• Name: Jennifer Esposito
  • Date of Birth: April 11, 1973
  • Place of Birth: New York, New York, USA
Mini-bio: A budding TV star, Jennifer Esposito opted to focus more exclusively on movies after landing one of the lead roles in Spike Lee's incendiary Summer of Sam (1999). A native New Yorker, Esposito trained... read more at the Lee Strasberg Institute and worked on TV in the early 1990s, including a recurring role on New York Undercover. Following small roles in indie films Kiss Me, Guido (1997) and A Brother's Kiss (1997), Esposito gained prime time notice in 1997 as Michael J. Fox's sassy "Noo Yawk" secretary on ABC's hit sitcom Spin City. During her two seasons on the show, Esposito also appeared in Edward Burns' blue collar romance No Looking Back (1998), the teen slasher sequel I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (1998), and Spike Lee's basketball drama He Got Game (1998). After playing the more substantial dramatic part of Adrien Brody's punk singer girlfriend in Summer of Sam, however, Esposito left Spin City in 1999. Dividing critics and audiences over its dicey slice of New York City 1977 life and Lee's visual pyrotechnics, Summer of Sam failed at the box office. Esposito next appeared as one of Chris O'Donnell's ex-girlfriends in The Bachelor (1999). The millennial turnover found the beautiful rising starlet establishing herself as a versatile actress in such efforts as Dracula 2000 (2000) and Don't Say a Word (2001), and after appearing alongside Dana Carvey in the family comedy The Master of Disguise (2002), Esposito joined an impressive cast including Luis Guzman, William H. Macy and George Cloony for the caper comedy Welcome to Collinwood (also 2002). ~ Lucia Bozzola, Rovi
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Replace this image with an actor photoJennifer Esposito mini-bio: Jennifer Esposito (born April 11, 1973) is an American actress and dancer.

Esposito, an Italian American, was born in Brooklyn, New York, the daughter of Phyllis, an interior decorator, and Robert Esposito, a computer consultant and music producer. She has one older sister. Esposito grew up and graduated high school in Staten Island.

Esposito dated Benjamin Bratt in 1996-1997 and married Bradley Cooper on December 30, 2006. However, in April 2007, she filed for divorce. On August 24, 2007 court papers were filed that set a final date of November 10 for the official termination of the couple's marriage.

Esposito made her first appearance in Law & Order in 1996, but she is best known as Stacey in the prime time hit Spin City. She can also be seen in I Still Know What You Did Last Summer playing the role of Nancy. One of her more recent successes was her role as Ruby in Spike Lee's controversial Summer of Sam in 1999, which was set against the mid-Seventies 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. She played the detective's girlfriend "Ria" in the Academy Award-winning film Crash. Esposito was part of the cast for the now canceled WB show Related in which she played Ginnie Sorelli. She also played a Lieutenant in the NYPD in the 2004 film Taxi. She recently played a love interest to Denis Leary's character in the FX dramedy Rescue Me. Esposito can currently be seen on television as Andrea in the ABC comedy, Samantha Who?.

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  • Which actor is in the following movies? Crash and Taxi  Answer »
  • What 2004 comedy starred the following actors and actresses? Jamie Foxx Gabrielle Union Morris Chestnut Jennifer Esposito Peter MacNicol   Answer »
  • What 2005 drama starred the following actors and actresses? Sandara Bullock, Don Cheadle, Matt Dillon, Jennifer Esposito, William Fichtner, Brendan Fraser, Terrence Howard, Chris "Ludacris" Bridges, Thandie Newton, Ryan Phillipe, Larenz Tate  Answer »
  • What 2000 horror starred the following actors and actresses? Jonny Lee Miller, Gerard Butler, Justine Waddell, Ann Fitzpatrick, Danny Masterson, Jennifer Esposito, Jeri Ryan, Lochlyn Munro, Sean Patrick Thomas, Omar Epps, Christopher Plummer   Answer »

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