Maria Elena Bello

 Maria Elena Bello is an American actress. Permanent Midnight (1998), Payback (99), Coyote Ugly 2000, The Cooler 2003, A History of Violence 2005, The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor 2008, Grown Ups (2011), Prisoners (2013) and Lights Out (2016) were just some of her movie roles. In the television world, Bello appeared as Dr. Anna Del Amico on the medical drama ER (1997-1998) as well as additional starring roles, including Lucy Robbins on the series Touch in 2013, as Michelle McBride on the first season of the TV series Goliath in 2016 and from 2017 until 2021, as the Special Agent Jacqueline "Jack" Sloane in the series NCIS. Bello was born on 18 April 1967 in Norristown in Pennsylvania. She was the daughter of Kathy, a school nurse and teacher, and Joe Bello, a contractor.Her father is Italian American, with roots in Montella, Italy, and her mother is Polish American.She was raised in a working-class, Catholic family and graduated from Archbishop John Carroll High School in Radnor, Pennsylvania. [7][8] Her major was political science at Villanova University. Bello continued to train in acting through participation in numerous New York theatre productions. Bello along with Dan McDermott is the proud mother of Jackson. In November 2013, Bello wrote about her first-partner Clare Munn's sexual relationship. She released a book called Whatever...Love Is Love: Questioning the labels we assign to ourselves (Dey Street Books, April 28, 2015)