Biography
Maria Elena Bello (born April 18, 1967) is an American actress and singer. She started her acting career in small off-Broadway plays, such as The Killer Inside Me, Small Town Gals with Big Problems, and Urban Planning. Bello's big break came when producers Kerry Lenhart and John J. Sakmar cast her as Mrs. Smith in the spy show Mr. & Mrs. Smith.
Known For
Complete Filmography

The Woman King
2022
Story, Producer
The story of the Agojie, the all-female unit of warriors who protected the African Kingdom of Dahomey in the 1800s with skills and a fierceness unlike...

The Water Man
2020
as Sheriff Goodwin
Hoping to save his sick mother, a boy named Gunner and his friend Jo venture into the remote Wild Horse forest to search for a mythical figure who pos...

Giant Little Ones
2019
as Carly Winter
Two popular teen boys, best friends since childhood, discover their lives, families, and girlfriends dramatically upended after an unexpected incident...
Exit
2018
as Kim

Better Start Running
2018
as Agent McFadden
An eclectic band of misfits becomes an unlikely family as they take a wild journey in the name of love while on the run from an overzealous FBI duo wh...

Every Day
2018
as Lindsey
16-year old Rhiannon falls in love with a mysterious spirit named “A” that inhabits a different body every day. Feeling an unmatched connection, Rhian...

The Sun Ladies
2018
as Xate Shingali (voice)
An in-depth look at the journey of the captain of the Sun Ladies, Xate Singali. From her roots as a famous singer in Kurdistan to her new life as a so...

In Search of Fellini
2017
as Claire
Lucy, a small-town girl from Ohio, discovers the delightfully bizarre films of legendary filmmaker Federico Fellini and sets off on a journey across I...

In Search of Fellini
2017
Executive Producer
Lucy, a small-town girl from Ohio, discovers the delightfully bizarre films of legendary filmmaker Federico Fellini and sets off on a journey across I...

Wait Till Helen Comes
2016
as Jean
After a reconstructed family moves to a converted church in the country, 14-year-old Molly, must save her new troubled step-sister from a dangerous re...

Max Steel
2016
as Molly McGrath
The adventures of teenager Max McGrath and alien companion Steel, who must harness and combine their tremendous new powers to evolve into the turbo-ch...

The Late Bloomer
2016
as Brenda Newmans
A sex therapist goes through puberty after the successful removal of a benign tumor resting against his pituitary gland. He experiences all the change...

The Journey Is the Destination
2016
as Kathy
The inspiring life story of the late photojournalist, artist and activist Dan Eldon, who abandoned a comfortable life in London to document the strugg...

Lights Out
2016
as Sophie
Rebecca must unlock the terror behind her little brother's experiences that once tested her sanity, bringing her face to face with a supernatural spir...

The Confirmation
2016
as Bonnie
A divorced father reconnects with his son when they track down a stolen toolbox over the course of a weekend.

The 5th Wave
2016
as Sergeant Reznik
16-year-old Cassie Sullivan tries to survive in a world devastated by the waves of an alien invasion that has already decimated the population and kno...

Bravetown
2015
as Martha
After an accidental drug overdose, a talented teenage DJ goes to live with his estranged father in a small Army town, where he gets to the bottom of h...

McFarland, USA
2015
as Cheryl White
A track coach in a small California town transforms a team of athletes into championship contenders.

Demonic
2015
as Dr. Elizabeth Klein
A police officer and a psychologist investigate the deaths of five people who were killed while trying to summon ghosts.

Big Driver
2014
as Tess Thorne
Tess Thorne, a famous writer, is determined to seek revenge on the man who brutally assaulted and raped her on a desolate New England road.

Third Person
2014
as Theresa
An acclaimed novelist struggles to write an analysis of love in one of three stories, each set in a different city, that detail the beginning, middle ...

Femme
2013
as Self
A documentary featuring interviews with 100 influential women from around the world.

Prisoners
2013
as Grace Dover
Keller Dover is facing every parent’s worst nightmare. His six-year-old daughter, Anna, is missing, together with her young friend, Joy, and as minute...

Grown Ups 2
2013
as Sally Lamonsoff
Lenny has relocated his family back to the small town where he and his friends grew up. This time around, the grown ups are the ones learning lessons ...

Carjacked
2011
as Lorraine Burton
A single mom and her child are carjacked by a bank robber who has no intention of letting them go.

Abduction
2011
as Mara Harper
For many years, Nathan Harper has had the uneasy feeling that life with his family isn't quite what it seems. As he draws closer to uncovering the tru...

Beautiful Boy
2011
as Kate Carroll
A married couple on the verge of separation are leveled by the news their 18-year-old son committed a mass-shooting at his college, then took his own ...

The Company Men
2010
as Sally Wilcox
Bobby Walker lives the proverbial American dream: great job, beautiful family, shiny Porsche in the garage. When corporate downsizing leaves him and t...

Grown Ups
2010
as Sally Lamonsoff
After their high school basketball coach passes away, five good friends and former teammates reunite for a Fourth of July holiday weekend.

