole Maines starred in Bit, a horror movie about queer female vampires, winning the top acting prize at the Outfest Los Angeles LGBTQ Film Festival.

Nicole Maines co-wrote the script for Dreamer's debut in the comic Superman: Son of Kal-El as well, which was released on July 12,2022.

In 2023, Nicole Maines was cast as Lisa in a recurring role in season two of the Showtime series Yellowjackets.

Nicole Maines's character is an associate of adult Lottie who is trying to recover from past traumas.