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| Birth Name(s) : Annabella Sciorra |
Date of Birth: March 24, 1964 |
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Full Annabella Sciorra Biography
| This pretty, dark-haired young actress first attracted attention as a worrisome young brideto-be in the mordantly funny independent film True Love (1989). Her winning performance and warm personality catapulted her into major studio projects, albeit in ordinary supporting roles. She was Tim Robbins' wife in Cadillac Man (1990), precipitating that film's comedic carnage. She played Richard Gere's wife in Internal Affairs (1990) and James Woods' girlfriend in The Hard Way (1991), then snagged a starring role as the ItalianAmerican woman from Brooklyn who falls in love with Wesley Snipes in Spike Lee's controversial Jungle Fever (1991), a high-profile film that put her on magazine covers, and heralded her arrival as an actress to watch. Since then she's appeared in the surprise hit The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, Whispers in the Dark (both 1992), The Night We Never Met, Mr. Wonderful (both 1993), and Romeo Is Bleeding (1994). |
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Additional Annabella Sciorra Biography
Annabella Gloria Philomena Sciorra (born March 24, 1964) is an American film and stage actress who has starred in a number of films and television series.
Sciorra was born in Wethersfield, Connecticut to a veterinarian father and mother of Italian descent. At age eleven, her family moved to New York City, where as a teenager she began taking acting lessons. She attended South Shore High School in the Canarsie neighborhood of Brooklyn. Sciorra formed The Brass Ring Theatre Company when she was 20 years old.
Sciorra first came to widespread attention in her co-lead role in Spike Lee's 1991 film, Jungle Fever. Other major films roles include True Love, the director Nancy Savoca's first film that took the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, The Hand That Rocks the Cradle and What Dreams May Come. She is also familiar to many viewers as Tony Soprano's mistress, Gloria Trillo, in the HBO series The Sopranos, for which she received an Emmy nomination.
Sciorra also made a guest appearance in the first episode of Law & Order: Trial by Jury. She later joined the cast of Law & Order: Criminal Intent as Det. Carolyn Barek, partner to Det. Mike Logan (played by Chris Noth). After one year, she was replaced by Julianne Nicholson as Det. Megan Wheeler, who played Christina Finn on the short-lived NBC legal drama Conviction. She will guest star on the fourth season of Showtime's The L Word.
Sciorra was married to actor Joe Petruzzi from 1989 to 1993. She has dated actor Bobby Cannavale since 2004. She currently resides in Manhattan. |
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