Annabella Sciorra

About Annabella Sciorra

Annabella Gloria Philomena Sciorra (born March 29, 1960)[3] is an American actress. She came to prominence with her film debut in True Love (1989), earning an Independent Spirit nomination for Best Female Lead. Subsequent projects included a mixture of mainstream and small-scale films in the drama, comedy, action and thriller genres, such as Cadillac Man, Internal Affairs, Reversal of Fortune (all 1990), The Hard Way and Jungle Fever (1991), The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, Whispers in the Dark (both 1992), Romeo Is Bleeding, Mr. Wonderful, The Night We Never Met (all 1993), The Cure (1995), Cop Land, Mr. Jealousy (both 1997), What Dreams May Come (1998), Chasing Liberty (2004), and Find Me Guilty (2006). She has worked with filmmaker Abel Ferrara three times: The Addiction (1995), The Funeral (1996), and New Rose Hotel (1998).

Outside of film, Sciorra has played recurring roles on Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2005–2006), ER, The L Word (both 2007), CSI (2013), GLOW, Daredevil, Luke Cage (all 2018), Truth Be Told (2019–2020), New Amsterdam, Godfather of Harlem (both 2021), and Blue Bloods (2021–2022). She also starred as Kim Vicidomini in the CBS series Queens Supreme (2003) and as Nora Skoff in Fox's Mental (2009), and was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series for portraying Gloria Trillo on The Sopranos (2001–2004). Her stage credits include The Motherfucker with the Hat (Broadway, 2011), for which she received a Theatre World Award.