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| Edie Falco | |
|---|---|
 Falco at the premiere of Tennessee at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival | |
| Born | (1963-07-05) July 5, 1963 (age 61) Brooklyn, New York, U.S. |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1987 – present |
Edith "Edie" Falco (Template:Pron-en; born July 5, 1963) is an award-winning American television, film and stage actress, known for her role in Oz as Diane Wittlesey and her roles as both Carmela Soprano on the HBO series The Sopranos and the titular character on the Showtime series Nurse Jackie.
Early life
Falco was born in Brooklyn, New York, the daughter of Judith Anderson, an actress, and Frank Falco, a jazz drummer. Her father is Italian American and her mother Swedish American. Falco's siblings are Joseph, Paul and Ruth. Her uncle is novelist, playwright and poet Edward Falco, an English professor at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg. She was raised in Northport and West Islip, on Long Island. Falco graduated from Northport High School in 1981, after playing Eliza Doolittle in a production of My Fair Lady. She attended the Acting Program at SUNY Purchase with fellow actors Stanley Tucci and Ving Rhames; she remains friends with both.
Career
Early in her career, Falco made guest appearances on television shows like Law & Order and Homicide: Life on the Street. Tom Fontana, executive director of Homicide, cast Falco as Eva Thormann, the wife of an injured police officer, after watching Falco's performance in Laws of Gravity, a 1992 film directed by Nick Gomez. Fontana said of her, "She's an actress who's unadorned by any embroidery. She does everything with such simplicity and honesty, it's breathtaking." A struggling actress at the time, Falco said her salary from these television episodes paid for one month's worth of rent. Fontana cast Falco as a regular character, prison officer Diane Wittlesey, in his HBO series Oz based on her work in the Homicide episodes "Son of a Gun" and "A Shot in the Dark".
Her first big break in films was a small speaking role in the 1994 Woody Allen film Bullets Over Broadway. Her friendship with former SUNY Purchase classmate Eric Mendelsohn, who was the assistant to Allen's costume designer, Jeffrey Kurland, helped her to be cast in the role. Mendelsohn would go on to direct Falco in his feature film Judy Berlin, for which he won "Best Director" honors at the Sundance Film Festival.
Falco, The X-Files star Gillian Anderson, Ugly Betty star America Ferrera, and 30 Rock's Tina Fey are the only actresses to have received a Golden Globe, an Emmy and a SAG Award in the same year. Falco won these awards in 2003 for her performance as Carmela during the fourth season of The Sopranos.
Edie has won four Emmys, two Golden Globes and five Screen Actors Guild Awards. Falco is the second actor to have won Emmys for lead acting in both a Drama and a Comedy series (the first actor to do so was Carroll O'Connor).
Falco has appeared in the films Trust, Cop Land, Private Parts (non-speaking part),Random Hearts, Freedomland, and John Sayles' Sunshine State, for which she received the Los Angeles Film Critics Award for "Best Supporting Actress". On Broadway, she appeared in the Tony Award-winning Side Man and in the revivals of Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune opposite Stanley Tucci, and 'night, Mother opposite Brenda Blethyn. She has also appeared as a guest star on the television shows 30 Rock and Will & Grace.
Edie stars as the title character in the Showtime dark comedy series Nurse Jackie, which premiered in June 2009.
She will be playing Bananas in the Broadway revival of House of Blue Leaves with Ben Stiller and Jennifer Jason Leigh.
Politics
During the 2004 U.S. presidential election, Falco appeared in a 30-second television commercial on behalf of M.O.B. (Mothers Opposing Bush) in which she said "Mothers always put their children first. Mr. Bush, can you say the same?" referring to George W. Bush who was running for re-election.
Records show that she donated $1,000 to John Kerry's 2004 presidential campaign, $300 to the Democratic National Committee in 2004, and two separate sums of $1,000 and $300 to Hillary Clinton in 2005. Coincidentally, Falco appears as a Democratic Congresswoman and friend of Hillary Clinton in 30 Rock.
Edie Falco has become the spokesperson for Health Care for America Now (HCAN) and appeared on CNN on June 25, 2009.
Personal life
Falco has an adopted son, Anderson Falco, and an adopted daughter, Macy Falco.
Falco has said she had problems with alcohol and decided to become sober after "one particular night of debauchery." She said in an interview that it is hard to be around the hard-partying cast of The Sopranos; "This cast (of the Sopranos) in particular, they really love to hang out and party. They make it look like fun. And it was fun for me! They spend a lot more time without me than with me, by my own choice—I’m always invited, and I’m always there for two minutes and I leave, because I can’t live in that world anymore. It's too dangerous." She is an advocate of Alcoholics Anonymous's 12-step program.
In 2003, Falco was diagnosed with breast cancer, which she survived. She chose not to make the news public for approximately one year. Of her adopted children Anderson and Macy, she says, “I’m just not one of those people who thought having biological children was that important...To me it was more about wanting to raise a child."
