I was jumping out of my skin. It was horrible. I was all over the place, because I'd never been in front of a live audience. That's a whole other element in the play, the audience.

In the early 1970s Wertmuller recruited Bracco in a new film production titled Camorra. Bracco felt strongly enough about her ability and desire to play this part that Lorraine Bracco arranged a meeting with David Chase and talked him into letting her have a chance as Dr. She currently appears as Angela Rizzoli on the TNT series Rizzoli & Isles.

Jennifer Melfi on the HBO series The Sopranos and as Karen Hill in the 1990 Martin Scorsese film Goodfellas. She is best known for her roles as Dr.