Maureen Mountcastle
Biography
Maureen Mountcastle is an actress and producer, who also coaches new actors. Maureen created Lumina Talent Development to provide a path for new actors to get started in their careers. She teaches auditioning for film and television. She graduated from UNC Chapel Hill in 1987 with a BA in Dramatic Art. She transitioned from stage to Film/TV when the film business started picking up in NC in the early 2000's. She has produced 2 films: a feature length called TrainWreck written and directed by Valley Girl's Andy Lane and starring R Keith Harris opposite Maureen. The short film she produced "Suit Yourself" was presented at the Durango Film Festival ,the Cape Fear Film Festival and the Kent Film Festival. She appeared as Janet Reno's secretary opposite Jane Lynch in Manhunt: Unabomber and Mrs Hoover in The Gifted. She has also appeared in Under the Dome, Eastbound and Down, and One Tree Hill. You may also recognize her from those funny Mellow Mushroom commercials if you're an ACC football/basketball fan.
Known For & Full Filmography7 Titles
Drama Series - 2026, 16 episodes • as Carol
Ex-con photographer RJ Decker becomes a PI in South Florida, solving strange cases with help from his journalist ex, her cop wife, and an enigmatic woman from his past who may help or destroy him.
Drama Series - 2017, 16 episodes • as Mrs. Hoover
A suburban couple's ordinary lives are rocked by the sudden discovery that their children possess mutant powers. Forced to go on the run from a hostile government, the family joins up with an underground network of mutants and must fight to survive.
Movie - 2025, 2h 15m • as Older Gabriella
After losing his beloved mother, a man risks everything to honor her by opening an Italian restaurant with actual nonnas — grandmothers — as the chefs.
Movie - 2025, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
After losing his beloved mother, a man risks everything to honor her by opening an Italian restaurant with actual nonnas — grandmothers — as the chefs.
Drama Series - 2016, 16 episodes • as Laura's Mom
A snap of a twig. A rustling leaf. In the woods, myth, urban legend, and horror collide with real-life killers. Transporting viewers into a vortex of dark mystery and psychological terror, each episode tells the true story of a crime set in a desolate location.
Movie - 2018, 2h 15m • as Shareholder
A group of wealthy boys in Los Angeles during the early 1980s establishes a get rich quick scam that turns deadly.
Movie - 2018, 2h 15m • as Darla
Albert and Rose Poe bought their dream house seven years ago in Greenfield, NC. They had no idea of the unspeakable horrors that took place in the house before they moved in. If they had known, then their children, Addi and Jade would still be alive. Instead the Poes now find themselves imprisoned in the house they thought was their safe place, and battling their two daughters for survival.