About Linda Fiorentino
Clorinda "Linda" Fiorentino (born March 9, 1958) is a retired American actress. Fiorentino made her screen debut with a leading role in the 1985 coming-of-age drama film Vision Quest, followed that same year with another lead role in the action film Gotcha! and an appearance in the Martin Scorsese film After Hours. Noted for her "raven hair, intense gaze and low voice", Fiorentino was placed No. 66 on the 1995 edition of Empire's list of the 100 Sexiest Stars in Film History by a reader's poll. For her performance in the 1994 film The Last Seduction, she won the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress, the London Film Critics' Circle Award for Actress of the Year, and was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role. She also had leading roles in the erotic thriller Jade (1995), the science fiction action comedy film Men in Black (1997) and the fantasy comedy Dogma (1999). In an interview with TV Guide in 2000, Smith stated, "Linda created crisis and trauma and anguish. Dahl's follow up to The Last Seduction, Unforgettable was another critical and box-office failure for Fiorentino, only earning less than $3 million in the United States. She created drama while we were making a comedy. Fiorentino landed her first professional role after her first professional audition in 1985 when she was cast in Vision Quest (1985) as Carla, the romantic partner of the lead character, a high school wrestler played by Matthew Modine.
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