EDIE FALCO

'Edith Falco' (born July 5, 1963) is an American television, film and stage actress best known for her lead role as Carmela Soprano on HBO's award winning hit series ''The Sopranos'', as well as Diane Wittlesey on the HBO show ''Oz''.

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Family

Education

Career

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Family

Falco was born in Brooklyn, New York to Frank Falco (an Italian commercial artist, who is, at present, a sculptor) and Judith Anderson (a retired Swedish actress) [1]. Falco's siblings are Joseph, Paul and Ruth. Her uncle is novelist, playwright and poet Edward Falco, an English professor at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg. She was raised in Northport, on Long Island. She has an adopted son named Anderson Falco.

Education

Falco graduated from Northport High School in 1981, after playing Eliza Doolittle in a production of ''My Fair Lady''. She attended SUNY Purchase with fellow actors Stanley Tucci and Ving Rhames, with whom she remains good friends.

Career

Her first big break in films was a small speaking role in the 1994 Woody Allen film ''Bullets Over Broadway''. One reason she got the part was her friendship with former SUNY Purchase classmate Eric Mendelsohn, who at the time was assistant to Allen's costume designer, Jeffrey Kurland. Mendelsohn would go on to direct Falco in his feature film ''Judy Berlin'', for which he won "Best Director" honors at the Sundance Film Festival.
Falco and ''The X-Files'' star Gillian Anderson are the only actresses to have received a Golden Globe, an Emmy and a SAG Award in the same year. Falco won these awards in 2003 for her performance as Carmela during the fourth season of ''The Sopranos''. Prior to that, she was a regular performer on ''Oz''. She also had recurring roles on ''Law & Order'' and ''.
Falco has won three Emmys, two Golden Globes and two Screen Actors Guild Awards.
She appeared in the films ''Trust'', ''Cop Land'', ''Random Hearts'', ''Freedomland'', and John Sayles' ''Sunshine State'', for which she received the Los Angeles Film Critics Award for "Best Supporting Actress".
On Broadway, she appeared in the Tony Award-winning ''Side Man'' and in the revivals of ''Frankie and Johnny in the Claire de Lune'' opposite Stanley Tucci, and ''Night, Mother'' opposite Brenda Blethyn.
NBC announced on September 7, 2007 that Falco would be guest starring on three episodes of "30 Rock".

External links

★ Biography at Hollywood.com

★ Sopranos cast biography

★ Edie Falco Fan Club

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