Lorraine Bracco is an American actress and model, nominated for the Academy Award (1991), the Golden Globe (1991, 2000, 2001, 2002) and the Emmy (1999, 2000, 2001, 2007). Early in her career, Bracco appeared in the films Someone to Watch Over Me and The Pick-up Artist. Her breakthrough came with a role in Martin Scorsese's 1990 film Goodfellas. She won several awards from various critics and received nominations for the Academy Award and the Golden Globe in the Best Supporting Actress category. Nevertheless, in the following years the actress's film career was less successful, and she appeared in films that received negative reviews from critics, such as The Pope of Greenwich Village, Medicine Man, The Dream Chasers, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, Hackers and The Basketball Diaries. In 1999, Lorraine Bracco received the role of Jennifer Melfi, which became her greatest career success, in the television series The Sopranos.

She received four Emmy nominations and three Golden Globe nominations for her work on the show. In 1999 and 2001 she lost the Emmy in the Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series category to her co-star Edie Falco. In 2007 she was nominated for the Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series, but lost again, this time to Katherine Heigl. From 2010 to 2016, Lorraine Bracco played the role of the mother of the main character in the series Rizzoli & Isles. Bracco was married twice. Her first husband was Daniel Guerard, after divorcing whom she was in a relationship with Harvey Keitel for twelve years[5]. After breaking up with him in 1994, she married Edward James Olmos, whom she met on the set of the film The Pope of Greenwich Village. Their marriage fell apart in 2002. Bracco has two children: daughters Stella from Keitel and Margo from Guerard.