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Brigitte Bako
"I thought I'd be a massive superstar and retired by the time I was 30," says 33-year-old Brigitte Bako, who has been working in the entertainment industry for over a decade. Since first landing a small role in the Martin Scorsese-directed segment of New York Stories--"Marty's dog practically bit my finger off; I wonder if I got the part so I wouldn't sue him," she laughs--the Montreal native has appeared opposite David Duchovny in the late-night staple Red Shoe Diaries and as a prostitute opposite Ralph Fiennes in Strange Days. She has won critical acclaim in her home country, garnering a Genie Award (the Canadian Oscar) nomination for the 1993 drama I Love a Man in Uniform, but she has yet to break into the American mainstream.
Bako's luck is now poised to change after her stint as Bianca, the wife of a chronic philanderer, on the HBO series "The Mind of the Married Man." "Reporters ask what it's like being on this racy HBO show," she says, "and I think, God, you must have not seen any of my other movies because this is pretty tame." She is also playing a single mom from Portugal in the indie Saint Monica, for which she had to learn fluent Portuguese. She hopes these projects will allow her to one day produce, write and star in her own television show. "Then I'll retire," she sighs, "and go make babies in Italy."
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