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James John Gandolfini (Italian: [ɡandolˈfiːni]; September 18, 1961 – June 19, 2013) was an American actor.He was best known for his portrayal of Tony Soprano, the Italian-American Mafia crime boss in HBO's television series The Sopranos (1999–2007).
Vincent Palermo was born in New York City on June 4, 1944, and raised in a traditional Italian-American family in Brooklyn.He was an in-law by marriage to Nicholas Delmore, the former head of the New Jersey crime family, whose nephew was Simone DeCavalcante, also a New Jersey mob boss whose daughter he married.
The Sopranos's brilliant solution is to situate most of its nudity in the Bada Bing! strip joint run by Tony Soprano's aide-de-camp, Silvio Dante. The setting is a logical place to find Tony and his crew discussing business, and the naked women need no further motivation than they are "dancing" in the club.
Gandolfini died of a heart attack in 2013, just six years after the end of The Sopranos. In Wise Guy, his costars Michael Imperioli, Edie Falco, Lorraine Bracco, and Drea de Matteo remember ...
He didn’t want to just show a bunch of clips of people yapping about how great The Sopranos was. But then came lunch with David Chase, the mastermind behind Tony Soprano’s twisted world. “I ...
One of “Wise Guy’s” most haunting insights is how the entire series — the scripts, the other actors — evolved in tandem with Gandolfini sinking into the life force of Tony’s darkness.
James Gandolfini uses his real voice in his comatose dream instead of Tony Soprano's strong Jersey accent. The interior of the hospital lunch room is actually "The Highlander Club" (formerly called "The Pub") inside the Campus Center at NJIT. The interior of the hospital is the same hospital from the TV show Scrubs.
The crime drama followed mob boss Tony Soprano (James Gandolfini) as he attempted to be a family man and keep his criminal life tucked away. Over its six-season run on HBO from 1999 to 2007 ...