Janice Soprano Janice Soprano Janice Soprano Baccalieri, played by Aida Turturro, is a fictional character on the HBO TV series "The Sopranos". She is Tony Soprano's elder sister. A young Janice has appeared in flashbacks, played by Madeline Blue and Juliet Fox. As the oldest child of mobster Johnny Boy Soprano and Livia Soprano in a household financed by crime, Janice grew complacent of her family's criminal ties. For example, "Johnny Boy" took Janice to an amusement park where other mobsters and their daughters were. The mobsters used this as a cover to conduct criminal activities, until they eventually get busted (and
Janice Soprano released from prison around the same time. 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. Richie is initially reluctant to do so. Richie is causing problems for Tony that are only made more complicated by his engagement to Janice. 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 him still having a no-show job working