Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio

About

Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio (born 1958 in Lombard, Illinois) is an American actress and singer of Italian descent, equally at home on screen and on the Broadway stage. She received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Scorsese's The Color of Money (1986), and became internationally known through James Cameron's The Abyss (1989) and Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991). Her stage work earned her a Tony nomination and two Drama Desk nominations; most recently she appeared in season 5 of Law & Order: Organized Crime (2025).

Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress (Color Money, 1986)

Tony Award nomination for Best Actress in a Musical (Man of La Mancha, 2003)

Drama Desk Award nomination for theatrical performances

What's new

2025-04
In the fifth (and simultaneously final) season of Law & Order: Organized Crime, which premiered on April 17, 2025 on Peacock, Mastrantonio played Isabella Spezzano - a matriarchal figure connected to an Italian crime family.
2025-05
In an interview with CinemaBlend, the actress described her collaboration with Christopher Meloni and admitted that she accepted the opportunity to return to the Law & Order universe immediately.
2024-09
In September 2024, it was announced that Mastrantonio was cast in a recurring role in the fifth season of Law & Order: Organized Crime; the series moved from NBC to the streaming platform Peacock.
2026-02
The American magazine Parade published a report in February 2026 about how photographers captured the actress completely unrecognizable in the New York subway.