Born September 25, 1962 in Brooklyn, New York, Aida Turturro is an actress best known for playing mob boss sister Janice Soprano on the highly acclaimed HBO series The Sopranos. The same role earned her two Emmy Award nominations in 2001 and 2007. The other film credits of Turturro include Sleepers, What About Bob?, Deep Blue Sea, and Mickey Blue Eyes. The daughter of a homemaker and an artist, Turturro lived on Long Island, New York. fellow actors John, Nicholas, and Natalie Turturro are her cousins. She attended State University of New York at New Paltz in New York. She majored in theater and graduated in 1984. The same year she played Mayor Dawgmeat in the school production of Li'l Abner.
Tuturro’s breakout role on the big screen was in Nancy Savoca’s Sundance Festival screened True Love, where he played the close friend of the bride. She made her Broadway debut in A Streetcar Named Desire where he appeared alongside Alec Baldwin and Jessica Lange. Also notable was her Off-Broadway play Souls of Naples. She has worked with some of the industry’s best, including Woody Allen in Celebrity and Manhattan Murder Mystery, Martin Scorsese in Bringing out the Dead, and John Turturro in Illuminata and Mac. Her other film credits include Sidewalks of New York, Fallen, Denise Calls Up, and the lead in Angie with Geena Davis.
Meanwhile, her other small screen credits include episodes of ER, Romance and Cigarettes, The Practice, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, and Law and Order. Along with her The Sopranos co-stars, she won the 2008 Screen Actors Guild Awards for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series, after five nominations from 2001. She was a long-time friend of co-star James Gandolfini, appearing in three feature films together: Angie, Fallen, and Romance & Cigarettes.