Livia Soprano (The Sopranos)
Self-centered and scheming, The Sopranos’ matriarch, played by Nancy Marchand, was based on show creator David Chase’s mother.
“Something made me think that it might be funny to do a story about a guy who was a lot tougher than me,” he told the BBC. “A lot more masculine, tough, savage, all those things, with a mother like that.”
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