- Birth Date:October 2nd, 1954 - Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, New York, USA
- Credits: Acting
Full Bio
With her thick Brooklyn accent, it's no surprise that Lorraine Bracco has was born and raised in a working-class neighborhood of New York City, but her twenties were not as predictable. Relocating to Europe, she spent several years living in France as a fashion model and working in radio, TV commercials, and films. She appeared in the Lina Wertmuller crime thriller Un Complicato Intrigo Di Donne, Vicoli E Delitti along with American actor Harvey Keitel, to whom she would be married for ten years. Moving back to New York to study acting with Stella Adler and the Actor's Studio, she made her U.S. debut as a hooker in The Pick-Up Artist (also with Keitel) and later starred as a Queens housewife in Ridley Scott's Someone to Watch Over Me.
After a couple roles in Sing and The Dream Team, she received an Oscar nomination for her work as mobster Henry Hill's wife in Martin Scorsese's Goodfellas, making her a full-blown movie star overnight. She continued working in features for the remainder of the '90s, most notably opposite Sean Connery in Medicine Man, as the whip-cracking Delores Del Rio in Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, and as Leonardo DiCaprio's long-suffering mother in The Basketball Diaries.Then in 1999, when Bracco got the stellar role of Dr. Jennifer Melfi on the hit HBO series The Sopranos. Bracco stayed with the series until 2007, playing the understated psychiatrist of mob boss Tony Soprano, and picking up several Emmy, Golden Globe, and Screen Actors Guild awards over the years. The show kept her busy, but the actress continued to pursue other projects, playing a nervous mother in Penny Marshall's Riding in Cars With Boys , and taking on a recurring role on the series Lipstick Jungle. ~ Andrea LeVasseur
After a couple roles in Sing and The Dream Team, she received an Oscar nomination for her work as mobster Henry Hill's wife in Martin Scorsese's Goodfellas, making her a full-blown movie star overnight. She continued working in features for the remainder of the '90s, most notably opposite Sean Connery in Medicine Man, as the whip-cracking Delores Del Rio in Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, and as Leonardo DiCaprio's long-suffering mother in The Basketball Diaries.Then in 1999, when Bracco got the stellar role of Dr. Jennifer Melfi on the hit HBO series The Sopranos. Bracco stayed with the series until 2007, playing the understated psychiatrist of mob boss Tony Soprano, and picking up several Emmy, Golden Globe, and Screen Actors Guild awards over the years. The show kept her busy, but the actress continued to pursue other projects, playing a nervous mother in Penny Marshall's Riding in Cars With Boys , and taking on a recurring role on the series Lipstick Jungle. ~ Andrea LeVasseur
ACTING CREDITS
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Rizzoli & Isles TV (22 episodes)-
Burning Down the House
...Angela Rizzoli
Dec 26, 2011 - Don't Stop Dancing, Girl Dec 19, 2011
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Seventeen Ain't So Sweet
...Angela Rizzoli
Dec 12, 2011 -
Gone Daddy Gone
...Angela Rizzoli
Sep 5, 2011 -
My Own Worst Enemy
...Angela Rizzoli
Aug 29, 2011 -
Bloodlines
...Angela Rizzoli
Aug 22, 2011
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Burning Down the House
...Angela Rizzoli
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Lipstick Jungle TV (2 episodes)-
Chapter 3: Pink Poison
...Janice Lasher
Feb 21, 2008 -
Chapter 2: Nothing Sacred
...Janice Lasher
Feb 14, 2008
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Chapter 3: Pink Poison
...Janice Lasher
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The Sopranos TV (84 episodes)-
Made in America
...Dr. Jennifer Melfi (credit only)
Jun 10, 2007 -
The Blue Comet
...Dr. Jennifer Melfi
Jun 3, 2007 -
The Second Coming
...Dr. Jennifer Melfi
May 20, 2007 -
Kennedy and Heidi
...Dr. Jennifer Melfi
May 13, 2007 -
Walk Like A Man
...Dr. Jennifer Melfi
May 6, 2007 -
Chasing It
...Dr. Jennifer Melfi
Apr 29, 2007
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Made in America
...Dr. Jennifer Melfi (credit only)
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We Are Together (2007) ...Herself
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