Every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 8PM, Marisa Petroro is one of the lovely models charged with the responsibility of opening briefcases on the hit NBC primetime game show, ‘Deal or No Deal’ hosted by Howie Mandel. Marisa Petroro, however, is more than a beautiful face: she is a talented actress as well as a true survivor in the deal of life.
Even when she was a child living in New Jersey, Marisa Petroro knew she wanted to be an actor despite the fact that she was somewhat on the shy side. Petroro says her mother was very supportive of her desire to be in the limelight, which helped her tremendously to overcome shyness and to succeed in her goal. “My mom started taking me into New York every weekend for classes, to find an agent, and to enter me in auditions for commercials.”
Marisa Petroro