Biography
Edith Falco (born July 5, 1963) is an American actress. She is best known for her roles as Carmela Soprano on the HBO series The Sopranos (1999–2007), and as Nurse Jackie Peyton on the Showtime series Nurse Jackie (2009–2015). She is also known for her role as Diane Whittlesey in HBO's prison drama Oz (1997–2000). In 2016, she played Sylvia Wittel on the web series Horace and Pete. In 2017, she portrayed defense attorney Leslie Abramson in the first season of the true crime anthology series Law...
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Complete Filmography

Avatar: Fire and Ash
2025
as General Ardmore
In the wake of the devastating war against the RDA and the loss of their eldest son, Jake Sully and Neytiri face a new threat on Pandora: the Ash Peop...

The Parenting
2025
as Sharon
Boyfriends Josh and Rohan plan a weekend getaway to introduce their parents, only to discover that their rental is home to a 400-year-old poltergeist.

I'll Be Right There
2024
as Wanda
Wanda wants to take care of everyone in her life. She barely has time for herself, not that she would know what to do with it anyway.

I'll Be Right There
2024
Executive Producer
Wanda wants to take care of everyone in her life. She barely has time for herself, not that she would know what to do with it anyway.

Fool's Paradise
2023
as The Agent
A down-on-his-luck publicist discovers a recently released mental health patient who looks just like a misbehaving movie star. The publicist subs him ...

The Mother
2023
as SAIC Eleanor Williams
A deadly female assassin comes out of hiding to protect the daughter that she gave up years before, while on the run from dangerous men.

Avatar: The Way of Water
2022
as General Frances Ardmore
Set more than a decade after the events of the first film, learn the story of the Sully family (Jake, Neytiri, and their kids), the trouble that follo...

Viper Club
2018
as Charlotte
ER nurse Helen Sterling struggles to free her grown son, a journalist captured by terrorists in the Middle East. After hitting walls with the FBI and ...

The Land of Steady Habits
2018
as Helene
After leaving his wife and his job to find happiness, Anders begins a clumsy, heartbreaking quest to reassemble the pieces of his fractured life.

Every Act of Life
2018
as Self
The life of Tony-winning playwright Terrence McNally (Master Class, Ragtime): 60 years of groundbreaking plays and musicals, the struggle for gay righ...

Outside In
2018
as Carol
An ex-con struggling to readjust to life in his small town forms an intense bond with his former high-school teacher.

I Love You, Daddy
2017
as Paula
When a successful television writer's daughter becomes the interest of an aging filmmaker with an appalling past, he becomes worried about how to hand...

Landline
2017
as Pat Jacobs
A teenager living with her sister and parents in Manhattan during the 1990s discovers that her father is having an affair.

Megan Leavey
2017
as Jackie Leavey
The true story of Marine Corporal Megan Leavey, who forms a powerful bond with an aggressive combat dog, Rex. While deployed in Iraq, the two complete...

The Comedian
2016
as Miller
An aging comic icon, Jackie Burke, has seen better days. Despite his efforts to reinvent himself and his comic genius, the audience only wants to know...

James Gandolfini: Tribute to a Friend
2013
as Self
In the half-hour tribute, friends and colleagues remember the three-time Emmy winner, who died June 19 at age 51. The special features clips of Gandol...

Gods Behaving Badly
2013
as Artemis
Greek gods living in modern-day New York intervene in the lives of a young couple.
Misfire: The Rise and Fall of the Shooting Gallery
2013
as Self
A documentary about the influential independent film production company The Shooting Gallery.

3 Backyards
2010
as Peggy
An executive, a housewife and a youngster spend a day in their Long Island suburban town during the course of one curious autumn day afternoon.

My Dog: An Unconditional Love Story
2009
as Self
Famous New Yorkers and the pooches they love are the focus of this refreshingly honest and endearing series of interviews that celebrates the meaningf...

Then She Found Me
2007
as Edie Falco
A New York schoolteacher hits a midlife crisis when, in quick succession, her husband leaves, her adoptive mother dies and her biological mother, an e...

ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway
2007
as Self
ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway is an American documentary film, directed by Dori Berinstein, a Broadway Producer, Writer and Filmmaker. Berinstei...

Freedomland
2006
as Karen Collucci
A black police detective must solve a strange case of a kidnapped boy and deal with a big racial protest.

The Quiet
2005
as Olivia Deer
After her widowed father dies, deaf teenager Dot moves in with her godparents, Olivia and Paul Deer. The Deers' daughter, Nina, is openly hostile to D...

The Great New Wonderful
2005
as Safarah Polsky
The Great New Wonderful weaves five stories against the backdrop of an anxious and uncertain post-9-11 New York City.

The Girl from Monday
2005
as Judge
A comic drama about a time in the near future when citizens are happy to be property traded on the stock exchange.

