The crime drama aired from January 1999 until June 2007

NEED TO KNOW

• ‘The Sopranos’ series finale aired on June 10, 2007 after six seasons of the show
• In Feb. 2026, the Museum of the Moving Image in New York City honored the series with an exhibition and three screenings
• The show was created by David Chase who feels a “tremendous sense of gratitude” for its continued appreciation

Nineteen years after The Sopranos aired its series finale on June 10, 2007, the impact the cast of the HBO drama made is still felt.

During its run, the series scored 21 Primetime Emmys, five Golden Globes and two Peabody Awards, among other accolades. In the time since Journey’s "Don’t Stop Believin’ " soundtracked the controversial final scene, the television and film world has continued to honor the iconic show.

In October 2021, a prequel film, The Many Saints of Newark — starring James Gandolfini's son, Michael Gandolfini, as a young Tony Soprano — aired in theaters and on HBO, giving another glimpse into the fictional New Jersey family. More recently, in February 2026, the Museum of the Moving Image in New York City honored the series with an exhibition and screenings.

Nearly two decades since its finale cut to black, creator David Chase told PEOPLE, “I still feel this tremendous sense of gratitude that it's still going on … It’s probably the best thing I’ll ever do.”

So, where is The Sopranos cast now? Here's everything to know about what the stars are doing today.

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James Gandolfini as Tony Soprano

As a ruthless New Jersey mob boss and duck-loving family man working in "waste management," Gandolfini's Tony left a lasting legacy as one of the most darkly fascinating characters on TV.

Before his big break as Tony — which earned him three Emmys, three Screen Actors Guild Awards and a Golden Globe — the actor had been working for nearly a decade, with small parts in a number of films, including Angie (1994), alongside Aida Turturro, who would later play his sister Janice on The Sopranos.

Post-Sopranos, Gandolfini executive produced several HBO projects, including Hemingway & Gellhorn and The Night Of (with a posthumous credit). He continued to star heavily in mob dramas, such as Killing Them Softly and The Drop, released posthumously.

Gandolfini died unexpectedly from a heart attack on June 19, 2013. He was 51.

From 1999 to 2002, the actor was married to producer Marcy Wudarski, with whom he shared his son Michael. He later wed model-actress Deborah Lin in 2008, with whom he welcomed his daughter Liliana.

Over 10 years after his death, Lorraine Bracco, who played Tony's psychiatrist, Dr. Melfi, reflected on her favorite moments with Gandolfini. For the show's 25th premiere anniversary in January 2024, the actress told PEOPLE that she remembers Gandolfini as a "very committed actor."

"I would forget that I was in the scene with him," she said. "And I would watch him, because he had a lot of monologues, which is very rare in television, and he would want to shoot them all together in one go. I used to love to watch him do that.”

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Edie Falco as Carmela Soprano

Edie Falco had a number of parts in crime and mob dramas before landing the starring role of Tony's wife, Carmela Soprano, in which she painted a brutal yet brilliant portrait of the pair's marital roller coaster.

Falco earned three Emmys, three SAG Awards and two Golden Globes for her turn as the OG Jersey housewife. She went on to star as a drug-addicted nurse on Nurse Jackie, which ran from 2009 to 2015 and earned her another Emmy.

Since then, Falco — a mother of two children, son Anderson and daughter Macy, whom she welcomed via adoption in 2005 and 2008, respectively — has starred on several TV series, including Horace and Pete, Law & Order True Crime, Tommy, Impeachment: American Crime Story, Bupkis and more.

In 2022, Falco appeared in the Oscar-nominated Avatar: The Way of Water and she reprised her role in the film’s Oscar-winning 2025 sequel, Avatar: Fire and Ash.

In 2024, Falco executive produced and starred as Wanda in the comedy I'll Be Right There, and in 2025, she joined season 4 the Paramount+ thriller Mayor of Kingstown as Nina Hobbs, who she will be reprising for the show's fifth and final season.

Falco told Elle that working with Jeremy Renner for Mayor of Kingstown has been a blast, which she noted is an important consideration for her when choosing projects. "Who am I going to be acting opposite?" the actress said. "That can make or break a job being interesting to me."

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Jamie-Lynn Sigler as Meadow Soprano

Before her career-making role as the smart, sassy Meadow Soprano, Jamie-Lynn Sigler’s biggest role had been starring in a Mariah Carey music video. Since The Sopranos, she's continued working in Hollywood, predominantly on TV with recurring roles on Entourage (as herself), Ugly Betty, Guys with Kids and Big Sky.

Sigler was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS) at age 20. As a spokesperson for the pharmaceutical company Novartis, the actress has devoted her life to helping others living with the disease.

“A lot of the times with a diagnosis it can be fear, depression, sadness, grief,” she told PEOPLE in November 2023. “I really came to this place of understanding, processing those feelings, and stepped into this place of acceptance. … People really like to be helpful. People really want to help.”

