Teresa Parente is an American actress and singer.She is best known for
her recurrent role on the Fox Broadcasting Company's sitcom Married...
with Children as hapless television reporter "Miranda Veracruz de la
Jolla Cardinal", whose catchphrase was simply saying her name. 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 rd Rock from the Sun. In , she debuted as a feature film
actress in New Line Cinema's Smne, 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 , she narrowly escaped death in a hail
of gunfire on CBS's drama series Numbrs.Parente is a stage actress,
singer and performer in many TV and radio commercials. She is
currently singing jazz at Los Angeles venues as a featured soloist
with Concert Choirs (most recently with the Hollywood Master Chorale),
and she gives private performances featuring jazz gems and selections
from the Great American Songbook. In , she formed the Sisters of Swing
(S.O.S), an Andrews Sisters-style girl group.Widow of
actor/writer/producer Mark Ritts, she has a daughter and son. She is a
native of The Bronx, New York.
her recurrent role on the Fox Broadcasting Company's sitcom Married...
with Children as hapless television reporter "Miranda Veracruz de la
Jolla Cardinal", whose catchphrase was simply saying her name. 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 rd Rock from the Sun. In , she debuted as a feature film
actress in New Line Cinema's Smne, 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 , she narrowly escaped death in a hail
of gunfire on CBS's drama series Numbrs.Parente is a stage actress,
singer and performer in many TV and radio commercials. She is
currently singing jazz at Los Angeles venues as a featured soloist
with Concert Choirs (most recently with the Hollywood Master Chorale),
and she gives private performances featuring jazz gems and selections
from the Great American Songbook. In , she formed the Sisters of Swing
(S.O.S), an Andrews Sisters-style girl group.Widow of
actor/writer/producer Mark Ritts, she has a daughter and son. She is a
native of The Bronx, New York.
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