Maria Bello is a talented actress best known for her roles in The Cooler, A History Of Violence, and The Mummy: Tomb of
the Dragon Emperor. Maria-Bello.org provides information and photos of Ms Bello's career, along with numerous other
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Emergency Sex (HBO TV Series)
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"As I’ve gotten older I’ve become more open. You stop judging yourself and you stop judging others. And it
doesn’t matter anymore if anybody likes you."
A new trailer has been released for Downloading Nancy, plus the official site has been slightly updated and it now includes an official release date – June 5th! No doubt this will be in a very limited number of cinemas in the US, but hopefully some people will be able to see it.
Just from the trailer you can see that Maria’s performance is incredible, and no doubt the best of her career! I’m interested to read more reviews on the film, and of course I can’t wait to watch it myself
Norristown native actress Maria Bello graces the cover of the May/June Philadelphia Style, the mag’s 10th anniversary issue.
In the new issue, Bello, a 2000 Style covergirl, talks about going to a Manayunk tattoo parlor with her dad Joe to get tattoos. Bello got a small Celtic symbol on her hip that means “possession,” while Joe got “the most gigantic tattoo of the Eagles symbol on his arm.” Bello told editor Sarah Schaffer that she was recently back in town for a cousin’s wedding where the whole family did the Mummers strut and sang the Eagles fight song.
The actress will appear in the upcoming “The Private Lives of Pippa Lee,” and has been developing a drama series for HBO.
“The Company Men” ‘s first wives club is expanding. We hear that Tony-winning, Lowell-born actress Maryann Plunkett has signed on to play Chris Cooper’s wife in the recession-inspired drama, which has been shooting here (Boston) the past few weeks. UNH grad Plunkett – whose real-life husband, Jay O. Sanders, recently starred in the Huntington Theatre Company’s run of “Two Men of Florence” – joins “Mad Men” star Rosemarie DeWitt (she plays Ben Affleck’s wife) and Maria Bello, who has been filming scenes with Tommy Lee Jones. Bello’s in danger of picking up a Boston accent: She’ll stay in town to film “The Lake House” with Adam Sandler and Rob Schneider. . . . In other “Company” news, Framingham resident Jim Idzal says he and wife Leslie are trying to decide whether to keep renovations made by the film’s crew. Before scenes with Affleck and Kevin Costner were shot at the Idzals’ home last week, the crew made the couple’s living room a dining room, and their dining room a living room. Idzal said he and his wife aren’t opposed to the switch – it’s just confusing. “We moved out for about two weeks because they were redecorating the whole first floor.” Idzal said Costner was the most outgoing of his guests; Mr. “Field of Dreams” took the time to socialize with neighbors and take pictures.
Celebrities love a worthy cause, which perhaps explains why a dozen of this town’s better known film and television actresses made a pilgrimage to the Skirball Center Monday to stand up and be counted as people who care about women’s health and education on the African continent.
The event was a conference bringing together the wives of 15 of Africa’s political leaders with Melanne Verveer, President Obama’s ambassador-at-large for global women’s issues, and a clutch of nongovernment (NGO) groups including U.S. Doctors for Africa.
For the organizers, the allure of the celebrities was clear: to attract the local media, especially television, who turned out in thick clusters. Quite what the celebrities themselves thought they were up to was less clear.
“I’m here primarily to learn and to be a witness to a wonderful exchange of information,” said a less than confident Diane Lane, looking elegant in a blue summer dress and straw hat but thematically sounding way, way out of her depth.
A group of African first ladies began a two-day meeting in Los Angeles on Monday to forge U.S. partnerships to try to improve health and education of women and girls in African communities afflicted by AIDS.
The wives of the presidents and prime ministers of Kenya, Nigeria, Angola, Zambia, Cameroon and 10 other nations teamed up with U.S. health experts, nonprofit groups and a clutch of celebrities to promote their work.
“Nowhere before in the United States has such a large group of African first ladies come together to talk as one,” Ted Alemayhu, founder of the Los Angeles-based U.S. Doctors for Africa, told a news conference.
