• Graduated from Mercer Island High School, near Seattle, WA. [1993]
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• Attended Fordham University in New York City.
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• Parents: Louis G. "Lou" and Annette Cancelmi.
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• Siblings: 路易斯·坎瑟米, an actor and writer, and Michael Cancelmi, Italian teacher.
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• Along with 埃帕莎·默克森, Milena Govich, 杰瑞米·西斯托 and 杰里·奥尔巴赫, one of only five Law & Order (1990) cast members to play a different character in an episode before joining the cast in a later season. (迈克尔·因佩里奥利 also played multiple roles, but was not a permanent addition to the cast as Det. Nick Falco.).
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• Nominated for a 2007 Drama Desk Award for her performance in "The Internationalist" (Outstanding Actress in a Play).
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• Sister-in-law of Elisabeth Waterston, 凯瑟琳·沃特斯顿, Graham Waterston.
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• Grandparents: Harry J., Sr., and Mary Smetana Cancelmi.
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• Nominated for a 2009 Lucille Lortel Award for her performance in the off-Broadway play, "Becky Shaw" (Outstanding Lead Actress).
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• Has two uncles, Norbert A. Cancelmi, of Bethel Park, and Harry J. Cancelmi, Jr., of Waynesburg, Greene County, Pennsylvania, and three cousins.
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• She took her stage name from her late great-grandmother, Anna Maria Parisse, who lived in Washington, the wife of her great-grandfather Gaetano Cancelmi.
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• Her godfather is her uncle Harry J., Jr., who is a defense attorney.
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• Her mother is a teacher at Saint Kilian Parish School in Cranberry Township, Butler County, Pennsylvania.
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• Her father is a senior executive with Alaska Air and her mother is a first-grade teacher at Newport Heights Elementary.
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• Teacher of Acting for the Camera at the Fordham University Theatre Program.
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• Her paternal grandfather was an Agent for the Pennsylvania Department of Justice (1934-1941) and a Western Pennsylvania District Supervisor of the State Parole Board (1942-1968).
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• Has two children with her husband 保罗·斯帕克斯 - a son Emmett Sparks (b. October 2009) and a daughter Lydia Sparks (b. 2014).
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• Her father is of half Italian and half Slovak descent. Her mother is of half Italian and half Syrian ancestry.
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