Maria Ricossa

Acting

Born July 18, 1950, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.

Maria Ricossa's professional life began in Chicago with The Second City. She then moved to Toronto where she joined The Stratford Festival Company. In Film & TV, Maria is known for her roles in The Inlaws, Bojangles and The Space Between and recurring roles in The Strain, Designated Survivor, Da Kink in my Hair & Missing.

Filmography

• Sheriff Country — Bernice 'Bernie' Wambach
• 2023A Royal Recipe for Love — Queen Evelyn Batcher
• 2023Christmas Casanova — Patty Schultz
• 2023Luckless in Love — Evette
• Painkiller — Else Sackler
• 2022Cabin Connection — Kim
• 2022Love and the Radio Star — Amy
• Clarice — Lila Gumb
• 2020Heart of the Holidays — Tammy Wallace
• 2019Astronaut — Journalist
• 2018A Shoe Addict's Christmas — Helen
• 2018Bathroom Rules — Ms. Warren
• Save Me — Fiorella
• Private Eyes — Eleanor Brown
• Blood and Water — Professor Colleen Bradley
• 2015Christmas Incorporated — Interviewer 2
• Good Witch — Ida Elliott
• 2014The Good Sister — Psychiatrist
• The Strain — Margaret Pierson
• 2013Catch a Christmas Star — Shelley
• King & Maxwell — Hilary Cunningham
• 2010Fairfield Road — Mayor Grant
• 2009The Note II: Taking a Chance on Love — Nora
• Warehouse 13 — Warden Corinne Huggins
• Flashpoint
• 2007The Note — Nora Chilsen
• 2007What If God Were the Sun? — Alma
• 2006Absolution — Maria Toratelli
• 2006American Pie Presents: The Naked Mile — Mrs. Stifler
• 2006Drive Time Murders — Dr. Emily Wilmont
• 2006Jesse Stone: Death in Paradise — Sandy Bishop
• The Jane Show — Gwen
• 2004Some Things That Stay — Mrs. Burns
• 2003Finding John Christmas — Marcy Bernard
• Missing — Toni Mastriani
• 2003Out of the Ashes — Esther Jacob
• 2003Sex & the Single Mom — Deena
• 2003The In-Laws — Katherine Peyser
• 2002Her Best Friend's Husband — Lorraine
• Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye — Miranda Hogan
• 2002Tagged: The Jonathan Wamback Story — Judge Levine
• 2002The Brady Bunch in the White House — Kelly Brooks
• 2001Bojangles — Rae
• Degrassi — Kate Kerwin
• Doc — Mrs. Cooper
• 2001Harvard Man — Charlotte Jensen
• 2001My Husband's Double Life — Linda Berg
• 1999A Gift of Love: The Daniel Huffman Story — Estelle Jenkins
• 1999A Map of the World — Realtor
• 1999To Love, Honor, & Betray — Maria Hermann
• Twice in a Lifetime — Olympia
• Brimstone — Curator
• Earth: Final Conflict — Dr. Morrison
• Riverdale — Chrisa Stavros
• 1996Goosebumps: The Werewolf of Fever Swamp — Mrs. Tucker
• 1996Hostile Advances: The Kerry Ellison Story — Liz
• 1995Butterbox Babies — Mrs. Kellerman
• Goosebumps — Mrs. Tucker
• Due South — Head Mover, Vivian Richards
• 1993Gregory K — Marie Esteban
• 1993Searching for Bobby Fischer — Gym Parent
• 1992Last Wish — Dr. Millicent Findlay
• 1992To Catch a Killer — Helen Gacy
• 1989Dead Man Out — Prison Doctor
• Friday the 13th: The Series — Lysa Redding
• 1986Twelfth Night — Olivia
• The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents — Torre
• The Twilight Zone
• 1983Class — Table Friend