Margot Bingham

Margot Bingham is an American actress and singer-songwriter, predominantly famous for her role as a jazz singer Daughter Maitland in the HBO period drama series, Boardwalk Empire. Similarly, she garnered significant attention through her lead role in the ABC drama series, The Family and starred in the iconic final season of The Walking Dead in 2021. Born in 1988 and brought up in the Green Tree suburb of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Bingham is the daughter of Craig Bingham, a former Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker, and Lynne Bingham. Bingham graduated from the Pittsburgh High School for the Creative and Performing Arts in 2006. She dedicated her early 20's to education, spending two years at Point Park University before moving to New York City.

She made her stage debut in 2010 and quickly made a name for herself, securing a role in the 2011 revival of Rent. Following this, she co-starred in the web series In Between Men, and also performed at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Her breakthrough came in 2013 when she was offered the role of 1920s jazz singer, Daughter Maitland, in HBO's Boardwalk Empire, earning positive reviews. The subsequent year, she stayed in the public eye with a recurring role in the short-lived El Rey Network series, Matador. In 2015, Bingham was privileged to star as the female lead opposite Joan Allen in the ABC drama series, The Family, helmed by Jenna Bans. Bingham boasts a diverse lineage, Jamaican on her father's side, and of German-Jewish and Russian-Jewish descent on her mother's side.