Maria Bello
Maria Bello
Maria Elena Bellois an American actress and writer. She has appeared in the films Permanent Midnight, Payback, Coyote Ugly, The Cooler, A History of Violence, Thank You for Smoking, The Jane Austen Book Cluband Prisoners. On television, she is known for her role as Dr. Anna Del Amico on the NBC medical drama ER. She starred as Lucy Robbins on the Fox series Touch alongside Kiefer Sutherland, in 2013. Also, she is the actor of the face of Scary Maze...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth18 April 1967
CityNorristown, PA
CountryUnited States of America
I remember listening to 'Maniac' and running around and thinking I'm going to be somebody someday.
My biggest dream since I was a kid was to be the woman sneaking on the pirate ship dressed like a man, who was this great sword fighter, and the captain fell in love with her.
I was surprised that he was such a sweet guy. I thought he was going to be strange. But he could be just the most down-to-earth, lovely family guy you've ever met.
You know, we knew that from the first day we started shooting,
You serve the best by doing what you love the most.
Acting and emotionally expressing myself, seeing the world and being a mom are just all very exciting to me. I'm a real curious person.
I was really conflicted. I had always planned to help the world. Instead, I was going to become an actress? That seemed like such a selfish thing to do.
I just want to use all of myself, for the rest of my life, in every facet of my life, as long as I live.
I'm not afraid to play my age. I never was. I've never been an ingenue. I like getting older.
I want to do more action adventures and more romantic comedies.
When I had my son, it was the worst day and the best day of my life because I realized that I will never love someone so much, but I will never be able to keep him from the lessons that he's meant to learn, in this lifetime.
I don't really have a method or a technical process. I studied [Sanford] Meisner, and that's the thing that really works for me. That sort of instinctual, in the moment, what the other actors do, working off them and letting the story unfold, as opposed to having an idea of what the story should be.
There's usually not a lot of rehearsal when you do films.
It's not like I prepare anymore, or have to think about my son being dead to get emotional. If you're working with a good actor and you're reacting off of them and you have a good script, it just comes organically. It's just stored in your body. So that emotion will just be brought out of you, as opposed to trying to force it.