Angelina Fiordellisi
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Angelina Fiordellisi (born 15 March 1955; age 54) is the actress who played Kaminer in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Schisms".
Hailing from Detroit, Michigan, Fiordellisi has served as the Artistic Director of New York's off-Broadway Cherry Lane Theatre since 1996. She has also performed on Broadway, acting in the 1983 revival of Zorba, working alongside Jeff McCarthy.
She also received a full scholarship at The University of Detroit, a Jesuit school, that has since merged with Mercy College, and graduated in 1981. Angelina received a full scholarship to The Asolo Conservatory of Theater, but moved to New York after one semester, where she was immediately hired by the National Touring company Annie, starring Kathleen Freedman and Rhodes Reason. At the end of that six-month tour, she accepted a role in Zorba with academy award winners Anthony Quinn and Lela Kedrova, which ended a national tour on broadway.
Besides TNG, Fiordellisi also made appearances on The Cosby Show, Roseanne, and Law & Order. In 1994, she became a recurring player on the short-lived ABC sitcom Thunder Alley. Among her co-stars on this series was one-time Star Trek: Enterprise guest performer Jim Beaver. Fiordellisi appeared in 11 of the show's 27 episodes, with the last airing in May 1995.
In addition, she had small roles in the films Delusion (1991, starring Jim Metzler and featuring Robert Costanzo and Tracey Walter), When a Man Loves a Woman (1994, with Ellen Geer, Eugene Roche, Gail Strickland, and Susanna Thompson), and Where the Heart Is (2000, starring Ashley Judd). This latter film also featured an appearance by her Thunder Alley co-star, Jim Beaver.
[edit] External links
- Angelina Fiordellisi at the Internet Movie Database
- Angelina Fiordellisi at the Internet Broadway Database
She attended Northern Michigan University in Marquette, Michigan.
