Lorraine Bracco was born on October 2,1954 and is an American actress.
22 Facts About Lorraine Bracco
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Lorraine Bracco was born on October 2,1954, in the Bay Ridge neighborhood of the Brooklyn borough of New York City, New York.
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Lorraine Bracco is the daughter of Eileen and Salvatore S Bracco Sr.
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Lorraine Bracco has a sister, actress Elizabeth Bracco, and a brother, Salvatore Jr.
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Lorraine Bracco's father was of Italian descent, while her mother was born in England, and had some French ancestry.
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Lorraine Bracco's parents met during World War II, marrying in Andover in 1946; Eileen came with Salvatore to the United States as a war bride.
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Lorraine Bracco grew up in Hicksville, New York, on Long Island, from fourth grade, and graduated from Hicksville High School in 1972.
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Lorraine Bracco moved to France in 1974, where she became a fashion model for Jean-Paul Gaultier.
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Lorraine Bracco did not imagine that she could be an actress, and initially refused.
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Lorraine Bracco appeared as Paul Guilfoyle's hostage in the first season of the series Crime Story, in the episode "Hide and Go Thief".
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Lorraine Bracco won the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress and the Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress.
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However, Lorraine Bracco had read the script and was drawn to the part of psychiatrist Jennifer Melfi as 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.
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Lorraine Bracco felt so strongly about her ability and desire to play the part that she arranged a meeting with Chase and talked him into letting her have a chance as Melfi.
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Lorraine Bracco lost out at the Emmys in 1999 and 2001, and at the Golden Globes in 2000 to her co-star Edie Falco.
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Lorraine Bracco was nominated again at the 2007 Emmy Awards for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series, and thus was pitted against her The Sopranos co-star Aida Turturro for the award.
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Lorraine Bracco is the owner of Lorraine Bracco Wines, in association with Straight-Up Brands LLC Her line of wines was featured on the Season 1 finale of Bravo's show Top Chef in 2006.
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Lorraine Bracco appeared as a guest judge for the show's two-episode finale and as a special judge on Top Chef: All Stars, in the episode titled "An Offer They Can't Refuse", which featured Italian cuisine.
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Lorraine Bracco appeared in all 105 episodes of the series over its seven season run.
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In 2020, Lorraine Bracco starred in the HGTV documentary television series My Big Italian Adventure.
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In 2022, Lorraine Bracco worked in the Robert Zemeckis remake of Pinocchio where she voiced Sofia the Seagull.
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Lorraine Bracco married Frenchman Daniel Guerard in 1979; they divorced in 1982.
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Lorraine Bracco was in a 12-year relationship with actor Harvey Keitel, whom she met while living in Paris.