Maria Elena Bello

 Maria Elena Bello, born April 18, 1967 in America, is an actress and producer as well as writer and director. Permanent Midnight (1998), Payback (1999), Coyote Ugly ((2000), The Cooler (3), A History of Violence (2004), The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2009), Grown Ups (2010) and Prisoners (2013) were some of her roles in films. Bello was a TV actress as the character Dr. Anna Del Amico, which was a medical drama, and was aired from 1997 to. She also played the role of Michelle McBride on Goliath's first season in 2016 and as Special Agent Jacqueline Sloane on NCIS, where she served as the main agent. Bello was born on April 18, 1967 in Norristown in Pennsylvania. She was the daughter of Kathy Bello, a nurse at school 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 poor, Catholic family and graduated from Archbishop John Carroll High School in Radnor, Pennsylvania. Bello was a student of politics at Villanova University. Bello continued her training in acting through various New York theater productions after she completed her degree. Bello together with Dan McDermott is the proud mother of Jackson. [18] In November 2013, Bello wrote about her first-partner Clare Munn's same-sex relationship. The book she published was titled Whatever...Love Is love: Questioning the labels we assign to ourselves (Dey Street Books, April 28 and 29, 2015).