Actor Debi Mazar picks up the binoculars gifted to her when her TV series wrapped and looks for birds hiding among the olive and cypress trees that surround the 11th-century, medieval Florentine home she shares with her Italian husband, chef Gabriele Corcos. The couple moved permanently to Florence during the pandemic – Mazar had always promised Corcos’ mother she would “bring him home some day”. They fled the grit of New York City, which Mazar has always loved, for this quieter spot to raise their daughters Evelina and Giulia, embracing European art, culture and languages along the way.
Like the birds she watches, Mazar, 59, and Corcos, 51, are about to become empty nesters as their progeny take flight. Evelina, 22, is decompressing in Miami after working as a wardrobe assistant on singer Madonna’s recent tour, while Giulia, 18, is soon to be an international baccalaureate graduate and will take time off to travel. It’s a Wednesday morning in early May, and the next day Mazar will jump on a high-speed train to Rome to table-read a script with the cast of the thriller series .
She most recently portrayed a modern-day Medusa with a New York accent beneath a head of animated snakes in Netflix’s upcoming comedy series , a retelling of Greek mythology, alongside Jeff Goldblum as Zeus. But soon she’ll be seen as Magda, a stylish Polish émigrée working in a Sydney department store in 1961, in the new ABC drama, . Adelaide stood in for Sydney for the series – i.
