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She has also appeared as a guest star on the television shows 30 Rock and Will & Grace.Įdie starred as the title character in the Showtime dark comedy series Nurse Jackie, which premiered in Jand ended on June 28, 2015. 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. Falco is the second actor to have won Emmys for lead acting in both a drama and a comedy series (the first actor to do so was Carroll O'Connor).įalco has appeared in the films Trust, Reversal of Fortune, Cop Land, Private Parts (nonspeaking part), Random Hearts, Freedomland, and John Sayles' Sunshine State, for which she received the Los Angeles Film Critics Award for 'Best Supporting Actress'. Įdie has won four Emmys, two Golden Globes and five Screen Actors Guild Awards. Edie Falco’s character Carmela is praised in Kristyn Gorton's essay 'Why I Love Carmela Soprano' for challenging Italian-American gender roles. Falco won these awards in 2003 for her performance as Carmela Soprano during the fourth season of The Sopranos. Mendelsohn is the only director to ever win this award twice.įalco, 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 went on to star in Mendelsohn's next film 3 Backyards, for which he won 'Best Director' a second time. Mendelsohn went on to direct Falco in his feature film Judy Berlin, for which he won 'Best Director' honors at the Sundance Film Festival. 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. Her first big break in films was a small speaking role in the 1994 Woody Allen film Bullets over Broadway. Fontana cast Falco as a regular character, prison officer Diane Whittlesey, in his HBO series Oz based on her work in the Homicide episodes ' Son of a Gun' and ' A Shot in the Dark'. She does everything with such simplicity and honesty, it's breathtaking.' A struggling actress at the time, Falco said her salary from these television episodes paid for one month's worth of rent. Fontana said of her, 'She's an actress who's unadorned by any embroidery. Tom Fontana, executive director of Homicide, cast Falco as Eva Thormann, the wife of an injured police officer, after watching Falco's performance in Laws of Gravity, a 1992 film directed by Nick Gomez. CareerĮarly in her career, Falco made appearances on television shows like Law & Order and Homicide: Life on the Street. She graduated in 1986 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in acting. She attended the acting program at SUNY Purchase, along with fellow actors Stanley Tucci and Ving Rhames. Falco graduated from Northport High School in 1981. Her family eventually moved to Northport, where she attended high school and played Eliza Doolittle in a production of My Fair Lady during her senior year. As a child she acted in plays at the Arena Players Repertory Theater in East Farmingdale, where her mother also performed. Her uncle is novelist, playwright, and poet Edward Falco, an English professor at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg.įrom the age of four, she was raised on Long Island, moving with her family to Hicksville, followed by North Babylon, then West Islip. Falco's siblings are Joseph, Paul, and Ruth. Her father was of Italian descent and her mother's ancestry was Swedish and English. Falco was born in Brooklyn, New York, the daughter of Judith Anderson, an actress, and Frank Falco, a jazz drummer who later worked for an advertising agency.

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