Jennifer Esposito Biography
Born: April 11, 1973
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 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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