Suzanne Shepherd, 'Goodfellas' And 'The Sopranos' Actor, Dead At 89
Huff PostSuzanne Shepherd, an actor best known for portraying protective mothers in “Goodfellas” and “The Sopranos,” has died. Suzanne Shepherd starred in 20 episodes of “The Sopranos” as Mary DeAngelis, the mother of Edie Falco’s Carmela Soprano. Suzanne Shepherd had also starred in other classics, including Darren Aronofsky’s “Requiem For A Dream” and Adrian Lyne’s “Jacob’s Ladder” and “Lolita” — but was a classically trained actor who taught at numerous schools and ran her own studio. “While she was Edie Falco’s mother on the Sopranos and wore a huge wart in Uncle Buck being brilliant and had horns growing out of her scalp in Jacob’s Ladder, her focus was so much on teaching Meisner technique,” Kate Shepherd wrote Monday. Suzanne Shepherd’s fellow “Sopranos” alum Ray Abruzzo, who played Little Carmine Lupertazzi in the acclaimed series, remembered her fondly on Instagram: “Sad to hear of the passing of Suzanne Shepherd.
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