. . . Where Are They Now? . . .Hello fans,I used to love watching the TV sitcom Just Shoot Me! I wondered what was up with actress Laura San Giacomo, who played sassy journalist Maya Gallo on the show. Find out here!
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(Answer at the bottom)*Laura San GiacomoLearn More About Laura San Giacomo on Celebrity Nooz BIRTH DATE: November 14, 1962, West Orange, New Jersey
CLAIM TO FAME: She is an actress best known for playing the role of Maya Gallo on the NBC sitcom Just Shoot Me!, Kit De Luca in the film Pretty Woman, and Cynthia in Sex, Lies, and Videotape.
FAMILY LIFE: San Giacomo has been married twice, first to actor Cameron Dye from 1990 to 1998, with whom she had a son, Mason, born in 1996. In 2000, she married actor Matt Adler.
INFO: San Giacomo discovered acting during high school, and after earning a Fine Arts degree from Carnegie Mellon School of Drama in Pittsburgh, she moved to New York.
She appeared in several theater productions, including the Garry Marshall-Lowell Ganz production of Wrong Turn at Lungfish in Los Angeles, the Princeton/McCarter Theatre production of Three Sisters and off-Broadway in Beirut.
She starred in Italian American Reconciliation, regional productions of Shakespeare's The Tempest, As You Like It and Romeo and Juliet, as well as Crimes of the Heart.
San Giacomo first earned attention when she starred in Steven Soderbergh's Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989). She was nominated for a Golden Globe for her work in the film, and she received a Los Angeles Film Critics Association New Generation Award. She went on to played Julia Roberts' charcter's wisecracking friend Kit De Luca in Pretty Woman (1990).
Some of her other film credits include Miles from Home (1988), Quigley Down Under (1990), Vital Signs (1990), Under Suspicion (1991), Once Around (1991), Where the Day Takes You (1992), Nina Takes a Lover (1994), and Suicide Kings (1997). She appeared in the Stephen King miniseries The Stand as Nadine Cross, and starred in the Jenifer Estess bio-pic Jenifer, which aired on CBS in October 2001.
She later shifted to television in the role of hot-tempered, sassy journalist Maya Gallo in the situation comedy Just Shoot Me! (1997-2003).
TRIVIA: Is a cousin of Torry Castellano, former drummer of the rock group The Donnas.
Her hobbies include horseback riding, gymnastics, ice skating, ballet, tennis, golf and playing piano.
Her son Mason has cerebral palsy.
Earned a Golden Globe nomination in 1998 for Best Actress in a Television Comedy or Musical for her role in Just Shoot Me.
Is of Italian origin.
Attended Morris Knolls High School in Denville, New Jersey.
WHERE IS SHE NOW: San Giacomo is an advocate for charitable causes, mostly disability-related ones. She has been a part of the "Voices For Change" gala benefit and concert which benefits Children with Disabilities, and the "Friends Finding a Cure" gala benefiting Project ALS. She is also a founder of the CHIME Charter Elementary School, an elementary school in Woodland Hills, California.
She played the role of Holly Hunter's childhood best friend on the TNT crime drama series Saving Grace. She most recently appeared in the 2012 drama Least Among Saints and in a recent episode of the TV series The Mentalist.
She currently lives in the San Fernando Valley in California.
*CREDITS:2013 The Mentalist (TV Series)...Miriam Gottlieb
Red John's Rules (2013)
2012 Least Among Saints...Jolene
2012 TalhotBlond (TV Movie)...Carol Montgomery
2011 Hot in Cleveland (TV Series)...Caroline
Beards (2011)
2011 Few Options...Bus Ticket Agent
2010 Medium (TV Series)...Susannah Collings
The People in Your Neighborhood (2010)
2010 The Defenders (TV Series)...Judge Anna Desanti
Nevada v. Sen. Harper (2010)
2007-2010 Saving Grace (TV Series)...Rhetta Rodriguez
2010 In Plain Sight (TV Series)...Mia Cusato
Death Becomes Her (2010)
2006 Veronica Mars (TV Series)...Harmony Chase
2005 Havoc...Joanna Lang
2005 Related (TV Series)...Ann Sorelli
Pilot (2005)
2005 Checking Out...Flo Applebaum
2004 Snapped (TV Series documentary)...Narrator
2003 The Handler (TV Series)...Karen
Homewrecker's Ball (2003)
1997-2003 Just Shoot Me! (TV Series)...Maya Gallo
2003 A House on a Hill...Gaby
2003 The Electric Piper (TV Movie)...Mrs. Robinson (voice)
2001 Jenifer (TV Movie)...Jenifer Estess
2001 Sister Mary Explains It All (TV Movie)...Angela DiMarco
