Sopranos star visits Cornwall to trace family roots
The ancestral links between the Westcountry and America are well versed thanks to heroic tales of adventure courtesy of the Pilgrim Fathers.
But the transatlantic twinning was given a celebrity twist when award-winning US actress Edie Falco(CORR) arrived in Cornwall this week to film a stateside version of genealogy programme Who Do You Think You Are?
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The 49-year-old four-time Emmy and twice Golden Globe-winning star of the long-running mob hit The Sopranos was whisked aboard the three masted schooner Earl of Pembroke to shoot a maritime sequence in Charlestown, St Austell Bay.
However, the New York-based performer seemed to have lost her sea legs as she looked grateful to get back on dry land after her stint on the square rigger, which was filmed by a large on-board crew and circling helicopter.
Asked about her family history the diminutive actor hinted at a Cornish lineage, saying: “I couldn’t say, I cannot tell you how much trouble I would get into with the TV company, but you could say I do love Cornish pasties.”
The shoot is due to be broadcast later this year on primetime US television.
2 Comments
by JGillingham
Thursday, February 02 2012, 4:52PM
“they probably mean Cornwall, the country in the West! The Pilgrim Fathers left from Newlyn.”
by davetnt
Thursday, February 02 2012, 11:11AM
“Are you saying her ancestors went to America in the 1600s? Or did you just make that up as part of your relentless attempts to get us all to embrace the artificial "Westcountry" identity that your newspaper monopoly's business model so strongly relies upon? Her ancestors could just have equally been part of the many Cornish mining families that emigrated in the 1800s, and had nothing to do with Devon. We won't know until we watch the show.”