sharon elizabeth lawrence played maura's mom on rizzoli and isles.
sharon elizabeth lawrence played maura's mom on rizzoli and isles.
who plays maura's mom on rizzoli and isles?
sharon elizabeth lawrence
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bullet::::- dr. maura dorothea isles (sasha alexander): the commonwealth of massachusetts' chief medical examiner. isles is a forensic expert working at the boston police department. she is jane's best friend. maura is a walking encyclopedia, able to spout out facts regardless of whether or not they are relevant to a case. she has a pet tortoise named bass, after noted forensic anthropologist william m. bass. maura is not easily ruffled and has a steady temperament. she absolutely loves examining dead bodies, but she has a tendency to diagnose living people a little too often. she is the adopted only child of a wealthy family. in high school, she was nicknamed "maura-the-bore-a" because her classmates thought she was boring. she is always impeccably dressed and is known around the force as "queen of the dead"; her ring tone on jane's phone appropriately plays chopin's "funeral march". maura is the complete opposite of jane, though they are best friends; rizzoli is more of a tomboy, while maura always looks like she is going to a fashion shoot rather than to the morgue or a crime scene. though maura is socially awkward and has trouble with men because of her brutal honesty and habit of revealing all their medical conditions, she is not awkward around jane. she can analyze x-rays and blood chemistries and can slice open muscles and organs but possesses no scalpel with which to dissect human emotions. maura also cannot lie; if she does, she breaks out in hives. it is later revealed that her biological father is an irish crime boss named paddy doyle, something she finds out while investigating her half-brother's death. she finds out in the episode "what doesn't kill you" (3.1) that her father told her biological mother that she died on the day she was born, august 7, 1976. she subsequently visited a cemetery containing a gravestone with the name "baby maura doyle" on it. in the series finale, "ocean-frank", maura takes a sabbatical from the me's office to go to paris, france, and work on her novel.
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