Lorraine Bracco Biography
Lorraine Bracco, a New Yorker with a husky voice, started her career in France as model. Her next step was to become an actress on television and film. After starring alongside her future husband Harvey Keitel in the Italian crime-drama "Camorra" (1986), Bracco made her U.S. feature debut in Ridley Scott's modern noir "Someone to Watch Over Me" (1987). The following year she starred in an unforgettable performance as a supporting actress in Martin Scorsese's classic mob drama "Goodfellas" (1990), with Ray Liotta as the lead. The actress then appeared with Sean Connery in the jungle-adventure, "Medicine Man" (1992) and then a turn as Elijah Wood's mom in the fantasy-drama "Radio Flyer" (1992). Bracco played the distraught mother of troubled teenager Tom Carroll (Leonardo DiCaprio), before she took on the role of the iconic Dr. Jennifer Melfi, a psychiatrist, on "The Sopranos", an original crime drama (HBO 1999-2007). Following her acclaimed tenure on the revered series, she picked up an additional regular casting part on the police procedural "Rizzoli and Isles" (TNT in the years 2010-16) as the mother of Detective Jane Rizzoli (Angie Harmon). In role after role , as complex, intelligent women, Bracco continued to play against the norm and displayed the range that she initially concealed by her attractive appearance and unmistakably Brooklyn accent.
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