She started her career, participating in the reality showSuper M 2002. In 2007 she debuted as an actress in the youth television seriesRomeo y Julieta. From 2008 until 2010, she played Melody Paz, in the series Casi Ángeles. Also with Casi Ángeles she has toured Argentina, Chile, Spain, Israel, Italy, Mexico, Panama and Peru. In 2011 she participated as Carolina in the first season of the television series Los únicos alongside Mariano Martínez, Nicolás Cabré, Nicolás Vázquez, Griselda Siciliani, Brenda Asnicar, María Eugenia Suárez, Jimena Barón, Claudia Fontán, Arnaldo André, Eugenia Tobal, Marcelo Mazzarello and Pepe Monje. In 2012 she integrates the cast of the television series Lobo, on the screen of Canal 13. Later she made a special participation in Dulce Amor. In 2013 she acts in the miniseries Sandía con vino and debuts as a host of the programYups and has participations in the television series Taxxi, amores cruzados. At the end of 2013 she presented her own line of swimsuits with Sweet Victorian, under the name of Mery. In 2014 she acts in the playAlgunas mujeres a las que les cagué la vida alongside Marcelo Cosentino, María Fernanda Callejón, Miriam Lanzoni and Laura Bruni. On television she host with Pablo Rago, Studio Movie Plus, for Studio Universal until the beginning of 2015. In 2015 she works in her new line of swimsuits with Sweet Victorian and participate in the movie Chicos Católicos Apostólicos y Romanos. In 2016 her new line of swimsuits comes out again with Sweet Victorian. The same year she participated in the dance reality show Bailando 2016. That same year she hosted Vestido de novia, for the television networkDiscovery Home & Health. In 2017 she is fully dedicated to acting in theater and she works in the play Como el culo and on television she is part of the cast of the television series Golpe al corazón, she plays Lucrecia. In 2018 she host with Marcelo Polino Los especialistas del show, on the screen of Canal 9. The next year she host El Challenge: Desafío de Estilistas, on the screen of Telefe.
Personal life
From 2006 to 2008, María del Cerro was in a relationship with the actor and singer Benjamín Rojas. Since 2010, María del Cerro is in a relationship with the Dj Jaime Bouquet Roldán. On August 23, 2015, she gave birth to the couple's first child, a girl, whom they called Mila Bouquet Roldán. On April 14, 2020, she gave birth to the couple's second child, a girl, whom they called Cala Bouquet Roldán.