Roma Maffia Biography

Fast Facts

• Is of West Indian, English and German descent, though she has an Italian last name from her stepfather
• Began her acting career in the early 1980s, appearing in a number of Broadway and off-Broadway plays
• Made her film debut with a bit part in Susan Seidelman's Smithereens (1982)
• Credits director Ron Howard with "discovering" her when she was cast in his 1994 big-screen drama The Paper
• Subsequently joined the cast of the NBC crime drama Profiler, followed by the FX medical drama Nip/Tuck
• Is an accomplished ping-pong player