Maricielo Effio was born on November 30, 1975 in Peru. She is an actress, known for the soap operas "Tormenta de pasiones" (2004), "Cosas del amor" (1998) and "Los de Arriba y los de Abajo" (1994). In 1999, she made her first foray into cinema with the film Pantaleón y las visitadoras by director Francisco Lombardi and Ecuador to participate in the soap opera La hechicera, where she played the antagonist Laura Rivas. In 2008 she starred in Dioses, directed by Josué Méndez.