MAIA JEFFRIES

Played by Anna Jullienne, 2004 to 2012 The charge nurse and her lesbian lover Jay Copeland married in a groundbreaking Valentine’s Day civil union in 2006, but just over a year later, Anna was widowed when Jay was murdered by the Ferndale Strangler. Soon afterwards, Maia gave birth to a son fathered by her sister’s husband and named the boy Jay in memory of her late wife. In 2009, she confessed to murdering evil doctor Ethan Pierce and spent time in a mental health facility, before briefly finding love with fellow nurse Nicole Miller.