Sigler shares sons Beau and Jack Adam with husband Cutter Dykstra, whom she wed in 2016. She was previously married to A.J. DiScala from 2003 until 2005.

In May 2026, Sigler released her memoir, And So It Is…A Memoir of Acceptance and Hope, where she opened up about her marriage and family crises, and her multiple sclerosis diagnosis.

The actress' on-screen brother A.J. Soprano was played by Robert Iler, who Sigler has said still plays a huge role in her and her kids' lives.

“Robert is my best friend. He's my kid's Uncle Rob,” she told PEOPLE in January 2024, for the show's 25th anniversary. “He spends Thanksgiving and Christmas with me and my family every single year. He followed me to Austin and moved there.”

She added, “We have a unique chemistry and bond that just goes beyond Meadow and A.J."

Sigler will be making her debut in Netflix's Sweet Magnolias season 5. She was tapped to play Nell Winters, a New York City writer who becomes friends with Maddie (JoAnna Garcia Swisher).

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Robert Iler as A.J. Soprano

A spoiled slacker with an underlying anxiety disorder, Iler's A.J. was always causing trouble in the HBO series.

Two years after the show ended, Iler guest-starred on an episode of Law & Order, but otherwise stepped away from the spotlight for 15 years to pursue a career in the professional poker world in Las Vegas.

"The only thing I have done since Sopranos is I got called to do jury duty and I didn’t want to do jury duty … so twice, to get out of jury duty, I did an episode of Law and Order," he told The Hollywood Reporter in a rare interview in May 2020.

He also spoke out about his past of substance misuse and addiction, revealing that he was seven years sober at the time.

He and Sigler co-hosted the Pajama Pants podcast with YouTuber Kassem G, which ended in December 2022.

However, in 2025, Iler returned from his television hiatus to star in Netflix's sketch comedy series Bad Thoughts.

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Lorraine Bracco as Jennifer Melfi

As Tony's psychiatrist, Bracco's character was privy to information — however couched in metaphor or sanitized details — that no one else in his life was. Through all their scenes together, Bracco told PEOPLE in 2024 that she and Gandolfini "pranked each other a lot."

Bracco was nominated for three Golden Globes, three Emmys and three SAG Awards for her turn as Dr. Melfi. Having been in the industry for two decades when The Sopranos first aired, Bracco was already famous for her role in another mob project, Goodfellas (1990).

After the series ended, she narrated the 2011 show I Married a Mobster and starred on Rizzoli & Isles from 2010 to 2016. She’s since made brief stints on Blue Bloods and Jerk, and in 2020, she purchased a home in Sicily for one euro and documented the renovation on the HGTV miniseries My Big Italian Adventure. She also voiced Sofia the Seagull in Disney+’s live-action Pinocchio (2022).

In 2024, she appeared in Monster Summer and The Union, and in 2025, starred as an Italian grandmother in Netflix’s Nonna, playing one of the women hired to cook family recipes at a traditional restaurant. That same year, Prime Video released The Mother, the Menacer, and Me, in which Bracco starred as Christine Sprang.

From 1979 to 1982, Bracco was married to Daniel Guerard, with whom she welcomed a daughter, actress Margaux Guerard. She welcomed her second child, daughter Stella Keitel, with actor Harvey Keitel in 1985. The actress later married actor Edward James Olmos in 1994, and the couple divorced in 2002.

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Michael Imperioli as Christopher Moltisanti

Michael Imperioli's swaggering, erratic Christopher was one of the show's most iconic characters. Before his turn as Tony's nephew and would-be successor — which earned him an Emmy and two SAG Awards — Imperioli starred as Spider in Goodfellas.

Since then, he's continued to work on both the small and big screen, focusing on detective roles, which he played in TV shows like Life on Mars, Detroit 1-8-7 and Lincoln Rhyme: Hunt for the Bone Collector.

Imperioli then portrayed former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo on an episode of Ben Stiller's Escape at Dannemora and reprised the role of Christopher as the narrator for the Sopranos prequel film, The Many Saints of Newark.

In addition, the actor starred in season 2 of HBO's The White Lotus and on Fox's The Memory of a Killer alongside Patrick Dempsey.

Away from TV, Imperioli co-hosted the Talking Sopranos podcast with former costar Steve Schirripa (who played Bobby Baccalieri) from April 2020 to December 2021; the pair also wrote a book together, 2021's Woke Up This Morning: The Definitive Oral History of The Sopranos. He made his Broadway debut in a 2024 revival of Henrik Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People.

Since 1996, Imperioli has been married to Victoria Chlebowski, with whom he shares three children.

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Drea de Matteo as Adriana La Cerva

Drea de Matteo earned an Emmy for her heart-wrenching turn as Christopher's girlfriend-turned-fiancée-turned-FBI informant Adriana La Cerva. After her time on The Sopranos, she took on the role of Gina Tribbiani, Joey Tribbiani's sister, on his eponymous Friends spinoff from 2004 to 2006.

