Jamie Sorrentini is an American

United States

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 film

Film

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, television

Television

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 and theatre

Theatre

Theatre is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music or dance...

 actress. She starred as Kathy Grovner in the 1987 TV movie A Hobo's Christmas

A Hobo's Christmas

A Hobo's Christmas is a 1987 American film made for TV and directed by Will Mackenzie and produced by Joe Byrne and Paul Freeman. The screenplay was written by Joe Byrne and Jeb Rosebrook...

. Sorrentini was a cast member during the 2000 U.S. tour of the 1999 musical

Musical theatre

Musical theatre is a form of theatre combining songs, spoken dialogue, acting, and dance. The emotional content of the piece – humor, pathos, love, anger – as well as the story itself, is communicated through the words, music, movement and technical aspects of the entertainment as an...

 Parade

Parade (musical)

Parade is a musical with a book by Alfred Uhry and music and lyrics by Jason Robert Brown. The musical was first produced on Broadway at the Vivian Beaumont Theater on December 17, 1998. The production was directed by Harold Prince and closed 28 February 1999 after only 39 previews and 84 regular...

. In 2002 she performed in the play Birdie's Bachelorette Party, and appeared on the television program Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

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.

Early life and education

Sorrentini was born in New Jersey

New Jersey

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, and began acting in advertisements at the age of seven. She performed off-Broadway

Off-Broadway

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 with actor Tom Hulce

Tom Hulce

Thomas Edward "Tom" Hulce is an American actor and theater producer. As an actor, he is perhaps best known for his Oscar-nominated portrayal of Mozart in the movie Amadeus and his role as "Pinto" in National Lampoon's Animal House. Additional acting awards included a total of four Golden Globe...

 in a production of the play about author Lewis Carroll

Lewis Carroll

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, titled Haddock's Eyes. Sorrentini studied acting

Acting

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, art history

Art history

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 and photography

Photography

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 at New York University

New York University

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's Tisch School of the Arts

Tisch School of the Arts

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. She attended the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute

Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute

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 program. Sorrentini graduated with a B.F.A.

Bachelor of Fine Arts

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 degree from New York University.

Career

Sorrentini starred as Kathy Grovner in the 1987 TV movie A Hobo's Christmas

A Hobo's Christmas

A Hobo's Christmas is a 1987 American film made for TV and directed by Will Mackenzie and produced by Joe Byrne and Paul Freeman. The screenplay was written by Joe Byrne and Jeb Rosebrook...

. In a review of the movie for The State, Ray Benson singled out Sorrentini's performance. In 2000, Sorrentini appeared in a Harold Prince-directed production of the 1999 Tony Award

Tony Award

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-winning musical

Musical theatre

Musical theatre is a form of theatre combining songs, spoken dialogue, acting, and dance. The emotional content of the piece – humor, pathos, love, anger – as well as the story itself, is communicated through the words, music, movement and technical aspects of the entertainment as an...

 Parade

Parade (musical)

Parade is a musical with a book by Alfred Uhry and music and lyrics by Jason Robert Brown. The musical was first produced on Broadway at the Vivian Beaumont Theater on December 17, 1998. The production was directed by Harold Prince and closed 28 February 1999 after only 39 previews and 84 regular...

, as part of a U.S. national tour. She was a cast member of the play Birdy's Bachelorette Party in 2001 and 2002. Birdy's Bachelorrette Party received positive reception from Barbara & Scott Siegel in a review in Theatremania. In 2002, Sorrentini portrayed Vincenza Agosto on the television program Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit is an American police procedural television drama series set in New York City, where it is also primarily produced...

.

Film

Year	Film	Role	Director	Notes
2006	Big Top	Val	J.P. Mulero
2007	You're So Dead	Selma	Norman Thaddeus Vane Norman Thaddeus Vane Norman Thaddeus Vane is a screenwriter, producer and film director. He served as writer for the 1968 film Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter, and in the subsequent year was writer and associate producer of the movie Lola. He wrote the screenplay for the 1972 film, 1931: Once Upon a Time in...
2009	Inside	Girlfriend	Tracie Laymon Tracie Laymon Tracie Laymon is a screenwriter, producer and film director. Laymon was raised in Houston, Texas, and studied film at the University of Texas at Austin. She began her film career with work in the Texas area, and several of her music videos and short films were recognized with film festival awards...

