Roma Maffia
Also Known As: روما مافیا
Biography: 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.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
Birthday: May 31, 1958
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Gender: Female
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Nick of Time
Overview: An ordinary man is suddenly forced into a plot to kill a politician in exchange for his kidnapped daughter's freedom.
Genres: Thriller Crime Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-11-22
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Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-05-27
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Disclosure
Overview: A computer specialist is sued for sexual harassment by a former lover turned boss who initiated the act forcefully, which threatens both his career and his personal life.
Genres: Thriller Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-12-09
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Kiss the Girls
Overview: Forensic psychologist and detective Alex Cross travels to North Carolina and teams with escaped kidnap victim Kate McTiernan to hunt down "Casanova," a serial killer who abducts strong-willed women and forces them to submit to his demands. The trail leads to Los Angeles, where the duo discovers that the psychopath may not be working alone.
Genres: Thriller Crime Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-09-29
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Eraser
Overview: U.S. Marshall John Kruger erases the identities of people enrolled in the Witness Protection Program. His current assignment is to protect Lee Cullen, who's uncovered evidence that the weapons manufacturer she works for has been selling to terrorist groups. When Kruger discovers that there's a corrupt agent within the program, he must guard his own life while trying to protect Lee's.
Genres: Action Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-06-21
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Ghost Image
Overview: 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.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-07-23
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The Heidi Chronicles
Overview: Unusual relationships, a feminist awakening and a career in art history mark a baby boomer's life, ages 16 through 46.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-10-15
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Safelight
Overview: A teenage boy and girl discover a renewed sense of possibility as they go on a road trip to photograph lighthouses along the California coast.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-07-17
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Measure of Revenge
Overview: 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.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-03-18
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The Real St. Nick
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-12-15
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The Blue Tooth Virgin
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-06-18
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The Call
Overview: Jordan Turner is an experienced 911 operator but when she makes an error in judgment and a call ends badly, Jordan is rattled and unsure if she can continue. But when teenager Casey Welson is abducted in the back of a man's car and calls 911, Jordan is the one called upon to use all of her experience, insights and quick thinking to help Casey escape, and not just to save her, but to make sure the man is brought to justice.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-03-14
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The Defenders: Payback
Overview: 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.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-10-12
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Married to the Mob
Overview: Angela de Marco is fed up with her gangster husband's line of work and wants no part of the crime world. When her husband is killed for having an affair with the mistress of mob boss Tony "The Tiger" Russo, Angela and her son depart for New York City to make a fresh start. Unfortunately, Tony has set his sights upon Angela -- and so has an undercover FBI agent looking to use her to bust Tony.
Genres: Comedy Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-08-19
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Route 9
Overview: 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.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-11-20
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That Gal...Who Was in That Thing: That Guy 2
Overview: Actresses talk about their personal lives and dealing with a balance between family responsibilities and being a professional actor.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-03-07
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Her Deadly Rival
Overview: 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."
Genres: Drama Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-09-19
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Internal Affairs
Overview: 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.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-11-06
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Mistrial
Overview: 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.
Genres: Thriller Drama Action TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-11-02
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The David Cassidy Story
Overview: Biography of the Pop Star....
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-01-09
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Smithereens
Overview: A narcissistic runaway engages in a number of parasitic relationships amongst members of New York's waning punk scene.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-09-11
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Holes
Overview: 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.
Genres: Adventure Family Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-04-18
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Yonkers Joe
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-04-01
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The Curse of the Necklace
Overview: After separating due to his unpredictable alcohol infused temper, Frank try to win his wife Laura back by giving her a beautiful antique necklace he finds in an old 1938 evidence bag at the station. Unfortunately, the necklace is a conduit for the tormented soul of an evil boy from long ago, and Laura and her daughters find themselves in terrible danger from a little boy who no longer exists.
Genres: Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-09-27
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The New Women
Overview: 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.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-06-05
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The Paper
Overview: Henry Hackett is the workaholic editor of a New York City tabloid. He loves his job, but the long hours and low pay are leading to discontent. Also, publisher Bernie White faces financial straits, and has hatchet-man Alicia Clark—Henry's nemesis—impose unpopular cutbacks.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-03-18
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Her Costly Affair
Overview: A professor's casual fling with her graduate student turns deadly when he insists on a more permanent arrangement.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-10-28
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Double Jeopardy
Overview: Libby Parsons, wrongly convicted for her husband Nick's murder, thinks he is still alive and wants to settle the score and find their son. As she has been tried for the crime, she cannot be re-prosecuted if she finds and kills Nick.
Genres: Drama Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-09-24
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Charlotte
Overview: 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.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-08-08
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Kingshighway
Overview: 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.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-01-01
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Greta's Girls
Overview: Greta's Girls lovingly depicts the quotidian moments in the domestic life of a lesbian couple and their dog in New York City. Greta's Girls is one of the first independent short films to focus on lesbians.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-06-17
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