Lorraine Bracco

Acting

Lorraine Bracco

Born 1954-10-02 · Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

Lorraine Bracco (born October 2, 1954) is an American actress. She is known for her roles as Karen Hill in Goodfellas, Dr. Jennifer Melfi on the HBO television series The Sopranos, and Angela Rizzoli, Jane's mother on Rizzoli & Isles.

Acting credits

GoodFellas poster
8.5

The true story of Henry Hill, a half-Irish, half-Sicilian Brooklyn kid who is adopted by neighbourhood gangsters at an early age and climbs the ranks of a Mafia family under the guidance of Jimmy Conway.

GoodFellas

1990

Hackers poster
6.4

Along with his new friends, a teenager who was arrested by the US Secret Service and banned from using a computer for writing a computer virus discovers a plot by a nefarious hacker, but they must use their computer skills to find the evidence while being pursued by the Secret Service and the evil computer genius behind the virus.

Hackers

1995

Pinocchio poster
6.3

A wooden puppet embarks on a thrilling adventure to become a real boy.

Pinocchio

2022

The Basketball Diaries poster
7.4

A high school basketball player’s life turns upside down after free-falling into the harrowing world of drug addiction.

The Basketball Diaries

1995

The Union poster
6.0

A New Jersey construction worker goes from regular guy to aspiring spy when his long-lost high school sweetheart recruits him for an espionage mission.

The Union

2024

Radio Flyer poster
7.0

A father reminisces about his childhood when he and his younger brother moved to a new town with their mother, her new husband and their dog, Shane. When the younger brother is subjected to physical abuse at the hands of their brutal stepfather, Mike decides to convert their toy trolley, the "Radio Flyer", into a plane to fly him to safety.

Radio Flyer

1992

Switch poster
5.9

Steve Brooks, a sexist womanizer, is killed by a group of his angry former lovers. In heaven, he makes a bargain with God for redemption and agrees to return to Earth. Once there, he must have a sincere relationship with a female and make her fall in love with him. If not, Steve's soul will become the property of the devil. But the devil hedges his bet, and Steve is reincarnated as a woman named Amanda Brooks.

Switch

1991

Medicine Man poster
6.0

An eccentric scientist in the Amazon jungle rejects his research assistant for being a woman, but as bulldozers threaten their work on a potential cancer cure, they learn to collaborate and begin to fall in love.

Medicine Man

1992

Riding in Cars with Boys poster
6.7

In 1965, a young woman with dreams of becoming a writer has a son at the age of 15 and struggles to make things work with the drug-addicted father.

Riding in Cars with Boys

2001

Nonnas poster
6.8

After losing his beloved mother, a man risks everything to honor her by opening an Italian restaurant with actual nonnas — grandmothers — as the chefs.

Nonnas

2025

Rich Flu poster
5.3

A strange disease kills off some of the richest and most influential people on the planet. First it was the billionaires, then the multi-millionaires and so on progressively... Then it threatens to strike anyone with any sort of fortune. With the whole world panicking, people try to flood the market with assets the world no longer wants.

Rich Flu

2024

Being Human poster
5.1

One man must learn the meaning of courage across four lifetimes centuries apart.

Being Human

1994

The Birthday Cake poster
5.1

On the 10th anniversary of his father's death, Giovanni reluctantly accepts the task of bringing a cake to the home of his uncle, a mob boss, for a celebration. Just two hours into the night, Gio's life is forever changed.

The Birthday Cake

2021

Monster Summer poster
6.3

When a mysterious force begins to disrupt their big summer fun, Noah and his friends team up with a retired police detective to embark on a monstrous adventure to save their island.

Monster Summer

2024

Someone to Watch Over Me poster
5.8

Claire Gregory, an upper class New York personality, witnesses a murder in a luxurious nightclub. Detective Mike Keegan, recently promoted, is assigned to protect her.

Someone to Watch Over Me

1987

The Pick-up Artist poster
5.7

A womanizer meets his match when he falls for the daughter of a gambling addict who is in debt to the mob.

The Pick-up Artist

1987

The Dream Team poster
6.1

Four mental patients on a field trip in New York City must save their caring chaperone, who ends up being taken to a hospital in a coma after accidentally witnessing a murder, before the killers can find him and finish the job.

The Dream Team

1989

Even Cowgirls Get the Blues poster
4.3

A girl born with enormous thumbs in the repressive era of the 1950s learns to turn her quirks into assets.

Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

1994

Tangled poster
5.4

A young man is found bruised, beaten and stumbling down a secluded road. As the police try to piece together what happened, the convoluted relationship between a young woman and her two suitors gradually emerges.

Tangled

2001

Death of a Dynasty poster
6.4

A story which centers around Dave Katz, a journalist at a hip-hop magazine who is sent on assignment to uncover the often comedic underworld of Roc-a-Fella Records run by Damon Dash and Jay-Z.

Death of a Dynasty

2003

Ladies Room poster
4.0

In an ethereal, high-ceilinged room, women stand, waiting. Perhaps it's Purgatory and they're dead. In the room, two young women, one an actress and the other a psychologist, watch the last few days of their lives on a TV screen. Both are having affairs with married men, each has a long encounter with her lover's wife, and both these scenes take place in a ladies' room, one backstage at a play that's about to preview, the other at an opera house during the first act. The relationships between each pair of younger and older women take surprising turns, and in the room with the TV, a sylph asks probing and challenging questions of the two young women as they watch.

Ladies Room

1999

On a Moonlit Night poster
6.7

An American journalist working for a French newspaper is writing an article on the public reaction to those with AIDS, unaware that he too is infected. Once he finds out, he decides to go into reclusion, leaving his wife and daughter.

On a Moonlit Night

1989

What Did I Ever Do to the Good Lord to Deserve a Wife Who Drinks in Cafes with Men? poster
8.0

Gaby is happy. After eighteen years of work, he is a flourishing mechanist. But one day, the mechanic of his life is out of order. He discovers that his assistant is in love with his wife. This one runs away with her daughter in law. So, Gaby's friends imagine a gambit to find them, at the moment where father and son enjoy pleasures of single life.

What Did I Ever Do to the Good Lord to Deserve a Wife Who Drinks in Cafes with Men?

1980

Crazy for Love poster
5.6

A suicidal comedy about two young lovers who get married and escape from a mental institution in search of new ways to die...and the white light.

Crazy for Love

2005

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