- Found a hidden ancient petroglyph of a universal spiral during a Vision Quest in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico. She calls it a genuine "deja vu".
- Fan of authors Oscar Wilde and Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
- Fan of playwrights Tennessee Williams and Eugene O'Neill.
- Her grandfather was in the House of Representatives in pre-Castro Cuba.
- Her great, great, great uncle, Perucho Figueredo, wrote the Cuban National Anthem in 1867, which is still used to this day. It is called "La Bayamesa".
- Has written a screenplay based on true events from a trip her and her family took to Cuba back in 2003. Maria's father had a reunion with his brother after 42 years.
- Speaks conversational French and Italian.
- Distant relative to the Pantages family, on her mother's side, who created the Pantages Theater in Hollywood.
- Had childhood dreams to be an astronaut or a nun or an international spy.
- Directly watched a Solar Eclipse with her father when she was 12 with special glasses he made in his aerospace lab in Perkin Elmer.
- Michael V. Gazzo and his wife, used to babysit Maria. They lived down the block on West 44th St.
- Grew up in Hell's Kitchen, in New York City, across the street from Actor's Studio.
- Her husband, Simon Kirke, wrote several of the songs on his last album (All Because of You ) for Maria.
- The song, "How Do You Stop", written by Charlie Midnight & Dan Hartman in 1986 (sung by James Brown & Joni Mitchell), was written for Maria.
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