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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.
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Known as part of "the Purchase Mafia" thanks to her status as one of the many illustrious alumni of the State University of New York at Purchase, Edie Falco is one of America's most well-respected television and film actresses. A native of Brooklyn, Falco, who is of Sicilian heritage, was born in 1963. She got her professional start acting in fellow-Purchase alum Hal Hartley's films, most notably Trust (1991), which cast her as the unrepentantly trampy older sister of a pregnant cheerleader (Adrienne Shelly). Falco spent the 1990s dividing her time and talent between TV and film, doing recurring work on such series as Homicide: Life on the Street and Law and Order, and appearing in a slew of diverse films that included Woody Allen's Bullets over Broadway (1994) and The Addiction (1995).
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Celebrities, including Jennifer Tilly, Coolio, Tiffani-Amber Thiessen and Edie Falco have experienced romance on the road. Actress Jennifer Tilly recalls an incident where she was driving alongside a man in a classic pink convertible who followed her to her next stop and asked her out on a date. Jennifer remembers another episode where a driver boldly asked for her phone number, after which they went on to date for two months.
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Edie Falco made her Broadway debut in the Tony Award winning play SIDE MAN, which she originated in its off-Broadway production. For her performance, she received a Theatre World Award and Drama Desk Award nomination for the Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play. She has ... been seen in New York in the off-Broadway production of SHOOTING GALLERY, THE WAY, and A FABULOUS BEAST.
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October 11 at 10 p.m. Edie Falco, star of The Sopranos, hosted the 2005–2006 season of Independent Lens on PBS. The new season got off to a funky start with PARLIAMENT FUNKADELIC: One Nation Under a Groove
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Edie Falco was born in Brooklyn, and started appearing in school plays almost as soon as she started going to school. Falco had a fairly substantial role in her first film, Sweet Lorraine with Maureen Stapleton and Giancarlo Esposito. She attended college with eventual independent filmmaker Hal Hartley, and has appeared in three of his films. She has ... made two films with Abel Ferrara, and had a tiny role in Woody Allen's Bullets Over Broadway. She had a rare leading role in Judy Berlin, an oddball but endearing independent movie about an eclipse over Long Island.
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