Maria Dizzia
Birthday: Born in 1974-12-29 in New Jersey, USA
Deathday: Alive
Maria Teresa Dizzia (born December 29, 1974) is an American actress. Description above from the Wikipedia article Maria Dizzia, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
TV Credits
Prodigal Son
Character: Sasha Geller
The son of a notorious serial killer becomes an acclaimed criminal psychologist who uses his unique insight into how killers think to help the NYPD....
Orange Is the New Black
Character: Polly Harper
A crime she committed in her youthful past sends Piper Chapman to a women's prison, where she trades her comfortable New York life for one of unexpected camaraderie and conflict in an eccentric group of fellow inmates....
Elementary
Character: Penny
A modern-day drama about a crime-solving duo that cracks the NYPD's most impossible cases. Following his fall from grace in London and a stint in rehab, eccentric Sherlock escapes to Manhattan where his wealthy father forces him to live with his worst nightmare - a sober companion, Dr. Watson....
Horace and Pete
Character: Tricia
The owners of a dive bar in Brooklyn, Horace and Pete, along with bar regulars share their experiences and lives with each other while drinking or working at the bar....
Royal Pains
Character: Cindy Green
A young E.R. doctor who, after being wrongly blamed for a patient's death, moves to the Hamptons and becomes the reluctant "doctor for hire" to the rich and famous. When the attractive administrator of the local hospital asks him to treat the town's less fortunate, he finds himself walking the line between doing well for himself and doing good for others....
Fringe
Character: Emily Kramer
FBI Special Agent Olivia Dunham, brilliant but formerly institutionalized scientist Walter Bishop and his scheming, reluctant son Peter uncover a deadly mystery involving a series of unbelievable events and realize they may be a part of a larger, more disturbing pattern that blurs the line between science fiction and technology....
The Staircase
Character: Lori Campbell
An exploration of the life of Michael Peterson, his sprawling North Carolina family, and the suspicious death of his wife, Kathleen Peterson....
School Spirits
Character: Sandra Nears
Maddie, a teen stuck in the afterlife investigating her own disappearance, goes on a crime-solving journey as she adjusts to high school purgatory....
Modern Love
Character: Lori
An unlikely friendship. A lost love resurfaced. A marriage at its turning point. A date that might not have been a date. An unconventional new family. These are unique stories about the joys and tribulations of love, each inspired by true events....
Before
Character: Barbara
After tragically losing his wife, child psychiatrist Dr. Eli Adler encounters a troubled young boy who seems to have a haunting connection to Eli's past....
Louie
Character: Delores
Louis C.K. stars as a fictionalized version of himself; a comedian and newly divorced father raising his two daughters in New York City....
New Amsterdam
Character: Anne
The new medical director breaks the rules to heal the system at America's oldest public hospital. Max Goodwin sets out to tear up the bureaucracy and provide exceptional care, but the doctors and staff are not so sure he can succeed. They've heard this before. Not taking "no" for an answer, Dr. Goodwin's instinctive response to problems large and small is four simple words: "How can I help?" He has to disrupt the status quo and prove he'll stop at nothing to breathe new life into this underfunde...
13 Reasons Why
Character: Mrs. Down
After a teenage girl's perplexing suicide, a classmate receives a series of tapes that unravel the mystery of her tragic choice....
Emergence
Character: Emily
A police chief takes in a young child she finds near the site of a mysterious accident who has no memory of what has happened. The investigation draws her into a conspiracy larger than she ever imagined, and the child’s identity is at the center of it all....
Bull
Character: Dr. Margot Statton
Dr. Jason Bull is the brilliant, brash, and charming founder of a hugely successful trial consulting firm....
The Deuce
Character: Arlene Carmen
The story of the legalization and subsequent rise of the porn industry in New York’s Times Square from the early ’70s through the mid ’80s, exploring the rough-and-tumble world that existed there until the rise of HIV, the violence of the cocaine epidemic and the renewed real estate market ended the bawdy turbulence of the area....
