Maria Bello Research Paper

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MARIA BELLO AUTOBIOGRAPHY Maria Bello is a renowned television and film actress born on 18 April, 1967 in Norristown, Pennsylvania to Kathy, a nurse and teacher and Joe Bello, a contractor. Born of an Italian father and Polish mother, Maria had no prior intention of entering into an acting career. She went to Villanova University to major in political science and would have turned into a lawyer if she had not started taking acting classes in her senior years which became her passion. Subsequently after graduation Bello honed her acting skills in a number of New York theatre productions. Her early debut as an actress came in small off broad way plays like “The Killer inside Me”, “Small Town Gals with Big Problems” and “Urban Planning”. Her …show more content…

& Mrs. Smith. Unfortunately the show was cancelled after 8 weeks. Maria landed a role in ER, an American medical drama television series created by novelist and medical doctor Michael Crichton that aired on NBC from September 19, 1994, to April 2, 2009. The show revolved around the inner life of the emergency room (ER) of a fictional County General Hospital in Chicago, Illinois, and various critical issues faced by the room's physicians and staff, Maria guest-starred in it as Dr. Anna Del Amico. The show was a huge success and her impressive work in it drew much attention which led to Bello's big-screen debut in the form of the 1998 Ben Stiller drama Permanent Midnight and successive other movies such as “Coyote Ugly”, “The Cooler”, which bagged her several nominations and awards. Bello played a cocktail waitress who falls for an ill-fated gambler in it. In an another film; “A History of Violence”, Bello portrayed a wife under siege from her husband's past, which fetched her a New York Film Critics Circle award and a Golden Globe nomination. In 2009 Bello played the part of the mother of a girl struggling to discover her lost self in the film; “The …show more content…

It continued with a series of other films which paved her way to fame and recognition enabling her to continue her path smoothly. A handful of high-profile projects had delightfully been added to her resume in 2006, namely; "Thank You for Smoking", "World Trade Center" and "Flicka." The next two years still saw her walk in a steady road with more film titles which included "Shattered" (2007), "The Jane Austen Book Club" (2007), "Downloading Nancy" (2008), and "The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor" (2008). Glancing into her private affairs, the blonde beauty already had a man in her love life, a TV executive named Dan McDermott who became her husband and they had a child together, Jackson Blue, on March 5, 2001. Maria’s desire of becoming an action heroine was met in the 2008 movie, “Mummy: The Tomb of the Dragon Emperor”. In the same year Bello met a waiter in her family party who became her fiance. Reportedly In November 2013, Bello wrote about having a same sex relationship with Clare Munn. She also wrote a book “Whatever....Love is Love”. Her personal interests and ventures make her bio even more gripping. Though following her heart as a thespian, Bello pursued her activism vision, helping to establish the Dream Yard Drama Project for youth in the Bronx and doing vital work for women and families in Darfur and Haiti after the 2010 earthquake. Writing on Bello's activism can be found on her own personal blog as well as on The

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