Biography
Suzanne Shepherd was an American actress and theater director. She is best known for her portrayal of Karen's overbearing mother in the film Goodfellas, Carmela Soprano's mother Mary De Angelis in the HBO television series The Sopranos, and the assistant school principal in Uncle Buck. Shepherd studied acting with Sanford Meisner, and later went on to teach Meisner's program of acting study, the first woman to do so. She was a founding member of the Compass Players in the early 1960s, along with...
Known For
Complete Filmography
The Performance
2024
as Tess
Harold May, an excellent Jewish-American tap dancer, on tour in Europe with his company, receives an offer from a German that is difficult to pass up:...
The Week Of
2018
as Aunt Iris
The parents of a soon-to-be married couple make the final preparations for the wedding ceremony.
Where Is Kyra?
2018
as Ruth
Pushed to the brink after losing her job, a woman struggles to survive. As the months pass and her troubles deepen, she embarks on a perilous and myst...
Furlough
2018
as Elizabeth Anderson
In between caring for her mother, a young woman works part time at a prison. The rookie guard gets a chance to prove her mettle when she's tasked with...
Jerome's Bouquet
2013
as Elena Klein
82 year-old Elena Klein, a retired New York florist, can't stop arranging — only now it's not flowers she's arranging, but people's lives.
Delivering the Goods
2012
as Mrs. Weinbaum
In New York City, a young Italian-American guy sets out to become a chef, much to the chagrin of his father.
I Hate Valentine's Day
2009
as Edie
A love story set in Manhattan, where a florist who abides by a strict five-date-limit with any man finds herself wanting more with the new restaurateu...
Choke
2008
as Waitress
A sex-addicted con-man pays for his mother's hospital bills by playing on the sympathies of those who rescue him from choking to death.
Harold
2008
as Maude Sellers
A teenager with an early onset of male-pattern baldness befriends his high school's janitor.
A Dirty Shame
2004
as Big Ethel
Sylvia Stickles runs a convenience store with her husband and mother-in-law. One day, Sylvia is hit on the head and transforms from an uptight prude t...
Never Again
2001
as Mother
A man and a woman who have pledged never to fall in love again meet in a gay bar.
Requiem for a Dream
2000
as Mrs. Scarlini
The drug-induced utopias of four Coney Island residents are shattered when their addictions run deep.
On the Run
1999
as Lady in Travel Agency
Albert is an introverted travel agent living a lonely life in New York. When Louie, his best friend from childhood, appears having just escaped from p...
Money Kings
1998
as Agnes
Vinnie's a bookie, happily married, running his operation for 30 years out of his bar in Brooklyn. Times change, the boys up the chain want a bigger p...
American Cuisine
1998
as Martha
Following his discharge from the Navy for hitting a superior officer, Loren takes a chance and moves to France, to learn haute cuisine under a four st...
Illuminata
1998
as Marco's mother
It's the start of the 20th century, and Tuccio, resident playwright of a theatre repertory company offers the owners of the company his new play, "Ill...
Lolita
1997
as Miss Pratt
Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged British novelist who is both appalled by and attracted to the vulgarity of American culture. When he comes to stay at...
Trees Lounge
1996
as Jackie
Tommy has lost his job, his love and his life. He lives in a small apartment above the Trees Lounge, a bar which he frequents along with a few other r...
Bullet
1996
as Cookie Stein
A tough, Jewish ex-con just released from prison crosses a powerful drug dealer and former prison rival in his return to a life of crime.
Palookaville
1995
as Mother
Jerry and his two pals, Russ and Syd, are just looking for some easy money to help them break out of their nowhere lives in their nowhere town. Despit...
The Jerky Boys
1995
as Mrs. B
When two unemployed telephone pranksters decide to use their vocal "talents" to impersonate a Chicago mob boss and curry favor with organized crime in...
Jacob's Ladder
1990
as Hospital Receptionist
After returning home from the Vietnam War, veteran Jacob Singer struggles to maintain his sanity. Plagued by hallucinations and flashbacks, Singer rap...
GoodFellas
1990
as Karen's Mother
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 ...
Sons
1990
as Rich's Mom
A trio of stepbrothers accompany their paralysed father on a jaunt to Normandy where the old boy saw combat and romantic action during the war.
Second Sight
1989
as Marilyn Bloom
Wills is an ex-cop who pairs up with Bobby, a wacky psychic, to form the "Second Sight Detective Agency." Bobby's clairvoyant abilities come in handy ...
Uncle Buck
1989
as Mrs. Hogarth
Buck Russell, a lovable but slovenly bachelor, suddenly becomes the temporary caretaker of his nephew and nieces after a family emergency. His freewhe...
Working Girl
1988
as Trask Receptionist
Tess McGill is an ambitious secretary with a unique approach for climbing the ladder to success. When her classy, but villainous boss breaks a leg ski...
Mystic Pizza
1988
as Aunt Tweedy
Three teenage girls come of age while working at a pizza parlor in Mystic, Connecticut.