Laura San Giacomo

 Four episodes of three television series in 1987 featured San Giacomo for his first television appearance. Tania Lewis had two memorable television appearances in Crime Story 1988's episode "Protected Witness", Episode 13 (Season 2), and Miami Vice 1989's episode "Leap of Faith" (Season 5, episode 21). One year prior to their marriage, Cameron Dye, her potential husband, appeared as a guest on the Miami Vice episode. Prior to this, she appeared in the daytime soap opera All My Children as Louisa Sanchez who is the Latina common-law spouse of Mitch Beck (Brian Fitzpatrick) and her presence was threatening to end his love affair with Hillary Martin (Carmen Thomas).However, San Giacomo first drew international attention in Steven Soderbergh's Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989) the film that also marked her debut in film as an actor who was credited (in the 1988 movie Miles from Home, her character as "Sandy" wasn't credited). In addition, she was nominated in the Golden Globe Awards for the work she did in the film and received a Los Angeles Film Critics Association New Generation Award. The Cannes Film Festival's most prestigious Grand Prize (the Palme d'Or) was presented to the film. The blockbuster movie ended up making $178 million at the box office.San Giacomo has been in numerous films, including Quigley Down Under (1990), Vital Signs (1990), Under Suspicion (1991), Once Around (1991), Where the Day Takes You (1992), Nina Takes a Lover (1994), and Suicide Kings (1997). She also appeared as Nadine Cross on The Stand, a Stephen King TV miniseries The Stand opposite Rob Lowe, which landed them on the cover of the May 7-13, 1994 issue of TV Guide. She continued to make films until 1999.