Roma Maffia
出生 : 1958-05-31, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
略歴
Roma Maffia (born May 31, 1958) is an American actress.
Maffia began her acting career in Off-Broadway and Off-Off-Broadway productions. In 1994 she made her film debut playing the minor role of Carmen in director Ron Howard's film The Paper. Soon after, she landed a role on the television series Chicago Hope. Maffia's television career continued as she played 'Grace Alvarez,' the forensic pathologist for the Violent Crimes Task Force for four seasons on NBC's Profiler. She has had guest-star and recurring roles on shows such as ER, The West Wing, Law & Order and The Sopranos.
Her most widely seen performances may be playing Seattle attorney Catherine Alvarez in the film Disclosure (1994), also starring Michael Douglas and Demi Moore, and her role on the show Nip/Tuck. She followed this up with a series of performances as Vanessa Galiano in the TV series, Law & Order and as Judge Victoria Peyton on ABC's Boston Legal.
Since 2003 Maffia has appeared as Liz Cruz on the FX Network series Nip/Tuck, the anesthesiologist colleague of two dysfunctional plastic surgeons. Coincidentally, Maffia and Julian McMahon also worked on the TV show Profiler together.
Mona
Theater actress Lillian Cooper's son dies mysteriously. When the investigating officer rules the cause of death an accidental overdose, Lillian conducts her own investigation which leads her to an unlikely alliance with her son's former drug dealer. On her quest for answers, Lillian hallucinates some of the iconic characters she's played on stage which serve as her inner voice, urging her to avenge her son's death.
Karen (segment "Dollface")
A teenage girl is babysitting at a new house when she's accosted by a vicious, possessed doll. With the babysitter in bondage, the toy subjects her to a series of terrifying tales on the television, each story more grave than the last.
Herself
Actresses talk about their personal lives and dealing with a balance between family responsibilities and being a professional actor.
Maddy
ロサンゼルス市警察の911（緊急通報用電話番号）のオペレーター・ジョーダンは、不法侵入者に怯える少女レイアからの緊急電話を受けた際、わずかな判断ミスにより彼女を救えず（携帯電話が切れた時のジョーダンからの発信音で少女は男に見つかり、誘拐され殺害されてしまう）、自責の念に苛まれ、オペレーターを辞める決意を固めた。 その半年後、研修生の指導にあたっていたジョーダンは、何者かに拉致されて移動する車のトランクの中から助けを求める少女ケイシーの緊急通報を受ける。彼女はシリアルキラー（病で頭髪が抜けながら死んだ姉と同じ少女の美しい金髪に執着する狂人）に誘拐されて彼が運転する車のトランクに閉じ込められ、その中から緊急通報してきたのだ。経験豊富なジョーダンは、すぐにケイシーが緊迫した状況であることを察知、彼女に指示を与える。 やがてジョーダンは、ジョーダンに捨て台詞を吐いたその誘拐犯マイケル・フォスターの声が、レイアを拉致した殺人鬼と同じである事に気付き、自身の葛藤を抱えながらケイシーの救出に乗り出していく。
Tanya
A pretty psychiatrist is saved from an accident by a man who, after hitting his head on a rock, believes he is Santa Claus. As she nurses him back to health at her institute, he brings the spirit of Christmas to the hospital.
Rosa
A young man visits a bar and falls for the waitress whose family turns out to be tied to Italian mob. The head henchman doesn't like him, so things heat up, even though the don likes him. Then stolen diamonds enter the picture.
Dr. Christopher
Two writers must face a dilemma that is common to anyone who has ever had an artistic friend: what happens when you have to give feedback, and the news isn't good? Sam, an aspiring screenwriter, and David, a successful magazine editor, have been pals for years. When David doesn't appreciate Sam's latest attempt, it opens a fissure in their friendship, one that spreads through the rest of their lives. Ultimately, both men must reevaluate their motivations to write, their need for praise and validation, and what it means to see yourself as you actually are.
Irene Santini
Yonkers Joe tells the story of a dice hustler whose determination to make one last grab for a big score in Vegas is complicated by the reappearance of his estranged, mentally challenged son into his life.
Detective Amos
When a young female video editor loses her boyfriend in a car crash, she finds solace in watching video of him taken the night before he died. When he starts to communicate with her through that video, she must decide if he has broken through the barrier between this world and the next, or has she slipped off into madness.
Carla Morengo
A wrongfully convicted boy is sent to a brutal desert detention camp where he must dig holes in order to build character. What he doesn't know is that he is digging holes in order to search for a lost treasure hidden somewhere in the camp.
Virginia VanUpp
The New Women is a post-apocalyptic adventure about Lisa LaStrada (Mary Woronov) and her small town group of women friends who clearly haven't come a long way, baby.
