Originally Published: 2008-06-08

She was a guest star in Love Boat, Vanishing Son, Friends, Mad about You, Caroline in the City; she played a sexy killer that Mel Brooks fell in love with in Screw Loose, and took on the role of young mother of the future godfather in Jane Austins Mafia!, but the role that has made her famous with the American critics is that of Annalisa Zucca, boss of the Neopolitan Camorra in the hit series The Sopranos.
From the evening of the debut of her character in February 2002, the career of Sofia Milos, born in Zurich from an Italian father and a Greek mother, changed course. Milos found herself shooting the action film The Order in Israel and in Bulgaria along with Charlton Heston and Jean Claude Van Damme, she went to Massachusetts to portray a young widow who sings Portuguese Fado (blues) in Passionada, and even took on the role of detective Yelina Salas, wife of the brother of Horatio Caine (David Caruso) in the widely popular CSI Miami. Milos found success again in The Border, a CBC series, in which she plays special agent Bianca LaGarda of the U.S. Department of Immigration who works at Canadian customs.
For her roles as Annalisa Zucca, Yelina Salas, Bianca LaGarda, and her career, which started out in 1992 with Inside Out (in which she co-starred with Kris Kirstoferson and Leslie Ann Down), actress Sofia Milos will be awarded the Award of Excellence at the Banff World Television Festival that will take place in Alberta from June 8 to 11; the awards ceremony will take place on June 9 at the Fairmont Banff Spring Hotel.

This is an important recognition that in past years was awarded to Gordon Pinsent, David Chase (The Sopranos), Gary David Goldberg, Dick Wolf, and Carol Mendelsohn (CSI Miami). How does this make you feel?
“I still don’t understand how it could have happened. I am happy and also truly very grateful because I worked with the majority of producers who won the prize in previous editions: Mendelsohn, Chase, people who have given me the possibility of growing as an actress. To find myself winning a prize of so much importance and entering in the list of people who have worked in the entertainment sector for more than 30 years is truly a beautiful thing.”

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