Maria Elena Bello

 Maria Elena Bello, born April 18, 1967 in the United States, is an actress as well as a writer, producer, and director. Permanent Midnight (1998), Payback (1999), Coyote Ugly ((2000), The Cooler (3), A History of Violence (2004), The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2009), Grown Ups (2010) and Prisoners (2013) were just a few of her film roles. Bello was a major player on television as Dr. Anna Del Amico in the medical drama ER (1997-1998), along with other prominent roles, like Michelle McBride in the first season (2016) of Goliath as well as Jacqueline Sloane as a Special Agent on NCIS from 2017-2021. Bello was born 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 poor, Catholic family and graduated from Archbishop John Carroll High School in Radnor, Pennsylvania. Her subject was political sciences at Villanova University. Bello learned to act in a variety of New York theater productions following her graduation. Bello as well as Dan McDermott have a son, Jackson. [18] She published a blog in November of 2013 about her similar-sex relationship, Clare Munn, and how it ended. She released a book titled Whatever...Love Is love: Questioning the labels we assign to ourselves (Dey Street Books April 28 in 2015).