Happy Birthday: Annabella Sciorra

Annabella Sciorra

Born: March 29, 1960 in Wethersfield, Connecticut, USA

(1992, on being recognized) A lot of weird things happen to me. People call out to me on the street and I figure I know them, and I walk over. And then they start to talk about a movie, and I get so embarrassed. Sometimes they think I’m Lorraine Bracco or Laura San Giacomo or Marisa Tomei. I’m sure it happens to them all the time, too. The thing that drives me nuts is when I get stopped in a crowded place, and they look at me and say, ‘Who are you?’ I don’t know if they’re friends or fans, and I say, ‘I’m Annabella Sciorra’, and they say, ‘What have you done?’ So I start to give them my resume. It’s so embarrassing.

It was kind of funny that everybody that was on the show, even after they got killed off, you would see them coming by for lunch. Nobody wanted to leave the family.

[on her The Sopranos (1999) role as Gloria Trillo] People were like, ‘We’re never going to like you because you’re sleeping with Tony, and he’s married’. People were really very furious about it. They also, on the other hand, would say, ‘When you threw that steak at Tony, you threw that steak for all womankind’. I remember when we shot that scene the crew all wanted to throw the steak. At first they used, like, a sponge steak, and then they used a real one, and that was easy. I had a good aim.

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