Joanna Bonaro

Joanna is a Native New Yorker, hailing from The Bronx. She often portrays ballsy yet vulnerable wives, moms and cougars, who have fierce loyalties and hidden sensitivities simmering under the surface. She won the prestigious Bronze REMI Award in the lead role, for the comedy TV pilot "GOOD 'n Screwed" (w/ Vincent Pastore) playing against type as a naive, scattered, OCD "good wife", at the highly regarded 51st Worldfest Houston Intl Film Festival. She has also won Best Actress, Best Pilot, Best Screenwriting and Best Ensemble at festivals in Rome, Cannes, London, Las Vegas, and New York City. TV roles include "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit", (opposite Mariska Hargitay, Christopher Meloni and Ice-T) "The Sopranos"(Dir. Steve Buscemi), "Mozart in the Jungle" (opposite Gael Garcia Bernal), "Boardwalk Empire." A graduate of NYU Tisch School of the Arts, she also studied 14-19th C English Literature - thereby being one of the few people who know about Tobias Smollett, Boswell and Samuel