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Goodfellas actress Suzanne Shepherd has died aged 89, her family has confirmed.
The veteran actress was best known for her roles in Martin Scorsese’s big screen hit about the mob, as well as The Sopranos on TV.
Fans were quick to pay tribute on social media, with one calling her “the go-to mother actress.” Sopranos star Ray Abruzzo also posted a tribute on Instagram, saying:
“Sad to hear of the passing of Suzanne Shepherd.
“A force of nature. Actress, teacher.”
Shepherd portrayed the mother of the character Karen Hill (played by Lorraine Bracco) in Goodfellas.
In The Sopranos, she played Mary DeAngelis, the mother of Carmela Soprano (played by actress Edie Falco).
Shepherd’s enjoyed a career of more than three decades, after her first role as Aunt Tweedy in 1988’s Mystic Pizza. She also featured in Requiem for a Dream, Uncle Buck and Lolita.
On TV, she appeared in shows including Law & Order and Blue Bloods.
She most recently appeared in this year’s The Performance as the character of Tess.
Besides her own acting career, Shepherd directed in theaters across the US and worked as an acting coach from her own studio in New York. An upcoming documentary called A Gift of Fire will chronicle her teaching.
Shepherd studied acting with Sanford Meisner, and 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 Alan Alda and Alan Arkin.
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died Friday. She was 89.Born on Oct. 31, 1934, Shepherd also had roles in the movies “Mystic Pizza,” “Uncle Buck,” “Requiem for a Dream,” and “A Dirty Shame.”She made guest appearances on the TV shows “Ed,” “Law & Order” and “Blue Bloods.”Shepherd, who lived on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, “passed away peacefully very early yesterday morning,” the actor and real estate agent Tom Titone wrote Saturday on Facebook.“I studied with Suzanne as a young actor.
Michaela Zee Suzanne Shepherd, an actor known for her roles in “The Sopranos” and “Goodfellas,” died Friday morning in her home in New York City, her agent confirmed to Variety. She was 89. Shepherd portrayed Mary DeAngelis, the mother of Carmela Soprano (Edie Falco), in HBO’s crime drama series “The Sopranos,” as well as the mother of Lorraine Bracco’s character Karen Hill in 1990’s “Goodfellas.” She also had roles in “Jacob’s Ladder” (1990), “Trees Lounge” (1996), “Lolita” (1997), “American Cuisine” (1998), “Living Out Loud” (1998), “Requiem for a Dream” (2000), “A Dirty Shame” (2004), “Harold” (2008), “The Week Of” (2018) and “The Performance” (2023), among other films.