Maeve Jinkings Melo Silva (born 4 August 1976) is a Brazilian actress.

At the age of five she moved with her mother to Belém, Pará, where she grew up and graduated in Social Communication.

When she was 22, she went to São Paulo to study drama at the CPT (Centro de Pesquisa Teatral -Center for Theater Research) headed by director Antunes Filho.

[2] Jinkings' first experience in cinema was in the 2007 feature film Falsa Loura by Carlos Reichenbach.

Jinkings also worked as a casting associate in the films Sem Coração and Big Jato.