In 1997, Fiorentino\'s career took an upturn due to her role in the science-fiction action comedy film Men in Black; afterwards she appeared in the films Dogma (1999), Where the Money Is (2000), and Liberty Stands Still (2002). For her performance in the 1994 film The Last Seduction, she won the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress, the London Film Critics\' Circle Award for Actress of the Year, and was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role.\n', '

One of eight children in a Catholic Italian-American family, Fiorentino was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on March 9, 1958 or March 9, 1960, the third child of Salvatore and Clorinda (Bianculli) Fiorentino. She grew up in Philadelphia and later the Turnersville section of Washington Township, Gloucester County, New Jersey. In 1976, Fiorentino graduated from Washington Township High School in Sewell, New Jersey. She began performing in plays at Rosemont College in suburban Philadelphia before graduating in 1980. She has studied photography since 1987 at the International Center of Photography in New York City.[citation needed]\n', '

Fiorentino got her first professional role in 1985 when she starred in Vision Quest.\n', '

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