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Graduated from SUNY Purchase whose alumni are known collectively as "The Purchase Mafia".

Is the daughter of jazz drummer Frank Falco and actress Judith Loney.

Edie graduated from the acting program at the State University of New York at Purchase. After graduation, she worked as a clown and other similar roles at weddings and birthday parties.

Is of Swedish and Italian heritage.

Edie Falco is the first actress to ever sweep the top three television awards. In 2000, she received the Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series, The Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Drama Series, and the SAG Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series, all in the same year for her performance as "Carmela Soprano" in the hit HBO series "Sopranos, The" (1999).

Her uncle is renowned fiction writer Ed Falco, who teaches at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.