Laura San

Laura San Giacomo was born November 14, 1962. She was the lead actress in Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989), for which she won an Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Female, Kit De Luca (1990), Crazy Cora (1990), Nadine cross (1994), and Maya Gallo (1994). (1997-2003). She was a two-time Golden Globe Award nominee and a BAFTA winner. She also played Rhetta Rodriguez, the TNT drama Saving Grace (2007–2010) and Dr. Grace Confalone, the CBS drama NCIS (2016)–2019, 2022. Four episodes of three television series were San Giacomo’s first TV appearances in 1987. Two of her most notable appearances were on Crime Story (Season 2, Episode 13) in 1988 as Theresa Farantino. In Miami Vice (1989), she was featured in the episode “Protected Witness” in Season 5, Episode 21 as Tania Lewis. One year prior to their marriage, Cameron Dye, her future husband, made a guest appearance in the Miami Vice episode. Before that, she had been a guest star on All My Children’s daytime soap opera as Louisa Sanchez (Brian Fitzpatrick), the Latina common-law spouse of Mitch Beck (Carmen Thomas). Her presence threatened to end his relationship with Hillary Martin. San Giacomo was first noticed in Steven Soderbergh’s Sex, Lies and Videotape (1989), where she also made her film debut as an actor credited (in 1988’s Miles from Home, however, her role of “Sandy” was not credited). She was nominated in the Golden Globe Awards for her work on the film, and received a Los Angeles Film Critics Association New Generation Award. The Palme d’Or, the prestigious Grand Prize at Cannes Film Festival, was awarded to the film. San Giacomo was a supporting character in Julia Roberts’s role as Kit De Luca, Kit’s wisecracking friend in Pretty Woman. The film was a blockbuster and earned $178 million in box office revenue. San Giacomo appeared in films such as Quigley Down Under (1990), Vital Signs-1990), Under Suspicion(1991), Once Around (1991), Once Around (911) and Where the Day Takes You (1992). She also appeared in Nina Takes a Lover (1994) and Suicide Kings (1997). In the Stephen King TV miniseries The Stand, she played Nadine Cross opposite Rob Lowe. They were featured on the cover of TV Guide’s May 7-13 1994 issue. As 1999 came to an end, she continued film work and starred in the movie Eat Your Heart Out. San Giacomo was cast in the Jenifer Estess biopic Jenifer in 2001. It aired on CBS October 2001. San Giacomo voiced Fox in Gargoyles, an animated series. Her agent thought it would be a discrediting act to work on an animated series so she was not credited.