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Maeve McGuire

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Maeve McGuire (born July 24, 1937 in Cleveland, Ohio) is an American actress, best known for her role as "Nicole Travis Drake" on the soap opera The Edge of Night, which she played from 1968 to 1974 and from 1975 to 1977. She was then replaced by actress Jayne Bentzen, almost twenty years her junior.

Between her two stints on The Edge of Night, she also played Maude Lassiter Palmer on the short-lived nighttime show Beacon Hill.

McGuire was also well-known for playing the role of Elena DePoulignac on Another World from 1981 to 1983, and has appeared on other shows, such as One Life to Live and Search for Tomorrow, on which she appeared with William Prince, the actor who had originated the role of her father, Ben Travis, on The Edge of Night.

She later played Mrs. Sheffield, the mother of a young homosexual on the soap opera All My Children.

She also filled in for Eileen Fulton on As The World Turns