Meadow Soprano

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Meadow Soprano
First appearance	"Pilot" (episode 1.01)
Last appearance	"Made in America" (episode 6.21)
Cause/reason	Final episode
Created by	David Chase
Portrayed by	Jamie-Lynn Sigler
Episode count	72
Information
Aliases	FBI code name is "Princess Bing", some friends and family call her "Med"
Gender	Female
Age	25 (at end of series)
Occupation	Student
Title	Miss
Family	Tony Soprano (father) Carmela Soprano (mother) Anthony Soprano, Jr. (brother) Johnny Boy Soprano (paternal grandfather) Livia Soprano (paternal grandmother) Hugh De Angelis (maternal grandfather) Mary De Angelis (maternal grandmother) Janice Soprano (aunt) Barbara Soprano Giglione (aunt) Thomas Giglione (uncle) "Uncle Junior" Soprano (granduncle) Christopher Moltisanti (cousin) Bobby Baccalieri (uncle) Bobby Baccalieri III (cousin) Sophia Baccalieri (cousin) Domenica Baccalieri (cousin)
Spouse(s)	Noah Tannenbaum (ex-boyfriend) Jackie Aprile, Jr. (ex-boyfriend) Finn Detrolio (ex-fiancé) Patrick Parisi (fiancé)

Meadow Mariangela Soprano (born September 13, 1982), played by Jamie-Lynn Sigler, is a fictional character on the HBO TV series The Sopranos.

Character

Meadow is the first-born child of Tony and Carmela Soprano. She attended Columbia University, performing well in her classes after a poor first-year performance and volunteered regularly at the South Bronx Law Center. Since her graduation, Meadow studied for medical school as she was interested in being a pediatrician, but she had second thoughts and considered a career in the legal profession.

Meadow was often resentful of her lineage, stemming from a string of failed relationships first with Noah Tannenbaum, a fellow student of mixed race who met with Tony's racist disapproval, only to leave after his own father seemed concerned with the Soprano family heritage. This was followed by a romance with Jackie Aprile, Jr., the son of Tony's deceased friend and fellow mobster, Jackie Aprile, Sr.. Jackie Junior was no saint; he cheated on Meadow and shot a made man during a botched robbery.

After this incident, Tony prompted Ralph Cifaretto to get rid of Jackie Jr. As Jackie was exiting his hiding place, hitman Vito Spatafore came up behind him and shot him through the back of the head, killing him instantly. This hit was publicized as a drug deal gone bad, a story which Meadow saw through, but has since come to accept, probably for the sake of her close relationship with her family. Her acceptance would come with adversity elsewhere, however, as Meadow would then struggle with depression and mildly flirt with alcohol abuse, which reflected on her subsequent year in college.

Just before his death, Meadow came to realize that Jackie was boorish and unfaithful; nevertheless, she was very distressed by his death, initially blaming Tony for Jackie's involvement with crime and Carmela for standing by and supporting Tony. The irony is that Tony did everything he could to discourage Jackie's criminal aspirations, having promised Jackie Sr. on his deathbed to see that Jackie Jr. stayed away from the mob life.

During her teens, Meadow was both very aware and resentful of her father's criminal enterprise, and her family's complicity in it. However, Meadow reconciled herself with them and her attitude strongly mirrored Tony's own; publicly, she cited her father's position as a "waste management consultant," and in closer circles rationalizes Cosa Nostra as a cultural tradition borne out of discrimination against her ancestors' social and national origins. Her life seemed further stabilized by her engagement to a Columbia dental student, Finn DeTrolio, which her father approved. It was later revealed that Finn and Meadow had broken off the engagement.

At the film premiere for Cleaver, Meadow met and started dating Patrick Parisi. She decided to not apply for medical school and, inspired by Patrick's passion for the law, to apply for law school instead. She begins to plan her wedding to Patrick and, in the series' final scene, she is shown outside the diner where she is late for meeting her family for dinner, making a number of efforts to parallel park before she finally does, and heads toward the diner. Meadow drives a 2007 Lexus IS250.

External links

• HBO Profile: Meadow Soprano