( CNN ) -- Denise Borino-Quinn , who played the wife of a mob boss in the award-winning HBO series `` The Sopranos , '' has died of cancer at 46 . Borino-Quinn died Wednesday at Morristown ( New Jersey ) Memorial Hospital , according to Farmer Funeral Home . A funeral Mass was held Saturday . `` The Sopranos , '' which ran from 1999 to 2007 , told the story of mobster Tony Soprano and a colorful cast of bumbling criminals . Borino-Quinn , who said in an interview that she got the part in a 2000 open casting call , played Ginny Sacramoni , married to Johnny Sacramoni . An HBO character bio described Ginny as `` Rubenesque . '' According to IMDB.com , the internet movie database , Borino-Quinn was a legal secretary and part-time manicurist in Roseland , New Jersey , when she got `` The Sopranos '' role . She was selected from 14,000 actresses . The actress married her late husband , Luke Quinn , in 2005 . She has two younger brothers , Vincent Borino and Chris Borino .
Denise Borino-Quinn played the wife of mob boss Johnny Sacramoni . The film was shot in New York City and on location in Los Angeles. The cause of death was cancer .