Maria Bello was born April 18th, 1967 in Norristown, Pennsylvania. She majored in Political Science at Villanova University. She had good intentions of becoming a lawyer but when she enrolled in an acting class she found that she liked it and was good. This enabled her to be cast in small off Broadway plays.
She appeared in such TV shows as The Commish, Misery Loves Company, Nowhere Man and Due South. Producers Kerry Lenhart and John Sakmar liked her work from a remake of 77 Sunset Strip they had seen her in ,which never aired, and so the role of the beautiful spy, Mrs Smith was given to Maria for the espionage show Mr&Mrs Smith. Sadly, the show was cancelled ,after only 8 weeks.Then came her role as Doctor Anna Del Amico on ER becoming a regular on the series.Maria left ER to work in feature films, she was one of the stars in "Coyote Ugly" back home
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