She's since landed a number of roles on other popular TV series, including Sons of Anarchy, Desperate Housewives, A Million Little Things, Paradise City and more.

In 2020, the actress co-hosted a podcast, Made Women, with longtime friend Chris Kushner, which often delves into behind-the-scenes moments from The Sopranos. The co-hosts also launched a mob-themed wine, Gangster Goddess Pinot.

De Matteo shares two children, daughter Alabama Gypsy Rose and son Waylon Albert, from her previous relationship with musician Shooter Jennings, to whom she was engaged. The actress was later to former Whitesnake bassist Michael Devin for several years.

After the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic and the 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike, de Matteo faced foreclosure on her home and she decided to try out OnlyFans to earn money for her family.

"I made $75k in 75 minutes and was able to pay off the lien on my house," de Matteo told PEOPLE in February 2026. Now, at 54, "It keeps me in shape. It turns out I like prancing around in panties and high heels! It's hard, but it's fun."

She also uses the platform to promote her new podcast Ultrafree, which is described in an official synopsis as "a space for curiosity over conformity, unity over division and inquiry over performance."

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Tony Sirico as Paulie Gualtieri

Paulie "Walnuts" was one of Tony's right-hand men as a captain and, later, a particularly violent underboss in the DiMeo crime family. Tony Sirico and many of his Sopranos costars also previously starred in Goodfellas.

After The Sopranos, he appeared in a handful of short films, with his most notable roles being in Woody Allen's Café Society (2016) and Wonder Wheel (2017).

He also did voice work, including on Family Guy — voicing the family dog, Vinny — from 2013 to 2016, and American Dad!, voicing mobster Enzo Perotti from 2017 to 2019.

On July 8, 2022, Sirico's family announced his death at age 79. In a tribute on social media, Sopranos costar Imperioli wrote, "Tony was like no one else: he was as tough, as loyal and as big hearted as anyone I've ever known."

​Sirico is survived by his two children, daughter Joanne Sirico Bello and son Richard Sirico.

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Steven Van Zandt as Silvio Dante

Another member of Tony's inner circle, Steven Van Zandt’s Silvio eventually became the mob boss's consigliere, or advisor.

Van Zandt continued tapping into mafia-related roles, including as a New York mob boss on Lilyhammer, a Norwegian American series that aired from 2012 to 2014, and in The Irishman (2019), alongside Al Pacino himself, whom Silvio often impersonated.

Off-screen, Van Zandt is most famously known as "Little Steven," the guitarist of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band. The band completed their Land of Hope and Dreams American tour in May 2026, in Philadelphia.

Van Zandt is also an author; he published a memoir, Unrequited Infatuations, in 2021.

The actor and musician has been married to actress Maureen Santoro since 1982.

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Vincent Pastore as Salvatore “Big Pussy” Bonpensiero

While his time on the show was briefer than many of the other members of Tony's inner circle, Vincent Pastore's “Big Pussy” — named for his character's early career as a cat burglar — had a lasting impact.

Pastore has more than 180 acting credits to his name, including a stint on General Hospital in 2008 and a slew of appearances in films like Mickey Blue Eyes (1999), The Family (2013) and Spinning Gold (2023).

Pastore currently stars as Donnie "Glasses" Sisto in season 3 of the mob series Gravesend, which began streaming on Prime Video in May 2026.

Apart from acting, Pastore launched his own line of pasta sauce, Vincent Pastore's Italian Sauce, in 2019.

He has one child, daughter Renee, from his previous marriage to Nancy Berke.

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Dominic Chianese as Corrado “Junior” Soprano

Dominic Chianese got his start as Johnny Ola in The Godfather Part II (1974) before famously portraying Tony's Uncle Junior, a mentor who is the technical head of the family for much of the series.

After The Sopranos, Chianese landed roles on HBO's Boardwalk Empire from 2011 to 2013, CBS' The Good Wife from 2012 to 2015 and NBC's The Village in 2019.

Chianese has also pursued a career in music, having released two albums: 2001's Hits and 2003's Ungrateful Heart. He also authored a memoir, Twelve Angels: The Women Who Taught Me How to Act, Live, and Love, published in 2018.

On Feb. 24, 2026, Chianese celebrated his 95th birthday. His fellow Sopranos family Falco and Chase honored the big day that weekend at the Museum of the Moving Image panel, when moderator Ari Aster led the crowd in a rendition of the "Happy Birthday" song.

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Aida Turturro as Janice Soprano

Aida Turturro began acting in the late '90s with roles in films including Sleepers (1996) and Deep Blue Sea (1999) before her big break as Tony's narcissistic and drama-rousing elder sister, Janice Soprano.

In the years since, she's made appearances in a handful of TV shows and movies, guest-starring on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit numerous times from 2013 to 2025 and landing a recurring role on NBC's mob drama The Blacklist from 2017 to 2023.

She appeared in Hulu's Good American Family in 2025, and portrayed Bonnie, a hustler, in the 2026 film The Only Living Pickpocket in New York.

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