Maria Elena Bello

 Maria Elena Bello was born on April 18 1967. She is an American actor and producer. Permanent Midnight (1998) and Payback (1999), Coyote Ugly (2006), The Cooler (2004), A History of Violence (2006), The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2008). Grown Ups (2010), Prisoners (2013). Lights Out (2016). Bello has starred on television in roles including the character Dr. Anna Del Amico (1997), Payback (1999) as well as CoyoteUgly (2000) and The Cooler (2003) The Cooler (2003), A History of Violence (2005), Michelle McBride (2016) as well as Special Agent Jacqueline Sloane (2021-2021). Bello was born on 18 April, 1967 in Norristown Pennsylvania. She is the daughter of Kathy who was a school nurse and teacher and Joe Bello, a contractor.Her father is Italian American, with roots in Montella, Italy, and her mother is Polish American.She was raised in a middle-class, Catholic family and graduated from Archbishop John Carroll High School in Radnor, Pennsylvania. Bello was a student of politics at Villanova University. Bello studied acting in New York and continued to develop her talents after graduating. Bello has her son Jackson with her ex-boyfriend Dan McDermott. In November 2013 Bello wrote about having a relationship that was sex with her former partner, Clare Munn. The book she wrote was titled Whatever...Love Is a Love: Questioning All the Labels That We Put on Ourself. (Dey Street Books. April 28 and 29, 2015).