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Annie Parisse
Annieparisse
Characters
Alexandra Borgia
Jasmine Blake
Date of birth
July 31, 1975
Place of birth
Anchorage, Alaska
IMDb profile

Annie Parisse (born Anne Marie Cancelmi) is an actress who played Assistant District Attorney Alexandra Borgia in Law & Order. She first appeared in the fifteenth season episode "Fluency", and made her last appearance in the sixteenth season episode "Invaders". Parisse's character Borgia replaced Serena Southerlyn (Elisabeth Röhm).

Parisse also appeared as Jasmine Blake in the twelfth season episode "Attorney Client".

Before joining Law & Order, Parisse joined the cast of the CBS soap opera As the World Turns as Julia Lindsey Snyder from 1998 to 2001 and returned for a few episodes in 2002. She was later nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Younger Actress in a Drama Series in 2001. She also starred on the movie National Treasure. While starring on Law & Order, she had a supporting role on the movie Monster-In-Law alongside Jennifer Lopez and Jane Fonda. After her role on Law & Order, she had roles on the TV shows Rubicon, Person Of Interest, and The Following as well as a main role on the series Friends From College (with Fred Savage). In addition, she starred on the movies Definitely, Maybe, The Amazing Spider-Man, and And So It Goes.

She is married to actor Paul Sparks, who guest-starred on Law & Order, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, and Law & Order: Criminal Intent. They have two children: a son, Emmett (born 2009), and a daughter, Lydia (born 2014). She has two brothers: Italian teacher Michael Cancelmi and actor Louis Cancelmi, who is married to Elisabeth Waterston, the daughter of Law & Order veteran and her costar Sam Waterston, who played EADA and later DA Jack McCoy.


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