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Teresa Parente is an American actress best-known for her recurrent role on the Fox Broadcasting Company's long-running situation comedy, Married...with Children, as hapless television reporter "Miranda Veracruz de la Jolla Cardinal." She played more than forty different female characters, including the show's main love interest, on the Brandon Tartikoff/PBS comedy series, The Steven Banks Show, and has guest-starred on many other American television series, including Night Court, L.A. Law, Cafe Americain, Friends, and 3rd Rock from the Sun. In 2002, she debuted as a feature film actress in New Line Cinema's S1m0ne, written and directed by Andrew Niccol and starring Al Pacino. Shortly thereafter, she was cast as Anthony LaPaglia's suicidal mother (in flashback) on CBS's Without a Trace, appearing in three episodes of the series. She was female lead Roxanne Bojarski's mother in multiple episodes of the NBC dramatic series, American Dreams, and in 2006, narrowly escaped death in a hail of gunfire on CBS's drama series, Numb3rs. Parente is a seasoned New York stage actress, a critically acclaimed singer, and a performer in scores of TV and radio commercials. She is married to actor/writer/producer Mark Ritts.
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