Suzanne Shepherd

Suzanne Shepherd

Born: October 31, 1934
Died: November 17, 2023
in United States of America
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.

Movies for Suzanne Shepherd...

The Week Of
Title: The Week Of
Character: Aunt Iris
Released: April 27, 2018
Type: Movie
The parents of a soon-to-be married couple make the final preparations for the wedding ceremony.
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Where Is Kyra?
Title: Where Is Kyra?
Character: Ruth
Released: April 6, 2018
Type: Movie
Pushed to the brink after losing her job, a woman struggles to survive. As the months pass and her troubles deepen, she embarks on a perilous and mysterious journey that threatens to usurp her life.
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Furlough
Title: Furlough
Character: Elizabeth Anderson
Released: March 16, 2018
Type: Movie
In between caring for her mother, a young woman works part time at a prison. The rookie guard gets a chance to prove her mettle when she's tasked with accompanying a hell-raising inmate on an emergency furlough to visit her dying mother. But things soon spiral out of control, sending the pair on a hilarious, surprising, and ultimately touching road trip.
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Jerome's Bouquet
Title: Jerome's Bouquet
Character: Elena Klein
Released: October 2, 2013
Type: Movie
82 year-old Elena Klein, a retired New York florist, can't stop arranging — only now it's not flowers she's arranging, but people's lives.
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Title: Blue Bloods
Character: Lucille Abetemarco
Released: September 24, 2010
Type: TV
A drama about a multi-generational family of cops dedicated to New York City law enforcement. Frank Reagan is the New York Police Commissioner and heads both the police force and the Reagan brood. He runs his department as diplomatically as he runs his family, even when dealing with the politics that plagued his unapologetically bold father, Henry, during his stint as Chief.
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I Hate Valentine's Day
Title: I Hate Valentine's Day
Character: Edie
Released: June 27, 2009
Type: Movie
A love story set in Manhattan, where a florist who abides by a strict five-date-limit with any man finds herself wanting more with the new restaurateur in town.
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Choke
Title: Choke
Character: Waitress
Released: September 26, 2008
Type: Movie
A sex-addicted con-man pays for his mother's hospital bills by playing on the sympathies of those who rescue him from choking to death.
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Harold
Title: Harold
Character: Maude Sellers
Released: July 13, 2008
Type: Movie
A teenager with an early onset of male-pattern baldness befriends his high school's janitor.
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A Dirty Shame
Title: A Dirty Shame
Character: Big Ethel
Released: September 24, 2004
Type: Movie
Sylvia Stickles runs a convenience store with her husband and mother-in-law. One day, Sylvia is hit on the head and transforms from an uptight prude to a sex-crazed lunatic. As she goes on a rampage through town, Sylvia attracts the attention of Ray Ray, a sexual healer and tow truck driver in search of the world's greatest orgasm. Their sexual revolution, however, causes a class war in their tiny Baltimore community.
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Title: Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Character: Joan
Released: September 30, 2001
Type: TV
The third installment of the “Law & Order” franchise takes viewers deep into the minds of its criminals while following the intense psychological approaches the Major Case Squad uses to solve its crimes.
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Requiem for a Dream
Title: Requiem for a Dream
Character: Mrs. Scarlini
Released: October 6, 2000
Type: Movie
The drug-induced utopias of four Coney Island residents are shattered when their addictions run deep.
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Title: Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Character: Old Woman
Released: September 20, 1999
Type: TV
In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Special Victims Unit. These are their stories.
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On the Run
Title: On the Run
Character: Lady in Travel Agency
Released: January 29, 1999
Type: Movie
Albert is an introverted travel agent living a lonely life in New York. When Louie, his best friend from childhood, appears having just escaped from prison, Albert's quiet existence is permanently disrupted. what ensues is one long, crazy night in New York that will change both their lives forever.
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Title: The Sopranos
Character: Mary DeAngelis
Released: January 10, 1999
Type: TV
The story of New Jersey-based Italian-American mobster Tony Soprano and the difficulties he faces as he tries to balance the conflicting requirements of his home life and the criminal organization he heads. Those difficulties are often highlighted through his ongoing professional relationship with psychiatrist Jennifer Melfi. The show features Tony's family members and Mafia associates in prominent roles and story arcs, most notably his wife Carmela and his cousin and protégé Christopher Moltisanti.
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Title: The Sopranos
Character: Mary de Angelis
Released: January 10, 1999
Type: TV
The story of New Jersey-based Italian-American mobster Tony Soprano and the difficulties he faces as he tries to balance the conflicting requirements of his home life and the criminal organization he heads. Those difficulties are often highlighted through his ongoing professional relationship with psychiatrist Jennifer Melfi. The show features Tony's family members and Mafia associates in prominent roles and story arcs, most notably his wife Carmela and his cousin and protégé Christopher Moltisanti.
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Money Kings
Title: Money Kings
Character: Agnes
Released: December 4, 1998
Type: Movie
Vinnie's a bookie, happily married, running his operation for 30 years out of his bar in Brooklyn. Times change, the boys up the chain want a bigger profit, so Vinnie's expendable He's assigned a hotheaded kid, Tony, the nephew of a local mobster. Vinnie's told to school the lad, use him for collections, and teach him some sense. What Vinnie doesn't know is that once Tony learns the ropes, Vinnie will be out. Tensions mount when Tony goes around Vinnie's paternalistic ways, takes a bet from an unemployed alcoholic, and demands that the loser's wife pay the vig in trade. Is there any way out for Vinnie - with or without his good name?
