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My Take
Tristin Mays is the kind of working actor I respect because she built her career on consistency rather than one viral moment. Coming out of New Orleans and grinding through stage, television, and film roles, she finally got her signature part as Riley Davis in the MacGyver reboot, playing a covert operative for the Phoenix Foundation. What I like about that role is that it gave her a recurring lead on a major network show, which is a different kind of validation than a flashy one-off. The fact that she also sings tells me she has more range than the action-series casting suggests. She feels like someone still climbing.
Overview
Tristin Mays (born June 10, 1990) is an American actress. Mays portrayed Riley Davis in the reboot of the MacGyver series on CBS who works as a covert operative for the Phoenix Foundation.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Tristin Mays
- Name (Japanese)
- トリスティン・メイズ
- Reading
- とりすてぃん・めいず
- Born
- June 10, 1990 (age 36)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Gemini / Horse
- Origin
- New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- actor / stage actor / television actor / film actor / singer
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Vista del Lago High School
- University
- Private
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.