Suzanne Shepherd, a starlet understood for playing moms to crucial characters in Goodfellas and The Sopranoshas actually passed away. She was 89.
Shepherd passed away quietly in her home in New York City early Friday early morning, her representative informed The Hollywood Reporter
Shepherd appeared in 20 episodes of The Sopranos as Mary DeAngelis, the mom of Edie Falco’s Carmela Soprano, and played the mom of Lorraine Bracco’s Karen Hill in Goodfellas
Sopranos star Ray Abruzzo remembered Shepherd on Instagramcalling her “a force of nature.”
Her other credits consist of functions in films like Mystic Pizza, Uncle Buck, Lolita, Requiem for a Dream, Living Out Loud and Working Girl and visitor looks in television programs like Ed, Blue Bloods, Law & & Order and 3rd Watch
Shepherd’s last onscreen function remained in 2023’s The Performance as Tess.
Born Oct. 31, 1934, Shepherd finished from Bennington College and studied with Larry Arrick, Herbert Berghoff and Sanford Meisner and was likewise an instructor and acting coach who served on the professors of Trinity Square Conservatory, Hartman Conservatory, the Berghof Studio and her own studio in New York City, according to a bio on her site
Shepherd directed at the Nederlander Theatre and Steppenwolf and played leading functions in productions at The Roundabout, Yale Repertory and Berkeley Repertory and significant local theaters.
Shepherd is made it through by her child, artist Kate Shepherd, son-in-law Miles McManus and granddaughter Isabelle Shepherd. A funeral is anticipated to be revealed in 2024.
