Suzanne Shepherd

An actress and theater director, born Sadie Stern, who co-founded the Compass Players improv troupe in the early 1960s alongside Alan Alda and Alan Arkin, and later became the first woman to teach Sanford Meisner's program of acting study. On screen she is best remembered as Karen's disapproving mother in Goodfellas and as Carmela's mother, Mary DeAngelis, across twenty episodes of The Sopranos, and she kept working into her final year, 2023.