who are the actors who play the daughters in nashville
1 Rayna's daughters, Maddie and Daphne, are real-life sisters Lennon and Maisy Stella. 2  The Stella sisters live just outside of Nashville with their parents, a country-folk duo known as The Stellas. 3  Sam Palladio, the actor that plays Gunnar, is British. Rayna's manager, Bucky Dawes, is played by Nashvillian David Alford. 2  Alford has been in the Nashville theatre scene for many years, having co-founded Nashville's Mockingbird Theatre before leading the Nashville Repertory Theatre as Executive Artistic Director for a time.