Jeannette Maier was born in Galveston, Texas, in 1958. After the death of her father five months later, she was moved by her mother Tommie Taylor to New Orleans, where Jeannette endured a rough childhood involving drug use, abuse, and running away from home at age 12. Jeannette found love in her teens, married, moved to Texas, and had two children. But when post-partum depression led to a morphine addiction, Jeanette found herself on the street, kicked out by her husband. To make ends meet and to support her young family, Jeannette returned to New Orleans in 1977, and got a job stripping. She quickly met biker Crazy Johnny, who suggested she could make more money as an escort. He was right. By 1980 Jeannette owned two thriving escort services. In 1990, she went to college to study nursing. She eventually saved up enough money to buy a house on a quiet street in New Orleans--Canal Street. |
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An Emmy and IFP nominated and Screen Actors Guild award winner, actress Annabella Sciorra has combined talent and natural beauty into a successful and diverse career.
She recently wrapped "12 and Holding," which is based on a screenplay by Anthony Ciriano about the accidental murder of a 12-year-old boy in a suburban town whose death has a profound effect on his best friends and their families. The film is scheduled for a 2005 release.
Sciorra also recently filmed a guest starring role on the premiere episode of "Law and Order: Trial By Jury" alongside Bebe Neuwirth and Candice Bergen. She will soon begin production on "Find Me Guilty" for director Sidney Lumet. Co-starring Vin Diesel, the film follows a mobster who decides to stand trial, defending himself, rather than ratting out his friends. The film will be released in 2005.
She made a profound impact with her impressive role opposite Wesley Snipes in "Jungle Fever," Spike Lee's ground-breaking story of a young mixed-race relationship. Following "Jungle Fever," Sciorra starred in the dramatic thriller "The Hand That Rocks the Cradle" and then in Anthony Minghella's "Mr. Wonderful" opposite Matt Dillon.
She next starred in "Romeo is Bleeding" opposite Gary Oldman and in Abel Ferrara's "The Addiction." She worked with Ferrara again, this time as actress and Associate Producer, in his period piece, "The Funeral," opposite Christopher Walken.
Annabella received critical acclaim for her role as the beleaguered wife of a police officer in a small New Jersey town in "Copland." She starred opposite Robert DeNiro and Sylvester Stallone in the highly praised drama, which was written and directed by James Mangold.
Additional film credits include the romantic comedy "Mr. Jealousy" opposite Eric Stoltz, the fantasy drama "What Dreams May Come" opposite Robin Williams and Cuba Gooding Jr., the Italian film "Domenica," which premiered at the Berlin Film Festival, the dark psychological fare "Underworld" alongside Joe Mantegna and Dennis Leary, "Internal Affairs," "The Night We Never Met," "King of the Jungle" with John Leguizamo and Rosie Perez, "Once in the Life" directed by Laurence Fishburne and "Chasing Liberty." Her first film was "True Love," which won the grand prize at Sundance and for which she earned an IFP Spirit Nomination.
Sciorra also received an Emmy nomination for her highly acclaimed performance in the role of "Gloria Trillo" on HBO's "The Sopranos," opposite James Gandolfini.
Her theater credits include working at The Nuyorican Poets Cafe with writer/directer Reinoldo Povod and producer Joseph Papp, the Off-Broadway play "Roar" at The New Group, "Shyster" written by Bryan Goluboff, "Under the Blue Sky" at the Williamstown Theater Festival and "Those the River Keeps" written and directed by David Rabe.
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