Mazar was born in Queens, New York, the daughter of Nancy and Harry Mazar. Her father was born in the Latvian SSR, Soviet Union, to a Jewish family, while her mother was a Catholic who converted to Judaism and later became a Buddhist and for a period of time was a Jehovah's Witness.

Mazar began her career as a hip hop b-girl in New York City. Her first television appearance was on the pilot for a hip hop television dance show, Graffiti Rock in 1984. She appeared in four of Madonna's music videos - "Papa Don't Preach", "True Blue" (both 1986), "Deeper And Deeper" (1992) and "Music" (2000). Mazar has played a number of minor-yet-colorful supporting roles in a variety of movies, Read more...

She married Gabriele Corcos on March 16, 2002, and they have two daughters: Evelyn Maria, born on July 12, 2002, and Giulia Isabel, born on March 17, 2006. Mazar and Corcos are currently hosting a very successful internet show focused on Tuscan cuisine: Under The Tuscan Gun. The family divides their time between their home in Los Angeles and a fourteenth-century house outside of Florence that was Read more...