| Edie Falco  AKA Edith Falco
Born: 5-Jul-1963
Birthplace: Brooklyn, NY
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor Nationality: United States
Executive summary: The Sopranos Edie Falco was born in Brooklyn, and started appearing in school plays almost as soon as she started going to school. Falco had a fairly substantial role in her first film, Sweet Lorraine with Maureen Stapleton and Giancarlo Esposito. She attended college with eventual independent filmmaker Hal Hartley, and has appeared in three of his films. She has also made two films with Abel Ferrara, and had a tiny role in Woody Allen's Bullets Over Broadway. She had a rare leading role in Judy Berlin, an oddball but endearing independent movie about an eclipse over Long Island.
She is best known for playing Carmela, Mafia don Tony Soprano's long-suffering wife on The Sopranos. Falco was the first actress to sweep all three major TV awards for the same role in the same year, winning the Emmy, Screen Actors Guild, and Golden Globe Awards in 1999 for The Sopranos. She has also played a cop's wife on Homicide: Life on the Street, a defense attorney on Law & Order, and a prison guard on Oz.
She has survived breast cancer, and is a recovering alcoholic, sober since the early 1990s.
Her uncle is novelist Edward Falco, author of Acid and Sabbath Night in the Church of the Piranha. Father: Frankie Falco (jazz drummer)
Mother: Judith Anderson Loney
Brother: Joe Falco (b. 1961)
Sister: Ruth Falco (b. 1967)
Brother: Paul Falco
Boyfriend: John Devlin (dated 1996-2000)
Boyfriend: Stanley Tucci
Son: Anderson Falco (adopted 2004)
High School: Northport High School, Long Island, NY (1981)
University: BFA Drama, State University of New York at Purchase (1986)
Friends of Hillary
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
Emmy 1999 for The Sopranos
Emmy 2001 for The Sopranos
Emmy 2003 for The Sopranos
Golden Globe 2000 for The Sopranos
Golden Globe 2003 for The Sopranos
Italian Ancestry
Swedish Ancestry
Risk Factors: Smoking, Breast Cancer, Alcoholism
TELEVISION
The Sopranos Carmela Soprano (1999-)
Oz Officer Diane Whittlesey (1997-99)
FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
Freedomland (17-Feb-2006)
The Quiet (12-Sep-2005)
The Great New Wonderful (22-Apr-2005)
The Girl from Monday (26-Jan-2005)
Sunshine State (19-May-2002)
Random Hearts (08-Oct-1999)
Judy Berlin (10-Sep-1999)
A Price Above Rubies (22-Jan-1998)
Cost of Living (31-Oct-1997)
Cop Land (15-Aug-1997)
Hurricane (21-Jan-1997)
The Funeral (8-Sep-1996)
The Addiction (4-Oct-1995)
The Sunshine Boys (1995)
Bullets Over Broadway (16-Sep-1994)
Laws of Gravity (26-Aug-1992)
Trust (9-Sep-1990)
The Unbelievable Truth (8-Sep-1989)
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