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Date of Birth : Sep 18th 1861

Born and raised in New Jersey, press-shy James Gandolfini forged a film career as a prolific character actor before finally emerging as a bona fide star in the critically-lauded HBO series The Sopranos. After earning his college degree in 1983, Gandolfini headed to New York to study at the Actors Studio. Supporting himself for almost ten years as a bartender and nightclub manager, Gandolfini’s major break came in 1992 with a role in a Broadway version of A Streetcar Named Desire starring Alec Baldwin and Jessica Lange, and his film debut in Sidney Lumet’s A Stranger Among Us.

Gandolfini played supporting roles in several more films, including Fallen (1998) and A Civil Action (1998), before he was cast as the head of a dysfunctional Mafia family in The Sopranos. Anchored by Gandolfini’s superbly-nuanced performance as Prozac-popping, mother-bedeviled capo Tony Soprano, The Sopranos was hailed as a TV masterpiece for its alternately funny, surreal and deadly-serious look at New Jersey Mob life. Though he was passed over for the Emmy, Gandolfini won the SAG and Golden Globe Awards for Lead Actor in a TV drama for The Sopranos’ 1999 season.

Gandolfini continued to impress on The Sopranos for the next few years, but he struggled to match that success on the big screen. He was a part of the infamous bomb Surviving Christmas, and had the lead in the never released John Turturro directed musical Romance & Cigarettes.


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The Drop ( 2014 )

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Violet & Daisy ( 2014 )

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Enough Said ( 2013 )

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Zero Dark Thirty ( 2013 )

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Cinema Verite ( 2012 )

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In The Loop ( 2009 )

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Lonely Hearts ( 2007 )

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The Last Castle ( 2002 )

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The Mexican ( 2001 )

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8MM ( 1999 )

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A Civil Action ( 1999 )

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The Mighty ( 1998 )

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Fallen ( 1998 )

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The Juror ( 1996 )

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Get Shorty ( 1996 )

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Crimson Tide ( 1995 )

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True Romance ( 1993 )

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