Edie Falco won numerous Emmy and Golden Globe honours for playing the iconic Carmela Soprano, a suburban New Jersey mother and troubled wife of an organized crime leader, in one of the most critically acclaimed television series of all time, “The Sopranos” (HBO, 1999–2007).
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Edie Falco parents: Meet Frank Falco, Judith Anderson
Her parents are jazz drummer Frank Falco, who later worked for an advertising business, and actress Judith Anderson. Her mother was 1/16th Cornish and had Swedish, English, and Cornish ancestry, while her father was of Italian descent.
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Before dominating television audiences as the manicured wife of a Mafia don, Falco had a recurring role on the gritty prison drama “Oz” (HBO, 1997–99) and police dramas like “Law & Order” (NBC, 1990–2010) and “Homicide: Life on the Street” (NBC, 1993–99), where she displayed a naturalistic acting style that was world-weary and independent, yet vulnerable.