Hollywood actresses Diane Lane, Maria Bello, Robin Wright Penn and Camryn Manheim were among the celebrity women who attended an opening day luncheon.
Maria celebrates her 42nd birthday today, April 18th, and we want to wish her a very happy day spent with her loved ones, and we hope that the year ahead will bring her all the happiness and success she wishes for, and deserves. Have a wonderful day, Maria!
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Today also marks this sites one-year anniversary! Yes, one year ago today Maria-Bello.org opened it’s doors for the first time! So I’d like to thank everyone that has visited and supported the site in the past year – I hope you all enjoy the site, and will stick with us for all the latest on Ms Bello!
I was hoping to get a new layout up today, but I’ve just been so busy with offline things. I will be putting it up as soon as I can, as well as getting some big updates in here
Well, this update is long over-due, but what better day to do it on than today?! :p I’ve finally added photos from all of the events that Maria has attended so far this year, plus a couple of sets of candids. She’s been looking fantastic at these events, and I think my favourite looks would be from the Vital Voices and Dior & Vanity Fair BRANDAID Foundation Launch, and I also love the Diamond Fashion Show look <3 It seems she's throwing herself into charity work on one of the causes she is most passionate about - Africa and women's rights - which is really so admirable. Yet another reason to love her
Thanks to Alex for pointing us in the direction of a new article in the LA Times which talks about Maria’s charity work for Africa, and also states that she is working on a new project called The Company Men, co-starring Ben Affleck. Because there was no official press articles from trade papers like Variety, I was doubtful as to the reliability of this story, so I did a bit of a search for more info, and it seems this article is accurate, and that Maria is now actually on the set of this movie.
So today I’ve done some more research, and have found some plot outlines from a local paper where they are filming:
The plot centers on the nation’s economic downturn that leaves Affleck – a six-figure corporate executive – out of work and looking to his blue-collar construction worker brother-in-law – played by Costner – for guidance.
Affleck plays a corporate hotshot whose Porsche and six-figure salary vanish after he gets laid off. Costner purportedly plays a drywall construction worker and brother-in-law to the downsized executive, helping him get a blue-collar job, according to Variety magazine. Jones stars as a senior partner in the firm.
Ben Affleck, Kevin Costner, Tommy Lee Jones and Rosemarie DeWitt co-star, and Chris Cooper is in negotiations to join the cast. John Wells (of ER fame) is directing. No word yet on Maria’s role, but I’d bet she plays either Ben Affleck or Kevin Costner’s wife
I also have the first set pictures from you, taken 2 days ago in Boston:
Back when Maria Bello was majoring in peace and justice studies at Villanova, she may have dreamed that she’d one day be a successful actress, but it’s hard to believe she ever imagined she’d one day help bring together an unprecedented summit of Africa’s first ladies.
That’s exactly what will occur Monday and Tuesday, when more than 20 of Africa’s first ladies will be in town to discuss a range of health and women’s rights issues that continue to obstruct development in their countries.
Bello — along with a number of other leading actresses — will help get the event off to a star-laden start as she joins California First Lady Maria Shriver at a welcoming luncheon at the Westside’s Skirball Cultural Center. Bello’s role in the summit is part of her long-standing interest in African issues, especially those that touch on the welfare of women.
Maria Bello is in final negotiations to join the all-star comedy cast of an untitled film project being produced by Adam Sandler.
The script, by Fred Wolf and Sandler, revolves around high school friends who reunite 30 years later. Sandler, Kevin James, Chris Rock, Rob Schneider, David Spade, Salma Hayek and Maya Rudolph are part of the ensemble cast.
Bello will play James’ wife.
Dennis Dugan (“I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry”) is directing the Columbia Pictures project. Jack Giarraputo is producing with Sandler via their Happy Madison shingle.
Bello recently starred in the indie drama “The Private Lives of Pippa Lee” and “The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor.”
