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Personal life
Fiorentino was born in Philadelphia Pennsylvania the daughter of a housewife mother and a steel contractor father. She has studied photography off and on since 1987 at the International Center of Photography in New York City. She is best known for her roles in the films Vision Quest Gotcha! After Hours The Last Seduction Men in Black and Dogma.

For her performance in The Last Seduction Linda Fiorentino won Best Actress awards from both the New York Film Critics Circle and the London Film Critics Circle. She was also nominated for a Best Actress Bafta Film Award.