Maria Pitillo
A sexy blonde, Maria Pitillo has made steady progress in show business since cashing her first professional paycheck for a Pepto-Bismol commercial. She attracted attention as a Southern troublemaker on ABC's daytime drama "Ryan's Hope" in the mid-1980s and made her feature debut as a masseuse in Brian De Palma's "Wise Guys" (1986). Pitillo landed her first significant screen role in "What If I'm Gay?" (1987), a "CBS Schoolbreak Special," then played prominent roles in "Spike of Bensonhurst" (1988, as Spike's girlfriend) and "She-Devil" (1989). She delivered an incisive cameo as Mary Pickford in "Chaplin" (1992) and garnered good notices as Matthew Modine's girlfriend in "Bye Bye, Love" (1995). Some of Pitillo's best work in the 90s was on the small screen in the TNT productions "The Last Capone" (1990, as the gangster's mistress) and "Cooperstown" (1993, as Alan Arkin's daughter) and in the title role as a victim of spousal abuse in the 1995 NBC movie "Escape From Terror: The Teresa Stamper Story." Displaying her comedic abilities, Pitillo co-starred as the fiancee of an architect (Tate Donovan) whose presence threatened his best friend (Jon Cryer) in the short-lived Fox sitcom "Partners" (1995-96). Adopting a brunette look, the actress acquitted herself as Gloria McKinney, the coffee-shop proprietor who falls for Greg Kinnear, in "Dear God" (1996). Pitillo then landed the coveted female lead as an aspiring reporter in Roland Emmerich's anticipated remake of "Godzilla" (1998).
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Filmography
Movies
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Christmas Secret | Debbie McNeil (Character) | - | 2000 |
No Score Yet |
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After Sex | Vicki (Character) | - | 2000 |
20% |
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Godzilla | Audrey Timmonds (Character) | $136.1M | 1998 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Something to Believe In | Maggie (Character) | - | 1998 |
12% |
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Dear God | Gloria McKinney (Character) | $7.1M | 1996 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Between Love and Honor | Maria Caprefoli (Character) | - | 1995 |
20% |
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Frank and Jesse | Zee (Character) | - | 1995 |
23% |
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Bye Bye, Love | Kim (Character) | $11.4M | 1995 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Escape From Terror: The Teresa Stamper Story | Teresa Walden Stamper (Character) | - | 1995 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Cooperstown | Bridget (Character) | - | 1993 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Capone: The Lost Years | Annie (Character) | - | 1990 |
40% |
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Spike of Bensonhurst | Angel (Character) | $287.0K | 1988 |
TV
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6% | No Score Yet | Big Shots | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2008 |
78% | 93% | Friends | Laura (Guest Star) | 2003 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Providence |
Unknown (Character), Unknown (Guest Star) |
2001-2002 |
No Score Yet | 88% | Will & Grace | Paula (Guest Star) | 2000 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Early Edition | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1999 |
61% | 78% | Ally McBeal | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1999 |
6% | No Score Yet | House Rules | Unknown (Character) | 1998 |
38% | No Score Yet | Partners | Alicia Sundergard (Character) | 1995-1996 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | South of Sunset | Gina Weston (Character) | 1993 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Mad About You | Mimi (Guest Star) | 1993 |
No Score Yet | 83% | Law & Order | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1991 |
71% | 89% | Miami Vice | Guest | 1989 |