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Karen B. Friedman Hill (née Friedman; born January 16, 1946) [1] is an American woman known for her involvement in the American Mafia through her husband Henry Hill, who was an associate of the Lucchese crime family. The events of their lives were chronicled in the 1990 film Goodfellas and several books. [2]
Lorraine Bracco (born October 2, 1954) is an American actress best known for her performance as psychiatrist Jennifer Melfi on the HBO crime drama series The Sopranos (1999–2007) and for her breakthrough role portraying Karen Hill in the Martin Scorsese film Goodfellas (1990).
McDonald also helped get Hill and his wife Karen Friedman Hill into the United States Federal Witness Protection Program (WPP). Martin Scorsese cast McDonald to play himself in the 1990 film Goodfellas in a scene in which McDonald negotiates to get the Hills into the WPP. McDonald improvised the line, "Don't give me the babe-in-the-woods ...
As Karen Hill, wife of Ray Liotta’s ascendent mobster in Martin Scorsese’s genre-defining 1990 crime classic, ... “Making Goodfellas, I was surrounded by 10 guys,” she says. “We were all ...
Henry Hill Jr. (June 11, 1943 – June 12, 2012) was an American mobster who was associated with the Lucchese crime family of New York City from 1955 until 1980, when he was arrested on narcotics charges and became an FBI informant.
Goodfellas (stylized as GoodFellas) is a 1990 American biographical gangster film [5] directed by Martin Scorsese, written by Nicholas Pileggi and Scorsese, and produced by Irwin Winkler. It is a film adaptation of Pileggi's 1985 nonfiction book Wiseguy .
She played Mary DeAngelis, the mother of Edie Falco's character, in the hit TV series 'The Sopranos.'
Liotta later became a household name as the star of films like Something Wild (1986), Goodfellas (1990), and Identity (2003), and returned to TV as Lt. Matt Wozniak on NBC's Shades of Blue from ...