Jamie Lynn-Sigler

The Sopranos. A pacesetting drama. Jamie Lynn-Sigler is Meadow Soprano. One of the finest programs to hit our TV screens. Review of The Sopranos @ Glass Onion


Review of The Sopranos

The show excels in it’s slowness. The leisurely episodes are the best. Half the time, the Sopranos gets sidetracked by its plot. Someone gets shot. Someone runs. Who cares? Despite this it is head and shoulders above other commercial offerings.

Jamie-Lynn Sigler (formerly DiScala; born May 15, 1981) is an American actress and singer. She is perhaps best known for her role as Meadow Soprano on the HBO television series The Sopranos.

In 1997, she was cast as the smart but troubled Meadow Soprano, daughter of New Jersey mob boss Tony Soprano. The show premiered in 1999 and became a huge success, with Sigler rising to some fame as a TV actress. In 2000, while filming Campfire Stories in Hamburg, New Jersey, Sigler was paralyzed from the waist down for several days having contracted Lyme disease.[3] Sigler then spent five months on BroadwayBeauty and the Beast where she replaced long-running Belle Sarah Litzsinger. She has continued to appear in theatrical roles, such as Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella. In 2004, she starred as "Hollywood Madam" Heidi Fleiss in the USA television movie Call Me: The Rise and Fall of Heidi Fleiss next to actor Jason Stewart. In that same year, she had her first starring feature film role, Extreme Dating, an independent film. In 2005, Sigler starred in Lovewrecked and the following year in Homie Spumoni, when she played the role of Alli, a girlfriend to Renato/Leroy (Donald Faison) directed by Mike Cerron.  Also in October 2008, she appeared as herself in the fifth season of the HBO series "Entourage", appearing in the episodes "First Class Jerk" , "Playing With Fire" and "Return to Queens Blvd". She returned for season six of the series. On November 17, 2008, Sigler guest-starred as Jillian on the TV series How I Met Your Mother in the episode "Woooo!"[4] On the December 6, 2008 airing of Saturday Night Live, Jamie-Lynn appeared as the checkout girl for the SNLJizz in My Pants by The Lonely Island.[5] She can currently be seen on ABC's Ugly Betty in a 5 episode arc involving a cult. from October 2002 through February 2003 playing Belle in Digital Short music video,