The further we go back in Hollywood history, the more that fact and legend become intertwined.
It's hard to say where the truth really lies.
Donna Allen-Figueroa
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July 5, 1963
Edie Falco is born in Brooklyn, New York.
Television, film, and
stage actress,
known for her roles as Diane
Whittlesey in the HBO series Oz (1997–2000)
and Carmela Soprano on the HBO series The
Sopranos (1999–2007), for which she received six Emmy nominations,
winning three for an Outstanding
Lead Actress in a Drama Series as well as winning two Golden
Globes and five Screen Actors Guild Awards.
Falco portrayed the eponymous
role on the Showtime series Nurse
Jackie (2009–15), earning six further Emmy nominations and winning
once for an Outstanding
Lead Actress in a Comedy. In 2016, she played Sylvia Wittel on the Louis C.K. web
series, Horace and Pete. In 2017, Falco portrayed real
life defense attorney Leslie
Abramson in the first season of the true crime anthology
series Law & Order True Crime.
Falco's film roles include
lead roles in Laws of Gravity (1992), for which
she was nominated for the Independent Spirit Award
for Best Female Lead and Judy
Berlin(1999), and supporting roles in films including Sunshine State (2002), Freedomland (2006) and The Comedian (2016). For her role
in the 2011 Broadway revival of The House of Blue Leaves, Falco earned
a nomination for a Tony Award for Best
Featured Actress in a Play.
To quote the Bicentennial Minute, "And that's the way it was".
 Stay Tuned Tony Figueroa |
I represent the first generation who, when we were born, the television was now a permanent fixture in our homes. When I was born people had breakfast with Barbara Walters, dinner with Walter Cronkite, and slept with Johnny Carson. Read the full "Pre-ramble"
Monday, July 02, 2018
This Week in Television History: July 2018 PART I
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