Edie Falco

She has also had recurring roles in Law & Order and Homicide: Life on the Street. In 2002, it was revealed to the media that she is also suffering from Alzheimer's disease. Prior to that, she was a regular performer on Oz. In 2000, she stopped making public appearances after she revealed that she has Parkinson's disease. She is the only actress to have received a Golden Globe, an Emmy, and a SAG Award in the same year, for her performance as Carmela Soprano in the TV series The Sopranos. One of the most ironic things about casting Getty in this role was that she is actually two months younger than Bea Arthur: on Golden Girls, Getty was heavily made-up to seem significantly older. Falco was born in Brooklyn, New York. In it, she played the wise-cracking old Italian mother of Dorothy, who was the show's main protagonist, played by Bea Arthur.

Edie Falco (born July 5, 1963) is a television and film actress. Estelle Getty (born Estelle Scher on July 25, 1923) is an American actress best known for her role as Sophia Petrillo on the popular 1980s sitcom, The Golden Girls.