Livia Soprano (née Pollio), played by Nancy Marchand, is a fictional character on the HBO TV series The Sopranos. She is the mother of Tony Soprano. A young Livia, played by Laila Robins and later by Laurie J. Williams is sometimes seen in flashbacks. David Chase has stated that the main inspiration for the character is his own mother.
Livia Soprano, the family matriarch, was scheming, manipulative, conniving and abusive. She seemingly derived li...
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Livia Soprano (née Pollio), played by Nancy Marchand, is a fictional character on the HBO TV series The Sopranos. She is the mother of Tony Soprano. A young Livia, played by Laila Robins and later by Laurie J. Williams is sometimes seen in flashbacks. David Chase has stated that the main inspiration for the character is his own mother.
Livia Soprano, the family matriarch, was scheming, manipulative, conniving and abusive. She seemingly derived little pleasure from life other than making the people around her miserable, especially her three children, Tony, Barbara (who moved away years ago) and Janice. She told Carmela that Tony would eventually be bored with her. She even tried to manipulate her brother-in-law, Junior, into putting out a hit on her own son after he tried to put her in a nursing home (or, as he maintained, a 'retirement community'), by mentioning that Tony was seeing a psychiatrist, and she later told Junior that Tony looked exactly like her cousin Cakey after he had...
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