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Jennifer Esposito (born April 11, 1973, height 5′ 6″ (1,68 m)) is an American actress, dancer and model. known for her appearances in films such as I Still Know What You Did Last Summer, Summer of Sam and Crash and in television series such as Spin City and Samantha Who?, and Blue Bloods.
Esposito was born in Brooklyn, New York, the second of two daughters of Phyllis, an interior decorator, and Robert Esposito, a computer consultant and music producer. She is of Italian descent.
Esposito made her first television appearance in Law & Order in 1996. She then joined the cast of Spin City, where she appeared for two seasons. She also appeared in I Still Know What You Did Last Summer. One of her more notable roles was as Ruby in Spike Lee’s Summer of Sam in 1999, which was set against the late-1970s backdrop of the Son of Sam murders. She originally had the Mira Sorvino role in Summer of Sam, but had to take a different role due to scheduling conflicts. Esposito’s next film was Wes Craven Presents: Dracula 2000.
In 2000, Esposito appeared in the Law & Order: SVU episode Remorse as a rape victim. She played Don Cheadle’s girlfriend, Ria, in the Academy Award-winning film Crash. Esposito was part of the cast of Related. She also played the part of Jennifer in The Master of Disguise in 2002 and played a Lieutenant in the NYPD in the 2004 film Taxi. She played a love interest to Denis Leary’s character in the FX dramedy Rescue Me. Esposito appeared on television as Andrea Belladonna in the ABC comedy, Samantha Who?. She also appeared in the NBC medical drama Mercy.
Esposito joined the cast of Blue Bloods in 2010, during its first season; she plays Detective Jackie Curatola, the partner of Detective Danny Reagan (played by Donnie Wahlberg). In the third season, Esposito entered a dispute with CBS regarding doctor’s orders for her to cut back working hours due to her Celiac disease. Rather than work around her limited schedule, CBS chose to replace her character this season. As such, Esposito only appears in six episodes, receiving also starring billing in all of them.
Esposito announced that she had been diagnosed with celiac disease on The Late Show with David Letterman in October 2011, reporting she had been diagnosed “a couple years ago” and had plans to open a gluten-free bakery. In 2012, Esposito opened the bakery in Manhattan’s East Village under the name “Jennifer’s Way Bakery.”
According to Esposito, she collapsed on set while shooting an episode of Blue Bloods, requiring her to miss a week of work, and during the show’s th Esposito and CBS reportedly have been at odds over her medical condition and its effect on her availability for work.
Esposito married Bradley Cooper on December 30, 2006. They were divorced in 2007.
In 2009, Esposito became engaged to Australian tennis player Mark Philippoussis. The couple separated in August 2010.
Jennifer Esposito Biography / Wiki
| Name | Jennifer Esposito |
| Also Know | |
| Gender | Female |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | New York City, New York, USA |
| Date of Birth | 1973-04-11 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 49 |
| Deathday |
Jennifer Esposito Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| The Proposal | Susan Reese | 2001-01-08 | An undercover cop lets his job get personal while on an underground assignment…. |
| The Wish List | Sarah Fischer | 2010-07-19 | Sarah Fisher, an overly organized, by-the-numbers kind of woman, makes a “wish list” of all the qualities and traits her future husband should have. A… |
| Destino | Rebecca Drummond (voice) | 2003-08-05 | Short film to a song of love lost and rediscovered, a woman sees and undergoes surreal transformations. Her lover’s face melts off, she dons a dress f… |
| Boys Life 3 | Michelle (segment “Just One Time”) | 2000-11-16 | Jason Gould satirizes coming out in Hollywood in Inside Out, starring Alexis Arquette and papa Elliot Gould. Lane Janger’s Just One Time was a festiva… |
| American Crude | Carlos | 2008-06-03 | Quite a bit can happen over the course of a single day in L.A., and when smooth-talking scam artist Johnny decides to throw a bachelor party for his b… |
| Backflash | Olive Dee ‘Harley’ Klintucker | 2002-01-22 | A woman is released from prison and heads home to help outwit a local mob boss and pull off the scam of a lifetime…. |
| Snow Wonder | Pilar | 2005-11-20 | A suspiciously magical Christmas Eve snowstorm blows some small miracles into the lives of people around the country…. |
| Jesus, Mary and Joey | Frankie Vitello | 2006-01-01 | Twenty-something and aimless, Joey Vitello still lives at home with his colorful Italian-American family when he is reunited with a childhood schoolma… |
| Conspiracy | Joanna | 2008-02-15 | A Gulf War veteran with PTSD (Kilmer) heads to a small town to find his friend. When he arrives his friend and his family have vanished and the townsf… |
| Beyond the City Limits | Helena Toretti | 2001-12-17 | Three women outsmart unsavory men who try to cheat them out of their take in an almost-botched casino heist…. |