Fargo
2003
as Marge Gunderson
Marge Gunderson, the still pregnant police chief of Brainerd, Minnesota, investigates the murder of a town pharmacist, shot in a snowy parking lot by ...

Sunshine State
2002
as Marly Temple
A woman and her new husband returns to her hometown roots in coastal northern Florida, and must deal with family, business, and encroaching real estat...

Jenifer
2001
as Wheelchair Saleswoman
The true story of three sisters who unite in the face of adversity when one of them is diagnosed with ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig's Disease.

Come Together: A Night for John Lennon's Words & Music
2001
Come Together: A Night for John Lennon's Words and Music was a 2001 television program tribute to John Lennon. It aired on TNT and The WB. Originally...

Overnight Sensation
2000
as Festival Coordinator
About people making a movie to enter in the Sundance Film Festival.

Random Hearts
1999
as Janice
After losing their spouses in a plane crash, an internal affairs cop and a congresswoman find each other's keys in each other's loved ones' possession...

Judy Berlin
1999
as Judy Berlin
Judy Berlin is an aspiring actress whose idealism is at odds with her small suburban community, where a solar eclipse induces town inhabitants (a lone...

A Price Above Rubies
1998
as Feiga
About a young woman who is married to a devout Jew and the problems that trouble their marriage because of the woman wanting something more out of her...
Blind Light
1998
as Diana DiBianco
A photographer (Edie Falco), a Swedish author (Per Myrberg) and a filmmaker experience a moment of self-awareness on an Italian island

Cost of Living
1997
as Billie
A film about one woman's personal freedom and the price she pays to keep it.

Trouble on the Corner
1997
as Vivian
Jeff, a troubled therapist, suffers a breakdown when he spies on his sexy neighbor Ericca, a beautiful model that rollerblades around her apartment in...

Cop Land
1997
as Berta
Freddy Heflin is the sheriff of a place everyone calls “Cop Land” — a small and seemingly peaceful town populated by the big city police officers he’s...

Private Parts
1997
as Alison's Friend (uncredited)
The life and career of shock-jock superstar Howard Stern is recounted from his humble beginnings to his view from the top. Possessing a desire to be a...

Hurricane Streets
1997
as Joanne
Marcus is a New York City street kid torn between his friends' criminal activities and a girl trying to keep him out of trouble.
FireHouse
1997
as Kate Wilkinson
A film about the dealings of a crew at a firehouse. The group is attacked by an assassin and eventually must accept that the firehouse is to be consol...

Layin' Low
1996
as Angie
On the highway of life, Jerry's at a dead-end. Unemployed and still living at home with his parents, this thirty-three year old loser has no drive to ...

The Sunshine Boys
1996
as Carol Davison
Two aging comedians, who acrimoniously dissolved their act eight years earlier, must overcome their differences when they have the chance for a lucrat...

Childhood's End
1996
as Patty
A story of two teens discovering their budding sexuality. Greg is having his first sexual experience and first relationship with his friend's mother, ...

The Funeral
1996
as Union Speaker
After the funeral of one of their own, a criminal family decides to embark on an emotionally unnerving journey in an attempt to exact bloody revenge.

The Addiction
1995
as Jean
A vampiric doctoral student tries to follow the philosophy of a nocturnal comrade and control her thirst for blood.

Bullets Over Broadway
1994
as Lorna
After young playwright, David Shayne obtains funding for his play from gangster Nick Valenti, Nick's girlfriend Olive miraculously lands the role of a...

Rift
1993
as Film Director
A songwriter seeks a psychiatrist's help after his obsession with his best friend's wife turns to chilling fantasies of murder.

Laws of Gravity
1992
as Denise
The lives of two incompetent young men from Brooklyn spin out of control after a friend returns from Florida with guns to sell.
Time Expired
1992
Time Expired is a 1992 short film directed by Danny Leiner and stars Bob Gosse and John Leguizamo.

I Was on Mars
1991
as Female cab driver
Silva fulfills herself a dream: from Poland she flies to USA. With only a few hundred dollars she arrives in New York, incapable of the language. Not ...

Trust
1990
as Peg Coughlin
After being thrown away from home, pregnant high school dropout Maria meets Matthew, a highly educated and extremely moody electronics repairman. The ...

The Unbelievable Truth
1990
as Jane
After serving time for murder, Josh Hutton returns to his home town where he meets Audry Hugo. No one can remember exactly what Josh did...

Sidewalk Stories
1989
as Carriage Couple
A New York City street artist rescues a baby girl after her father is murdered. He then sets off to find the mother, but has to first learn how to car...

Sweet Lorraine
1987
as Karen
Serio-comic look at the residents and staff of a Catskill Mountains resort during its final days.