Occupation Actress, Photographer Role Actress | Name Linda Fiorentino Years active 1985–2002, 2009 Parents Clorinda Fiorentino | |
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Full Name Clorinda Fiorentino Siblings Terry Fiorentino Christie, Rose Fiorentino, Catherine Fiorentino Movies The Last Seduction, Men in Black, Dogma, Vision Quest, After Hours Similar People John Dahl, John Byrum, Barry Sonnenfeld, Rip Torn, Matthew Modine | ||
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Clorinda Fiorentino, known by her stage name Linda Fiorentino (born March 9, 1958 or 1960), is an American actress. She became known for her leading role in the 1985 coming-of-age drama film Vision Quest; then, in the same year she earned wide recognition for her role in the action film Gotcha! (1985); later on, she appeared in After Hours (1985), Queens Logic (1991) and Jade (1995).
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- Early life
- Career
- Personal life
- Filmography
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In 1997, Fiorentino's career took an upturn due to her role in the science-fiction action comedy film Men in Black; afterwards she appeared in the films Dogma (1999), Where the Money Is (2000), and Liberty Stands Still (2002). 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.
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Early life
One of eight children in a Catholic Italian-American family, Fiorentino was born March 9, 1958, or March 9, 1960, to mother Clarinda or Clorinda in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She grew up in South Philadelphia and later the Turnersville section of Washington Township, Gloucester County, New Jersey. She began performing in play at Rosemont College in suburban Philadelphia before graduating in 1980. She has studied photography since 1987 at the International Center of Photography in New York City.
Career
Fiorentino got her first professional role in 1985 when she starred in Vision Quest.
She then starred in the action film Gotcha! which was filmed in the United States, Paris, and on both sides of the Berlin Wall. Her co-star, Anthony Edwards, later directed her in Charlie's Ghost Story.
It was not until 1994 that she became widely recognized, receiving accolades for her performance in a modern film noir, director John Dahl's The Last Seduction, as the murderous femme fatale, Bridget. Because The Last Seduction was first aired on HBO television, Fiorentino was ineligible for an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress, despite glowing reviews. She later worked again with Dahl on his film Unforgettable (1996).
Fiorentino played the female lead in Men in Black in 1997 alongside Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones. She was reunited with her Jade (1995) co-star, David Caruso in Body Count, originally announced as The Split. In 1999 she played the female lead in Kevin Smith's Dogma.
Fiorentino co-starred with Paul Newman in the 2000 heist film Where the Money Is, and she played a woman threatened by a sniper in the 2002 film Liberty Stands Still opposite Wesley Snipes. Between these features, she was in talks to star in producer Tom Fontana's CBS drama pilot Hudson's Law, but ultimately did not take the project. Kyra Sedgwick appeared instead in the eventual 2001 TV-movie pilot.
In April 2001, Fiorentino faced a lawsuit from the German production company Art Oko Film, which accused her of causing delays in the production of its Georgia O'Keeffe biographical drama, "Till the End of Time.", leading to that film, co-starring Ben Kingsley as Alfred Stieglitz, to cease production. Fiorentino countersued, stating in her filing that she had spent 16 months helping to develop the project and that the producers had promised investors she would "perform the full frontal nudity and prurient sex scenes that they had added to the script without Fiorentino's approval."
Fiorentino in 2007 optioned the rights to a Jim Curtis screenplay about Russian poet Anna Akhmatova, with plans to produce and to possibly star in and direct, but no film came to fruition. During this period, Firorentino also had been developing two documentaries, one on research into juvenile diabetes and autism and the other, titled Equal Protection, about discrimination against Italian-Americans, as well as a daytime talk show about parenting, titled The Motherhood.
Personal life
Fiorentino was married to film director and writer John Byrum until their divorce in 1993.