Big Shots - Paige Turco
In film, Paige Turco will soon enter production on HBO Films'
Taking Chance, opposite Kevin Bacon, and she recently completed
production on Disney's The Game Plan, with The Rock and Kyra
Sedgwick. She was last seen in the 2006 Disney football drama
Invincible, the true story in which she played Carole Vermeil
wife of Philadelphia Eagles legendary coach Dick Vermeil,
played by Greg Kinnear. Additional work in films includes
Rhinoceros Eyes, The Pompatus of Love, the Sundance film Urbania,
opposite Dan Futterman and Alan Cummings, and the independent
film Dead Dog, opposite Jeremy Sisto. Turco also starred as
April O'Neil in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles films.
Turco is most memorable for her roles on NYPD Blue, in which
she portrayed a pregnant lesbian named Abby Sullivan, and
on Party of Five, in which she played Scott Wolf's alcoholic,
single mother girlfriend, Abbie Mott. She also had an unforgettable
role in the pilot for Anne and Arnold Koppelson's action/drama,
The Fugitive, and recently starred in The Agency.
Born in Springfield, Massachusetts, Turco graduated from
the University of Connecticut with a degree in Drama. She
studied Ballet, and performed as a soloist with the New England
Dance Conservatory, The Amherst Ballet Theater Company and
the Western Massachusetts Ballet Company, before an ankle
injury forced a change in direction into acting and musicals.
- from ABC.com
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