Maura Jo West was born on April 27, 1972 in Springfield, Massachusetts. She is best known for her role as Carly Tenney on the soap opera As the World Turns. She is a five-time nominee for the Soap Opera Digest Award and a four-time nominee for a Daytime Emmy Award. West is married to an actor from As the World Turns, Scott DeFreitas and has four children with him.

Carly Tenney Snyder is played by Maura West on As the World Turns. Carly was a schemer who wanted to ruin her wealthy half-sister's engagement. She was then offered $50 million by her Rosanna, her half-sister, just to marry someone else. She agreed and married Dr. John Dixon whom she later divorced. She married again, this time to Hal Monson. With the help with her scheming cousin, Molly Conlon, she switched the maternity results of her baby, hiding the truth that the baby was Hal's. When the truth came out, everyone abandoned her in disgust and she lost all her chances to be with the man she really loved, Jack Snyder.