- Niece of Dominican actress Maria Montez, "The Queen of Technicolor".
- Named after her late aunt, actress Maria Montez, "Queen of Technicolor".
- She appeared in a BBC version of "Don Quixote" starring Glenda Jackson.
- For years she was part of the Roy Hart Theatre, in London, United Kingdom.
- Graduated from Psychology at the Universidad Nacional Pedro Henríquez Ureña (UNPHU) in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic (1995 - 2000).
- She is of Portuguese and Canarian (Spanish) descent from her father's side. Her paternal grandfather Isidoro Gracia y García was a Spaniard, from Garafía, La Palma, Canary Islands, Spain. She is of Dutch-Jewish, Curaçao and Taíno descent from her mother's side. Maria's maternal great-grandfather, writer Federico Henríquez y Carvajal was the son of Noel Henríquez Altías, a Dutch Sephardic Jew from Curaçao, and Clotilde Carvajal Fernández, a woman of Taíno descent.
- Fluent in Spanish, English and French, also speaks Italian.
- Her maternal grandfather is the scientist Luis Arístides Fiallo Cabral (1876-1931). Her maternal grandmother is Flor De María Gregoria Henríquez García (1879-1963), daughter of writer Federico Henríquez y Carvajal and niece of Francisco Henríquez y Carvajal, president of the Dominican Republic in 1916.
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