Suzanne Shepherd

Sadie Gertrude Stern, known professionally as Suzanne Shepherd, was an American actress and theater director. She became known for playing Karen's overbearing mother in Goodfellas and for her work in Uncle Buck. Suzanne Shepherd has a nude scene late in her career in Where Is Kyra? She was born on October 31, 1934, in the United States of America, and died on November 17, 2023. On HBO's The Sopranos she played Mary De Angelis, the mother of Carmela Soprano. She trained in acting under Sanford Meisner and became the first woman to teach his method. In the early 1960s she helped found the Compass Players alongside Alan Alda and Alan Arkin.