Maria Elena Bello

 Maria Elena Bello is an American actress. Permanent Midnight (1998), Payback (1999) and Coyote Ugly(2000) and The Cooler(2003), The History of Violence(2005), The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor2008 Prisoners2013, Grown-Ups2010, and Lights Out (2016) are some of her film roles. Bello was a prominent figure in the world of television as Dr. Anna Del Amico in the medical drama ER (1997-1998), along with other prominent roles, such as Michelle McBride in the first season (2016) of Goliath and Jacqueline Sloane as a Special Agent on NCIS between 2017 and 2021. Bello was born on April 18, 1967 in Norristown Pennsylvania. She is the daughter of Kathy Bello, a nurse at school and teacher and Joe Bello, a contractor.Her father is Italian American, with roots in Montella, Italy, and her mother is Polish American.She grew up in a middle-class, Catholic family and graduated from Archbishop John Carroll High School in Radnor, Pennsylvania. [7][8] At Villanova University, she majored in politics. Bello continued her training in acting by participating in a variety of New York theater productions after she finished her studies. Bello together with Dan McDermott is the proud mother of Jackson. [18] She wrote about her relationship with Clare Munn in November 2013. She published a book called Whatever...Love Is Loving: Examining the labels we assign to ourselves (Dey Street Books, April 28 2015.).