So most of my acting experience came in college when I was living away from them. I acted in various independent films, and I got some commercial work and stuff like that.

's Extra where Maria Menounos will co-host the show with Mario Lopez. Menounos also directed Longtime Listener starring Wilmer Valderrama. During her senior year Maria Menounos was hired as a reporter for Channel One News.

She is known in the United States for her appearances as a correspondent for Today Access Hollywood Extra and abroad for co-hosting the Eurovision Song Contest 2006 in Athens Greece.