Jamie-Lynn Sigler
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| Jamie-Lynn Sigler | |
| Birth name | Jamie-Lynn Sigler |
| Born | May 15, 1981 (age 25) Queens, New York,  United States |
| Notable roles | Meadow Soprano in The Sopranos |
Jamie-Lynn Sigler (born May 15, 1981) is an American actress. She is perhaps most famous for her role as Meadow Soprano on the acclaimed HBO television series The Sopranos.
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[edit] Biography
Born in Queens, New York to a Sephardic Jewish American father, Steve (whose mother and father came from Greece and Romania, respectively), and a Cuban mother, Connie, who converted to Judaism; Sigler began acting and singing at the age of seven. In 1999 she was cast as the smart but troubled Meadow Soprano, daughter of New Jersey mob boss Tony Soprano. The show became a success and Sigler rose to some fame as a TV actress.
In 2001, she released a pop album called Here to Heaven, which featured the single "Cry Baby". The album was a commercial failure and had low sales. In 2007 Sigler said she was "embarassed" by the album and regrets releasing it. In 2002, she co-authored an autobiography, Wise Girl: What I've Learned About Life, Love, and Loss. She also appeared in Mariah Carey's "Through the Rain" music video.
Sigler then spent five months on Broadway in 2002-2003 playing Belle in the production Beauty and the Beast. She has continued to appear in theatrical roles, such as Rogers and Hammerstein's Cinderella.
In July 2003 she married her agent A.J. DiScala, and took the name Jamie-Lynn DiScala. She has stated that she is a very traditional girl, and never had any doubt that she would take her husband's name after marrying, even professionally. However, in September 2005, Sigler and DiScala announced that they were separating after only two years of marriage, and she subsequently changed her name back. [1]
In 2004, she starred as "Hollywood Madam" Heidi Fleiss in the USA television movie Call Me: The Rise and Fall of Heidi Fleiss. In that same year, she had her first starring feature film role, Extreme Dating, an independent film.
During the early production of The Sopranos, Sigler struggled with an eating disorder and is now a spokesperson for the National Eating Disorders Association. In addition, at age 19 while filming Campfire Stories in Hamburg, New Jersey, she was paralyzed from the waist down for several days having contracted Lyme disease.[2] Jamie is also a spokeswoman for Sidebar, a San Diego nightclub.[3]
Sigler is fluent in Spanish, having learned it from her maternal Cuban grandmother, who did not speak English. She is currently dating New York nightclub owner Scott Sartiano.
[edit] Quotes
- "I became a spokeswoman for eating disorders. I would say about three or four months after I actually came out about it. It is a tough thing to talk about it, but it is actually therapeutic for me. I know it is something that touches almost every girl, and men, too."
[edit] References
- ^ http://people.aol.com/people/articles/0,19736,1108355,00.html
- ^ http://www.silive.com/sopranos/stories/index.ssf?/sopranos/ledger/index.ssf?/sopranos/stories/050301cinderella.html
- ^ http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20070110-1731-bn10seau.html
