Nina Siemaszko
Actor
Biography
Antonina Jadwiga Siemaszko (born July 14, 1970) is an American actress, best known for her film roles in Little Noises (1991), The Saint of Fort Washington (1993), and for her role as Eleanor Bartlet in The West Wing (2001–2006).
Siemaszko was born in Chicago. Her father, Konstanty Siemaszko, was a Polish-born Roman Catholic, and a survivor of the Polish Underground and the Sachsenhausen concentration camp. He escaped to the United Kingdom where he met Nina's mother, Collette McAllister. One of her brothers is actor Casey Siemaszko. Her other brother, Corky, is a writer for the Daily News and a reporter at NBC News. She attended The Theatre School at DePaul University. She played an undercover cop in Reservoir Dogs featured in a scene that wound up on the cutting room floor ensuring that the work became a rare example of a film containing no dialogue delivered by an actress. It was released on DVD. She played Mia Farrow in the CBS miniseries Sinatra. She played the leading role in Wild Orchid II: Two Shades of Blue.
Filmography
The Bling Ring
as Vegas Detective (Female) 2013
Airheads
as Suzzi 1994
The American President
as Beth Wade 1995
Tucker: The Man and His Dream
as Marilyn Lee 1988
Jakob the Liar
as Rosa Frankfurter 1999
License to Drive
as Natalie Anderson 1988
Suicide Kings
as Jennifer 1997
The Haunting of Molly Hartley
as Dr. Emerson 2008
The Hatred
as Miriam 2017
Goodbye Lover
as Newscaster 1999
Breast Men
as Upset Lady at the Convention (uncredited) 1997
Twenty Bucks
as Bank Teller 1993
Wild Orchid II: Two Shades of Blue
as Blue McDonald 1991
The Saint of Fort Washington
as Tamsen, la fille de Rosario 1993
Runaway Car
as Jenny Todd 1997
Hailey Dean Mysteries: A Will to Kill
as Olivia 2018