Maggie Lawson (born Margaret Cassidy Lawson on August 12, 1980) is an American actress. Her television roles include Juliet O'Hara in Psych, Natalie Flynn in Lethal Weapon, Kay Bennett in Outmatched, and Sarah Silver in Boston Blue.
Early life, family and education
Lawson was born and raised in Louisville, Kentucky. She is the daughter of Mike Lawson, a hotel manager, and Judy Lawson, a homemaker. She began appearing in local community and dinner theatre productions as a child and later worked as a youth journalist for a local Fox television station before moving to Los Angeles.
Career
Lawson began acting on television as a teenager. Her early television appearances included roles in Hang Time and Boy Meets World. She later appeared in Pleasantville and played dual roles in the television film Model Behavior. In 2002, she portrayed Nancy Drew in a television based on the character.
In 2024, Lawson played Emily in the Hallmark Channel television film Sugarplummed. The same year, she voiced Jo in the animated series The Milk Chug and was listed as one of the project's executive producers.
In 2025, Lawson portrayed Krista in Lifetime’s I Was a Child Bride: The Courtney Stodden Story. That year, she also joined the CBS series Boston Blue, a Blue Bloods spinoff, as Sarah Silver, the Boston Police Department superintendent.
Lawson also hosts Unconditional with Maggie Lawson, a podcast about relationships between people and pets.
Lawson is associated with animal-rescue work. She co-founded the Tiger Frances Foundation and developed Love on Paws, a program involving rescue animals and children. In 2025, The Astra Awards announced that she would receive the Petco Love Lovey Award for her work with animals.
Personal life
Throughout the series run of Psych (2006–2014), Lawson was in a relationship with series lead James Roday Rodriguez.
Lawson married actor Ben Koldyke in 2015 and filed for divorce in 2017.