Linda Fiorentino
- Birthday
- Mar 9, 1960
- Birthplace
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Bio: Before deciding upon an acting career, Philadelphia-born Linda Fiorentino briefly flirted with the notion of becoming a lawyer. Fiorentino fans consider her first year of filmmaking her most rewarding, and her inaugural movie role as an erstwhile, love-struck artist in Vision Quest (1985) among her finest performances. After a conventional heroine stint in Gotcha!… More Bio: Before deciding upon an acting career, Philadelphia-born Linda Fiorentino briefly flirted with the notion of becoming a lawyer. Fiorentino fans consider her first year of filmmaking her most rewarding, and her inaugural movie role as an erstwhile, love-struck artist in Vision Quest (1985) among her finest performances. After a conventional heroine stint in Gotcha! (1985), she raised eyebrows (and temperatures) as a mellow sculptress with a predilection for kinky sex games in the bizarre After Hours (1985). But Fiorentino was seldom well served in later pictures, hampered by too many nondescript performances in ensemble films. Then came her startling portrayal of the utterly amoral "black widow" Bridget in John Dahl's low-budget sleeper The Last Seduction (1994). In a less rule-bound world, the actress would have been nominated for an Oscar, but the film was, unfortunately, shown on cable TV before its theatrical release, thus rendering it ineligible for the Academy race. The success of The Last Seduction and Fiorentino's widely praised performance provided the resuscitation her career needed, but subsequent lead roles in a series of complete turkeys -- most notably the David Caruso thriller Jade (1995) and Dahl's Unforgettable (1996) -- quickly negated the film's positive effects. Fiorentino did enjoy a measure of acclaim for her role as Jesus Christ's only living descendent in Kevin Smith's Dogma (1999), and she continued to work steadily in all sorts of films, including Thaddeus O'Sullivan's Ordinary Decent Criminal, in which she played one of the loves of a charismatic Dublin criminal (Kevin Spacey). ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
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Filmography
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Once More with Feeling (2008)
- Lydia
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Liberty Stands Still (2002)
- Liberty Wallace
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Where the Money Is (2000)
- Carol Ann McKay
- 46%
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What Planet Are You From? (2000)
- Helen Gordon
- 42%
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Ordinary Decent Criminal (1999)
- Christine Lynch
- 14%
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Linda Fiorentino Videos
Dogma
1 minutes 31 seconds
Men In Black
7 minutes 36 seconds
Larger Than Life
2 minutes 19 seconds
Liberty Stands Still
2 minutes 26 seconds
Where The Money Is
2 minutes 29 seconds
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