Actress Linda Fiorentino has sold her Westport farmhouse, reports TMZ.
A source of the website claims that the "Dogma" star is getting almost double of what she paid it for in 1997, the same year her "Men in Black" movie with Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones was released. The asking price of the Westport farmhouse was $1.1M and Ms. Fiorentino only bought it for $578K almost two decades ago, TMZ adds.
The former home of "The Last Seduction" actress covers almost 1700 sq. ft. of living space which includes two bedrooms and three baths, says TMZ. The charm of the Colonial Westport home is its access to a nearby beach as mentioned by the outlet. The beach house reportedly boasts a half garden which the new owners may be delighted to so that they could spend a little time with nature.
Beauty and brains
The 57-year old actress, born Clorinda, has been chosen as one of the "100 Sexiest Stars" in film history by Empire magazine in 1995 even before she got her "Dr. Laurel Weaver" role in "Men in Black," notes IMDB. The stunner reportedly got her role in the science fiction comedy film by winning a poker game against the movie director, Barry Sonnenfeld. Fiorentiono landed the Deputy Medical Examiner role, apart from the $1200 she also gained, says the database.
Even though Fiorentino is gifted with beauty, the actress who started in the 1985 movie, "Vision Quest", has always been bold with her thoughts and is not afraid to speak her mind. This may have been due to the fact that the looker, who had earned her Bachelor's Degree in Political Science from Rosemont College in Pennsylvania when she was 22 years old, as noted by IMDB, was trained to think liberally and rationally.
One of her memorable quotes in her interviews was when she was talking about her character in "The Last Seduction" which many women today in the industry can also ponder on.
According to IMDb, she said, "The thing that's always bothered me is that, even if you have a strong female character, invariably in the third act she has to say something like, 'I'm sorry, I didn't mean to hurt you,' or she has to become really vulnerable and wimpy and get her comeuppance. Even in something like Thelma & Louise (1991), where you have these two very strong characters, they have to die in the end. What's so special about The Last Seduction (1994) is that none of that happens. Had a Hollywood studio made that film instead of an independent, it would have been very different. She definitely wouldn't have gotten away with what she does get away with."