| The Master of Disguise | Jennifer Baker | 2002-08-02 | A sweet-natured Italian waiter named Pistachio Disguisey at his father Fabbrizio’s restaurant, who happens to be a member of a family with supernatura… |
| Breakin’ All the Rules | Rita Monroe | 2004-05-14 | Inspired by his fiancée (who dumped him), a man publishes a break-up handbook for men, becoming a bestselling author in the process…. |
| Speed Kills | Kathy Aronoff | 2018-11-16 | Speedboat racing champion and multimillionaire Ben Aronoff leads a double life that lands him in trouble with the law and drug lords…. |
| Mob Town | Natalie Passatino | 2019-12-13 | Based on the true story of the notorious 1957 ‘mob summit’ in upstate New York. Spearheaded by Vito Genovese, more than 50 leaders of the organize… |
| Summer of Sam | Ruby | 1999-07-02 | Spike Lee’s take on the “Son of Sam” murders in New York City during the summer of 1977 centering on the residents of an Italian-American South Bronx … |
| Side Streets | Jessica | 1998-09-05 | In 24 hours, 5 worlds collide in the forgotten neighborhoods of New York City…. |
| Just One Time | Michelle | 1999-09-13 | When the fiancé of a fireman reluctantly agrees to participate in a ménage à trois with another woman, she does so on the condition that he recipro… |
| Just One Time | Michelle | 1998-06-05 | A man wants his girlfriend to have a sexual relationship with another girl, just one time…. |
| Crash | Ria | 2005-05-06 | In post-Sept. 11 Los Angeles, tensions erupt when the lives of a Brentwood housewife, her district attorney husband, a Persian shopkeeper, two cops, a… |
| Dracula 2000 | Solina | 2000-12-22 | Abraham Van Helsing, who has tangled with Count Dracula in the past, works as an English antiques dealer. Simon is a vampire hunter in training under … |
| Taxi | Lt. Marta Robbins | 2004-10-06 | A mouthy and feisty taxicab driver has hot tips for a green and inept cop set on solving a string of New York City bank robberies committed by a quart… |
| Don’t Say a Word | Detective Sandra Cassidy | 2001-09-28 | When the daughter of a psychiatrist is kidnapped, he’s horrified to discover that the abductors’ demand is that he break through to a post traumatic s… |
| Mamitas | Miss Ruiz | 2012-04-27 | A teenager in Echo Park deals with the loss of his mother and his attraction to a girl not considered “cool” by his friends…. |
| Four Single Fathers | Suzanne | 2009-01-15 | A comedy/drama about four Italian single fathers trying to cope with American ex-wives, children, family, and new relationships, set in New York and R… |
| A Brooklyn State of Mind | Donna Delgrosso | 1998-01-01 | Al Stanco has lived all of his life in Brooklyn and does some work for the local crime lord, Danny Parente. New to the neighbourhood is Gabriela, a fi… |
| Mary | Detective Clarkson | 2019-09-19 | A struggling family buys an old ship at auction with high hopes of starting a charter business, only to discover her horrifying secrets on the isolate… |
| Somewhere in Queens | 2022-06-10 | An Italian-American dad from Queens gets increasingly involved in ensuring his son’s high school basketball success in Ray Romano’s directorial de… | |
| I Still Know What You Did Last Summer | Nancy | 1998-11-13 | Ever since killing the Fisherman one year ago, Julie James is still haunted by images of him after her. When her best friend Karla wins free tickets t… |
| No Looking Back | Teresa | 1998-03-27 | Charlie returns to his old town where he meets his ex-girlfriend again and tries to get her back…. |
| The Sunshine Boys | Jeannie | 1996-08-08 | Two aging comedians who acrimoniously dissolved their act eight years earlier must overcome their differences when they have the chance for a lucrativ… |
| Kiss Me, Guido | Debbie | 1997-07-18 | When he discovers his girlfriend having sex with his brother, Frankie (Scotti) decides to head to Manhattan, leaving his Bronx pizza shop forever for … |
| The Bachelor | Daphne | 1999-11-05 | Jimmie is seeing his single friends get married one by one. He isn’t too worried until his girlfriend Anne catches the bouquet at his friend Marco’s w… |
| A Brother’s Kiss | Lucy | 1997-04-25 | Two brothers, Lex and younger Mick, are living in Harlem. Mick is a policeman, and Lex, who spent youth years in reformatory because of injustice afte… |
| Made | Club Girl (uncredited) | 2001-07-13 | Two aspiring boxers and lifelong friends get involved in a money-laundering scheme through a low-level organized crime group…. |
| Bending The Rules | Officer Garcia | 2012-03-09 | Detective Nick Blades is a New Orleans cop on trial for corruption. Assistant District Attorney Theo Gold is the man in charge of putting him behind b… |
| Welcome to Collinwood | Carmela | 2002-05-24 | Five hapless inner-city low-lifes attempt to burgle a pawnbroker’s safe, but end up being plagued by bad luck…. |
| She’s Funny That Way | Margie | 2014-08-29 | On the set of a playwright’s new project, a love triangle forms between his wife, her ex-lover, and the call girl-turned-actress cast in the productio… |
| He Got Game | Ms. Janus | 1998-05-01 | A basketball player’s father must try to convince him to go to a college so he can get a shorter prison sentence…. |
Credit: TMDB
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