Elizabeth Bracco


Elizabeth Bracco is an American actress best known for her role as Marie Spatafore, the wife of Vito Spatafore, on the HBO TV series The Sopranos.

Early life

Bracco was born on November 5, 1957, in Brooklyn, New York. She is the daughter of Eileen and Salvatore Bracco, Sr. She has a sister, the actress Lorraine Bracco, who was a main cast member on The Sopranos, and a brother, Salvatore, Jr. Her mother was from Britain and met her father during World War II; Eileen came with Salvatore to the United States as a war bride. Bracco grew up on Maxwell Drive in Westbury, on Long Island. Her father was of Italian descent, while her mother was born in England and has French ancestry. Bracco is fluent in English, French, and Italian.

Career

Bracco has appeared in a number of other films, including Mystery Train, Louis & Frank, Trees Lounge, and The Impostors. She has also played minor roles in movies like The Color of Money and Stakeout and Analyze This. On television, in addition to portrayng Vito Spatafore's wife on The Sopranos, Bracco appeared in the pilot of the TV series Crime Story.

Personal life

In 1987, Bracco married her Stakeout co-star, Aidan Quinn. They have two daughters: Mia and Ava Eileen, who has autism. Ava appeared as the baby "David" in Avalon, and Mia played a ghost in The Eclipse. Formerly residents of Englewood, New Jersey, Bracco and her family now live in Palisades, Rockland County, New York and Marbletown in the Catskills / Woodstock region of Ulster County, New York.