Maria Pride

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Maria Pride is a Welsh television actress who plays the recurring character of Debbie Collins in the Welsh Language soap opera Pobol y Cwm.

She is a former pupil of Ysgol Gyfun Rhydfelen, near Pontypridd.

In February 1999 she played the character of Cindy, the lead female role in the premier of playwright Patrick Jones' play Everything Must Go, at the Sherman Theatre, Cardiff. And she also played Triste in Patrick's second play Unprotected Sex, also at The Sherman Theatre.^[1]

In 2001, Maria won the BAFTA Cymru Best Actress Award for her role as Pauline in "Care", written by former Tomorrow's World presenter Kieran Prendiville about child abuse in a Welsh children's home. In 2002, Maria starred in a controversial Welsh Language drama called "Gwyfyn".

Maria's other notable roles have been in Welsh TV comedy dramas such as High Hopes for BBC Wales. Maria has also had minor roles in many mainstream British TV series such as Casualty and Afterlife.

Maria was recently back on S4C playing Tara, the head of the whorehouse in "Y Pris", and will appear in the second series when it airs later this year.