Happy Birthday: Lorraine Bracco

Lorraine Bracco

Born: October 2, 1954 in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

[on joining The Sopranos (1999) cast] After doing Goodfellas (1990), I was offered every Mafia girl, wife, mistress, daughter available. And I said to them, ‘No, I don’t want to do that. I did it. Can’t do it better’. I called up my agent the day before I’m going to meet David [Chase], and I go, ‘I don’t want Carmela – I want Dr. Melfi’.

[on James Gandolfini] I’ll always smile remembering that big lug with the cheeky grin squeezed into that tiny chair, and I’ll always cherish the love and gentleness he showed me.

TALENT FOR THE GAME 1991 dir. Robert M. Young Stars: Edward James Olmos Lorraine Bracco

Goodfellas 1990 dir. Scorsese starring Liotta Robert DeNiro Joe Pesci

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