Lorraine Bracco plays psychiatrist Dr. Jennifer Melfi who treats Mafia heavyweight Tony Soprano on HBO’s hit series, The Soprano.  Her concise, understated portrayal has earned her multiple Emmy, Golden Globes, and Screen Actors Guild Award Nominations for Best Actress in a TV Drama. 

In addition, Ms. Bracco was nominated for an academy Award for her performance as a mobster’s wife in GOODFELLAS directed by Martin Scorsese.  Ms. Bracco recently starred as Drew Barrymore’s mother in Riding in Cars in Boys directed by Penny Marshall and will be seen in the indie thriller Tangled directed by Jay Lowi with Rachel Leigh Cook.  Ms. Bracco most recently starred as “Mrs. Robinson” in Terry’s Johnson’s adaptation of The Graduate on Broadway.

Ms. Bracco was born to an Italian-American father and an English mother.  Though she was voted ugliest girl in sixth grade, she nonetheless became a Paris fashion model represented by the Wilhelmina Agency.  Ms. Bracco told the Los Angeles Times she was “never glamorous, more the girl-next door type.”

Ms. Bracco worked as a disc jockey for Radio Luxembourg and began to act in films.  She appeared in several French comedies and worked with Italian film director Lina Wertuller.  Returning to the US, she studied at Stella Adler and the Actors Studio in New York City.

Ms. Bracco made her American feature film debut in the 1987 Ridley Scott’s thriller, “Someone to Watch Over Me.”  According to the Los Angeles Times,  “Bracco’s portrayal of a cuckolded Queens housewife who forgoes tears to KO her unfaithful detective husband captivated pre- ‘Thelma & Louise audiences.”

Other film credits include “The Pick-Up Artist”, “Switch”, “Medicine Man”, Even Cowgirls Get The Blues”, “Hackers”, and “Basketball Diaries”.

Ms. Bracco is a member of the Board of the New York Council for the Humanities.