Debbie (segments "Fantasies About Rebecca" and "Love Waits For Kathy")
In California, a group of women struggle with personal problems as their paths intertwine in unexpected ways. Dr. Elaine Keener, the sole caretaker for her aging mother, turns to tarot card reader Christine for spiritual aid. Christine grapples with her own angst due to her lover's debilitating illness. Meanwhile, a bank manager deals with an unwanted pregnancy, two sisters pursue romantic interests and a housewife gets back into the dating game.
Ruth Aarons
Biography of the Pop Star....
Margaret Skolowski
合衆国憲法で定められた“二重処罰の禁止”を知った服役中の女性が、自分を罠に陥れた夫に復讐する。“同じ人間を2度殺す事はできない”という法律の落とし穴“ダブル・ジョパディー”をうまく利用した脚本が面白い。
Agent Ellen Marks
During a routine surveilance on desolate Route 9, two small town deputies come across over one million dollars in cash, a van full of drugs, several dead bodies and not a witness in sight.
Julie Bishop
Television movie remake of the 1960s courtroom drama series, "The Defenders." After the death of his eldest son and his partner in the law firm of Preston and Preston, senior partner, Lawrence Preston enlists his granddaughter, M.J, a former prosecutor, and his other son Don, a law professor, to continue the work of ensuring that every individual accused of a crime is entitled to a proper defense. In this telefilm, a father murders the rapist of his young daughter after the man is released from prison and moves back to his old neighborhood. The Prestons take the case even though the father is unrepentent and unwilling to offer the attorneys any help in finding legally mitigating circumstances for his actions.
Dr. Ruocco
ワシントンDCの警察で刑事をしながら犯罪心理学を研究するクロスは、ノースカロライナで姪ナオミが何者かに誘拐されたと聞き現地へ。実は同地では8人の女子大生が次々に誘拐され、そのうち3人は遺体になって見つかっていた。犠牲者3人の誘拐された順序が殺された順序と異なることから、犯人の目的が殺人ではないと主張するクロス。やがて9番目に誘拐され、犯人のアジトから脱出した外科医ケイトからクロスは手掛かりを得る。
Laurie Meisinger
When a cop-killer goes free, a detective's search for personal justice veers dangerously out of control. Declaring a mistrial, he takes the accused, the judge and the jury hostage...and begins a trial of his own.
Sally Canter
A professor's casual fling with her graduate student turns deadly when he insists on a more permanent arrangement.
Claire Isaacs
証人保護プログラム執行官の任務は、重要証人の命を守るため彼らの過去を抹消すること。その執行官のなかに、鮮やかな仕事で“イレイザー”の異名を持つ男がいた……。シュワルツェネッガー主演のハード・アクション。
Ms. Jones
元妻の葬儀を終え、娘を連れてL.A.駅に降り立った平凡な税理士ワトソンは、警官を名乗る男女に娘を人質にされ、時間内に女性州知事の暗殺を命じられる。彼は必死に暗殺を回避しようとするのだが、あらゆるところに監視の目が光っていた。時間だけが刻々と過ぎる中、孤立無援のワトソンは、知事の女性秘書の協力を得る。
Heidi Holland is a woman on the long and often bumpy road of self-discovery from the 1960s to 1990s. The movie follows her path from high-school egghead, to feminist supporter, to intellectual art dealer/mother, and chronicles her ups and downs and revelations.
Officer Caldwell
A man's life and marriage fall apart when he is stalked and harassed by a mysterious secret admirer -- a woman he claims he has never met, in this fact-based variation on "Fatal Attraction."
Carmen
地方紙『サン』の編集局次長ヘンリーは、自身が問題を抱えるなか、冤罪で捕まった黒人青年たちの無実を伝えるべく奔走する。ニューヨークの新聞社を舞台に、マイケル・キートンらの名優が繰り広げる人間ドラマ。
Catherine Alvarez
かつての恋人に呼び出されたトムは、社内で誘惑される。断って部屋を出たトムを彼女がセクハラで訴えたことからゲームに巻き込まれる……。ハイテク企業を舞台にしたセクシャル・サスペンス。
Diane
A skilled police detective in a case involving the strange, sadistic murder of a young prostitute who has been killed in exactly the same fashion as a young nightclub singer in Saigon during the Vietnam War. At the same time, the detective attempts to ferret out corruption in the police ranks.
Angie's First Customer!
ギャングの未亡人、マフィアのボス、FBI捜査官の3人が入り乱れ、複雑な三角関係へと突入していくラブ・コメティ。これを監督したのは、なんと『羊たちの沈黙』のジョナサン・デミ。
Prostitute
A narcissistic runaway engages in a number of parasitic relationships amongst members of New York's waning punk scene.
