1. Edith Falco was born on July 5,1963 and is an American actress.
26 Facts About Edie Falco
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Edie Falco received a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series for playing the title role in the Showtime series Nurse Jackie.
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Edie Falco has acted in NBC series Homicide: Life on the Street, the HBO prison drama Oz, the web series Horace and Pete, and the FX series Impeachment: American Crime Story.
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Edie Falco made her Broadway debut in the Warren Leight play Side Man.
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Edie Falco has acted in the Broadway revivals of the plays Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, and 'night, Mother.
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Edie Falco was born in the New York City borough of Brooklyn on July 5,1963, the daughter of Judith Anderson, an actress, and Frank Edie Falco, a jazz drummer who later worked for an advertising agency.
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Edie Falco's father was of Italian descent and her mother had Swedish, English and Cornish ancestry.
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Edie Falco has two brothers, Joseph and Paul, and a sister, Ruth.
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Edie Falco's uncle is novelist, playwright, and poet Edward Falco.
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Edie Falco attended the acting program at State University of New York at Purchase, and graduated in 1986 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in acting.
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Edie Falco debuted on the big screen in 1987's Sweet Lorraine starring Maureen Stapleton.
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Edie Falco went on to star in Mendelsohn's next film 3 Backyards, for which he won Best Director a second time.
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In 1997, Edie Falco started portraying prison officer Diane Whittlesey, in the HBO prison drama series Oz.
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Edie Falco got the role after working with Fontana on Homicide.
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Edie Falco received her breakout role in the HBO drama The Sopranos created by David Chase, which premiered in 1999 and ended in 2007.
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Edie Falco portrayed Carmela Soprano, wife of Mafia boss Tony Soprano played by James Gandolfini.
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Edie Falco won these awards in 2003 for her performance as Carmela Soprano during the fourth season of The Sopranos.
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Edie Falco depicts even more deeply than before, if that's possible, the full range of a mother and wife's anguish.
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Edie Falco starred as the title character, Nurse Jackie Peyton in the Showtime dark comedy series Nurse Jackie, which premiered on June 8,2009, and ended on June 28,2015.
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Edie Falco brings some of Carmela's prosaic manner and harsh certainty to the new role.
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Edie Falco returned to Broadway portraying the part of Bananas in the revival of the John Guare play The House of Blue Leaves in New York City at the Walter Kerr Theatre with Ben Stiller and Jennifer Jason Leigh.
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Edie Falco originally reprised her breakout role as Carmela Soprano for the 2021 film The Many Saints of Newark, a prequel to The Sopranos.
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Edie Falco starred in the FX true crime series Impeachment: American Crime Story portraying Hillary Rodham Clinton opposite Clive Owen's Bill Clinton and Beanie Feldstein's Monica Lewinsky.
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Edie Falco adopted a son in 2005 and a daughter in 2008.
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Edie Falco is a vegan and has worked with PETA on projects, including a public-service message urging parents to keep their children away from the circus.
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Edie Falco chose not to make the news public until the following year.