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Edie Falco
Birth name	Edith Falco
Born	July 5, 1963 (1963-07-05) (age 44) Brooklyn, New York
Notable roles	Diane Wittlesey on Oz Carmela Soprano on The Sopranos
Emmy Awards
Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series 1999 The Sopranos 2001 The Sopranos 2003 The Sopranos
Golden Globe Awards
Best Actress - Drama Series 2000 The Sopranos 2003 The Sopranos
Screen Actors Guild Awards
Best Actress - Drama Series 2000 The Sopranos 2003 The Sopranos

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. Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 460 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (1422 × 1854 pixel, file size: 1. ... is the 186th day of the year (187th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1963 (MCMLXIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article needs additional references or sources for verification. ... NY redirects here. ... Officer Diane Wittlesey is a fictional character played by Edie Falco on the television program Oz. ... Oz was the first one-hour dramatic television series to be produced by HBO. The show, which aired for six seasons (1997-2003), was created by Tom Fontana and produced by Barry Levinson. ... Carmela Soprano née DeAngelis is the wife of fictional mafia boss Tony Soprano and lead female character on the HBO television series, The Sopranos, played by Edie Falco. ... This article is about the TV series. ... An Emmy Award. ... The Primetime Emmy Awards are awards presented by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences in recognition of excellence in American primetime television programming. ... This article is about the TV series. ... This article is about the TV series. ... This article is about the TV series. ... The Golden Globe Award The Golden Globe Awards are American awards for motion pictures and television programs, given out each year during a formal dinner. ... The SAG Award for Best Performance by an Actress -Drama Series is an award given by the Screen Actors Guild to honor the finest acting achievements in Dramatic Television. ... This article is about the TV series. ... This article is about the TV series. ... Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... The SAG Award for Best Performance by an Actress -Drama Series is an award given by the Screen Actors Guild to honor the finest acting achievements in Dramatic Television. ... This article is about the TV series. ... This article is about the TV series. ... is the 186th day of the year (187th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1963 (MCMLXIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Actors in period costume sharing a joke whilst waiting between takes during location filming. ... Carmela Soprano née DeAngelis is the wife of fictional mafia boss Tony Soprano and lead female character on the HBO television series, The Sopranos, played by Edie Falco. ... HBO (Home Box Office) is an American premium cable television network. ... This article is about the TV series. ... Officer Diane Wittlesey is a fictional character played by Edie Falco on the television program Oz. ... HBO (Home Box Office) is an American premium cable television network. ... Oz was the first one-hour dramatic television series to be produced by HBO. The show, which aired for six seasons (1997-2003), was created by Tom Fontana and produced by Barry Levinson. ...

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. This article needs additional references or sources for verification. ... NY redirects here. ... Actors in period costume sharing a joke whilst waiting between takes during location filming. ... Edward Falco is an American author. ... This article or section should include material from Virginia Bioinformatics Institute. ... Blacksburgs location within Virgina Virginias location within the United States Coordinates: Country United States State Virginia County Montgomery Founded 1798 Government  - Mayor Ron Rordam Area  - Town  19. ... Northport is a village located in Suffolk County, New York, USA. As of the 2000 census, the village had a total population of 7,606. ... Map showing Long Island; to the north is Connecticut and to the west are New York City and New Jersey. ...

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. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... My Fair Lady is a musical with a book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe, based on George Bernard Shaws Pygmalion. ... The State University of New York at Purchase, also known as Purchase College and SUNY Purchase, is a public liberal, visual, and performing arts college in Purchase, New York, United States, a part of the State University of New York system. ... Stanley Tucci, Jr. ... Irving Rameses Rhames (born May 12, 1959) is a Golden Globe-winning American actor. ...

Film 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. Woody Allen (born Allen Stewart Königsberg on December 1, 1935) is a three-time Academy Award-winning American film director, writer, actor, jazz musician, comedian, and playwright. ... Poster for the movie Bullets Over Broadway is a 1994 film directed by Woody Allen. ... The Sundance Film Festival is a film festival in the United States, and ranks alongside the Cannes, France, Venice, Italy, Berlin, Germany, and Toronto, Canada festivals as one of the most prestigious in the world. ...

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 Homicide: Life on the Street. The X-Files is a Peabody- and Emmy Award-winning science fiction television series created by Chris Carter, which first aired on September 10, 1993, and ended on May 19, 2002. ... Gillian Leigh Anderson (born August 9, 1968) is an Emmy and Golden Globe Award-winning American actress, best known for her roles as FBI Agent Dana Scully in the American TV series The X-Files and Lady Dedlock in the BBC TV series Bleak House. ... The Golden Globe Award The Golden Globe Awards are American awards for motion pictures and television programs, given out each year during a formal dinner. ... An Emmy Award. ... The Screen Actors Guild (S.A.G.) is the labor union representing over 120,000 film actors in the United States. ... Carmela Soprano née DeAngelis is the wife of fictional mafia boss Tony Soprano and lead female character on the HBO television series, The Sopranos, played by Edie Falco. ... This article is about the TV series. ... Oz was the first one-hour dramatic television series to be produced by HBO. The show, which aired for six seasons (1997-2003), was created by Tom Fontana and produced by Barry Levinson. ... Law & Order is an American television police procedural and legal drama set in New York City. ... Homicide: Life on the Street is an American television drama series chronicling the life of a fictional Baltimore police homicide unit. ...

Falco has won three Emmys, two Golden Globes and two Screen Actors Guild Awards. In 2006, she was notoriously snubbed by the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences for her role on The Sopranos, even though the majority of critics believed she would win for the fourth time.

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". Starring Adrienne Shelly and Martin Donovan, Trust is a dry, bleak comedy written and directed by Hal Hartley. ... Cop Land (1997) is an American dramatic film, written and directed by James Mangold, with an all-star cast, including Sylvester Stallone, Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, and Harvey Keitel. ... Random Hearts is a 1984 novel by American author Warren Adler that was made into a 1999 American motion picture drama and romance. ... Freedomland is a 2006 film starring Samuel L. Jackson and Julianne Moore. ... Photo of John Sayles by Robert Birnbaum John Thomas Sayles (born September 28, 1950) is an independent American film director and writer who frequently takes a small part in his own and other indie films. ... Motto: Audax at Fidelis (Bold but Faithful) Nickname: Sunshine State/Smart State Other Australian states and territories Capital Brisbane Government Governor Premier Const. ...

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. Broadway theatre[1] is the most prestigious form of professional theatre in the U.S., as well as the most well known to the general public and most lucrative for the performers, technicians and others involved in putting on the shows. ... What is popularly called the Tony Award (formally, the Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre) is an annual award celebrating achievements in live American theater, including musical theater, primarily honoring productions on Broadway in New York. ... Side Man is a play by Warren Leight. ... Poster for the off-Broadway production Frankie and Johnny in the Claire de Lune is a two-character play by Terrence McNally. ... Stanley Tucci, Jr. ... Categories: Stub ... Brenda Blethyn OBE (born 20 February 1946) is an English Golden Globe winning and Academy Award-nominated film, stage, television and voice actress, and writer. ...

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• Biography at Hollywood.com
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• Edie Falco at the Internet Movie Database
• Edie Falco at the Internet Broadway Database