Aida Turturro Biography
Aida Turturro is an American actress best known for playing Janice Soprano, sister of New Jersey mob boss Tony Soprano, on the HBO drama series The Sopranos (1999–2007).
She first appeared in films in 1989. She has worked in the movies including True Love, What about Bob?, Jersey girl, and Illuminata. She acted in the movie named “Romance and Cigarettes” directed by her cousin John Turturro in 2005.
Aida started her television career with The Sopranos (199 to 2007). She then starred in other series like Medium, Curb Your Enthusiasm and Blue Bloods.
Aida Turturro Age
Aida Turturro was born on September 25, 1962, in Brooklyn, New York, United States. She is 56 years old as of 2018.
Aida Turturro Education
Aida Turturro graduated from State University of New York at New Paltz in 1984. She then enrolled in another University Seward Park Educational Campus.
Aida Turturro Family
Aida Turturro was born in Brooklyn, New York, daughter of a Sicilian mother Dorothy, a homemaker, and an Italian-American father Domenick Turturro, who was an artist.
Actors John Turturro, Nicholas Turturro, and Natalie Turturro are her cousins. Turturro She has worked to raise public awareness of rheumatoid arthritis. Turturro appeared in her first film in 1989 along with her two siblings Nicholas Turturro and Ralph Turturro.
Aida Turturro Husband
Aida Turturro and James Gandolfini were seen as husband and wife in a Broadway revival of “A Streetcar Named Desire” in 1992. Even after the series, the actors stayed in contact and built a good friendship.
James became one of the trusted friends for Aida. Therefore, when James encouraged her to audition for The Sopranos, she went for the audition and was cast as the sister of James’ character, Tony Soprano, in the series.
She had admitted that not only her but whoever knew him couldn’t resist liking him. However, this good friend of her, James, left the world in 2013 due to a heart attack.
Aida Turturro shared about his compassionate nature and how his sudden death moved her in an interview with hollywoodlife.com in July 2013. She said that she chose to stay single and has never been married.
What could be the reason for her single life??? She has left everybody to make suspicions that she might be a lesbian, however; she has never spoken about her sexual orientation officially. Whatever it may be, Aida is one of the much-loved actresses. Here we have some of the tweets from her fans.
Aida Turturro Actress
Aida Turturro appeared in her first film in 1989. She has also acted in films such as True Love, What About Bob?, Jersey Girl, and Illuminata. Turturro also had small parts in Sleepers and Deep Blue Sea.
Turturro appears also in the 2005 movie Romance & Cigarettes, directed by her cousin John. She first appeared in films in 1989. She has worked in the movies including True Love, What about Bob?, Jersey girl, and Illuminata.
Aida has also acted in films such as What About Bob?, Jersey Girl, Illuminata. Turturro also had a small part in the 1996 Drama Film Sleepers and in Deep Blue Sea. She has also appeared in the 2005 movie Romance & Cigarettes, directed by her cousin John.
Turturro appeared in the eighth season episode “Car Periscope,” of Curb Your Enthusiasm. Turturro’s most notable performance was as Janice Soprano in The Sopranos. She appeared in 73
Aida Turturro Television career
Aida Turturro played Janice Soprano in The Sopranos. She appeared in 49 episodes from 2000-2007, earning two nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series in 2001 and 2007.
In 2009, Turturro appeared in “Bite Me,” a sixth-season episode of the CBS series Medium, playing the evil Bobbi Catalano. Turturro appeared in the eighth-season episode “Car Periscope” of Curb Your Enthusiasm.
In 2012, Turturro appeared in “Day of the Iguana,” an episode of Nurse Jackie, which reunited her with her Sopranos co-star Edie Falco. She played Laura Vargas, the titular character’s lawyer.
In 2013, Turturro appeared in the fourth-season episode “Drawing Dead” of Blue Bloods. Between 2013 and 2016, she appeared in seven episodes of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Judge Felicia Catano.
In 2016, Turturro appeared as Maura Figgis, sister of gangster Jimmy “The Butcher” Figgis on the Fox police procedural sitcom, Brooklyn Nine-Nine. In 2017, Turturro appeared in “Il Mostro” in the second season of Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders.
Aida Turturro Net worth
Aida Turturro is an American actress who has an estimated net worth of $ 5 million dollars as of 2019. Turturro has worked to raise public awareness of rheumatoid arthritis. She has also appeared in her first film in 1989.
Award
- Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series
Aida Turturro Movies
- Deep Blue Sea 1999
- Romance and Cigarettes 2005
- Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles 2001
- What About Bob? 1991
- Bringing Out the Dead 1999
- Illuminata 1998
- Sidewalks of New York 2001
- A Little Help 2010
- Making a Killing 2018
- The 24 Hour Woman 1999
- 2B Perfectly Honest 2004
- Fading Gigolo 2013
- Manhattan Murder Mystery 1993
- The Search for One-eye Jimmy 1994
- Rob the Mob 2014
- Junior 1994
Aida Turturro Tv Shows
- The Sopranos
1999 – 2007 - The Wright Verdicts
1995
Aida Turturro Diabetes
Aida Turturro was diagnosed in 2001 with type 2 diabetes, but the actor did not take her condition seriously until her diabetes worsened significantly in 2003.
Aida Turturro Tatt0o
Aida Turturro admits that she was unable to give the wrinkly rock legend the satisfaction of seeing the tattoo firsthand when he approached her at the “Sopranos” sneak preview in New York a few weeks ago. “He was disappointed when I told him that the tattoo wasn’t real,” Turturro tells the Toronto Sun, adding that the lips tattoo and another one, on her ankle, take an hour to paint on before each episode.
Aida Turturro Twitter
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