Clorinda "Linda" Fiorentino born March 9, [ a ] is an American actress. Fiorentino made her screen debut with a leading role in the coming-of-age drama film Vision Quest , followed that same year with another lead role in the action film Gotcha!
She also had leading roles in the erotic thriller Jade , the science fiction action comedy film Men in Black and the fantasy comedy Dogma Fiorentino was born the third of eight children in an Italian-American family. She comes off as very bold, but she's really very shy. In , Fiorentino graduated from Washington Township High School in Sewell, New Jersey , where she excelled in basketball , baseball and cheerleading.
Fiorentino landed her first professional role after her first professional audition in when she was cast in Vision Quest as Carla, the romantic partner of the lead character, a high school wrestler played by Matthew Modine. What comes across, though, is a woman who is enigmatic without being egotistical, detached without being cold, self-reliant without being suspicious.
She has a way of talking — kind of deliberately objective — that makes you listen to everything she says. Due to her "cinematic combination of spunk and sexiness", "a considerable amount of heat" was generated in Fiorentino's early career. Despite getting along with Cruise and recognising the film's commercial potential, Fiorentino declined due to objecting to the film's "pro-military stance"; [ 9 ] the role was then given to Kelly McGillis.
In , she starred in the espionage comedy film Gotcha! Giving the film two stars out of four, Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times described the European sequences as "a well-directed cat-and-mouse game" that lost its way in the final act after returning to the United States, with the film's main flaw being a focus on Edwards' character when Fiorentino was far more intriguing: "I'll bet the men who made this movie just assumed it had to be told from his point of view, and never considered hers.