The Yellow Handkerchief
2009
as May
A road trip through Louisiana transforms three strangers who were originally brought together by their respective feelings of loneliness.

The Private Lives of Pippa Lee
2009
as Suky Sarkissian
After her much older husband forces a move to a suburban retirement community, Pippa Lee engages in a period of reflection and finds herself heading t...

Towelhead
2008
as Gail Monahan
A young Arab-American girl struggles with her sexual obsession, a bigoted Army reservist, and her strict father during the Gulf War.

The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
2008
as Evelyn O'Connell
Archaeologist Rick O'Connell travels to China, pitting him against an emperor from the 2,000-year-old Han dynasty who's returned from the dead to purs...

Downloading Nancy
2008
as Nancy Stockwell
When Albert Stockwell comes home from work one day he finds a note from his wife of 15 years, Nancy, saying she has gone to see friends. After waiting...

The Jane Austen Book Club
2007
as Jocelyn
Six Californians start a club to discuss the works of Jane Austen. As they delve into Austen's literature, the club members find themselves dealing wi...

Butterfly on a Wheel
2007
as Abby Randall
A sociopathic kidnapper methodically pushes a desperate pair of parents to their absolute breaking point.

Flicka
2006
as Nell McLaughlin
Katy McLaughlin desires to work on her family's mountainside horse ranch, although her father insists she finish boarding school. Katy finds a mustang...

Unfiltered Comedy: The Making of 'Thank You For Smoking'
2006
as Self
Behind the scenes of Thank You For Smoking (2005)

World Trade Center
2006
as Donna McLoughlin
Two police officers struggle to survive when they become trapped beneath the rubble of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.

Too Commercial for Cannes
2006
as Self
A day in a life tour diary with David Cronenberg, as he brings his film "A History of Violence" to the Cannes Film Festival (2005) for its first publi...

This Film Is Not Yet Rated
2006
as Self - Actress in 'The Cooler'
Kirby Dick's provocative documentary investigates the secretive and inconsistent process by which the Motion Picture Association of America rates film...

The Dark
2005
as Adèlle
In an attempt to pull her family together, Adèlle travels with her young daughter Sarah to Wales to visit her father. The morning after they arrive, S...

A History of Violence
2005
as Edie Stall
An average family is thrust into the spotlight after the father commits a seemingly self-defense murder at his diner.

Thank You for Smoking
2005
as Polly Bailey
Nick Naylor is a charismatic spin-doctor for Big Tobacco who'll fight to protect America's right to smoke -- even if it kills him -- while still remai...

The Sisters
2005
as Marcia Prior Glass
Based on Anton Chekov's "The Three Sisters" about siblings living in a college town who struggle with the death of their father and try to reconcile r...

Assault on Precinct 13
2005
as Dr. Alex Sabian
On New Year's Eve, inside a police station that's about to be closed for good, officer Jake Roenick must cobble together a force made up cops and crim...

Silver City
2004
as Nora Allardyce
The discovery of a corpse and the ensuing probe by an idealistic journalist threatens to unravel a bumbling local politician's campaign for governor o...

Secret Window
2004
as Amy Rainey
Mort Rainey, a writer just emerging from a painful divorce with his ex-wife, is stalked at his remote lake house by a psychotic stranger and would-be ...

The Cooler
2003
as Natalie Belisario
Bernie works at a Las Vegas casino, where he uses his innate ability to bring about misfortune in those around him to jinx gamblers into losing. His i...

100 Mile Rule
2002
as Monica
A dark comedy about three salesmen from Detroit who come to Los Angeles for a two week seminar and get themselves involved in a world of trouble when ...

Auto Focus
2002
as Patricia Olson / Patrica Crane
A successful TV star during the 1960s, former "Hogan's Heroes" actor Bob Crane projects a wholesome family-man image, but this front masks his persona...

China: The Panda Adventure
2001
as Ruth Harkness
Experience the world of the magnificent and rare Giant Panda as you travel back in time on an exciting expedition through the breathtaking splendor of...

Sam the Man
2001
as Anastasia Powell
A writer having difficulty completing his second novel goes on a journey of self-discovery.

Duets
2000
as Suzi Loomis
Duets is a road-trip comedy which revolves around the little known world of karaoke and the whimsical characters who inhabit it. All roads lead to Oma...

Coyote Ugly
2000
as Lil
Graced with a velvet voice, 21-year-old Violet Sanford heads to New York to pursue her dream of becoming a songwriter only to find her aspirations sid...

Payback
1999
as Rosie
With friends like these, who needs enemies? That's the question bad guy Porter is left asking after his wife and partner steal his heist money and lea...

Permanent Midnight
1998
as Kitty
Juggling increasing career success and a growing heroin habit, a television comedy writer attempts to go down a path of improvement.
Hell in Paradise
N/A
Migrant Nina takes a hotel job in the Maldives, but her island paradise turns nightmarish after an incident. Falsely accused, she must evade traps to ...