Marlane has made good use of her Scotch-Irish roots, being best known for playing Maggie of the Irish coven in The Twilight Saga Breaking Dawn.
Major television credits include Mad Men opposite Vincent Kartheiser and Ray Donovan with Paula Malcomson (another Irishwoman!), as well as recurring roles on Sons of Anarchy opposite Katy Segal, The Fosters, and Masters of Sex alongside Lizzy Caplan. Other film credits include Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life where she shot with Jessica Chastain and the feature films Somebody Marry Me with Michael Lerner and Sake Bomb for which she received a nomination for Best Actress from New York's Winter Film Awards.
She attended the University of Arkansas where she earned a Bachelor's Degree in English Literature. She graduated Summa Cum Laude with Honors from the Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences. She has her Masters of Fine Arts in Acting from the University of Texas at Austin, and volunteers in animal rescue through fostering and spreading awareness.
