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Clorinda "Linda" Fiorentino[1] (born March 9, 1958[1][2] or 1960[3][4]) is an American former actress. Fiorentino made her screen debut with a leading role in the 1985 coming-of-age drama film Vision Quest, followed that same year with a lead role in the action film Gotcha! and an appearance in the film After Hours.

Linda Fiorentino
Born	Clorinda Fiorentino (1958-03-09) March 9, 1958 (age 64) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Education	Rosemont College
Occupation	Actress, photographer
Years active	1984–2009
Known for	The Last Seduction (1994) Men in Black (1997) Dogma (1999)
Spouse	John Byrum ​ ​ (m. 1992; div. 1993)​

Fiorentino gained attention for her lead roles in the erotic thriller Jade (1995), the science-fiction action comedy film Men in Black (1997) and the fantasy comedy Dogma (1999). For her performance in the 1994 film The Last Seduction, she won the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress, the London Film Critics' Circle Award for Actress of the Year, and was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role.

Early life and education

One of either seven[5] or eight children[1][6] in an Italian-American family, Fiorentino was born in South Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.[1] She was raised in South Philadelphia and later moved with her family to the Turnersville section of Washington Township in nearby South Jersey.[7]

In 1976, Fiorentino graduated from Washington Township High School in Sewell, New Jersey.[8] She began performing in plays at Rosemont College in suburban Philadelphia, from which she graduated in 1980 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science.[1][7][9] She trained at the Circle in the Square Theater School in Manhattan while working as a bartender at the nightclub Kamikaze, where Bruce Willis also worked.[6]

Career

Fiorentino got her first professional role in 1985 when she starred in Vision Quest as "Carla". Film critic Roger Ebert said of the newcomer, "Without having met the actress, it's impossible for me to speculate on how much of Carla is original work and how much is Fiorentino's personality. What comes across, though, is a woman who is enigmatic without being egotistical, detached without being cold, self-reliant without being suspicious. She has a way of talking - kind of deliberately objective - that makes you listen to everything she says."[10] In a 1994 appearance on Late Show with David Letterman, Fiorentino said she chose to stop acting for a period of time after Warner Bros. executive Mark Canton told her during the filming of Vision Quest, "you have a great ass, but I think your jeans need to be tighter." She said she returned to acting later to pay off mounting credit card debt.[11]

In 1985 she starred in the espionage comedy film Gotcha! which was filmed in Los Angeles, California; Paris, France; and Berlin, Germany.[12] Her co-star, Anthony Edwards, later directed her in Charlie's Ghost Story.

After having taken various roles she next received accolades for her performance in director John Dahl's 1994 neo noir film The Last Seduction, playing the murderous femme fatale, Bridget. Her performance won the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress and the London Film Critics' Circle Award for Actress of the Year, and was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role. She followed this as the femme fatale in the 1995 erotic thriller Jade, a critical and box-office failure. She later worked again with Dahl on his film Unforgettable (1996).

Fiorentino played the female lead in the highly successful Men in Black in 1997, then appeared in the direct-to-video Body Count in 1998.[13] In 1999, she starred in Dogma as an abortion clinic employee tasked with saving the world. Fiorentino did not get along with director Kevin Smith, which garnered negative press for her.

After a co-starring role with Paul Newman in the 2000 heist film Where the Money Is, and a lead role as the titular character in the 2002 film Liberty Stands Still, Fiorentino's career slowed to a halt. She was in talks to star in a series being prepared by Tom Fontana, but ultimately did not take the project.[14] Fiorentino was attached to a Georgia O'Keeffe biographical drama called Till the End of Time, but the project stalled when Fiorentino had a falling out with German producer Karel Dirka.[15]

In 2007, Fiorentino optioned the rights to a screenplay about Russian poet Anna Akhmatova, with plans to produce and to possibly star in and direct, but the project was dropped. During this period, she was reported to be developing two documentaries,[16] neither of which moved forward.

Her final screen role to date was a supporting character in Once More with Feeling, released direct to video in 2009.

