Rose Gregorio

Biography: Chicago-born character actress Rose Gregorio was acting on the New York stage when she answered her first movie-casting call. The film was The Swimmer (1968), a picaresque John Cheever adaptation, in which Gregorio appeared in the fleeting role of Connecticut suburbanite Sylvia Feeney. She has since shown up in such films as Desperate Characters (1971) (as the wife of attorney Gerald S. O'Loughlin) and True Confession (1981) (fifth-billed, as "Brenda Samuels"). Rose Gregorio continued appearing in Manhattan-based films like Five Corners into the late 1980s.