James Gandolfini

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Gender: Male
Born: 18th September 1961 (currently 50 years old)
Nationality: United States of America
TV programs: The Sopranos, Gun, Spike Guys' Choice Awards
Movies: 8mm, All the King's Men, Night Falls on Manhattan, Perdita Durango, The Juror, The Man Who Wasn't There, The Mexican, True Romance, The Last Castle, Lonely Hearts, Terminal Velocity, Where the Wild Things Are, Romance & Cigarettes, She's So Lovely, Surviving Christmas, Fallen, Get Shorty, Crimson Tide, Angie, The Mighty, 12 Angry Men, A Civil Action, New World, Italian Movie, The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3, Welcome to the Rileys, In the Loop, Stories of Lost Souls, Money for Nothing, A Stranger Among Us, Down the Shore, Killing Them Softly, Stories USA, Alive Day Memories: Home from Iraq, Cinema Verite, American Breakdown, Sopranos Unauthorized: Shooting Sites Uncovered, Violet & Daisy, Escape from Planet Earth, Twylight Zones, The Incredible Burt Wonderstone, Cleaver

James J. Gandolfini, Jr. (born September 18, 1961) is an American actor. He is best known for his role as Tony Soprano in the HBO TV series The Sopranos, about a troubled crime boss struggling to balance his family life and career in the Mafia. For this role, Gandolfini garnered enormous praise, winning both the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series and Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series three times. Gandolfini's other roles include the woman-beating mob henchman Virgil in True Romance, enforcer/stuntman Bear in Get Shorty, Lt. General Miller in In the Loop, and the impulsive Wild Thing Carol in Where the Wild Things Are. In 2007, Gandolfini produced the HBO documentary "Alive Day Memories: Home from Iraq" in which he interviewed 10 injured veterans from the Iraq War. In 2010, Gandolfini produced another HBO documentary "Wartorn: 1861-2010" in which Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and its impact on soldiers and families is analyzed throughout several wars in American history from 1861 to 2010.

Gandolfini was born in Westwood. His mother, Santa, a high school lunch lady, was born in the U.S. and raised

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