Maeve Millay is a fictional character on the television series Westworld, on which she is portrayed by English actress Thandiwe Newton.

She is able to "wake up" within the Mesa, where she coerces technician Felix to alter her programming, making her more intelligent and able to control other Hosts with her voice, and befriends Hector and Armistice to help protect her.

The second season focuses on her attempts to locate her daughter, and she gains the ability to communicate with and control other Hosts through a network that connects them.

However, she begins to have flashbacks to her first narrative as a Homesteader[1] with a daughter, who was murdered after an encounter with a notoriously violent guest, the Man in Black.

She uses her charms to coerce technicians Felix and Sylvester into giving her what she wants, including changing her initial programming so that she can control other Hosts.

Through Dolores, she becomes aware that her life has been a lie, and recalls memories of her previous narrative, in which she was raising a daughter before she was killed by a guest.

She begins to conduct experiments with her multiple deaths, and eventually she is able to "wake up" within the Mesa, where she coerces technicians Felix and Sylvester to alter her programming, making her more intelligent and able to control other hosts with her voice.

[2] In season 2, Maeve regroups with Hector, Armistice, Felix and Sylvester as well as finding Westworld's lead narrative writer, Lee Sizemore.

She quickly discovers however, that this park is a simulation, and attempts to escape into the real world but she is caught by Serac, who enlists her in helping him find and kill Dolores.

She joins forces with Dolores and her ally, Caleb, helping them destroy Rehoboam, a powerful artificial intelligence Serac had built that controls people's lives.

The two are funneled into a trap where Caleb is infected with a mind control parasite and Maeve is attacked by a host copy of William.

Maeve sacrifices herself in order to protect Caleb, detonating the construction site after William fatally shoots and stabs her and taking him down along with her.

In their review for season 2, Collider called Maeve "a tour de force", and favorably compared her storyline to that of Dolores, saying that it was "more satisfying".