No­var­tis taps ‘So­pra­nos’ ac­tress for new mul­ti­ple scle­ro­sis Kes­imp­ta cam­paign

No­var­tis’ lat­est cam­paign for its mul­ti­ple scle­ro­sis drug Kes­imp­ta stars for­mer “So­pra­nos” ac­tor Jamie-Lynn Sigler, who has re­laps­ing MS.

Sigler was di­ag­nosed with MS at age 20 while shoot­ing the third sea­son of “The So­pra­nos,” in which she played mob­ster Tony So­pra­no’s daugh­ter, Mead­ow. But she didn’t pub­licly dis­close her con­di­tion un­til al­most 15 years lat­er. She has since be­come an ad­vo­cate and spo­ken out re­cent­ly in me­dia in­ter­views, in­clud­ing Peo­ple, Forbes and TV In­sid­er about her new work with No­var­tis.

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