Lorraine Bracco : Role - Dr. Jennifer Melfi
Birthday : 2 October 1954
Birth Place : Brooklyn, New York, U.S.A.
Height : 5′8″
Gender : Female
Recent Role : Herself on Paula’s Party
Lorraine Bracco was born on 2 October 1954 in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, New York City, New York. She was raised in Hicksville on Long Island. She is the daughter of an Italian American father and a British mother. She is the elder sister of Elizabeth Braco. She married two times but both the marriages did not last long. Her first husband was Daniel Guerard, and she re-married Edward James Olmos.
After divorcing her first husband, she entered into a romantic relationship with Harvey Keitel. She has a daughter Stella Keitel, fathered by Harvey Keitel. She had to fight legally for the custody of her daughter when both of them separated. Later she was forced to file for bankruptcy due to the heavy fees spent on this case. She has one more daughter named Margaux, fathered by her ex-husband Daniel Guerard. She is now dating Jason Cippola, a former basketball star of Syracuse Orange.
She owes a line of wines by the name of Bracco Wines. She talked about how she got over clinical depression, in the talk show- Oprah. She also promoted her book ‘On the Couch’ in this show.
She became a fashion model and modeled for Jean-Paul Gaultier in 1974 in France. During her stay in France, she acted in several French films. She also worked as a disc jockey at Radio Luxemburg, for a short time.
She appeared in some films like ‘Riding in Cars with Boys’, ‘The Basketball Dairies’, ‘Medicine Man’, ‘Radio Flyer’, ‘Hackers‘, etc. She appeared on a single episode of ‘Crime Story’. Her career got a boost from the hit role of the mobster-wife “Karen Hill” in ‘Goodfellas‘. She also acted as “Dr. Jennifer Melfi” in the TV series ‘The Sopranos’. Her other acting ventures also include ‘Someone To Watch Over Me’, ‘Sing‘, ‘Talent For The Game‘, ‘Even Cowgirls Get the Blues’ and ‘My Suicidal Sweetheart‘.
She was nominated for an Oscar in 1991 for the Best Actress in Supporting Role for ‘Goodfellas‘. She also earned the Golden Globe nominations for Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series- Drama for ‘The Sopranos’ from 2000-2002, and for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture for ‘Goodfellas‘ in 1991. She was nominated for the Emmy Awards from 1999-2001 for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series for ‘The Sopranos’. She earned nomination for the same award in 2007 for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for ‘The Sopranos’. She won the SAGA for Outstanding performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series for ‘The Sopranos’ in 2000 and 2008, and she was also a nominee for several other categories of the same award in the years- 2000, 2001-2003, 2005 and 2007. She also was a nominee for various other awards in different categories, and she became the winner of some of them.
Role in The Sopranos
Lorraine Bracco is playing the role of “Dr. Jennifer Melfi” in ‘The Sopranos’ tv show. She is the psychiatrist who attends to ‘Tony Soprano“, the Mafia don. She has a son Jason LaPenna from her ex-husband Richard LaPenna. She knows many things about “Tony” which none other has ever known. She wants to keep their relation strictly professional and resists Tony’s advances for quite sometime. In due course of time, however, the relation between the two becomes on-again-off-again type.
