However, 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. Bracco in 1997ĭuring the audition process for The Sopranos, David Chase wanted Bracco to audition for the lead female role of Carmela Soprano.
She won the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress and the Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress. Her other films include Someone to Watch Over Me, Switch, Riding in Cars with Boys, The Basketball Diaries, Medicine Man, Radio Flyer, and Hackers.īracco received her big career break when she was offered the role of mobster wife Karen Hill in Goodfellas, which earned her an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress and a Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture. The experience inspired Bracco to pursue acting. She's a master of her profession, and I've been blessed not only with her, but also with so many masters," recounted Bracco to Daniel Simone during a 2007 interview. I mean, Lina accentuated my eyes with dark make-up, the way Sophia Loren used to appear in those epic roles in the '60s. A street woman clad in disheveled clothes, hair unkempt and all that, and threw me on the set. "She dressed me up like an Italian woman of no means.
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Her sister Elizabeth played a coffee shop waitress in the series pilot.Įventually, Italian director and novelist Lina Wertmüller gave Bracco a small part in the film Camorra. She also appeared as Paul Guilfoyle's hostage in the first season of the series Crime Story, in the episode "Hide and Go Thief".
ĭuring the 1980s, she worked as a disc jockey for Radio Luxembourg. Although she loved the lessons, she was still unsure of her talents. She eventually made the film, but found the experience "boring" and her performance "terrible." Nevertheless, she played supporting roles in two other French films "for the money." Īfter one of her friends suggested that she might enjoy acting if she took some training, she took seminars with John Strasberg. Bracco did not imagine that she could be an actress, and initially refused. While still modeling, Bracco was approached by Marc Camoletti, who offered her a major role in the film adaptation of one of his plays, Duos sur canapé (1979). Career īracco moved to France in 1974, where she became a fashion model for Jean-Paul Gaultier. Bracco grew up in Hicksville, New York, on Long Island, from fourth grade, and graduated from Hicksville High School in 1972. Her parents met during World War II, marrying in Andover in 1946 Eileen came with Salvatore to the United States as a war bride. Her father was of Italian descent, while her mother was born in England, and had some French ancestry. She has a sister, actress Elizabeth Bracco, and a brother, Salvatore Jr. She is the daughter of Eileen ( née Molyneux) and Salvatore S.
Beginning with the fourth season her role began to decline slightly, though by the end of the series, at the 59th Primetime Emmy Awards, she was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series.Įarly life Bracco as a senior in high school in 1972īracco was born on October 2, 1954, in the Bay Ridge neighborhood of the Brooklyn borough of New York City, New York. She was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama for her performance across the show's first three seasons. On television, she is best known for portraying Jennifer Melfi, the psychiatrist of Tony Soprano, in the HBO series The Sopranos (1999–2007). Her breakthrough role was that of Karen Hill, wife of mob associate Henry Hill, in Martin Scorsese's Goodfellas (1990), for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture. Bracco's English-language debut came in The Pick-Up Artist (1987), which was followed by roles in Someone to Watch Over Me (1987), Sing (1989), and The Dream Team (1989). Known for her distinct husky voice and Brooklyn accent, she has been nominated for an Academy Award, four Emmy Awards, four Golden Globe Awards, and three Screen Actors Guild Awards.īorn in New York City, Bracco began her career modeling in France and began appearing in Italian-language films in the 1980s, including Lina Wertmüller's Camorra (1986), which featured Bracco's then-partner Harvey Keitel. Lorraine Bracco (born October 2, 1954) is an American actress.
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