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Jamie-Lynn Sigler (born May 15, 1981), formerly known as
Jamie-Lynn DiScala, is an American actress and singer. She is perhaps best
known for her role as Meadow Soprano on the acclaimed HBO television series
The Sopranos.
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Sigler was born in Queens, New York City to Steve and Connie Sigler. Her father is Jewish, the son of immigrants from Greece and Romania, and her mother is a Cuban-born convert to Judaism. Sigler grew up on Long Island in Jericho, New York, and began acting and singing at age 7. She attended Jericho High School. Sigler also attended the Cultural Arts Playhouse where she played many leads.
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In 1997, she was cast as the smart but troubled Meadow Soprano, daughter of
New Jersey mob boss Tony Soprano. The show premiered in 1999 and became a
huge success, with Sigler rising to some fame as a TV actress.
In 2000, while filming Campfire Stories in Hamburg, New Jersey, Sigler was
paralyzed from the waist down for several days having contracted Lyme
disease. Sigler then spent five months on Broadway from October 2002 through
February 2003 playing Belle in Beauty and the Beast where she replaced
long-running Belle Sarah Litzsinger. She has continued to appear in
theatrical roles, such as Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella.
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In 2004, she starred as "Hollywood Madam" Heidi Fleiss in the USA television
movie Call Me: The Rise and Fall of Heidi Fleiss next to actor Jason
Stewart. In that same year, she had her first starring feature film role,
Extreme Dating, an independent film.
In 2005, Sigler starred in Lovewrecked and the following year in Homie
Spumoni, when she played the role of Alli, a girlfriend to Renato/Leroy
(Donald Faison) directed by Mike Cerron.
Also in October 2008, she appeared as herself in the fifth season of the HBO
series "Entourage", appearing in the episodes "First Class Jerk" , "Playing
With Fire" and "Return to Queens Blvd". She returned for season six of the
series. On November 17, 2008, Sigler guest-starred as Jillian on the TV
series How I Met Your Mother in the episode "Woooo!" On the December 06,
2008 airing of Saturday Night Live, Jamie-Lynn appeared as the checkout girl
for the SNL Digital Short music video, Jizz in My Pants by The Lonely
Island.
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In 2001, she released a pop album called Here to Heaven, which featured
the single "Cry Baby". The album was a commercial failure and had low sales.
In 2007 Sigler said she was "embarrassed" by the album and regrets releasing
it.
In 2002, she co-authored an autobiography, Wise Girl: What I've Learned
About Life, Love, and Loss. In October 2008, the actress paired up with
MasterCard to promote the MasterCard Savings Program, a new rewards program
for debit MasterCard and prepaid MasterCard cardholders.
During the early production of The Sopranos, Sigler struggled with an eating disorder and is now a spokesperson for the National Eating Disorders Association. Sigler appeared in a CNN special with Paula Zahn in which she, jockey Shane Sellers, actress Jane Fonda, and two others revealed their struggles with eating disorders. After overcoming her disorder, Sigler posed for several men's magazines including Maxim.
On July 11, 2003, Sigler married her agent and longtime boyfriend, A. J.
DiScala. She subsequently changed her name to Jamie-Lynn DiScala, stating
she is a very "traditional girl", and never had any doubt that she would
take her husband's name after marrying, even professionally. However, in
September 2005, Sigler and DiScala announced that they were separating, and
she subsequently changed her name back. She is currently linked to Entourage
actor Jerry Ferrara, whom she met while making a cameo appearance on
Entourage.
She is close friends with pop singer Lance Bass;a review by Bass was
featured on the back cover of Sigler's 2002 memoir, Wise Girl: What I've
Learned About Life, Love, and Loss.
During January 2008, Sigler visited Israel through the Birthright Israel
program and subsequently was moved by the trip, calling Israel "one of the
most beautiful, inspiring places I've ever been to." She further noted that
the trip gave her a greater understanding to preserve her Jewish identity
and, after talks with Israeli soldiers who were also participants on the
trip, she expressed solidarity towards the efforts of the young soldiers.
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