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Character: Daphne
The third installment of the “Law & Order” franchise takes viewers deep into the minds of its criminals while following the intense psychological approaches the Major Case Squad uses to solve its crimes....
The Newsroom
Character: Erica
A behind-the-scenes look at the people who make a nightly cable-news program. Focusing on a network anchor, his new executive producer, the newsroom staff and their boss, the series tracks their quixotic mission to do the news well in the face of corporate and commercial obstacles-not to mention their own personal entanglements....
Law & Order
Character: Melinda 'Sugar' Whitman
In cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing the evidence and questioning the suspects until someone is taken into custody. The district attorney's office then builds a case to convict the perpetrator by proving the person guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Working together, these expert teams navigate all sides of the complex criminal justice system to make New York a safer place....
The Undoing
Character: Diane Porter
Grace and Jonathan Fraser are living the only lives they ever wanted. Overnight a chasm opens in their lives: a violent death and a chain of terrible revelations. Left behind in the wake of a spreading and very public disaster, Grace must dismantle one life and create another for her child and her family....
Master of None
Character: Amanda
30-year-old New York actor Dev takes on such pillars of maturity as the first big job, a serious relationship, and busting sex offenders on the subway....
The Good Wife
Character: Heather Sorentino
Alicia Florrick boldly assumes full responsibility for her family and re-enters the workforce after her husband's very public sex and political corruption scandal lands him in jail....
Agatha All Along
Character: Rebecca Kaplan
Agatha Harkness gathers a coven of witches and sets off down, down, down The Witches' Road....
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Diving In
Character: Rachel
Rachel and Yael share their first night together. But a shocking discovery could make it their last....
The Graduates
Character: Maggie
A year after her boyfriend dies from gun violence, a young woman prepares to graduate high school as she navigates an uncertain future alongside a community that is searching for ways to heal....
Martha Marcy May Marlene
Character: Katie
After several years of living with a cult, Martha finally escapes and calls her estranged sister, Lucy, for help. Martha finds herself at the quiet Connecticut home Lucy shares with her new husband, Ted, but the memories of what she experienced in the cult make peace hard to find. As flashbacks continue to torment her, Martha fails to shake a terrible sense of dread, especially in regard to the cult's manipulative leader....
Margin Call
Character: Executive Assistant
A thriller that revolves around the key people at an investment bank over a 24-hour period during the early stages of the financial crisis....
Down the Shore
Character: Susan
Set on the Jersey shore, the lives of three childhood friends begin to unravel when a secret from their past is revealed...
Heaven, I Suppose
Character: Alice
A seasoned funeral director is faced with his own mortality when he must prepare a funeral for a man who looks exactly like him....
True Story
Character: Mary Jane Longo
A drama centered on the relationship between journalist Michael Finkel and Christian Longo, an FBI Most Wanted List murderer who for years lived outside the U.S. under Finkel's name....
Summer's End
Character: Jeanie
A closeted queer teen avoids his alcoholic family’s beach vacation by going on one-night stands through a hook-up app. While on this app he discovers a post made by his father who is looking to hook up with a younger man. Elliott's confrontation with his father becomes a reckoning with himself and his own demons....
We Strangers
Character: Jean Laich
Rayelle Martin works as a commercial cleaner in Gary, Indiana. She's mischievous, playful, and skilled at adapting to her surroundings. One day while at work, Ray is approached by Dr. Neeraj Patel, a therapist who hires her to work as his housekeeper. Who’s going to say no to extra money? Not Ray....
Certainty
Character: Serious Lady
In the big city, a loving young couple Deb and Dom planning to get ready to marry seek guidance from the Catholic Church, which only brings out the true life problems they may encounter with each other and their friends. A sobering real life scenario on how religion can affect couples future together....
Clutter
Character: Sandra
Charlie Bradford, an aspiring filmmaker in his 30s, is doing the best he can to distance himself from the chaos of his childhood home. But his eccentric mother Linda, a compulsive hoarder who suffers from depression punctuated by spells of manic consumption, has a tendency to keep the people and things she loves close at hand. Charlie's younger sisters still live at home with Linda: Lisa, the older of the two has a history of petty theft and works as a home healthcare aid, and Penny, who is tryi...
