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Boss of the cops and home
While playing a police chief and yelling at cops in Tommy, actress Edie Falco realised it sounded like she was yelling at her children back home
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Edie Falco plays Abigail Thomas, the first female police chief of Los Angeles, in new drama Tommy.
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Edie Falco won three Emmys playing a gangster's wife in The Sopranos (1999 to 2007), then took home a fourth as a drug-addled nurse in the medical drama Nurse Jackie (2009 to 2015).
But her new Amazon Prime Video show Tommy gives the respected dramatic actress a bit of a career bump: She plays Abigail "Tommy" Thomas, who has just been appointed the first female police chief of Los Angeles, and must now prove herself on the job.