Awards and recognition
Awards won
- 2010: Nurse Jackie (episode submitted: "Pilot")
- 1999: The Sopranos (episode submitted: "College")
- 2001: The Sopranos (episode submitted: "Second Opinion")
- 2003: The Sopranos (episode submitted: "Whitecaps")
- 1999: The Sopranos
- 2002: The Sopranos
- 1999: The Sopranos
- 2002: The Sopranos
- 2007: The Sopranos
- 1999: The Sopranos
- 2007: The Sopranos
Award nominations
- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress - Drama Series
- 2000: The Sopranos (episode submitted: "Full Leather Jacket")
- 2004: The Sopranos (episode submitted: "All Happy Families...")
- 2007: The Sopranos (episode submitted: "The Second Coming")
- 2008: 30 Rock (episode submitted: "Episode 210")
- Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series - Drama
- 2000: The Sopranos
- 2001: The Sopranos
- 2004: The Sopranos
- 2006: The Sopranos
- 2007: The Sopranos
- 2009: Nurse Jackie
- 2010: Nurse Jackie
- Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series
- 2000: The Sopranos
- 2001: The Sopranos
- 2004: The Sopranos
- 2006: The Sopranos
- Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series
- 2000: The Sopranos
- 2001: The Sopranos
- 2002: The Sopranos
- 2004: The Sopranos
- 2006: The Sopranos
- 2009: Nurse Jackie
- 2010: Nurse Jackie
Filmography
- Nurse Jackie
- 3 Backyards
- 30 Rock
- Celeste Cunningham
- The Sopranos
- Freedomland
- The Quiet
- The Great New Wonderful
- The Girl from Monday
- Will & Grace
- Family of the Year
- Fargo
- Sunshine State
- Jenifer
- The Sight (uncredited)
- Oz
- Death of a Dog
- Random Hearts
- Judy Berlin
- Law & Order
- A Price Above Rubies
- Blind Light
- Firehouse
- Cost of Living
- Trouble on the Corner
- Cop Land
- New York Undercover
- Homicide: Life on the Street
- Childhood's End
- Private Parts (uncredited)
- Hurricane
- Breathing Room
- The Funeral
- Layin' Low
- Backfire!
- The Addiction
- The Sunshine Boys
- Bullets Over Broadway
- Time Expired (short)
- I Was on Mars
- Laws of Gravity
- Trust
- Sidewalk Stories
- The Unbelievable Truth
- Sweet Lorraine
References
- Edie Falco Film Reference biography
- Steven Priggé - Interview with Edie Falco
- "Mob happy", July 13, 2002. Accessed July 2, 2008.
- Green, Jesse. Edie Falco, Unmarried to the Mob, The New York Times, November 7, 2004. Accessed July 2, 2008.
- Fretts, Bruce (1999-01-15). "The Courtship of Edie Falco; The much sought-after star of "Oz" and "Sopranos"". Entertainment Weekly. p. 48.
- Koltnow, Barry (2002-06-21). "Edie Falco follows unlikely path to stardom and her latest movie". The Orange County Register. Santa Ana, California.
- Morris, Mark (2000-09-24). "Life: Interview: Shooting Stars: After 15 years of waiting tables and dressing up as the Cookie Monster, Edie Falco had given up hope of making it as an actress. But then she married th emob and became the TV hit of the year. Mark Morris is blown away by The Sopranos' Carmela". The Observer. London, England. p. 12.
- Edie Falco - Awards
- "Nurse Jackie: Official Site". Sho.com. Retrieved March 3, 2009.
- Starr, Michael (June 30, 2008). "Nurse Edie: First Look at Sopranos Star's Dark, New Hospital Comedy". New York Post. NYPost.com. Retrieved March 8, 2009.
- Krukowski, Andrew (July 18, 2008). "Showtime Orders Nurse Jackie, Grows Weeds". TVWeek.com. Retrieved March 8, 2009.
- "Cable Networks Draw Big Names For New 2009 Series". NBCWashington.com. December 22, 2008. Retrieved March 8, 2009.
- "Groups Want Piece of Campaign Ad Buy Pie". Fox News. September 10, 2004.
- NEWSMEAT ▷ Edie Falco's Federal Campaign Contribution Report
- Edie Falco on CNN, June 25, 2009
- ^ Nussbaum, Emily. The Loneliest Soprano, New York Magazine, April 1, 2007. Accessed July 2, 2008.
- ^ "Edie Falco: Sobriety Helped Battle Cancer". Parade Magazine. March 24, 2009.
External links
- Edie Falco at the Internet Broadway Database
- Edie Falco at IMDb
- Biography at Hollywood.com
- Sopranos cast biography
- 1963 births
- Actors from New York
- American stage actors
- American film actors
- American people of Italian descent
- American television actors
- Breast cancer survivors
- Emmy Award winners
- Best Drama Actress Golden Globe (television) winners
- Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series Screen Actors Guild Award winners
- Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series Screen Actors Guild Award winners
- Living people
- People from Long Island
- People from Brooklyn
- State University of New York at Purchase alumni
- American actors of Swedish descent