Captain Phillips
Character: Allison McColl (uncredited)
The true story of Captain Richard Phillips and the 2009 hijacking by Somali pirates of the US-flagged MV Maersk Alabama, the first American cargo ship to be hijacked in two hundred years....
X/Y
Character: Sandy
As Mark, Jen, Sylvia, and Jake navigate through their emotionally-arrested states, X/Y reveals the honest and wanton desire we all have to connect with someone and what is at stake when that connection fades....
My Old Ass
Character: Kathy
An 18th birthday mushroom trip brings free-spirited Elliott face-to-face with her wisecracking 39-year-old self. But when Elliott’s "old ass" starts handing out warnings about what her younger self should and shouldn't do, Elliott realizes she has to rethink everything about family, love, and what's becoming a transformative summer....
A NY Thing
Character: Stella
Masquerading as another man, Antoine flies to New York for a three-day stay and promptly falls in love with Alice, who's dating someone else. When that doesn't work out for him, Antoine turns to the city itself for inspiration....
Ghostwritten
Character: Julie Coffin
Clinging to the reputation of his one hit novel, writer Guy Laury accepts a winter residency on a reclusive island whose residents seem friendly at first. The discovery of a lost manuscript and its possible ties to a longstanding local murder case, however, throw into question the intentions of everyone around him....
Christine
Character: Jean Reed
In 1974, television reporter Christine Chubbuck struggles with depression and professional frustrations as she tries to advance her career....
While We're Young
Character: Marina
An uptight documentary filmmaker and his wife find their lives loosened up a bit after befriending a free-spirited younger couple....
3 Generations
Character: Sinda
A teenager transitions from female to male, and his family must come to terms with that fact....
The Good Nurse
Character: Lori Lucas
Suspicious that her colleague is responsible for a series of mysterious patient deaths, a nurse risks her own life to uncover the truth....
37
Character: Mary Cunningham
On a March night in 1964, 37 neighbors in Queens, New York, witness the brutal murder of Kitty Genovese. None of them takes action or calls the police. 37 tells the story of a few of these people and what led up to the night when they unexplainably remained passive observers. The film is a convincing portrayal of a borough in change and a time characterized by racism, the Civil Rights Movement and political shifts. The actual event that inspired the film’s plot has been called a symbol for the m...
The Other Woman
Character: Jamie Brennan
Emilia, a law-school graduate, falls in love with her married boss, Jack. After Emilia marries Jack, her happiness turns unexpectedly to grief following the death of her infant daughter. Devastated, Emilia nonetheless carries on, attempting to forge a connection with her stepson William and to resist the interference of Jack's jealous ex-wife....
Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point
Character: Kathleen
A rambunctious extended family descends upon their small Long Island hometown for the holidays where hijinks, generational squabbles, and family traditions ensue....
Going in Style
Character: Rachel Harding
Desperate to pay the bills and come through for their loved ones, three lifelong pals risk it all by embarking on a daring bid to knock off the very bank that absconded with their money....
Plainclothes
Character: Marie
A promising undercover officer assigned to lure and arrest gay men defies professional orders when he falls in love with a target....
Piercing
Character: Chevonne
After kissing his wife and baby goodbye for a seemingly normal business trip, Reed checks himself into a hotel room to accomplish something he’s always dreamed of: the perfect murder. As his sinister plans unfold, he soon realizes he might be in over his head with a mysteriously unhinged call girl named Jackie....
Fits and Starts
Character: Sawyer Edwards
A struggling writer can't seem to escape his wife's literary success. When a road trip to a publisher's salon takes an unexpected turn, he has to face his own creative shortcomings and find a way to regain control of his life and work....
Rachel Getting Married
Character: Wedding Guest
A young woman who has been in and out from rehab for the past 10 years returns home for the weekend for her sister's wedding....
Humor Me
Character: Nirit Gerb-Kroll
With an interminable case of writer's block and a personal family crisis, playwright Nate is forced to move into his father's retirement community....
