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Most Recent Role: Diana Moore on ER
Gender: Female
Birthplace: Wethersfield, Connecticut, USA
Birthday: 3-29-1960
Birth Name: Annabella Gloria Philomena Sciorra
Annabella Sciorra is an Italian-American actress born in Wethersfield, Connecticut, USA on March 29, 1960. Early in her career she appeared in some big-budget films, notably Spike Lee 's interracial romance Jungle Fever , Reversal of Fortune , Cop Land and The Hand That Rocks the Cradle . Mid-career she seemed to alternate between indy dramas like Romeo is Bleeding , The...

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ER
Lights Out
Thursday 26 April 2007 on NBC

In only 12 hours, a pressured Luka must coordinate the emergency closure of the ER, as the team rallies to make provisions for patients. Chaz is admitted to the ER, worrying Pratt, and Ray is challenged by a young patient. Sam renews her friendship with the photographer Diana, while Gates faces...

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Annabella graduated from South Shore High School. She attended college but dropped out to pursue a career in acting. (edit)
She and her family moved to Brooklyn, New York when she was 11 years old. (edit)
Annabella lent her voice for the audiobook reading of Sacred Time by Ursula Hegi and Bobby Cannavale. (edit)
Aside from appearing opposite Christopher Walken in The Funeral, Annabella was also associate producer of the period piece. (edit)
Annabella's other film credits include Highball, Asteroid, Destination Anywhere, and Identity Theft: The Michelle Brown Story. (edit)

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Annabella: Your mind can't always tell the difference between pretend and reality if you pretend too long; or if you go too deep and really believe in what you're doing. If you're going to be that kind of actor and go way out there, it's really important to take care of yourself and have a safe place, whatever that is. (edit)
Annabella: I feel that I've worked with a lot of interesting people, and I have no regrets. I'm just curious about what I might have done if I'd had people in my life then who did explain what the publicity game was. (edit)
Annabella: There was definitely a moment, a time after The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, when I did get offered a lot of women in jeopardy-type roles. But I couldn't do it, physically, I just couldn't. But now I know what I know, I wonder if I should have played the whole fame game a little more. The thing is, I wasn't surrounded by lots of people who were helping me build a career. (edit)
Annabella: Unlike a movie, you kind of learn things about yourself every week, ... When you get a new script, you find out, oh, I was with the FBI, or oh, my father was this, or oh, this is where I grew up. They can make it up as they go along. (edit)
Annabella: Press junkets are incredibly annoying. You sit in a chair for three to six hours and have different journalists shuttle in for three minutes at a time, asking cheesy movie questions to get a quick sound bite -- and that's their only objective. You can't really move or eat. You're just stuck there. It's pressure, constant pressure. (edit)

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Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Det. Carolyn Barek
Queens Supreme
Judge Kim Vicidomini
Recurring Role
The Sopranos
Gloria Trillo
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ER
Photographs and Memories
Diane Moore
ER
Lights Out
Diana Moore
Law & Order: Trial by Jury
The Abominable Showman
Maggie Dettweiler
The Handler
The Big Fall
Caroline
The L Word
Literary License to Kill
Kate Arden
The L Word
Little Boy Blue
Kate Arden
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I just viewed the movie, "What Dreams May Come", and was totally blown away by her performance. Annabella's character was so life-like that I felt overwhelmed and sad for her. Absolutely a great actress and beautiful too.
Continue » Posted Oct 18, 2005 7:09 am PST
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