Edie Falco is a film, television and stage performer who was born on July 5, 1963 in Brooklyn, New York. She is the daughter of Italian-American commercial sculptor Frank Falco and Swedish actress Judith Anderson. Edie likewise has three siblings named Ruth, Paul, and Joseph. She is ... related to the poet, playwright and novelist Edward Falco, who is her uncle and a professor at Virginia Tech in Blackburg. Edie was brought up in Northport on Long Island, and has an adopted son named Anderson. After graduating from Northport High School in 1981, she went on to pursue higher learning at SUNY Purchase together with fellow actors Ving Rhames and Stanley Tucci, with whom she maintains good ties.