Maria Vos is a South African actress. She trained at ACT Cape Town after having completed degrees in English Literature and General Linguistics at Stellenbosch University.Maria grew up in the Northern Cape province of South Africa, where her parents (a teacher and a minister) still reside. While at school, she studied acting, singing, and the piano, and excelled at languages. Maria is a bilingual speaker of English and Afrikaans, and speaks intermediate Dutch and German and basic French as additional languages.