Anne Marie Cancelmi (born July 31, 1975), known as Annie Parisse, is an American television, film, and theater actress, known for playing Alexandra Borgia in the television drama series Law & Order, a role she played from 2005 until 2006 in 33 episodes. Parisse is also known for her role of Julia Lindsey Snyder on the daytime soap opera As the World Turns and portrayed FBI specialist Debra Parker in the first season of the television suspense thriller The Following. She took her stage name from her great-grandmother and namesake Anna Maria Parisse.
Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Younger Actress in a Drama Series, Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Play, Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Lead Actress
Movies
How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, Monster-in-Law, National Treasure, Definitely, Maybe, And So It Goes, Wild Canaries, One for the Money, Tickling Leo, Price Check, My Own Love Song, Prime, The Tested, On the QT, What Just Happened, Blackbird, Wallace
TV Shows
Law & Order, The Following, Friends from College
Star Sign
Leo
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I'm usually cast as the sassy, brassy best friend.
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When I first became an actress, I expected to do regional and classical theater; I just love the whole creative process.
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Second child, a daughter.
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Her father is of Italian descent on one side, and Slovak and Polish descent on the other. Her mother is of half Italian and half Syrian descent.
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Gave birth to her 1st child at age 34, a son, Emmett, in October 2009. Child's father is her husband, Paul Sparks.
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Her paternal grandfather was an Agent for the Pennsylvania Department of Justice (1934-1941) and a Western Pennsylvania District Supervisor of the State Parole Board (1942-1968).
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Teacher of Acting for the Camera at the Fordham University Theatre Program.
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Her father is a senior executive with Alaska Air and her mother is a first-grade teacher at Newport Heights Elementary.
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Her mother is a teacher at Saint Kilian Parish School in Cranberry Township, Butler County, Pennsylvania.
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Her godfather is her uncle Harry J., Jr., who is a defense attorney.
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She took her stage name from her late great-grandmother, Anna Maria Parisse, who lived in Washington, the wife of her great-grandfather Gaetano Cancelmi.
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Has two uncles, Norbert A. Cancelmi, of Bethel Park, and Harry J. Cancelmi, Jr., of Waynesburg, Greene County, Pennsylvania, and three cousins.
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Nominated for a 2009 Lucille Lortel Award for her performance in the off-Broadway play, "Becky Shaw" (Outstanding Lead Actress).
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Grandparents: Harry J., Sr., and Mary Smetana Cancelmi.
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