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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).
Bracco is nonetheless fulsome in her tributes to Scorsese, whom she deems “one of the 10 greatest directors of our generation”. She says the same of Ridley Scott, who directed her in 1987’s ...
Now, star Lorraine Bracco, who played Tony Soprano’s therapist Dr. Jennifer Melfi, is revealing her thoughts on the controversial ending. “The Sopranos” ended with an …
Dominic Chianese, Lorraine Bracco and Tony Sirico of w:The Sopranos, The 59th Annual Peabody Awards, The Waldorf=Astoria, May 22, 2000: Date: 8 December 2015, 13:24: Source: The Sopranos: Author: Peabody Awards
Bracco played the wife of a mobster in Goodfellas (1990) and she was originally asked to play the role of Carmela Soprano. She took the role of Jennifer Melfi instead because she wanted to try something different and felt that the part of the highly educated Dr. Melfi would be more of a challenge for her. [4]
Lorraine Bracco as Jennifer Melfi in the pivotal "Employee of the Month" episode of The Sopranos. (Photo: HBO) Interestingly, Bracco says that Melfi’s storyline in The Sopranos owes more to real ...
Lorraine Bracco is just like many Sopranos fans who couldn't get behind how the series ended.. During a recent appearance on SiriusXM’s The Spotlight with Jessica Shaw, the actress — who ...
She was born in New York City and raised on Long Island in Lawrence, Nassau County, New York, part of the Five Towns, [3] the daughter of Jewish parents. [4]In 1965, Karen Friedman met Henry Hill through Paul Vario, who insisted that Hill accompany his son on a double date at Frank "Frankie the Wop" Manzo's restaurant, Villa Capra.