Maria Elana Bello (born April 18, 1967 in Norristown, Pennsylvania, USA) is an American actress.

Bello co-starred using Scott Bakula in the short-lived tv series Mr. & Mrs. Smith and later she played Dr. Anna DelAmico around ER. Bello too got the lead role in the pic Coyote Ugly.

She attended Villanova University, majoring in political science. She got each intention of becoming a lawyer, but took an acting class in the period of her senior season, upright for fun. Demonstrating the natural apptitude for acting, she was before long cast within microscopic off-Broadway plays, such as "The Killer Inside Me", "Small Town Gals With Big Problems" & "Urban Planning". She late guest-starred in episodes of "The Commish" (1991), "Nowhere Man" (1995), "Misery Loves Company" (1995) & "Due South" (1994).

Bello had her breaktrough whilst producers Kenny Lenhart & John J. Sakmar cast her in the spy show Mr. & Mrs. Smith (1996) as Mrs. Smith; it remembered her from either her performance inside the failing pilot that was the remaking of the classic TV series "77 Sunset Strip" (1958/I). A indicate was cancelled fallowing simply eight weeks on the air. So come the spot in ER as Dr. Anna DelAmico, where she guest-starred on the final trinity episodes of the third year. A indicate's producers were thus impressed by having her that it asked her back as a regular on the series. Within 2004 she was nominated for the Golden Globe for her role in The Cooler.

Trivia
Bello practices Muay Thai (lethal) kickboxing.

She comes from either the Polish and Italian family.

Bello & her TV white house beau, Dan McDermott, welcomed in Five March 2001 their 1st infant, Jackson Blue McDermott.

She was the bridesmaid at Andrea Bendewald's wedding, the equivalent a single where Jennifer Aniston was the matron of honor.

She became full friends sustaining Mariska Hargitay when Hargitay had the revenant role when Cynthia Hooper in "ER" from either 1997-1998.

She is right friends using Carrie-Anne Moss and Bello is the godmother of Moss's first boy. Moss is the godmother of Bello's boy Jack.

Filmography (partial)
Flicka (2006) Aftershock (2005) Thank Busy people for Smoking (2005) A Sisters (2005) A History of Violence (2005) A Dark (2005) Assault on Precinct 13 (2005) Silver City (2004) Secret Window (2004) ''Nobody's Perfect (2004) The Cooler (2003) C Mile Rule (2002) Automobile Focus (2002) China: A Panda Dangerous undertaking (2001) Sam a Human (2000) .... Anastasia Powell Duets (2000) .... Suzi Loomis Coyote Ugly (2000) .... Lil Payback (1999) Permanent Midnight (1998) A Commish: In the Shadow of the Gallows (1995) Maintenance'' (1992)