Maria Elena Bello

 Maria Elena Bello was born on the 18th of April 1967. She is an American actor and producer. Her film roles include Permanent Midnight (1998), Payback (1999), Coyote Ugly (2000), The Cooler (2003), A History of Violence (2005), The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2008), Grown Ups (2010), Prisoners (2013), and Lights Out (2016). Bello was a prominent figure on television as Dr. Anna Del Amico in the medical drama ER (1997-1998) as well with other prominent roles, such as Michelle McBride in the first season (2016) of Goliath, and Jacqueline Sloane in the first season of Goliath, a Special Agent on NCIS from 2017-2021. Bello was born on April 18 1967 in Norristown, Pennsylvania,[2] to Kathy, a school nurse and teacher as well as Joe Bello, a contractor.Her father is Italian American, with roots in Montella, Italy, and her mother is Polish American.She grew up in a working-class, Catholic family and graduated from Archbishop John Carroll High School in Radnor, Pennsylvania. In the seventh grade at Villanova University, she majored in the field of politics. After graduation, Bello honed her acting abilities in several New York theater productions. Bello together with Dan McDermott is the proud mother of Jackson. [18] She wrote in November 2013 about her same-sex relationship, Clare Munn, and how it ended. The book she published was titled Whatever...Love Is Loving: Examining the labels we give to Ourselves (Dey Street Books, April 28, 2015).