Kristin Bauer van Straten

Born in Racine, Kristin Bauer van Straten is an American film and television actress. Her first regular series role came in 1995 as Maggie Reynolds on The Crew, and she went on to recurring parts in Total Security, That's Life, Dirty Sexy Money, and Hidden Hills. In film she was perhaps best known for Dancing at the Blue Iguana (2000), playing a porn star featured at a Los Angeles strip club. She also starred in the award-winning short Room 302 in 2001, had a minor role in 50 First Dates in 2004, and voiced the superhero Mera in the animated Justice League. Among many guest appearances, she appeared in a Seinfeld episode as Jerry's girlfriend with man hands. From 2008 to the show's finale in 2014 she played vampire Pamela Swynford De Beaufort on True Blood, becoming a series regular, and in 2011 she was cast as Maleficent in Once Upon a Time.