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Edie Falco
Falco at the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival
Born	Edith Falco July 5, 1963 (1963-07-05) (age 45) Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1987 – present

Edith "Edie" Falco (pronounced /ˈiːdi ˈfælkoʊ/; born July 5, 1963) is an American television, film and stage actress, known for her lead role as Carmela Soprano on the HBO series The Sopranos.

Contents 1 Family 2 Education 3 Career 4 Politics 5 Personal life 6 Awards and recognition 6.1 Awards won 6.2 Award nominations 7 References 8 External links

Family

Falco was born in Brooklyn, New York, the daughter of Judith Anderson, an actress, and Frank Falco, a jazz drummer.¹ Her father is Italian American and her mother Swedish American.²³ 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,⁴ on Long Island. She has an adopted son named Anderson Falco and an adopted daughter named Macy Falco.

Education

Falco graduated from Northport High School in 1981, after playing Eliza Doolittle in a production of My Fair Lady. She attended SUNY Purchase with fellow actors Stanley Tucci and Ving Rhames; she remains friends with both.

Career

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. Prior to that, she was a regular performer on Oz. She has also had recurring roles on Law & Order and Homicide: Life on the Street.

Edie has won three Emmys, two Golden Globes and five Screen Actors Guild Awards.⁵

Falco has appeared in the films Trust, Cop Land, 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 is set to star as the title character in the Showtime dark comedy series Nurse Jackie, premiering in June 2009.⁶⁷⁸⁹

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.¹⁰

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 2005.¹¹

Edie Falco has become the spokesperson for Health Care for America Now (HCAN) and appeared on CNN on June 25, 2009.¹²

Personal life

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."¹³

In 2003, Edie was diagnosed with breast cancer, which she subsequently survived. She chose not to make the news public for approximately one year.¹³

Awards and recognition

Awards won

Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress - Drama Series

• 1999: The Sopranos (for the episode "College")
• 2001: The Sopranos (for the episode "Second Opinion")
• 2003: The Sopranos (for the episode "Whitecaps")

Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actress - TV Drama Series

• 2000: The Sopranos
• 2003: The Sopranos

Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor - Drama Series

• 2000: The Sopranos
• 2003: The Sopranos
• 2007: The Sopranos

Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble - Drama Series

• 2000: The Sopranos
• 2007: The Sopranos

Award nominations

Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress - Drama Series

• 2000: The Sopranos (for the episode "Full Leather Jacket")
• 2004: The Sopranos (for the episode "All Happy Families...")
• 2007: The Sopranos (for the episode "The Second Coming")

Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress - Comedy Series

• 2008: 30 Rock (for the episode "Episode 210")

Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actress - TV Drama Series

• 2001: The Sopranos
• 2002: The Sopranos
• 2005: The Sopranos
• 2007: The Sopranos

Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor - Drama Series

• 2001: The Sopranos
• 2002: The Sopranos
• 2005: The Sopranos

Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble - Drama Series

• 2001: The Sopranos
• 2002: The Sopranos
• 2003: The Sopranos
• 2005: The Sopranos

References

External links

Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: Edie Falco

• Edie Falco at the Internet Broadway Database
• Edie Falco at the Internet Movie Database
• Biography at Hollywood.com
• Sopranos cast biography

Awards and achievements
Preceded by Keri Russell for Felicity	Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Drama Series 1999 for The Sopranos	Succeeded by Sela Ward for Once and Again
Preceded by Julianna Margulies for ER	Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actress - Drama Series 1999 for The Sopranos	Succeeded by Allison Janney for The West Wing
Preceded by Jennifer Garner for Alias	Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Drama Series 2002 for The Sopranos	Succeeded by Frances Conroy for Six Feet Under
Preceded by Allison Janney for The West Wing	Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actress - Drama Series 2002 for The Sopranos	Succeeded by Frances Conroy for Six Feet Under
Preceded by Chandra Wilson for Grey's Anatomy	Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actress - Drama Series 2007 for The Sopranos	Succeeded by TBD

v • d • e Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress - Drama Series Michael Learned (1976) · Lindsay Wagner (1977) · Sada Thompson (1978) · Mariette Hartley (1979) · Barbara Bel Geddes (1980) · Barbara Babcock (1981) · Michael Learned (1982) · Tyne Daly (1983) · Tyne Daly (1984) · Tyne Daly (1985) · Sharon Gless (1986) · Sharon Gless (1987) · Tyne Daly (1988) · Dana Delany (1989) · Patricia Wettig (1990) · Patricia Wettig (1991) · Dana Delany (1992) · Kathy Baker (1993) · Sela Ward (1994) · Kathy Baker (1995) · Kathy Baker (1996) · Gillian Anderson (1997) · Christine Lahti (1998) · Edie Falco (1999) · Sela Ward (2000) Complete list: (1952-1975) · (1976-2000) · (2001-present)

v • d • e Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress - Drama Series Edie Falco (2001) · Allison Janney (2002) · Edie Falco (2003) · Allison Janney (2004) · Patricia Arquette (2005) · Mariska Hargitay (2006) · Sally Field (2007) · Glenn Close (2008) Complete list: (1952-1975) · (1976-2000) · (2001-present)

Persondata
NAME	Falco, Edie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Falco, Edith
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Emmy winning American television, film and stage actress
DATE OF BIRTH	July 5, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH	Brooklyn, New York
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH