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Lorraine Bracco (born October 2, 1954) is an American actress best known for her performance as psychiatrist Jennifer Melfi on the HBO crime drama series The Sopranos (1999–2007) and for her breakthrough role portraying Karen Hill in the Martin Scorsese film Goodfellas (1990).
Karen B. Friedman Hill (née Friedman; born January 16, 1946) [1] is an American woman known for her involvement in the American Mafia through her husband Henry Hill, who was an associate of the Lucchese crime family. The events of their lives were chronicled in the 1990 film Goodfellas and several books. [2]
In 1955, Henry Hill becomes enamored by the criminal life and Mafia presence in his working-class Italian-American neighborhood in Brooklyn.He begins working for local caporegime Paulie Cicero and his associates Jimmy "the Gent" Conway, an Irish-American truck hijacker and gangster, and Tommy DeVito, a fellow juvenile delinquent.
Debi Mazar Corcos (/ ˈ m eɪ z ɑːr /; [1] born August 13, 1964 [2]) is an American actress and television personality.She began her career with supporting roles in Goodfellas (1990), Little Man Tate (1991), Singles (1992), and Batman Forever (1995), followed by lead roles on the legal drama series Civil Wars and L.A. Law.
Following his turn in Jonathan Demme’s 1986 film “Something Wild,” playing Henry Hill in Martin Scorsese’s “Goodfellas” was the moment that many moviegoers first discovered his complex
Henry Hill Jr. was born on June 11, 1943, in the New York City borough of Manhattan to Henry Hill Sr., an Irish-American electrician, and Carmela Costa, an Italian immigrant of Sicilian descent. [1] Hill claimed in the book Wiseguy that his father had emigrated from Ireland at age 12 after the death of Hill's grandfather. [2]
At 18, Hunter played Karen Hill's (Lorraine Bracco) best friend in the wedding scene in Goodfellas (1990). After seeing her harrowing portrayal of a teen being sexually harassed by Harvey Keitel in Abel Ferrara's Bad Lieutenant (1992), Steve Buscemi cast her in his directorial debut Trees Lounge (1996).
For Goodfellas, De Niro’s mob ... De Niro’s character was supposedly talking to his ex-wife played by Robin Wright. Robert De Niro as Jimmy Conway and Ray Liotta as Henry Hill in a scene from ...