Personal life

Fiorentino married film director and writer John Byrum (who had previously worked with her on the unfinished movie The War at Home, loosely based on the life of model and actress Edie Sedgwick, which was filmed in 1988) on June 23, 1992.[17] The couple divorced in 1993, after a year of marriage, for reasons not known.[6][18]

In 2009, former Federal Bureau of Investigation agent Mark T. Rossini pleaded guilty to illegally accessing FBI computers during the prosecution of Los Angeles private investigator Anthony Pellicano. Law enforcement officials said Fiorentino previously had a relationship with Pellicano and wanted to assist his defense.[19] According to prosecutors, Fiorentino was then dating Rossini, and told him she was researching a screenplay based on the case. He conducted searches of government computers for information related to the Pellicano case and passed the results to Fiorentino,[20] who then handed the files over to Pellicano's lawyers in a failed effort to help Pellicano avoid a 15-year prison sentence.[19]

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1985	Vision Quest	Carla	Released February 1985
1985	Gotcha!	Sasha Banicek / CIA Agent Cheryl Brewster	Released May 1985
1985	After Hours	Kiki Bridges	Released September 1985
1985	Alfred Hitchcock Presents	Betsy Van Kennon	TV series Episode: "The Night Caller"
1988	The Moderns	Rachel Stone
1988	Wildfire	Kay
1989	The Neon Empire	Lucy	TV movie
1991	Queens Logic	Carla
1991	Shout	Molly
1992	Strangers	Helen	TV movie
1992	Chain of Desire	Alma D'Angeli
1992	Beyond the Law	Renee Jason	Released April 1993
1993	Acting on Impulse	Susan Gittes	TV movie
1994	The Last Seduction	Bridget Gregory / Wendy Kroy	Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead London Film Critics Circle Award for Actress of the Year New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress Society of Texas Film Critics Award for Best Actress Nominated—BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role Nominated—Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress (2nd place) Nominated—Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress Nominated—National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress (3rd place)
1995	Bodily Harm	Rita Cates
1995	The Desperate Trail	Sarah O'Rourke	TV movie
1995	Jade	Anna Catrina 'Trina' Maxwell-Gavin / Jade
1995	Charlie's Ghost Story	Marta
1996	Unforgettable	Martha Briggs
1996	Larger than Life	Terry Bonura
1997	Kicked in the Head	Megan
1997	Men in Black	Laurel Weaver	Nominated—Blockbuster Entertainment Award for Favorite Supporting Actress – Sci-Fi Nominated—Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
1998	Body Count	Natalie
1999	Dogma	Bethany Sloane
2000	Ordinary Decent Criminal	Christine Lynch
2000	What Planet Are You From?	Helen Gordon
2000	Where the Money Is	Carol
2002	Liberty Stands Still	Liberty Wallace	Direct-to-video
2009	Once More with Feeling	Lydia	Direct-to-video

References

External links

• Linda Fiorentino at IMDb
• Linda Fiorentino (television). Charlie Rose (PBS). April 14, 2000. Retrieved September 1, 2017. Includes link to text transcript. Transcript archived from the original on November 28, 2017.

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[de] Linda Fiorentino

Linda Fiorentino (* 9. März 1958 oder 1960[1] in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; eigentlich: Clorinda Fiorentino) ist eine US-amerikanische Schauspielerin.

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- [en] Linda Fiorentino

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[es] Linda Fiorentino

Linda Fiorentino (Filadelfia, Pensilvania, 9 de marzo de 1958)[1] es una actriz estadounidense de ascendencia italiana, conocida por sus interpretaciones en películas como La última seducción (película que la consagraría como musa del cine independiente estadounidense),[2] Dogma, Jade[3] y Hombres de negro.

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[ru] Фиорентино, Линда

Клори́нда (Ли́нда) Фиоренти́но (англ. Clorinda "Linda" Fiorentino; род. 9 марта 1958 года[1][2], по другим данным — 9 марта 1960 года[3][4]) — американская киноактриса, наиболее известная своими ролями в фильмах «Люди в чёрном», «Догма», «После работы» и «Последнее соблазнение».

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