With the help of her feminist therapist, Janice soon reaches the conclusion that her affair with Ralph is a mistake. Janice's next phase is marked by a brief interest in a Christian music career, as well as an equally brief live-in relationship with her narcoleptic boyfriend, Aaron Arkaway.Īfter the death of Jackie Aprile, Jr., Janice embarks on a clandestine relationship with Ralph Cifaretto in season four who is in a relationship with Jackie's mother, Rosalie Aprile. After the assault against her, she briefly becomes a born-again Christian. Tony visits her at the hospital and angrily tells her that since she has been assaulted, he is now forced to retaliate and risk facing a war with the Russians or else lose respect. Svetlana has friends connected with the Russian Mafia who physically assault Janice until she reveals the location of the leg. She tells Svetlana that the leg won't be returned until she receives the records. Janice, feeling that she should rightfully have the records, absconds with Svetlana's prosthetic leg. After Livia's death, Janice becomes obsessed with acquiring her mother's valuable record collection, which Livia gave to her nurse, Svetlana. In season three, Janice returns to New Jersey following the death of her mother. She then moves back to Seattle and becomes briefly engaged to a 19-year-old. After an incident of domestic violence in which Richie punches her in the face, Janice shoots and kills Richie and calls on her brother to dispose of the body. Tony orders Richie killed after Uncle Junior informs him of Richie's plan to "move against him". Tony is unhappy with the engagement, and both Janice and Richie flaunt their status to Tony by planning an extravagant wedding and putting an offer on an expensive house in Short Hills, New Jersey despite Richie still having a no-show job working as a fishmonger. Richie causes problems for Tony that are only made more complicated by his engagement to Janice. When Tony and Richie begin feuding, Janice exacerbates the situation by telling Richie that he is being unfairly treated and even suggests making a move against Tony. Her high school boyfriend, Richie Aprile, is a DiMeo crime family Capo who is released from prison around the same time. In season two, Janice returns to Newark, New Jersey, ostensibly to take care of her sick mother. Her relationship with Tony is often shown to be strained in nature, as he still holds her responsible for abandoning the family and leaving him to deal with their abusive mother alone. Janice is portrayed as a chronic malingerer, with the people around her often holding the opinion she is lazy and has no work ethic, filing for disability in Washington for alleged Carpal tunnel syndrome, and using her claim of newly contracted Epstein Barr Syndrome to excuse herself from her household duties. Since returning to New Jersey Janice is shown to re-invent herself from an aging rebel to an upscale, materialistic, North Jersey Italian housewife. She worked as a furniture mover and at an espresso bar in Olympia, Washington before finally moving back to New Jersey permanently. Eugene later took him back to Montreal and Janice unsuccessfully tried to petition the State Department to have him returned to her. In the series, the couple had a son named Harpo "Hal" named after the song "Harpo's Blues" by Phoebe Snow. Janice, under her new name, traveled across Europe, staying in Paris, France, and Sri Lanka, and married a Québécois man named Eugene. She is portrayed as having a very callous and rebellious nature.Īfter graduating from Sacred Heart High School, Janice joined an ashram in Venice, Los Angeles, the character adopting the name Parvati Wasatch. Presented as the oldest child of mobster Johnny Boy Soprano and Livia Soprano in a household financed by crime, Janice grew complacent about her family's criminal ties. Alexandra Intrator portrays a young Janice Soprano in the 2021 prequel film, The Many Saints of Newark. On the show, a young Janice appears in flashbacks portrayed by Madeline Blue and Juliet Fox. In The Sopranos, Janice is portrayed by Aida Turturro who’s the eldest sibling of the show's protagonist, Tony Soprano. Janice Soprano Baccalieri is a fictional character on the HBO television drama series The Sopranos and in the film The Many Saints of Newark.
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