Maria Pride (born 1970) is a Welsh television actress who plays the recurring character of Debbie Jones 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 only female role in the premiere of playwright Patrick Jones' play Everything Must Go, in association with The Manic Street Preachers, at the Sherman Theatre, Cardiff. She also played Triste in Jones' second play, Unprotected Sex, also at the Sherman Theatre. Pride was the winner of the Mastermind Cymru celebrity contest.