Maria Pitillo

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Biography

She attracted attention as a Southern troublemaker on ABC's daytime drama "Ryan's Hope" in the mid-1980s and made her feature debut as a masseuse in Brian De Palma's "Wise Guys" (1986). Pitillo landed her first significant screen role in "What If I'm Gay?" (1987), a "CBS Schoolbreak Special", then played prominent roles in "Spike of Bensonhurst" (1988, as Spike's girlfriend) and "She-Devil" (1989). She delivered an incisive cameo as Mary …
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Job Title

Actor

Born

January 8, 1966

Career Milestones

2001

Joined cast of the NBC series "Providence" as Tina, a single mother who becomes romantically involved with Robbie Hansen (Seth Peterson)

1998

Cast in the female lead as an aspiring reporter in Roland Emmerich's remake "Godzilla"

1998

Co-starred in the NBC midseason replacement sitcom "House Rules"

1996

Went brunette to portray coffee-shop proprietor Gloria who fell for Dead Letter Office postal employee (Greg Kinnear) in Garry Marshall's "Dear God"

Had regular role as Alicia in Fox series "Partners"

1995

Starred in title role of NBC movie "Escape From Terror: The Teresa Stamper Story"

1993

Played Alan Arkin's daughter in TNT's "Cooperstown"

1992

Appeared as Mary Pickford in Richard Attenborough's "Chaplin"

1990

Portrayed Annie DeMarco, singer and kept-girl of Al Capone, in the TNT movie "The Last Capone"

1988

Played Spike's girlfriend Angel, the independent-minded daughter of the local Mafia don, in Paul Morrissey's "Spike of Bensonhurst"

1987

Appeared in "What If I'm Gay?", a "CBS Schoolbreak Special"

1986

Made feature debut as masseuse in Brian De Palma's "Wise Guys"

Portrayed Nancy Don Lewis, a sexy Southern troublemaker, on the ABC afternoon drama "Ryan's Hope"

Received her first professional paycheck for a Pepto-Bismol spot

Began acting in regional theater productions while in high school

Raised in Mahwah, NJ