Biography
Maria Teresa Dizzia (born December 29, 1974) is an American actress. Description above from the Wikipedia article Maria Dizzia, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Complete Filmography

Plainclothes
2025
as Marie
A promising undercover officer assigned to lure and arrest gay men defies professional orders when he falls in love with a target.

Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point
2024
as Kathleen
A family gathers on Christmas Eve for what could be the last holiday in their ancestral home. As the night wears on and tensions arise, one of the tee...

The Graduates
2024
as Maggie
A year after her boyfriend dies from gun violence, a young woman prepares to graduate high school as she navigates an uncertain future alongside a com...

My Old Ass
2024
as Kathy
An 18th birthday mushroom trip brings free-spirited Elliott face-to-face with her wisecracking 39-year-old self. But when Elliott’s "old ass" starts h...

Summer's End
2024
as Jeanie
When a chance encounter on a dating app reveals his father’s double life, a troubled young man must face the parallels between his own destructive pat...

We Strangers
2024
as Jean Laich
Rayelle Martin works as a commercial cleaner in Gary, Indiana. She's mischievous, playful, and skilled at adapting to her surroundings. One day while ...

Heaven, I Suppose
2023
as Alice
A seasoned funeral director is faced with his own mortality when he must prepare a funeral for a man who looks exactly like him.

Diving In
2023
as Rachel
Rachel and Yael share their first night together. But a shocking discovery could make it their last.

Homebody
2022
as Claire
Nine-year-old Johnny sends his spirit into his babysitter Melanie and gets to be a woman for a day.

The Good Nurse
2022
as Lori Lucas
Suspicious that her colleague is responsible for a series of mysterious patient deaths, a nurse risks her own life to uncover the truth.

Funny Pages
2022
as Jennifer
A teenage cartoonist rejects the comforts of his suburban life in a misguided quest for soul.

Ghostwritten
2022
as Julie Coffin
Clinging to the reputation of his one hit novel, writer Guy Laury accepts a winter residency on a reclusive island whose residents seem friendly at fi...

The Outside Story
2021
as Juliet
After locking himself out of his apartment, an introverted, heartbroken editor finds himself on an epic journey up, down and around his block with lif...

Depraved
2019
as Georgina
A field surgeon suffering from PTSD after combat in the Middle East creates a living human out of body parts in his Brooklyn lab.

The Neighbors' Window
2019
as Alli
The story of a middle-aged woman with small children whose life is shaken up when two free-spirited twenty-somethings move in across the street.

Above the Shadows
2019
as Victoria Jederman
A young woman who has faded to the point of becoming invisible must find her way back with the help of the one man who can see her.

William
2019
as Dr. Sullivan
Two cutting-edge scientists give 'birth' to a Neanderthal—the first to walk the earth for some 35,000 years—in order to attempt to answer these questi...

May
2019
as Genevieve
A weary white French professor and a young black drug dealer share an impalpable connection on a single night in Philadelphia.

Late Night
2019
as Joan
A legendary late-night talk show host's world is turned upside down when she hires her only female staff writer. Originally intended to smooth over di...

Piercing
2019
as Chevonne
After kissing his wife and baby goodbye for a seemingly normal business trip, Reed checks himself into a hotel room to accomplish something he’s alway...

Vox Lux
2018
as Ms. Dwyer
In 1999, teenage sisters Celeste and Eleanor survive a seismic, violent tragedy. The sisters compose and perform a song about their experience, making...

Abe & Phil's Last Poker Game
2018
as Angela
Dr. Abe Mandelbaum has just moved into a retirement home. After forming an unlikely friendship with a womanizing gambler, their relationship is tested...

If I Forget
2017
as Sharon Fischer
A play about the stories we choose to believe, the compromises we can't avoid and the hurt only our nearest and dearest can inflict. In the final mon...

Sea Change
2017
as Amelia
A teenage girl makes a startling discovery about her connection to the Seawalkers, legendary beings who are half-human, half-sea creature.

Humor Me
2017
as Nirit Gerb-Kroll
With an interminable case of writer's block and a personal family crisis, playwright Nate is forced to move into his father's retirement community.

Going in Style
2017
as Rachel Harding
Desperate to pay the bills and come through for their loved ones, three lifelong pals risk it all by embarking on a daring bid to knock off the very b...

Fits and Starts
2017
as Sawyer Edwards
A struggling writer can't seem to escape his wife's literary success. When a road trip to a publisher's salon takes an unexpected turn, he has to face...

