Suzanne Shepherd
Suzanne Shepherd was an American actress and theater director. She is best known for her portrayal of Karen's overbearing mother in the film Goodfellas, Carmela Soprano's mother Mary De Angelis in the HBO television series The Sopranos, and the assistant school principal in Uncle Buck. Shepherd studied acting with Sanford Meisner, and later 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 such other actors as Alan Alda and Alan Arkin.
37 acting credits
Acting · 37
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999
Law & Order
1990
Blue Bloods
2010
The Sopranos
1999
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
2001
Third Watch
1999
GoodFellas
1990
Lolita
1997
Talking Sopranos
2020
Deadline
2000
Jacob's Ladder
1990
Requiem for a Dream
2000
Uncle Buck
1989
Working Girl
1988
Bullet
1996
Mystic Pizza
1988
The Week Of
2018
A Dirty Shame
2004
Trees Lounge
1996
Choke
2008
I Hate Valentine's Day
2009
Never Again
2001
Money Kings
1998
The Jerky Boys
1995
Living Out Loud
1998
Furlough
2018
Second Sight
1989
Harold
2008
Illuminata
1998
Sons
1990
Palookaville
1995
Where Is Kyra?
2018
The Performance
2024
American Cuisine
1998
Delivering the Goods
2012
On the Run
1999
Jerome's Bouquet
2013