Theresa Saldana

Overview

Known for
Acting
Gender
Other
Birthday
Aug 20, 1954 (70 years old)
Death date
Jun 06, 2016

Theresa Saldana

Known For

Gang Warz
1h 37m
Movie 2004

Gang Warz

L.A.'s top Latino gang leader is release from jail on a technicality, swearing to kill both the cop who put him away and the priest who testified against him.

Carlo's Wake
1h 30m
Movie 1999

Carlo's Wake

Carlo's Wake is a black comedy about the life, death and wake of an Italian-American patriarch and his colorful, combative extended family.

She Woke Up Pregnant
1h 31m
Movie 1996

She Woke Up Pregnant

A sleazy dentist sexually assaults his patients while they are under heavy sedatives for dental surgery. One woman gets impregnated from such an incident and decides to fight back.

The Commish
1h 0m
TV Show 1991

The Commish

Tony Scali is a former Brooklyn cop now the Police Commissioner of a small upstate city. But for Scali, this is no desk job. He's a tough yet compassionate boss, a loving husband and father, and a hands-on law enforcer with an unorthodox style of bending the rules. From parenthood to politics, from sex crimes to murder cases, one man takes it day-to-day with offbeat humor and street- smart skill.

Angel Town
1h 42m
Movie 1990

Angel Town

A graduate student and martial-arts expert rents a room in a house owned by a single mother who lives there with her son. A local street gang is trying to recruit the son, but the new tenant tries to help the boy's mother keep him out of the gang. When they learn of this, they target both the mother and her new tenant.

Of Men and Angels
1h 28m
Movie 1989

Of Men and Angels

A taxi driver and his expecting girlfriend find their lives disrupted by the arrival of an Irish literary maverick.

Double Revenge
1h 35m
Movie 1988

Double Revenge

An innocent bystander goes on a vendetta against a bank robber.

The Night Before
1h 25m
Movie 1988

The Night Before

A popular beauty surprisingly asks a nerd to take her to the prom. He wakes up hours later in a sleazy alley. She's missing but he remembers nothing about it.

Biography

Theresa Saldana (August 20, 1954 – June 6, 2016) was an American actress and author, known for her work in film and television. She is perhaps best known for her role as Rachel Scali, the wife of Police Commissioner Tony Scali, in the 1990s television series The Commish, for which she received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role, in 1994. Major film roles include the part of Lenore La Motta, the wife of Joe Pesci's character, in the 1980 feature film Raging Bull and Robert Zemeckis's Beatle-mania ensemble I Wanna Hold Your Hand. She also appeared in Home Movies with Kirk Douglas and Nancy Allen for director Brian De Palma in 1980. The crime of stalking was brought to early attention after Saldana survived a brutal attempted murder by an obsessed fan in 1982. Saldana died at age 61 on June 6, 2016, following her hospitalization for pneumonia. Description above from the Wikipedia article Theresa Saldana, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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