Lorraine Bracco made a career in film at a time when the terms of that career were still being set.
The record lists Lorraine Bracco as American actress.
Lorraine Bracco was born at Brooklyn in 1954. Her recorded nationality is the United States. She was educated at Hicksville High School.
The twentieth century made work collective, expensive and political, with consequences that reached well beyond the people doing it.
The record gives her occupations as actor, model and film director.
The work that carried her reputation furthest concerned performance as psychiatrist Jennifer Melfi on the HBO crime drama series The Sopranos. The screen flattens effort: a performance that took months reads as a few unhurried minutes.
The surviving body of work includes Pinocchio.
Her work was formally recognised with the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series.
Working from the United States shaped what was possible - the audiences within reach, the institutions that would have her, the language the work first appeared in.
Lorraine Bracco is still at work, and the final assessment has not been made - the ordinary condition of a living career.
Achievements
- Notable work: Pinocchio
- Educated at Hicksville High School
- Worked as actor, model and film director
