“Sopranos” star Lorraine Braco After turning 70, he has accepted a date.
Recent interviews With AARP, The actress, who played Tony Soprano’s psychiatrist Dr. Jennifer Melfi in the hit HBO series, shared the latest information on her love life and revealed the qualities she finds most attractive with her potential partner.
“I’m single and I’m sure someone will arrive,” Bracco said.
“Sopranos” star Lorraine Bracco renovates an Italian house she bought for one euro
“Sopranos” star Lorraine Bracco is looking for love. (Getty)
“I believe in love,” she continued. “What do I want from a guy? A sense of humor is very important. And I like guys who are sure of themselves.”
“I’m sure of myself, so I want him to be stable and rock,” Bracco added.
“Good Fellas” star I was married twice before. Her first marriage was to Daniel Guerard, the owner of a French hair salon that she met while working as a model in Paris. They tied the knot after learning that she was pregnant.
“Essentially, he said, ‘Well, what do you want to do?’,” Braco recalled in a 2006 interview. ABC News.
“And I said, ‘Well, where did I come from, you’re married, you have children.’ And he said with great pleasure, “Okay,” she recalled.
Braco and Gerard married in 1979 and welcomed their daughter Margo Gerard that year. However, they divorced in 1982.
“What do I want from a guy? A sense of humor is very important. And I like guys who are sure of themselves.
Braco previously had an 11-year relationship with Harvey Caitel. (Ron Galella, Ltd.
After his divorce from Gerard, Braco began dating an Oscar-nominated actor Harvey Caitel. The actress told ABC News that Keitel was “very intense.”
“I was seduced,” she recalled.
Bracco and Keitel, parents of their 39-year-old daughter Stella, have been in a relationship for 11 years. The two split in 1993 after Braco admitted to having a relationship with her “game talent” co-star Edward James Ormos, She got married the following year.
“He hated me. I hate him,” Bracco told ABC that he had confessed to Caitel about the incident. “That was the beginning of the end. And I knew it. And it was my way, my very immature un dr.
After their romance was over, Bracco and Keitel engaged in a fierce custody battle through Stella. Braco was eventually awarded the sole custody of her daughter, but the long-standing dispute resulted in her paying $2 million in legal fees. It also hit Bracco’s marriage to Olmos, and was called out to quit in 2002.
The actress married Edward James Ormos from 1994 to 2002. (Jim Smeal/Ron Galella collection via Getty Images)
In the aftermath of the custody battle, Bracco fights depression and decides to seek expert help after appearing in “The Sopranos” in 1997.
“I’ve lost a year to depression. The advice to anyone experiencing it is to get a good doctor, get diagnosed, know that pharmacology works. Don’t be afraid of that,” Bracco told AARP. “The stigma of that stopped me at first. It’s stupid. And talk therapy is big. You’re worth it, you’re worth a good day every day.”
Lorraine Bracco discusses her depression
David Chase, creator of “The Sopranos,” originally envisioned taking on the role of Carmela Soprano, wife of Tony Soprano, the wife of the series’ wife. (James Gandolfini), When he asks her to audition.
Bracco previously won an Academy Award nomination and a Golden Globe Award for his performance as Karen Hill, the wife of real-life gangster Henry Hill (Rayliotta) in the 1990 gangster film Goodfellas.
However, Bracco declined that part and expressed his interest in playing Dr. Melfi. Interviews in 2020 USA TODAY, Bracco explained why he rejected the role of Carmela in Eddie Falco.
“Look, Carmela was a great character,” she said. “When I read the script, I said, ‘I really don’t want to play Carmella.’ I wanted to play Melfi. Because for me it wasn’t just the wife of the mob, “Really?” he was surprised I wanted to play Melfi.
Braco played Tony Soprano psychiatrist Dr. Melfi in “The Sopranos.” (Anthony Neste/Getty Images)
From 1999 to 2001, Bracco won three consecutive Emmy Awards for outstanding lead actresses in drama series for her performance as Melfi as well as nodding the Golden Globe Awards in 2000, 2001 and 2002.
In 2000, she lost an Emmy to her co-star Falco. Bracco was nominated for actress Emmy in 2007 after portraying Melfi in the final season of “The Sopranos.”
Interviewed in 2006 New York Times, Bracco shared the lead role “soprano” It had eased some of the financial burden she was still carrying for custody.
“The show was a blessing,” she said. “It gives me great financial security. I could think, ‘Oh, my God! I can go to work next year. There’s no need to worry about it.” ”
Bracco appeared on hit shows throughout six seasons of runs from 1999 to 2007. While talking to AARP, the Brooklyn native shared that she is aware of her in a series in which fans evaluated her role.
“Last year marked the 25th anniversary of the Sopranos, and people are still calling out, “Hey, doc!” When they saw me on the street,” she said. “I love it. It means that my role as Dr. Melfi means something to them.”
She received four Emmy Award nominations and three Golden Globes nods. (Getty Images)
However, Bracco explained that nostalgia for some of her most famous projects was often bittersweet after Gandolfini and Liotta’s deaths. In June 2013, Gandolfini died at the age of 51 after a heart attack. Liotta has passed away The cause was a 67-year-old respiratory and heart problem in May 2022.
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“When I think about it [‘The Sopranos’] I don’t think about success – I think about what I’ve lost,” she told AARP. “I lost Jimmy.”
She continued, “And because of ‘Goodfellas’ 35 years ago, I lost Ray Liotta. I lost two people I worked with.
Bracco starred with Ray Liotta in “Goodfellas.” (via Richard Colcurry/New York Daily News Archives Getty Images)
Due to her latest project, Braco took on the comedy genre for the first time in her career. The actress will star as Roberta in the upcoming Netflix film “Nonnas.” Based on a real life story, “Nonna,” the Italian word for “grandmother,” follows Joe Scalavera (Vins Vaughn) “He wastes time as a man in a dead end job and longs for a second chance, so he opens a restaurant and hires a group of grandmothers as chefs,” according to the plot summary.
“This was big for me as I’ve never done comedy before. I was nervous. I didn’t know where to start,” Bracco told AARP.
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She continued, “The director (Steven Cibosky) gave me these ugly glasses, and I said: “I look terrible, what are you doing to me?” he said, “Lorraine, trust me.” He was laughing behind the camera.
“It was a character, it wasn’t a million years, I thought I’d play,” added Bracco.
The actress appears in her first comedy, “Nonnas.” (Scad’s Dia dipasupil/getty images)
Meanwhile, Bracco told the outlet that she enjoys the real role of daughter Margaux’s grandmother of two children.
“Being a grandmother is so much fun because you relive some of you who have been dormant for a while,” she said. “We play, read, talk, I’m fine as long as I can go down to the floor and get up again.”
As she entered the 70s, Braco celebrated the promises she made to herself 20 years ago.
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“When I turned 50, I made a deal with myself,” she told AARP. “More fun, more fun, more fun!”
