Maria Ricossa

Acting

Maria Ricossa

Born 1950-07-18 · Chicago, Illinois, U.S.

Maria Ricossa's professional life began in Chicago with The Second City. She then moved to Toronto where she joined The Stratford Festival Company. In Film & TV, Maria is known for her roles in The Inlaws, Bojangles and The Space Between and recurring roles in The Strain, Designated Survivor, Da Kink in my Hair & Missing.

Acting credits

American Pie Presents: The Naked Mile poster
5.5

When Erik Stifler realizes that he's the only Stifler family member who might graduate high school a virgin, he decides to live up to his legacy. After some well-meaning advice from Jim's dad, Erik's ready to take his chances at the annual and infamous Naked Mile race, where his devoted friends and some uninhibited sorority girls will create the most outrageous weekend ever.

American Pie Presents: The Naked Mile

2006

Searching for Bobby Fischer poster
7.1

A seven-year-old chess prodigy refuses to harden himself in order to become a champion like the famous but unlikable Bobby Fischer.

Searching for Bobby Fischer

1993

Class poster
6.0

Naive Midwestern prep student Jonathan bonds with his more worldly roommate, Skip, who takes the small-town boy under his wing. At Skip's urging, the inexperienced Jonathan is emboldened to seek out older women in the cocktail lounges of nearby Chicago, where he meets and beds the alluring Ellen, who unfortunately turns out to be Skip's mother. The division between the friends is further deepened when a cheating scandal engulfs the school.

Class

1983

The In-Laws poster
5.6

Right before his daughter's wedding, a mild-mannered foot doctor discovers that his new in-laws are international smugglers.

The In-Laws

2003

Jesse Stone: Death in Paradise poster
6.9

When Jesse Stone looks into the murder of a teen-age girl whose body is found floating in a local lake, it brings him up against the Boston mob and into the affluent world of a bestselling writer who exploits troubled teens.

Jesse Stone: Death in Paradise

2006

Catch a Christmas Star poster
6.4

Nikki Crandon is one of the biggest pop stars on the planet. Whether she's singing the National Anthem or promoting her latest album, everyone knows who she is—none more so than New Jersey high school basketball coach and widower Chris Mitchell, who was Nikki's first love in high school. When Chris' 10-year-old daughter Sophie finds out her dad still has feelings for the singer, she takes matters into her own hands. With her 8-year-old brother Jackson in tow, Sophie succeeds in reuniting the two. But when a misunderstanding and the growing glare of the public spotlight threaten Chris and Nikki's happiness, one can only wonder: will fame get in the way of a Merry Christmas?

Catch a Christmas Star

2013

A Shoe Addict's Christmas poster
6.2

As Christmas approaches, a department store worker whose life lacks fulfillment meets her guardian angel, who offers her a chance to change her circumstances by magically transporting her to Christmases past whenever she tries on a new pair of shoes.

A Shoe Addict's Christmas

2018

Fairfield Road poster
6.3

Noah McManus is leaving his job with the Boston mayor's office for a dream gig in Washington, D.C. But in a single day, he finds out his new boss in Washington can no longer employ him and that his girlfriend has been cheating on him. Devastated, Noah travels to a quaint Cape Cod town and unexpectedly finds himself at home.

Fairfield Road

2010

Harvard Man poster
4.7

College has always been a time for experimentation, sexual, cultural and otherwise. "Harvard Man" plays out against a background of love, sex, basketball, crime and experimentation. Action and philosophy in young people's quest to discover their true identity.

Harvard Man

2001

My Husband's Double Life poster
5.5

Patrick and Elizabeth Welsh seem to have the perfect family…but their idyllic life is rocked when Patrick is charged with embezzlement. Months later, he leaves a suicide note and is presumed dead. Ten years later, Elizabeth and their two sons are astonished that the authorities are claiming that he is still alive. It isn't long before Elizabeth learns the shocking truth about the man she thought she knew.

