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Edie Falco Bio
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Edie Falco
Edie Falco is an award-winning stage, film, and television actress best known for her role in The Sopranos. She has also gained public attention as a political activist.
Edith Falco was born on July the 5th, 1963, in Brooklyn, New York . Her father was the jazz drummer, sculptor, and art director Frankie Falco, her mother the actress Judith Anderson Lonely. She has two brothers, Joe and Paul, and a sister, Ruth. Her uncle is the author Edward Falco. The family moved to Northport, Long Island when she was very young, and it was there that she spent her formative years.
Falco gained an interest in acting at Northport High School , where she was an eager participant in school plays, performing as Eliza Doolittle in Frederick Loewe's My Fair Lady. After graduation, she attended the State University of New York's performing arts college in Purchase, where she dated Stanley Tucci and became friends with Ving Rhames. She supported herself by working for an entertainment company, dressing as Cookie Monster in nightclubs to persuade people to dance, and working as a clown at birthday parties.Her first film role
was in Steve Gomer's Sweet Lorraine in 1987, closely followed by a part in her college friend Hal Hartley's critically acclaimed The Unbelievable Truth. Hartley then went on to cast her in Trust, where she once again worked with Martin Donovan and Adrienne Shelly. A series of smaller films followed before she came to wider public notice with a small but memorable appearance in Woody Allen's Bullets Over Broadway, alongside John Cusack, Dianne Wiest, Jennifer Tilly, and Harvey Fierstein.
Falco's first major television role came in 1993 when she was cast as the wife of an injured police officer in Homicide: Life on the Street, with Yaphet Kotto, Richard Belzer, and Kyle Secor. After taking a small role alongside Harrison Ford and Kristin Scott Thomas in Sydney Pollack's romantic drama Random Hearts, she returned to the world of law enforcement as a corrections officer in Oz, a recurring role which dramatically raised her profile. This also led to her being cast opposite James Gandolfini in The Sopranos. There, her finely tuned performance as a wife and mother (of characters played by Jamie Lyn Sigler and Robert Iler) trying to keep her family together and keep her husband's mob involvement secret from her children won her three Emmys, two Golden Globes and an AFI award.
Despite her busy film and television career, Falco retained her love of stage acting and gained notice for her performance as an alcoholic wife in Side Man, performing on Broadway and in London opposite Jason Priestly. Once an alcoholic herself, Falco has now been sober for fifteen years. Her other notable stage work includes her performances in The Vagina Monologues, in Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune with Stanley Tucci, and in 'night, Mother with Brenda Blethyn.
When not acting, Falco has been active in politics, supporting John Kerry in the 2004 presidential election and acting as spokesperson for Mothers Against Bush. She has also had to devote time to health matters since being diagnosed with breast cancer in 2004, though her prognosis is now good. She lives in New York with her adopted son Anderson and her dog Marley. |
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