3 Generations
2016
as Sinda
A teenager transitions from female to male, and his family must come to terms with that fact.

Christine
2016
as Jean Reed
In 1974, television reporter Christine Chubbuck struggles with depression and professional frustrations as she tries to advance her career.

37
2016
as Mary Cunningham
On a March night in 1964, 37 neighbors in Queens, New York, witness the brutal murder of Kitty Genovese. None of them takes action or calls the police...

True Story
2015
as Mary Jane Longo
A drama centered on the relationship between journalist Michael Finkel and Christian Longo, an FBI Most Wanted List murderer who for years lived outsi...

While We're Young
2015
as Marina
An uptight documentary filmmaker and his wife find their lives loosened up a bit after befriending a free-spirited younger couple.
The Edge of the Woods
2014
as Helen
Rural Farming Community, small girl wants to keep a small little creature.

X/Y
2014
as Sandy
As Mark, Jen, Sylvia, and Jake navigate through their emotionally-arrested states, X/Y reveals the honest and wanton desire we all have to connect wit...
Sweepstakes
2014
as Lori
When her husband suffers a neurological complication, a new mother is left to face the life she could have had.

Captain Phillips
2013
as Allison McColl (uncredited)
The true story of Captain Richard Phillips and the 2009 hijacking by Somali pirates of the US-flagged MV Maersk Alabama, the first American cargo ship...

The Happy Sad
2013
as Mandy
Two young couples in New York-one black and gay, one white and heterosexual-find their lives intertwined as they create new relationship norms, explor...

Clutter
2013
as Sandra
Charlie Bradford, an aspiring filmmaker in his 30s, is doing the best he can to distance himself from the chaos of his childhood home. But his eccentr...

Nous York
2012
as Serveuse cupcakes
Thirty-somethings Michaël, Nabil and Sylvain head to New York to surprise their friend Samia on her birthday, secretly arranged with the help of anoth...

Keep the Lights On
2012
as Vivian
Documentary filmmaker Erik and closeted lawyer Paul meet through a casual encounter, but they find a deeper connection and become a couple. Individual...
The Fort
2012
On a rainy day, a young boy builds a fort in the woods when a man appears and offers to help.

Lola Versus
2012
as Woman Subletter
Just three weeks before her wedding, Lola (Greta Gerwig) finds herself suddenly without a partner when her longtime fiance, Luke (Joel Kinnaman), dump...

Martha Marcy May Marlene
2011
as Katie
After several years of living with a cult, Martha finally escapes and calls her estranged sister, Lucy, for help. Martha finds herself at the quiet Co...

Margin Call
2011
as Executive Assistant
A thriller that revolves around the key people at an investment bank over a 24-hour period during the early stages of the financial crisis.

Certainty
2011
as Serious Lady
In the big city, a loving young couple Deb and Dom planning to get ready to marry seek guidance from the Catholic Church, which only brings out the tr...

Down the Shore
2011
as Susan
Set on the Jersey shore, the lives of three childhood friends begin to unravel when a secret from their past is revealed

The Other Woman
2010
as Jamie Brennan
Emilia, a law-school graduate, falls in love with her married boss, Jack. After Emilia marries Jack, her happiness turns unexpectedly to grief followi...

A NY Thing
2009
as Stella
Masquerading as another man, Antoine flies to New York for a three-day stay and promptly falls in love with Alice, who's dating someone else. When tha...
The Ghost and Us
2009
as Laura
Laura's thrilled with her new boyfriend, not so thrilled that his house is haunted by the ghost of his dead wife. But when she finally decides enough ...
Whose Dog Is It Anyway?
2009
as Grace
A charming and comic New York tale about Emma, single, successful, and not a dog person, who gets stuck with a dog because her younger married sister ...

Rachel Getting Married
2008
as Wedding Guest
A young woman who has been in and out from rehab for the past 10 years returns home for the weekend for her sister's wedding.
The Next Big One: A Comedy with Three Potential Problems
N/A
as Diane Harrington
Bee Mitty, a high-ranking employee at an omnipotent techfirm, must help Ian - her depressed, activist brother - move into their Auntie's house while a...
Delusion
N/A
as Jana
Explores the competitive environment of a New York City drama school as one young woman is consumed by the pursuit of the lead role in Eugene O’Neill’...

Anima
N/A
An impulsive young woman and a reclusive older man launch on a poignant cross‑country road trip to preserve his failing consciousness via an experimen...