Miranda Rae Mayo

Miranda Rae Mayo is an American television actress and model. She is best known for starring as Lacey Briggs in the ABC prime time soap opera Blood & Oil and for playing firefighter Stella Kidd in the NBC series Chicago Fire.

Mayo was born in Fresno, California. She began her acting career by appearing in local stage productions and participating in theater while attending Roosevelt High School. Following high school, she relocated to Los Angeles, where she worked as a model before making her transition to television.

Mayo made her television debut in 2011 with a guest appearance on the NBC police drama Law & Order: LA. In 2013, she secured a recurring role in the BET comedy series The Game. She continued building her television presence in 2014 by joining the cast of the daytime soap opera Days of Our Lives as Zoe Browning, a recurring role she played from August 2014 through July 2015.

Her career expanded further in early 2015 when she was cast as Talia Sandoval in a recurring role during the fifth season of the Freeform drama Pretty Little Liars. Later that year, Mayo appeared in the second season of HBO's crime anthology True Detective and took on a recurring role in the Showtime drama series The Affair as a love interest for Joshua Jackson's character.

Also in 2015, Mayo earned a series regular role on Blood & Oil, portraying Lacey Briggs, the daughter of oil tycoon Hap Briggs, played by Don Johnson. In 2016, she joined the main cast of the drama series Chicago Fire, starring as firefighter Stella Kidd.

In 2021, Mayo completed training at the Somatica Institute to become a sex and relationship coach. That same year, she was cast to portray one of the institute's founders in the television series Here She Comes, a project on which she also served as an executive producer. Mayo is queer and uses both she/her and they/them pronouns.