Television

Year	Title	Role	Director	Notes
1987	A Hobo's Christmas A Hobo's Christmas A Hobo's Christmas is a 1987 American film made for TV and directed by Will Mackenzie and produced by Joe Byrne and Paul Freeman. The screenplay was written by Joe Byrne and Jeb Rosebrook...	Kathy Grovner	Will Mackenzie Will MacKenzie William Ruggles MacKenzie is an American professional golfer who has played on the PGA Tour.MacKenzie was born and raised in Greenville, North Carolina. He was a golfing prodigy growing up but burned out on golf at age 14 and completely quit the game after high school...	TV movie; credited as Jamie Mills
1988	Steampipe Alley Steampipe Alley Steampipe Alley was a children's television program that aired on Secaucus, New Jersey superstation WWOR-TV from February 7, 1988 to April 1993...	Self, vocal guest	Mario Cantone Mario Cantone Mario Cantone is an American stand-up comedian, writer and actor, with numerous appearances on Comedy Central including Chappelle's Show. He also played Anthony Marentino on Sex and the City...	Ep. # 1.13
1990	The Baby-Sitters Club The Baby-Sitters Club (TV series) The Baby-Sitters Club is a 1990 American television series based on Ann M. Martin's children's book series of the same name. The series originally aired on the The Disney Channel, but was also broadcast on HBO and Nickelodeon; all thirteen thirty minute episodes were also released to home video...	Patti	Noel Black Noel Black Noel Black is an American film and television director, screenwriter, and producer.Black was born in Chicago, Illinois. He won awards at the 1966 Cannes Film Festival for an 18-minute short subject filmed in 1965 called Skaterdater. It had no dialogue, but used music and sound effects to advance...	Ep. # 1.1; credited as Jamie Mills
2002	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Law & Order: Special Victims Unit is an American police procedural television drama series set in New York City, where it is also primarily produced...	Vincenza Agosto	Michael Fields Michael Fields (director) Michael David Fields is an American film and television director.He has directed episodes of Veronica Mars, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Third Watch, Gossip Girl, Homicide: Life on the Street, Sex and the City, Roswell, Melrose Place and among series.He also...	Ep. # 4.4
2004	The Sopranos The Sopranos The Sopranos is an American television drama series created by David Chase that revolves around the New Jersey-based Italian-American mobster Tony Soprano and the difficulties he faces as he tries to balance the often conflicting requirements of his home life and the criminal organization he heads...	Mimi	David Chase David Chase David Chase is an American writer, director, and producer of television series. Chase has worked in television for more than 30 years; he has produced and written for shows as The Rockford Files, I'll Fly Away, and Northern Exposure. He has created two original series; the first, Almost Grown,...	Ep. # 5.1, 5.5
	NYPD Blue NYPD Blue NYPD Blue is an American television police drama set in New York City, exploring the internal and external struggles of the fictional 15th precinct of Manhattan...	Angela	Mark Tinker Mark Tinker Mark Tinker is an American television producer and director. Tinker was an executive producer and regular director on the HBO original series, Deadwood. Prior to Deadwood, Tinker served as a director/producer on NYPD Blue which was co-created by Deadwood writer, David Milch. Tinker has also...	Ep. # 12.3
2005	Numb3rs NUMB3RS Numb3rs is an American television drama which premiered on CBS on January 23, 2005, and concluded on March 12, 2010. The series was created by Nicolas Falacci and Cheryl Heuton, and follows FBI Special Agent Don Eppes and his mathematical genius brother, Charlie Eppes , who helps Don solve crimes...	Stacy Manning	Alex Zakrzewski Alex Zakrzewski Alexander "Alex" Zakrzewski is an American television director and cinematographer. He has directed episodes of The Wire, Numb3rs, Cold Case, Law & Order: Criminal Intent and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. He has worked on several Tom Fontana produced shows including Oz, Homicide: Life on the...	Ep. # 2.1
2006	Las Vegas Las Vegas (TV series) Las Vegas was an American television series broadcast by NBC from September 22, 2003 to February 15, 2008. The show focuses on a team of people working at the ficticional Montecito Resort & Casino dealing with issues that arise within the working environment, ranging from valet parking and...	Krystal	David Solomon	Ep. # 4.2
2009	House M.D.	Stripper	Greg Yaitanes Greg Yaitanes Greg Yaitanes is an American television and film director.-Directing career:*Damages **"Jesus, Mary and Joe Cocker" **"A Pretty Girl in a Leotard" *Lost...	Ep. # 5.22
	General Hospital General Hospital General Hospital is an American daytime television drama that is credited by the Guinness Book of World Records as the longest-running American soap opera currently in production and the third longest running drama in television in American history after Guiding Light and As the World Turns....	Woman	Phideaux Xavier Phideaux Xavier Phideaux Xavier is an American TV director and composer of modern technological music that he describes as "psychedelic progressive gothic rock", who grew up in New York City but now lives in Los Angeles.-Life and work:...	Ep. # 1.11807
	CSI: Miami CSI: Miami CSI: Miami is an American police procedural television series, which premiered on September 23, 2002 on CBS. The series is a spin-off of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation....	Maria Guzman	Larry Detwiler Larry Detwiler Larry Detwiler is a television director, miniature effects artist, and visual effects producer. After early experience in miniature effets, he took on a supervisory role in later films including Jane Austen's Mafia!, later progressing to the title of visual effects supervisor...	Ep. # 8.4
2010	It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia is an American television sitcom that premiered on FX on August 4, 2005. New episodes continue to air on FX, with reruns playing on Comedy Central, general broadcast syndication, and WGN America—the first-ever cable-to-cable syndication deal for a sitcom...	Slutty Woman	Randall Einhorn Randall Einhorn Randall Einhorn is an American television director and cinematographer. He was born in Cincinnati, Ohio.Einhorn is best known for his work on The Office . He also directed The Accountants, a ten-part webisode spinoff of The Office which appeared online between the second and third seasons...	Ep. 6.6
	Desperate Housewives Desperate Housewives Desperate Housewives is an American television comedy-drama series created by Marc Cherry and produced by ABC Studios and Cherry Productions. Executive producer Cherry serves as Showrunner. Other executive producers since the fourth season include Marc Cherry, Bob Daily, George W...	Ramona	David Grossman David Grossman (director) David Grossman is an American film and television director known most notably for his work on the ABC series, Desperate Housewives which he also serves as co-executive producer, his first series as a producer....	Ep. # 6.20

See also

• Epiphany (Desperate Housewives)
  Epiphany (Desperate Housewives)
  "Epiphany" is the 131st episode of the ABC television series Desperate Housewives. It is the twentieth episode of the show's sixth season and was aired on April 25, 2010.-Plot:The Fairview strangler is revealed as Danny's friend, Eddie...
  
  
• Lists of actors
• List of American film actresses

External links

• Official website
• Jamie Sorrentini, YouTube
  YouTube
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  channel
• Jamie Sorrentini, at TV Guide
  TV Guide
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• Jamie Sorrentini, at Yahoo! TV
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