My Husband's Double Life

2001

A Royal Recipe for Love poster
6.6

When Emma, an up-and-coming baker in New York City, is hired to bake for the King and Queen of Sanovia’s anniversary party, she is convinced a good job will lead to her landing a cookbook deal.

A Royal Recipe for Love

2023

Out of the Ashes poster
6.1

The real-life story of Gisella Perl, a Jewish Hungarian doctor imprisoned in the notorious Auschwitz death camp of World War II.

Out of the Ashes

2003

Astronaut poster
6.1

A lonely widower battles his family, ill health and time to win a competition for a golden ticket to space.

Astronaut

2019

What If God Were the Sun? poster
7.0

A grieving nurse finds comfort and inspiration in her new assignment, where she meets a terminally ill woman with a quick with and strong faith.

What If God Were the Sun?

2007

The Note II: Taking a Chance on Love poster
4.7

Columnist Peyton MacGruder befriends a reader who sent her a note that inspires Peyton to reconsider the choices she's made and her reluctance to accept her boyfriend's marriage proposal.

The Note II: Taking a Chance on Love

2009

Sex & the Single Mom poster
7.1

Jess Gradwell and her teenage daughter boast a superclose relationship. When it comes to sex, however, Mom won't stand for anything less than premarital celibacy. So she gets a pretty healthy dose of her own medicine when she winds up getting pregnant from a brief encounter with a newly single doctor! This new situation poses a major challenge to the mother-daughter dynamic. Tune in to see if Jess and her daughter can rise to the occasion.

Sex & the Single Mom

2003

To Love, Honor, & Betray poster
3.0

A young woman (Crystal Bernard) aware of her father's (James Brolin) affair with another woman becomes convinced of his guilt after her mother (Dee Wallace Stone) is found murdered in this fact-based movie.

To Love, Honor, & Betray

1999

The Brady Bunch in the White House poster
4.2

Mike Brady becomes the President of the United States and names Carol as his V.P..

The Brady Bunch in the White House

2002

Hostile Advances: The Kerry Ellison Story poster
6.0

Kerry Ellison, a vibrant young woman working as a senior accountant at the IRS, finds her life threatened by a disturbed, married co-worker who starts stalking her—following her, and writing her sexually tense notes. She makes it clear multiple times that she is not interested in him, but he is unstoppable. There's no one who can help her, so her only option is to file a sexual harassment suit against her employer and go to court, a decision that will surely cost her job. Based on a true story.

Hostile Advances: The Kerry Ellison Story

1996

Her Best Friend's Husband poster
5.1

Would you betray your best friend for your own happiness? This is the moral dilemma one woman faces after she is called upon to help save her best friend's marriage, and the unthinkable happens. She and the husband find themselves falling in love.

Her Best Friend's Husband

2002

A Map of the World poster
6.0

School nurse Alice Goodwin lives with her husband and two daughters on a dairy farm in a small Wisconsin community. After an accident on her property involving a friend's child, the town turns against her and Alice finds herself fighting charges of child abuse.

A Map of the World

1999

Goosebumps: The Werewolf of Fever Swamp poster
6.8

Things have been strange ever since the new kid moved into Fever Swamp. A kid can't change into a werewolf, or can he?

Goosebumps: The Werewolf of Fever Swamp

1996

To Catch a Killer poster
6.8

"To Catch a Killer" tells the true gruesome story of John Wayne Gacy - a good friend and helpful neighbour, a great child entertainer, a respectful businessman, and a violent serial killer who raped and murdered over 30 young boys.

To Catch a Killer

1992

The Good Sister poster
5.3

The Good Sister follows a couple who is working to put their crumbling marriage back together, when the wife receives a letter informing her that she has a long-lost twin sister. First thinking that the new family member will bring the couple closer together, the husband then begins an affair with the sister and discovers that she is treacherous and dangerous.

The Good Sister

2014