Maricela Ochoa was an actress, best known for the films Envy, The Hungry Woman, Chronicles of a Madman, and Mercury Rising.

Theatre credits include Adria in The Cook, Sister Dianna Ortiz in Psst I Have Something to Tell You Mi Amor, and Celestina del Sol in Cloud Tectronics (Goodman Theatre), Lola in Damn Yankees and Roxy Hart in Chicago (Upper Deck Theatre), Sandra in Living Out (Mark Taper Forum), Carmen Rivera in The Have Little (Monroe Theatre), Sarita Malacara in Blade to the Heat (Anspacher Theater), Grandmother in The Crossing (Mexican Fine Arts Center), and Miriam in Broken Eggs (Greenview Arts Center).