Maria Ricossa

Actor Jul 18 (age 75) Chicago, Illinois, U.S. 1983–2025 (42 year career)

6.2 avg rating

Biography

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.

Known For

Film

Searching for Bobby Fischer

Gym Parent

Film

American Pie Presents: The Naked Mile

Mrs. Stifler

Film

Jesse Stone: Death in Paradise

Sandy Bishop

Film

The In-Laws

Katherine Peyser

Film

Class

Table Friend

Film

To Catch a Killer

Helen Gacy

Film

A Shoe Addict's Christmas

Helen

Film

Catch a Christmas Star

Shelley

Filmography

Acting (67)

Movies (42)

A Royal Recipe for Love

2023

as Queen Evelyn Batcher

Christmas Casanova

as Patty Schultz

Luckless in Love

as Evette

Love and the Radio Star

as Amy

Cabin Connection

as Kim

Heart of the Holidays

as Tammy Wallace

Astronaut

as Journalist

A Shoe Addict's Christmas

as Helen

Bathroom Rules

as Ms. Warren

The Good Sister

as Psychiatrist

Catch a Christmas Star

as Shelley

Fairfield Road

as Mayor Grant

The Note II: Taking a Chance on Love

2009

as Nora

4.4

What If God Were the Sun?

as Alma

The Note

as Nora Chilsen

American Pie Presents: The Naked Mile

2006

as Mrs. Stifler

5.5

Jesse Stone: Death in Paradise

as Sandy Bishop

Absolution

as Maria Toratelli

Drive Time Murders

as Dr. Emily Wilmont

Some Things That Stay

as Mrs. Burns

The In-Laws

as Katherine Peyser

Sex & the Single Mom

as Deena

Finding John Christmas

as Marcy Bernard

Out of the Ashes

as Esther Jacob

The Brady Bunch in the White House

2002

as Kelly Brooks

4.1

Her Best Friend's Husband

2002

as Lorraine

4.7

Tagged: The Jonathan Wamback Story

2002

as Judge Levine

1.0

My Husband's Double Life

as Linda Berg

Bojangles

as Rae

Harvard Man

as Charlotte Jensen

A Map of the World

as Realtor

To Love, Honor, & Betray

1999

as Maria Hermann

2.2

A Gift of Love: The Daniel Huffman Story

1999

as Estelle Jenkins

3.0

Hostile Advances: The Kerry Ellison Story

1996

as Liz

5.0

Goosebumps: The Werewolf of Fever Swamp

as Mrs. Tucker

Butterbox Babies

as Mrs. Kellerman

Searching for Bobby Fischer

1993

as Gym Parent

7.1

Last Wish

1992

as Dr. Millicent Findlay

To Catch a Killer

as Helen Gacy

Dead Man Out

as Prison Doctor

Twelfth Night

as Olivia

Class

1983

as Table Friend

6.0

Television (25)

Sheriff Country

2025

as Bernice 'Bernie' Wambach

Painkiller

as Else Sackler

Clarice

as Lila Gumb

Save Me

as Fiorella

Private Eyes

as Eleanor Brown

Good Witch

as Ida Elliott

Blood and Water

as Professor Colleen Bradley

The Strain

as Margaret Pierson

King & Maxwell

as Hilary Cunningham

Warehouse 13

as Warden Corinne Huggins

Flashpoint

The Jane Show

as Gwen

Missing

as Toni Mastriani

Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye

as Miranda Hogan

Degrassi

as Kate Kerwin

Doc

Twice in a Lifetime

as Olympia

Brimstone

as Curator

Earth: Final Conflict

as Dr. Morrison

Riverdale

as Chrisa Stavros

Goosebumps

as Mrs. Tucker

Due South

as Head Mover

Friday the 13th: The Series

as Lysa Redding

The Twilight Zone

The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents

1985

as Torre

7.2