Maia Reficco

Maia Reficco (born July 14, 2000) is an American and Argentine actress and singer. 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 HBO Max horror thriller series Pretty Little Liars, the fourth series in the franchise of the same name. In 2024, she made her Broadway debut as Eurydice in Hadestown opposite Jordan Fisher.

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. From a young age, she showed interest in music, singing and playing the guitar, piano, saxophone and ukulele. Her mother Katie Viqueira is a singer and singing teacher, and is the director of her own Center for Vocal Art. Her father Ezequiel Reficco is a professor at the University of Los Andes in Bogotá. 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. She 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.

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. Reficco auditioned with the Ariana Grande song "Dangerous Woman". She managed to get the leading role in 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". 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; Reficco received Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards.

In 2022, she appeared in Do Revenge, a Netflix film, and starred as Noa Olivar in the HBO Max series Pretty Little Liars. She is in a relationship with F1 driver Franco Colapinto.

Filmography

Film Year Title Role Notes 2022 Do Revenge Montana Ruiz Regular role 2024 One Fast Move Camila 2025 La Dolce Villa Olivia Field Lead Role 2026 A Cuban Girl's Guide to Tea and Tomorrow Lila Reyes Post-production The Last Sunrise Oriah "Ry" Pera Lead role Baton Post-production

Television Year Title Role Notes 2017-2019 Kally's MashupKally Ponce Lead role 2019 Club 57 Guest role; 1 episode 2021 Kally's Mashup ¡Un cumpleaños muy Kally! Television film 2022-2024Pretty Little Liars Noa Olivar Main role

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

Discography

Soundtrack albums Kally's Mashup: La Música (Banda Sonora Original de la Serie de TV) (2018) Kally's Mashup: La Música, Vol. 2 (Banda Sonora Original de la Serie de TV) (2019) Kally's Mashup: Un Cumpleaños Muy Kally – Banda Sonora Original de la Película (2021)

Singles 2020: "Tuya" 2021: "De Ti" 2021: "Tanto Calor" 2022: "Rápido y Furioso" 2022: "En Cartagena"