Annie Parisse: Biography, Movies & Photos

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1Graduated from Mercer Island High School, near Seattle, WA.
2Attended Fordham University in New York City.
3Parents: Louis G. "Lou" and Annette Cancelmi.
4Siblings: Louis Cancelmi, an actor and writer, and Michael Cancelmi, Italian teacher.
5Along with S. Epatha Merkerson, Milena Govich, Jeremy Sisto, Jerry Orbach, and Camryn Manheim, one of only six Law & Order (1990) cast members to play a different character in an episode before joining the cast in a later season. (Michael Imperioli also played multiple roles, but was not a permanent addition to the cast as Det. Nick Falco).

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6Nominated for a 2007 Drama Desk Award for her performance in "The Internationalist" (Outstanding Actress in a Play).
7Sister-in-law of Elisabeth Waterston, Katherine Waterston, and Graham Waterston.
8Grandparents: Harry J. Cancelmi, Sr., and Mary Smetana Cancelmi.
9Nominated for a 2009 Lucille Lortel Award for her performance in the off-Broadway play, "Becky Shaw" (Outstanding Lead Actress).
10Has two uncles, Norbert A. Cancelmi, of Bethel Park, and Harry J. Cancelmi, Jr., of Waynesburg, Greene County, Pennsylvania, and three cousins.
11She took her stage name from her late great-grandmother, Anna Maria Parisse, who lived in Washington, the wife of her great-grandfather, Gaetano Cancelmi.
12Her godfather is her uncle, Harry J. Cancelmi, Jr., who is a defense attorney.
13Her mother is a teacher at Saint Kilian Parish School in Cranberry Township, Butler County, Pennsylvania.
14Her father is a senior executive with Alaska Air and her mother is a first-grade teacher at Newport Heights Elementary.
15Teacher of Acting for the Camera at the Fordham University Theatre Program.
16Her paternal grandfather was an agent for the Pennsylvania Department of Justice (1934-1941) and a Western Pennsylvania District Supervisor of the state parole board (1942-1968).
17Has two children with her husband, Paul Sparks - a son Emmett Sparks (b. October 2009) and a daughter Lydia Sparks (b. 2014).
18Her father is of half-Italian and half-Slovak descent. Her mother is of half-Italian and half-Lebanese-Syrian ancestry.

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