Maria Elena Bello

 Maria Elena Bello, born April 18th, 1967 was an American actress as well as a producer and writer. 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 was a television star as the character Dr. Anna Del Amico, a medical drama that was aired from 1997 to. She was also the character Michelle McBride on Goliath's first season in 2016 as well as Special Agent Jacqueline Sloane on NCIS in which she was as the lead agent. Bello was born on April 18, 1967 in Norristown in Pennsylvania. She was the daughter of Kathy, a school nurse and teacher as well as 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 working-class, Catholic family and graduated from Archbishop John Carroll High School in Radnor, Pennsylvania. 7] At Villanova University, she majored in politics. Bello learned to act in several New York theater productions following graduation. Bello is mother to Jackson and Dan McDermott, her ex-boyfriend. [18] In November 2013, Bello wrote about her first-partner Clare Munn's relationship with a same-sex partner. She published a book titled Whatever...Love Is a Love: The Truth Behind the Labels We Place on Ourself. (Dey Street Books. April 28, 2015).