Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio Biography

Fast Facts

• While attending the University of Illinois, she trained as an opera singer and sang at the Nashville theme park Opryland
• Landed an understudy role in a stage production of West Side Story after moving to New York in the early 1980s
• Continued her stage work as she turned in a critically acclaimed performance as Viola in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night
• First film role was in Scarface (1983) as Al Pacino's sultry sister, Gina Montana
• Moved to London in the early 1990s with her film director husband, Pat O'Connor
• Before replacing Eric Bogosian in the lead role on NBC's Law & Order: Criminal Intent, she had a recurring role on the CBS drama Without a Trace