Maia Reficco

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Maia Reficco
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Reficco in 2022
Born (2000-07-14) July 14, 2000 (age 24)
Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Citizenship
  • United States (by birthplace)
  • Argentina (from parents)
Occupations
  • Actress
  • singer
Years active2017–present
Musical career
Genres
InstrumentVocals
LabelsDeep Well Records

Maia Reficco (born July 14, 2000) is an American and Argentine actress and singer. [1] She is known for her roles as Kally Ponce in the Nickelodeon Latin America original series, Kally's Mashup and as Noa Olivar in the Max horror thriller series Pretty Little Liars , the fourth series in the franchise of the same name. [2] In 2024, she made her Broadway debut as Eurydice in Hadestown opposite Jordan Fisher. [3]

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Early life

Reficco was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and at the age of four, she moved to Buenos Aires, Argentina, with her family of Argentine origin. [4] From a young age, she showed interest in music, singing and playing the guitar, piano, saxophone and ukulele. [5] Her mother Katie Viqueira is a singer and singing teacher, and is the director of her own Center for Vocal Art, and her father Ezequiel Reficco is a professor at the University of Los Andes in Bogotá. [6] She has a younger brother, Joaquín Reficco Viqueira, who is also a singer. Reficco did acrobatics for 11 years. At the age of 15, she traveled to Los Angeles, and lived with Claudia Brant, where she had the opportunity to study singing with Eric Vetro, a vocal coach for artists such as Ariana Grande, Camila Cabello and Shawn Mendes. She also attended a five-week program at Berklee College of Music in Boston in which she excelled, earning a scholarship. [7]

Career

She came to the Nickelodeon Latin America project Kally's Mashup thanks to Claudia Brant and the Instagram social network; Brant was the one who was in charge of sending the covers that Reficco made of different artists and uploaded to the platform, then she was contacted by the production of the series for an audition. [8] Reficco auditioned with the Ariana Grande song "Dangerous Woman". She managed to get the leading role of the series playing Kally Ponce. Reficco signed with the record company Deep Well Records and traveled to Miami to record music for the series. On October 19, 2017, Reficco appeared for the first time at the Kids' Choice Awards Argentina presenting the theme song for the series "Key of Life". [2]

In August 2018, Reficco performed at the Kids' Choice Awards Mexico, where she sang the song "World's Collide" and "Unísono" with the cast of Kally's Mashup. The same month, in an interview with Billboard Argentina, Reficco confirmed that she was working on her record material as a soloist in conjunction with a major label, as well as revealing that her debut album will be of the pop and R&B genre. [6] Her album will also be fully in English. [9] She performed at the KCA Argentina 2018, where she sang the song "World's Collide" and "Unísono" again with the cast of Kally's Mashup. On November 7, Reficco appeared at the Meus Prêmios Nick 2018, where she performed the same songs again, but this time "Unísono", together with Alex Hoyer and Lalo Brito; that same night, Reficco was awarded as "Favorite TV Artist". In 2022, she appeared in Do Revenge , a Netflix film, and starred as Noa Olivar in HBO Max series Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin . [2]

Personal life

Reficco is queer. [10]

Filmography

Key
†Denotes films that have not yet been released

Film

YearTitleRoleNotes
2022 Do Revenge Montana RuizRegular role
2024 One Fast Move Camila
TBAA Cuban Girl's Guide to Tea and Tomorrow†Lila ReyesPost-production
2025La Dolce VillaOliviaLead Role

Television

YearTitleRoleNotes
2017-2019 Kally's Mashup Kally PonceLead role
2019 Club 57 Guest role; 1 episode
2021Kally's Mashup ¡Un cumpleaños muy Kally!Television film
2022-2024 Pretty Little Liars Noa OlivarMain role

Theatre

YearTitleRoleVenueNotes
2019 Evita Eva Perón (Young) New York City Center Off-Broadway
2020 Next to Normal Natalie Kennedy Center Washington D.C.
2020-2021Juegos, la obraSusana Paseo La Plaza Buenos Aires
2024-2025 Hadestown Eurydice Walter Kerr Theatre Broadway

Discography

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References

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  2. 1 2 3 Daniela Aguinsky (December 23, 2017). "Maia Reficco, la estrella de Nick que viene de Instagram". Clarín.
  3. ↑ Pretty Little Liars Star Maia Reficco Will Make Broadway Debut in Hadestown
  4. ↑ "Maia Reficco, la argentina que triunfa en Broadway: "El éxito genera momentos de soledad y desconexión"". Marie Claire (in Spanish). November 19, 2024. Retrieved November 27, 2024.
  5. ↑ Alex Hoyer (October 30, 2017). "Maia Reficco y Alex Hoyer responden preguntas #KallysMashup Facebook Live". Facebook.
  6. 1 2 "Entrevista de Billboard Argentina". Twitter. August 28, 2018.
  7. ↑ "Ezequiel Reficco" (in Spanish). February 27, 2020.
  8. ↑ Demare, Silvina (December 14, 2018). "Maia Reficco: "Hay que sacarle el tabú al disfrute de la mujer"". www.clarin.com.
  9. ↑ Reficco, Maia (August 7, 2022). "mai on Twitter: "fun fact my album is all in english & MaliaPyles, ChandlerLKinney, and JordanLGonzalez were my focus group"". Twitter. Retrieved August 29, 2022.
  10. ↑ Otero, Julieta. "Maia Reficco: cuando el "de donde es" ya no pesa". Ey Magazine (in Spanish). Retrieved July 13, 2024.
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