1999 Eat Your Heart Out...Jacqueline Fosburg
1999 Batman Beyond (TV Series)...Mary Michaels / Freon
Heroes (1999)
1998 With Friends Like These...Joanne Hersh
1998 Stories from My Childhood (TV Series)...Chickie
The Snow Queen (1998)
1997 Suicide Kings...Lydia
1997 The Apocalypse...Goad
1997 Shoot Me Now (TV Series) (1997)
1996 Gargoyles: The Goliath Chronicles (TV Series)...Fox
1994-1996 Gargoyles (TV Series)...Fox / Janine Renard
1996 The Right to Remain Silent (TV Movie)...Nicole Savita
1995 Fallen Angels (TV Series)...Peggy
Fly Paper (1995)
1995 Stuart Saves His Family...Julia
1994 Nina Takes a Lover...Nina
1994 The Stand (TV Mini-Series)...Nadine Cross
1993 For Their Own Good (TV Movie)...Jo Mandell
1992 Where the Day Takes You...The Interviewer
1991 Under Suspicion...Angeline
1991 Once Around...Jan Bella
1990 Quigley Down Under...Crazy Cora
1990 Vital Signs...Lauren Rose
1990 Pretty Woman...Kit De Luca
1989 Miami Vice (TV Series)...Tania Louis
Leap of Faith (1989)
1989 The Equalizer (TV Series)...Trudy Collins
The Caper (1989)
1989 Sex, Lies, and Videotape...Cynthia Patrice Bishop
1988 Miles from Home...Sandy (uncredited)
1988 Crime Story (TV Series)...Theresa Farantino
Protected Witness (1988)
1987 Spenser: For Hire (TV Series)...Sharon
On the Night He Was Betrayed (1987)
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Norma Bengell, 78, Brazilian actress and film director, lung cancer.
Stanley Kauffmann, 97, American author, editor, and film critic, pneumonia.
Chopper Read, 58, Australian crime figure and author, liver cancer.
Srihari, 49, Indian Tollywood film actor, liver malfunction.
10/8
Phil Chevron, 56, Irish musician (The Pogues), esophageal cancer.
Paul Desmarais, 86, Canadian businessman.
Andy Pafko, 92, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs, Brooklyn Dodgers, Milwaukee Braves).
Rod Grams, 65, American politician and TV anchor (KMSP), U.S. Senator (1995-2001), member of House of Representatives (1993-1995), cancer.
Akong Rinpoche, 73, Tibetan-born British Buddhist teacher and author, stabbed.
Paul Rogers, 96, English film, television and stage actor.
10/7
Mick Buckley, 59, English footballer (Everton, Sunderland).
Giancarlo Cade, 83, Italian football player and coach.
Patrice Chereau, 68, French film and opera director, lung cancer.
Joanna Chmielewska, 81, Polish novelist and screenwriter.
Yuri Churbanov, 76, Russian politician, First Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of the Soviet Union (1980-1983), son-in-law of Leonid Brezhnev.
Basil Dickinson, 98, Australian Olympic athlete (1936).
Bruce McPherson, 77, South African-born Australian jurist, Queensland Supreme Court Justice (1982-2006).
Leandro Mendoza, 67, Filipino politician, Executive Secretary (2010), Secretary of Transportation and Communications (2002-2010).
Joe Rogers, 49, American politician, Lieutenant Governor of Colorado (1999-2003).
Gary Rosenberger, 57, American basketball player (Marquette University).
Kokontei Shinba, 55, Japanese rakugo performer, stomach cancer.
Ovadia Yosef, 93, Israeli Chief Rabbi (1973-1983), multiple organ failure.
10/6
Scott Bell, 35, English footballer (Blyth Spartans), motor neurone disease.
Senen Suarez, 91, Cuban musician.
Nico van Kampen, 92, Dutch theoretical physicist and professor.
10/5
Ruth R. Benerito, 97, American scientist, inventor of wash-and-wear (permanent press) fabrics.
Erich Cviertna, 62, Czech football player and manager, cancer.
Gaetano Fidanzati, 78, Italian crime boss (Sicilian Mafia).
Carlo Lizzani, 91, Italian film director, screenwriter and critic, suicide by jumping.
Fred Mifflin, 75, Canadian politician and naval officer, MP for Bonavista-Trinity-Conception (1988-2000).
Yakkun Sakurazuka, 37, Japanese comedian and voice actor (Full Moon o Sagashite, Inazuma Eleven, Zettai Shounen), traffic collision.
Wang Kenan, 33, Chinese Olympic diver (2004), traffic collision.
Daud Rahbar, 86, Pakistani author and academic.
Butch Warren, 74, American jazz bassist, lung cancer.
10/4
Ulric Cross, 96, Trinidadian judge, diplomat and war hero.
Akira Miyoshi, 80, Japanese composer, heart failure.
Nicholas Oresko, 96, American World War II veteran, Medal of Honor recipient, complications from surgery.
Vo Nguyen Giap, 102, Vietnamese general and politician, Minister of Defence (1976-1980).
Herman Wallace, 71, American prisoner, one of the Angola Three held in solitary confinement (1972-2013), liver cancer.