Jennifer Esposito
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New York, New York, USA
A budding TV star, Jennifer Esposito (born April 11th, 1973) opted to focus more exclusively on movies after landing one of the lead roles in Spike Lee's incendiary Summer of Sam (1999). A native New Yorker, Esposito trained at the Lee Strasberg Institute and worked on TV in the early 1990s, including a recurring role on New York Undercover. Following small roles in indie films Kiss Me, Guido (1997) and A Brother's Kiss (1997), Esposito gained prime time notice in 1997 as Michael J. Fox's sassy "Noo Yawk" secretary on ABC's hit sitcom Spin City. During her two seasons on the show, Esposito also appeared in Edward Burns' blue collar romance No Looking Back (1998), the teen slasher sequel I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (1998), and Spike Lee's basketball drama He Got Game (1998). After playing the more substantial dramatic part of Adrien Brody's punk singer girlfriend in Summer of Sam, however, Esposito left Spin City in 1999. Dividing critics and audiences over its dicey slice of New York City 1977 life and Lee's visual pyrotechnics, Summer of Sam failed at the box office. Esposito next appeared as one of Chris O'Donnell's ex-girlfriends in The Bachelor (1999). The millennial turnover found the beautiful rising starlet establishing herself as a versatile actress in such efforts as Dracula 2000 (2000) and Don't Say a Word (2001), and after appearing alongside Dana Carvey in the family comedy The Master of Disguise (2002), Esposito joined an impressive cast including Luis Guzman, William H. Macy and George Cloony for the caper comedy Welcome to Collinwood (also 2002). In 2004, Esposito took on a role as the long-suffering supervisor of a bumbling police officer in the less than successful comedy Taxi. The following year, however, her luck would change when she joined the cast of filmmaker Paul Haggis' Academy Award-winning drama Crash, in which she played the girlfriend and partner of an emotionally distant police officer. Afterwards, the actress joined several television shows including FX's drama Rescue Me, in which she worked alongside the show's star Denis Leary, and also appeared in ABC's comedy Samantha Who?, NBC's medical drama Mercy and CBS's cop procedural Blue Bloods.
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Highest Rated Movies
Filmography
MOVIES
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | BOX OFFICE | YEAR |
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0% | Mob Town |
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— | 2019 |
4% | Mary |
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— | 2019 |
No Score Yet | Mob Town |
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— | 2019 |
0% | Speed Kills |
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— | 2018 |
44% | She's Funny That Way |
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— | 2015 |
No Score Yet | Mamitas |
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— | 2012 |
No Score Yet | Bending the Rules |
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— | 2012 |
No Score Yet | The Wish List |
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— | 2010 |
No Score Yet | 4 Single Fathers |
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— | 2009 |
No Score Yet | American Crude |
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— | 2008 |
No Score Yet | Conspiracy |
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— | 2008 |
No Score Yet | Jesus, Mary and Joey |
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— | 2006 |
No Score Yet | Snow Wonder |
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— | 2005 |
9% | Taxi |
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— | 2004 |
74% | Crash |
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$55.4M | 2004 |
31% | Breakin' All the Rules |
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$11.9M | 2004 |
No Score Yet | Rip It Off |
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— | 2003 |
55% | Welcome to Collinwood |
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$75.7k | 2002 |
1% | The Master of Disguise |
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$40.5M | 2002 |
No Score Yet | Backflash |
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— | 2002 |
No Score Yet | Beyond the City Limits |
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— | 2001 |
24% | Don't Say a Word |
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$54.3M | 2001 |
71% | Made |
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$3.7M | 2001 |
No Score Yet | The Proposal |
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— | 2001 |
17% | Dracula 2000 |
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$32.7M | 2000 |
57% | Boys Life 3 |
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— | 2000 |
28% | Just One Time |
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— | 2000 |
9% | The Bachelor |
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— | 1999 |
51% | Summer of Sam |
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— | 1999 |
7% | I Still Know What You Did Last Summer |
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— | 1998 |
81% | He Got Game |
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— | 1998 |
36% | No Looking Back |
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— | 1998 |
40% | Kiss Me, Guido |
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— | 1997 |
100% | A Brother's Kiss |
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— | 1996 |
TV
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | YEAR |
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78% |
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999
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No Score Yet |
Harry
2016-2018
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No Score Yet |
The Doctors
2008
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No Score Yet |
The Late Show With Stephen Colbert
2015
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No Score Yet |
The Chew
2011-2018
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No Score Yet |
Blue Bloods
2010
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No Score Yet |
NCIS
2003
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No Score Yet |
Hollywood Medium With Tyler Henry
2016-2019
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No Score Yet |
The Talk
2010
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No Score Yet |
Mistresses
2013-2016
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No Score Yet |
Mistresses (UK)
2009-2010
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35% |
Taxi Brooklyn
2014
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No Score Yet |
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart
1999-2015
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No Score Yet |
The Looney Tunes Show
2011-2013
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No Score Yet |
Late Show With David Letterman
1993-2015
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No Score Yet |
The Dr. Oz Show
2009
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25% |
Mercy
2009-2010
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77% |
Samantha Who?
2007-2009
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No Score Yet |
The Bonnie Hunt Show
2008-2010
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89% |
Rescue Me
2004-2011
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33% |
Related
2005-2006
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No Score Yet |
Law & Order
1990-2010
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No Score Yet |
Judging Amy
1999-2005
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20% |
Hack
2002-2004
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No Score Yet |
The Tonight Show With Jay Leno
1992-2014
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66% |
Spin City
1996-2002
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No Score Yet |
New York Undercover
1994-1998
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No Score Yet |
Navy NCIS: Naval Criminal Investigative Service
2003-2013
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No Score Yet |
The City
1997
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No Score Yet |
The Looney Tunes Show [INACTIVE]
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No Score Yet |
The Looney Tunes Show: Volume One
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Quotes from Jennifer Esposito's Characters
Graham Waters: | It's the sense of touch. |
Ria: | What? |
Graham Waters: | In the real city you… you walk. You know? You brush past people. People bump into you. In L.A. nobody touches you. We’re always behind this metal and glass. I think we miss that touch so much that we crash into each other just so we can feel something. |
Graham Waters: | In the real city you, you walk, you know? You brush past people. People bump into you. In L.A. nobody touches you. We're always behind this metal and glass. I think we miss that touch so much that we crash into each other just so we can feel something. |
Nancy: | This island didn't have a murder rate until you people showed up! |
Solina: | It's a special thing to be chosen. It feels like being born. |
The Count: | You haven't been feeding her. |