27 Facts About Linda Fiorentino

Clorinda "Linda" Fiorentino was born on March 9,1958 and is an American actress.

Linda Fiorentino had leading roles in the erotic thriller Jade, the science fiction action comedy film Men in Black and the fantasy comedy Dogma.

Linda Fiorentino was born the third of eight children in an Italian-American family.

One of her sisters is model and photographer Donya Linda Fiorentino, who had been married to filmmaker David Fincher and British actor Gary Oldman.

Linda Fiorentino comes off as very bold, but she's really very shy.

In 1976, Linda Fiorentino graduated from Washington Township High School in Sewell, New Jersey, where she excelled in basketball, baseball and cheerleading.

Linda Fiorentino trained at the Circle in the Square Theater School in Manhattan while working as a bartender at the nightclub Kamikaze, where Bruce Willis worked.

Linda Fiorentino has been an active photographer since 1987 and studied at the International Center of Photography in New York City.

Linda Fiorentino landed her first professional role after her first professional audition in 1985 when she was cast in Vision Quest as Carla, the romantic partner of the lead character, a high school wrestler played by Matthew Modine.

Linda Fiorentino beat out Rebecca de Mornay, Rosanna Arquette and Demi Moore for the role.

However, Linda Fiorentino wanted the lead role of Catherine Tramell, although she was rebuffed due to having "breasts that were too small".

Linda Fiorentino experienced a resurgence after she received accolades for her performance in director John Dahl's 1994 neo-noir film The Last Seduction, playing the murderous Bridget.

Linda Fiorentino's performance won Fiorentino 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.

Linda Fiorentino originally turned the role down because she did not want to play a prostitute, but changed her mind once her character was changed through rewrites.

Linda Fiorentino later worked again with Dahl on his film Unforgettable.

Dahl's follow up to The Last Seduction, Unforgettable was another critical and box-office failure for Linda Fiorentino, only earning less than $3 million in the United States.

Linda Fiorentino played the female lead, Dr Laurel Weaver, in the 1997 film Men in Black, for which she was nominated for a Blockbuster Entertainment's Award for Favorite Supporting Actress in Science Fiction.

Linda Fiorentino appeared alongside Ving Rhames, John Leguizamo and David Caruso in the 1998 direct-to-video film Body Count, which Variety called "an after-the-heist road movie that sizzles here and there but ends up going no place special".

In years following, it was rumored Linda Fiorentino did not get along with director Kevin Smith, which generated negative press for her.

Linda Fiorentino created drama while we were making a comedy.

Linda Fiorentino was ticked off that there were other people in the movie who were more famous than she was.

Linda Fiorentino was in talks to star in a series being prepared by Tom Fontana, but did not take the project.

Linda Fiorentino's character was written out of Men in Black II to accommodate the return of Tommy Lee Jones as the co-lead of the film and partner to Will Smith's character.

In 2007, Linda 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.

Linda Fiorentino's most recent screen role was a supporting character in Once More with Feeling, released direct-to-video in 2009.

Linda Fiorentino married film director and writer John Byrum, whom she had previously worked with on the unfinished movie The War at Home, on June 23,1992.

Linda Fiorentino later had a relationship with Los Angeles private investigator Anthony Pellicano, in the period leading to his 2008 trial and conviction, in Los Angeles, on multiple felony charges.