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Highest Rated: 96% Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989)

Lowest Rated: 25% Under Suspicion (1991)

Birthday: Nov 14, 1962

Birthplace: Hoboken, New Jersey, USA

Stage-trained Laura San Giacomo made an auspicious debut as the brassy, hedonistic Cynthia in Steven Soderbergh's low-budget 1989 hit, "sex, lies and videotape." Her career has flourished since, but with the exception of her supporting role as Julia Roberts' wisecracking hooker friend in "Pretty Woman" (1990), her films have not showcased the brown-eyed siren's sass so evident in her first performance. San Giacomo starred with Tom Selleck in the Australian Western "Quigley Down Under" (1990), registered weakly as a femme fatale opposite Liam Neeson in "Under Suspicion" (1992) and played a repressed woman embarking on an affair in the underappreciated small film, "Nina Takes a Lover" (1994). She also appeared in the superb ensemble of "Once Around" (1991) and had her moments in the Al Franken vehicle "Stuart Saves His Family" (1995).

Highest rated movies

Sex, Lies, and Videotape Honey Boy The Meddler Violet Where the Day Takes You A House on a Hill Once Around Pretty Woman

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Laura San Giacomo ONCE AROUND, Laura San Giacomo, Holly Hunter, 1991, (c)Universal QUIGLEY DOWN UNDER, Laura San Giacomo, 1990, (c) MGM QUIGLEY DOWN UNDER, Tom Selleck, Laura San Giacomo, 1990. (c) MGM. STUART SAVES HIS FAMILY, Laura San Giacomo, 1995, (c)Paramount Pictures PRETTY WOMAN, Laura San Giacomo, 1990 QUIGLEY DOWN UNDER, Laura San Giacomo, Tom Selleck, 1990, (c)MGM PRETTY WOMAN, Julia Roberts and, Laura San Giacomo, 1990 SEX, LIES, AND VIDEOTAPE, Laura San Giacomo, 1989. (c)Miramax SEX, LIES, AND VIDEOTAPE, Peter Gallagher, Laura San Giacomo, Andie MacDowell, James Spader, 1989. (c)Miramax SEX, LIES, AND VIDEOTAPE, Laura San Giacomo, 1989, © Miramax UNDER SUSPICION, Laura San Giacomo, 1991, ©Columbia Pictures VITAL SIGNS, Laura San Giacomo, 1990, TM and copyright ©20th Century Fox Film Corp. All rights reserved . UNDER SUSPICION, Liam Neeson, Laura San Giacomo, 1991, (c)Columbia Pictures ONCE AROUND, Danny Aiello, Laura San Giacomo, 1991, (c)Universal SEX, LIES, AND VIDEOTAPE, Laura San Giacomo, 1989, © Miramax STUART SAVES HIS FAMILY, Al Franken, Laura San Giacomo, 1995, (c)Paramount Pictures SUICIDE KINGS, Laura San Giacomo, 1997, © Artisan Entertainment WITH FRIENDS LIKE THESE, Amy Madigan, Laura San Giacomo, 1998, (c)Miramax QUIGLEY DOWN UNDER, Laura San Giacomo, 1990, (c)MGM

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Filmography

Movies

Credit
82% 69% Violet Unknown (Character) - 2021
95% 92% Honey Boy Dr. Moreno (Character) $3.0M 2019
85% 56% The Meddler Unknown (Character) $4.3M 2015
36% 87% Least Among Saints Jolene (Character) $15.8K 2012
No Score Yet No Score Yet Tall Hot Blonde Carol Montgomery (Character) - 2012
No Score Yet No Score Yet Few Options Bus Ticket Agent (Character) - 2011
43% 58% Checking Out Flo Applebaum (Character) - 2005
45% 36% Havoc Joanna Lang (Character) - 2005
75% No Score Yet A House on a Hill Gaby (Character) $678 2003
No Score Yet No Score Yet Perfect Crimes Unknown (Character) - 2003
No Score Yet 40% Jenifer Jenifer Estess (Character) - 2001
No Score Yet 48% Sister Mary Explains It All Angela DiMarco (Character) - 2001
50% 42% With Friends Like These... Joanne Hersh (Character) - 1998
No Score Yet 36% Eat Your Heart Out Jacqueline Fosburg (Character) - 1997
No Score Yet 0% The Apocalypse Goad (Character) - 1997
35% 74% Suicide Kings Lydia (Character) $1.7M 1997
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Right to Remain Silent Nicole Savita (Character) - 1996
30% 53% Stuart Saves His Family Julia (Character) $718.5K 1995
50% 51% Nina Takes a Lover Nina (Character) - 1994
No Score Yet No Score Yet For Their Own Good Jo Mandell (Character) - 1993
80% 73% Where the Day Takes You The Interviewer (Character) $389.0K 1992
67% 73% Once Around Jan Bella (Character) $14.3M 1991
25% 58% Under Suspicion Angeline (Character) $158.7K 1991
65% 68% Pretty Woman Kit De Luca (Character) $178.4M 1990
43% 31% Vital Signs Lauren Rose (Character) $779.1K 1990
52% 74% Quigley Down Under Crazy Cora (Character) $20.1M 1990
96% 79% Sex, Lies, and Videotape Cynthia (Character) $22.7M 1989

TV

Credit
57% 67% The Santa Clauses La Befana (Character) 2022
No Score Yet 83% NCIS Dr. Grace Confalone (Guest Star) 2016-2019 2021-2022
No Score Yet No Score Yet Full Circle Elena Medina (Character) 2016-2017
No Score Yet No Score Yet Full Circle Elena Medina (Character) 2016
100% 87% Recovery Road Unknown (Guest Star) 2016
No Score Yet 89% The Mentalist Unknown (Guest Star) 2013
No Score Yet 89% Hot in Cleveland Caroline (Guest Star) 2011
No Score Yet 75% Medium Unknown (Guest Star) 2010
74% 73% The Defenders Judge Anna Desanti (Guest Star) 2010
76% 67% Saving Grace Rhetta Rodriguez (Character) 2007-2010
No Score Yet No Score Yet In Plain Sight Mia Cusato (Guest Star) 2010
91% 78% Veronica Mars Harmony Chase (Guest Star) 2006
73% No Score Yet The Handler Unknown (Guest Star) 2003
No Score Yet No Score Yet Just Shoot Me Maya Gallo (Character) 1997-2003
No Score Yet No Score Yet Fallen Angels Peggy Carroll (Character) 1995
70% 69% Stephen King's The Stand Unknown (Character) 1994
71% 85% Miami Vice Unknown (Guest Star) 1989
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Equalizer Trudy Collins (Guest Star) 1989
No Score Yet No Score Yet Spenser: For Hire Unknown (Character) 1987
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