In the final season of The Flash, American actress Nicole Maines reprises her role as Supergirl Nia Nal aka Dreamer. The first reveal was revealed by TVLine and fans are thrilled that she’s back. The extraordinary 25-year-old actress has so far starred in Royal Pains, Good Trouble, Darby and the Dead and several other TV series and movies. Nicole Maines rose to fame in the fourth, fifth, and sixth seasons of the CW superhero series Supergirl, as Nia Nal. She was the first person to play a transgender superhero on television. Here’s some more information about the American actress and her upcoming role in The Flash.
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Nicole Maines has an identical twin brother, Jonas Maines.
Maines and her identical twins Jonas were adopted by Kelly and Wayne Maines in 1997. Kelly’s second cousin is the biological mother of one of the twins. In a recent interview, host and executive producer Eric Wallace talked about his latest addition to The Flash series:
“As Supergirl fans, all of us here at The Flash are super excited to have Nicole join Team Flash for a one-off adventure as we wrap up our final season.”
He continued:
“Nicole Maines is an amazingly talented actress and I’m so glad she agreed to be in a very special part of Season 9, where I had to make it through one of my ‘Arrowverse Bucket List’ teams: There are two amazing reporters — Iris West-Allen (Candice Patton) and Nia Nal — investigating a very bizarre and terrifying mystery of their own.”
Nicole Maines was born male, although she did show evidence of sex change in her youth. She chooses to play with toys that are feminine and based on female characters from cartoons and movies. She was only three years old when she discovered she was not a boy, and by the age of four, she openly talked about her sexuality to her adoptive parents.
She eventually changed her name to Nicole (Nikki) after her character Nicole Bristow, one of Zoey’s assistants on the Nickelodeon sitcom Zoey 101. She underwent gender confirmation surgery in Philadelphia, a months after graduating from high school in 2015.
A summary of her professional background
The story of Maines and her family is told in the 2015 book Become Nicole: The Transformation of an American Family by Washington Post writer Amy Ellis Nutt. She even starred in the American Network drama series Royal Pains as a transgender child with a hormone deficiency. She was one of 11 people to appear in the 2016 HBO documentary The Trans List. Her big break came in 2018 when she took on the role of Nie Nal in The CW’s Supergirl. Maines regularly appeared on the show from its fourth to final season.
Nicole Maines won Best Actress at the 2019 Outfest Los Angeles LGBTQ Film Festival for her work in Bit, a horror film about gay vampires. In a recent interview, CW Entertainment president Brad Schwartz praised the show, saying:
“The Flash is going to be one of The CW’s best series, and everyone involved in its stellar nine-season streak will be immensely pleased.”
Nicole Maines has written various comics, including her Supergirl character, Nia Nal/Dreamer, and she also co-wrote the story for the Dreamer’s first installment in the Superman: Son of Kal-El comics.
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