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Linda Fiorentino (born March 9, 1958) is an American actress. She is known for her roles in films such as Dogma, Vision Quest, Men in Black, Jade and The Last Seduction. Linda Fiorentino: BiographyLinda Fiorentino - Personal lifeFiorentino was born Clorinda Fiorentino in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Her father was a steel contractor and her mother, also named Clorinda, was a homemaker. Fiorentino is of Italian American Catholic background. She gradulated from Rosemont College in suburban Philadelphia. She has studied photography, off and on, since 1987 at the International Center of Photography in New York City. She was married to director John Byrum for a time, but they divorced in 1993. She is still very close to Byrum's children. She splits her time between Westport, Connecticut and New York City. Linda Fiorentino - CareerFiorentino got her first professional role in 1985 when she starred in Vision Quest. It was not until 1994 that she became widely recognized, receiving accolades for her performance in The Last Seduction as femme fatale Bridget, almost the textbook example of a murderous seductress in a modern film noir. Because it was first aired on HBO television she was ineligible for an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress, despite glowing reviews. She later worked again with director John Dahl, who cast her in his film Unforgettable. Her co-star from Gotcha!, Anthony Edwards, has also directed her in one of his films. The 1995 erotic thriller Jade, directed by William Friedkin, was expected to enhance the actress's status as a sex symbol, but the movie turned out to be a critical and commercial failure. Fiorentino was placed 66th on a list of "100 Sexiest Stars in Film History" by Empire magazine. In 1997, she won a role in the science fiction comedy movie Men in Black during a poker game. Fiorentino has developed a reputation as a difficult actress to work with. This is supported by Kevin Smith's account of her behavior working on the 1999 film Dogma. During shooting, she would stop talking to Smith for the whole day . In retrospect, Smith wishes he had instead given Fiorentino's part to Janeane Garofalo. Her most recent leading role was as a woman threatened by a sniper in the 2002 film Liberty Stands Still. Fiorentino also co-starred with Paul Newman in a 2000 heist film, Where the Money Is. She is currently said to be working on a film about the Russian poet Anna Akhmatova and producing and directing a documentary about the 14th amendment to the Constitution. |