William
Character: Dr. Sullivan
Two cutting-edge scientists give 'birth' to a Neanderthal—the first to walk the earth for some 35,000 years—in order to attempt to answer these questions. Part 'normal' child, part science experiment, William’s 'parents' struggle with the best way to raise him. As William grows toward adulthood, he is educated in the human experiences of love and intimacy. But his primitive impulses begin to emerge the more he tries to conform to human expectations, leading to tragic consequences for him and his...
Sea Change
Character: Amelia
A teenage girl makes a startling discovery about her connection to the Seawalkers, legendary beings who are half-human, half-sea creature....
Abe & Phil's Last Poker Game
Character: Angela
Dr. Abe Mandelbaum has just moved into a retirement home. After forming an unlikely friendship with a womanizing gambler, their relationship is tested when they each try to convince a mysterious nurse that they are her long-lost father....
Keep the Lights On
Character: Vivian
Documentary filmmaker Erik and closeted lawyer Paul meet through a casual encounter, but they find a deeper connection and become a couple. Individually and together, they are risk takers — compulsive, and fueled by drugs and sex. In an almost decade-long relationship defined by highs, lows, and dysfunctional patterns, Erik struggles to negotiate his own boundaries and dignity and to be true to himself....
Lola Versus
Character: Woman Subletter
Just three weeks before her wedding, Lola (Greta Gerwig) finds herself suddenly without a partner when her longtime fiance, Luke (Joel Kinnaman), dumps her. With her 30th birthday looming and being forced to re-enter the New York City dating scene, she feels adrift in a cold world. She leans on her friends (Zoe Lister-Jones, Hamish Linklater) for support but, after a series of romantic humiliations, professional blunders and boozy antics, Lola realizes that she alone is in charge of her fate....
Vox Lux
Character: Ms. Dwyer
In 1999, teenage sisters Celeste and Eleanor survive a seismic, violent tragedy. The sisters compose and perform a song about their experience, making something lovely and cathartic out of catastrophe — while also catapulting Celeste to stardom. By 2017, the now 31-year-old Celeste is mother to a teenage daughter of her own and struggling to navigate a career fraught with scandals when another act of terrifying violence demands her attention....
Funny Pages
Character: Jennifer
A teenage cartoonist rejects the comforts of his suburban life in a misguided quest for soul....
May
Character: Genevieve
A weary white French professor and a young black drug dealer share an impalpable connection on a single night in Philadelphia....
The Outside Story
Character: Juliet
After locking himself out of his apartment, an introverted, heartbroken editor finds himself on an epic journey up, down and around his block with life-altering ramifications....
Late Night
Character: Joan
A legendary late-night talk show host's world is turned upside down when she hires her only female staff writer. Originally intended to smooth over diversity concerns, her decision has unexpectedly hilarious consequences as the two women separated by culture and generation are united by their love of a biting punchline....
If I Forget
Character: Sharon Fischer
A play about the stories we choose to believe, the compromises we can't avoid and the hurt only our nearest and dearest can inflict. In the final months before 9/11, a liberal professor has reunited with his two sisters to celebrate their father's 75th birthday. Each having their own version of family history, the siblings clash over everything. Destructive secrets and long-held resentments surface as the three negotiate—with biting humor and razor-sharp insight—how much of the past they’re wil...
Depraved
Character: Georgina
A field surgeon suffering from PTSD after combat in the Middle East creates a living human out of body parts in his Brooklyn lab....
Above the Shadows
Character: Victoria Jederman
A young woman who has faded to the point of becoming invisible must find her way back with the help of the one man who can see her....
The Neighbors' Window
Character: Alli
The story of a middle-aged woman with small children whose life is shaken up when two free-spirited twenty-somethings move in across the street....
The Happy Sad
Character: Mandy
Two young couples in New York-one black and gay, one white and heterosexual-find their lives intertwined as they create new relationship norms, explore sexual identity, and redefine monogamy....
Homebody
Character: Claire
Nine-year-old Johnny sends his spirit into his babysitter Melanie and gets to be a woman for a day....