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| Edie Falco is the first actress ever to sweep the top three television awards. In 2000, she received the Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series, The Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Drama Series, and the SAG (Screen Actors Guild) Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series, all for her performance as Carmela Soprano in the hit HBO series The Sopranos. She has played Carmela since 1999, and also won the Golden Globe award and the Emmy for best actress in 2003. Falco was born July 5, 1963, in Brooklyn, NY. She graduated from the acting program at SUNY Purchase and, immediately afterwards, went to work as a clown and entertainer at weddings and birthday parties. She began to get small parts in films in the late 1980s. Some of the films she has appeared in include The Unbelievable Truth (1990), Laws of Gravity (1992), Bullets Over Broadway (1994), The Addiction (1995), Cost of Living (1997 -- won Los Angeles AFI Film Festival Best Actress award), Cop Land (1997), A Price Above Rubies (1998), Random Hearts (1999), and Sunshine State (2002). From 1993-1996, Falco had a recurring role as the wife of a blinded police officer on NBC's acclaimed drama Homicide: Life on the Street. She also guest-starred on Law and Order, Oz, and Will and Grace. Falco made her Broadway debut in 1999, in Warren Leight's semi-autobiographical play Side Man, in a role which she originated in 1996 in workshop productions. She has also appeared on stage in The Vagina Monologues and Frankie and Johnny in the Claire de Lune. |
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