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American Cuisine
Title: American Cuisine
Character: Martha
Released: October 21, 1998
Type: Movie
Following his discharge from the Navy for hitting a superior officer, Loren takes a chance and moves to France, to learn haute cuisine under a four star chef...
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Illuminata
Title: Illuminata
Character: Marco's mother
Released: May 21, 1998
Type: Movie
It's the start of the 20th century, and Tuccio, resident playwright of a theatre repertory company offers the owners of the company his new play, "Illuminata". They reject it, saying it's not finished, and intrigue starts that involves influential critic Bevalaqua, theatre star Celimene, young lead actors and other theatre residents
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Lolita
Title: Lolita
Character: Miss Pratt
Released: September 27, 1997
Type: Movie
Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged British novelist who is both appalled by and attracted to the vulgarity of American culture. When he comes to stay at the boarding house run by Charlotte Haze, he soon becomes obsessed with Lolita, the woman's teenaged daughter.
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Trees Lounge
Title: Trees Lounge
Character: Jackie
Released: May 11, 1996
Type: Movie
Tommy has lost his job, his love and his life. He lives in a small apartment above the Trees Lounge, a bar which he frequents along with a few other regulars without lives. He gets a job driving an ice cream truck and ends up getting involved with the seventeen-year-old niece of his ex-girlfriend. This gets him into serious trouble with her father.
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Bullet
Title: Bullet
Character: Cookie Stein
Released: March 1, 1996
Type: Movie
A tough, Jewish ex-con just released from prison crosses a powerful drug dealer and former prison rival in his return to a life of crime.
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Palookaville
Title: Palookaville
Character: Mother
Released: September 7, 1995
Type: Movie
Jerry and his two pals, Russ and Syd, are just looking for some easy money to help them break out of their nowhere lives in their nowhere town. Despite a bungled jewelry store heist which exposes their incompetence as criminals, a fateful event (and an old black-and-white film) convinces them that they can pull off an armored-truck robbery. While they are busy plotting their caper, their dysfunctional families spin out of control, all around them.
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The Jerky Boys
Title: The Jerky Boys
Character: Mrs. B
Released: February 3, 1995
Type: Movie
When two unemployed telephone pranksters decide to use their vocal "talents" to impersonate a Chicago mob boss and curry favor with organized crime in New York, the trouble begins. It isn't long before Johnny and Kamal (the "Jerky Boys" of crank call fame) are wanted by the local mafia, the police, and their neighbor.
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Jacob's Ladder
Title: Jacob's Ladder
Character: Hospital Receptionist
Released: November 2, 1990
Type: Movie
After returning home from the Vietnam War, veteran Jacob Singer struggles to maintain his sanity. Plagued by hallucinations and flashbacks, Singer rapidly falls apart as the world and people around him morph and twist into disturbing images. His girlfriend, Jezzie, and ex-wife, Sarah, try to help, but to little avail. Even Singer's chiropractor friend, Louis, fails to reach him as he descends into madness.
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Title: Law & Order
Character: Arraignment Judge Victoria Sawyer
Released: September 13, 1990
Type: TV
In cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing the evidence and questioning the suspects until someone is taken into custody. The district attorney's office then builds a case to convict the perpetrator by proving the person guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Working together, these expert teams navigate all sides of the complex criminal justice system to make New York a safer place.
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GoodFellas
Title: GoodFellas
Character: Karen's Mother
Released: September 12, 1990
Type: Movie
The true story of Henry Hill, a half-Irish, half-Sicilian Brooklyn kid who is adopted by neighbourhood gangsters at an early age and climbs the ranks of a Mafia family under the guidance of Jimmy Conway.
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Sons
Title: Sons
Character: Rich's Mom
Released: January 1, 1990
Type: Movie
A trio of stepbrothers accompany their paralysed father on a jaunt to Normandy where the old boy saw combat and romantic action during the war.
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Second Sight
Title: Second Sight
Character: Marilyn Bloom
Released: November 3, 1989
Type: Movie
Wills is an ex-cop who pairs up with Bobby, a wacky psychic, to form the "Second Sight Detective Agency." Bobby's clairvoyant abilities come in handy during their investigations. When a nun recruits them for a case involving car theft, they suddenly find themselves dealing with the abduction of a prominent cardinal who has a chance of becoming the next pope. Bobby's psychic powers go haywire as they pursue the case.
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Uncle Buck
Title: Uncle Buck
Character: Mrs. Hogarth
Released: August 16, 1989
Type: Movie
Buck Russell, a lovable but slovenly bachelor, suddenly becomes the temporary caretaker of his nephew and nieces after a family emergency. His freewheeling attitude soon causes tension with his older niece Tia, loyal girlfriend Chanice and just about everyone else who crosses his path.
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Working Girl
Title: Working Girl
Character: Trask Receptionist
Released: December 20, 1988
Type: Movie
Tess McGill is an ambitious secretary with a unique approach for climbing the ladder to success. When her classy, but villainous boss breaks a leg skiing, Tess takes over her office, her apartment and even her wardrobe. She creates a deal with a handsome investment banker that will either take her to the top, or finish her off for good.
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Mystic Pizza
Title: Mystic Pizza
Character: Aunt Tweedy
Released: October 13, 1988
Type: Movie
Three teenage girls come of age while working at a pizza parlor in Mystic, Connecticut.