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Linda Fiorentino
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Clorinda "Linda" Fiorentino was born on March 9, 1960, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. A member of a large Italian immigrant family, she was raised in Turnersville, New Jersey, along with her two brothers and five sisters. The Fiorentino household was staunchly Catholic; Linda later quipped, "I'm convinced my mother only had sex eight times." But with so many siblings, Linda had to vie for attention in strange ways. One of these was learning to recite the alphabet in under five seconds -- she got so good that her uncle had her perform it in parks and bars.
Linda attended Washington Township High School in Sewell, New Jersey, where she excelled at cheerleading, basketball and baseball. "I was trouble," she admits about the time, having been barred from her senior prom because of smoking at school. After graduation, Linda went on to Rosemont College in Pennsylvania, where she received a B.A. in political science in 1980. She nearly entered law school, but decided to pursue acting instead; she went to New York and enrolled in the Circle in the Square Theatre School. |
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