Esposito grew up and attended St. Teresa School in Staten Island, and graduated from Moore Catholic High School in Staten Island. One of her more notable roles was as Ruby in Spike Lee’s Summer of Sam in 1999, which was set against the late-1970s backdrop of the Son of Sam murders. She played Don Cheadle’s girlfriend, Ria, in the Academy Award-winning film Crash. She also appeared in the NBC medical drama Mercy. Esposito will appear in the 2011 film Killer in the Family, alongside Holly Marie Combs and James Denton. Esposito met Australian tennis player Mark Philippoussis during a trip to the Hamptons.
