Lorraine Bracco
Lorraine Bracco
Lorraine Bracco is an American actress. She is best known for her performances as Dr. Jennifer Melfi on the HBO series The Sopranos, and as Karen Friedman Hill in the 1990 Martin Scorsese film Goodfellas, for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She currently appears as Angela Rizzoli on the TNT series Rizzoli & Isles...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actress
Date of Birth2 October 1954
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
Tony Soprano is an everyday kind of guy, bringing up teen-agers, having a daughter, trying to get her into a good school. God, half of America can deal with that.
So that's been very good for us, the long hiatuses.
It's not really my kind of personality, yoga, but we do a half hour and I'm totally relaxed. I've been working out, so I feel big, good, and strong.
I was jumping out of my skin. It was horrible. I was all over the place, because I'd never been in front of a live audience. That's a whole other element in the play, the audience.
You know, last season I didn't do anything on the show, so I was frustrated. I mean, don't get me wrong: It's nice to get a paycheck. But if you don't really do anything it's not very satisfying.
I'd be like, 'You're a young, vibrant woman. Where are you?' I realized that I had been living in denial.
The only bad thing is that I've been smoking cigarettes. I smoke in the play, so I've limited myself to smoking only in the theater.
What we have on HBO, which I find absolutely phenomenal, is creative freedom,
I think it's darker. I don't think it's desperation, but it's despair.
I think it's so original. I think there are so many layers to it that people are really enjoying.
Well, you know, we've been asked not to speak so it's really hard.
I am funny. No one else thinks I am funny. But I am funny.
Everything was coming my way, but I was going down. I was painfully empty.
I thought I was going to be a lot more freaked out by being naked onstage. I think on film I would have been more freaked out, because film is less forgiving. But onstage it's lit so beautifully. It would make my mother look good.