Roma Maffia was born on May 31, 1958 in Manhattan, New York City, USA. He is an American actress.

Maffia began her acting career in Off-Broadway and Off-Off-Broadway productions. In the early 1990s, casting director Jane Jenkins asked her to audition for a role in the feature film The Paper, which was directed by Ron Howard. Soon after, she got a role on the television series Chicago Hope.

She has had guest-starring and recurring roles on shows such as ER, The West Wing, and The Sopranos. Her most widely seen performance may be playing Seattle attorney Catherine Alvarez in the film Disclosure (1994), also starring Michael Douglas and Demi Moore.

Since 2003 Maffia stars as Liz Cruz on the FX Network series Nip/Tuck.

Filmography

• Kingshighway (2008)
• Yonkers Joe (2007)
• "Nip/Tuck" (55 episodes, 2003-2007)
• "Boston Legal" (1 episode, 2007)
• Ghost Image (2007)
• Totally Baked: A Pot-U-Mentary (2007)
• "Ghost Whisperer" (1 episode, 2006)
• "Law & Order" (3 episodes, 2003-2006)
• "Strong Medicine" (1 episode, 2005)
• "Century City" (1 episode, 2004)
• "Boomtown" (1 episode, 2003)
• Holes (2003)
• "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation" (1 episode, 2002)
• "The Sopranos" (1 episode, 2002)
• "For the People" (1 episode, 2002)
• "Taina" (1 episode, 2002)
• "Judging Amy" (1 episode, 2002)
• Treading Water (2002)
• "ER" (3 episodes, 2001)
• I Am Sam (2001)
• "Ally McBeal" (1 episode, 2001)
• "The Division" (1 episode, 2001)
• "Gideon's Crossing" (1 episode, 2001)
• The New Women (2001)
• "The West Wing" (1 episode, 2001)
• "Profiler" (80 episodes, 1996-2000)
• Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her (2000)
• The David Cassidy Story (2000)
• Double Jeopardy (1999)
• Route 9 (1998)
• "Welcome to Paradox" (1 episode, 1998)
• The Defenders: Payback (1997)
• Kiss the Girls (1997)
• Mistrial (1996)
• Her Costly Affair (1996)
• "Wings" (1 episode, 1996)
• Eraser (1996)
• Nick of Time (1995)
• "Courthouse" (3 episodes, 1995)
• The Heidi Chronicles (1995)
• Her Deadly Rival (1995)
• "Chicago Hope" (6 episodes, 1994-1995)
• Disclosure (1994)
• The Paper (1994)
• "The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles" (1 episode, 1993)
• American Blue Note (1991)
• Internal Affairs (1988)
• Married to the Mob (1988)
• "The Equalizer" (2 episodes, 1985-1986)
• Stuck on You! (1983)
• Smithereens (1982)