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Armand Assante

Birthplace: New York City

Born: 1949-10-04

Occupations recorded in source

actor; film actor; television actor

Biography from Wikipedia

Armand Anthony Assante Jr. (/əˈsɑːnteɪ/; born October 4, 1949) is an American actor. He played mobster John Gotti in the 1996 HBO television film Gotti alongside Anthony Quinn, Odysseus in the 1997 miniseries adaptation of Homer's The Odyssey, Nietzsche in When Nietzsche Wept, and Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer in 1982's I, the Jury. He has been nominated for two Primetime Emmy Awards (one win for his performance in Gotti), four Golden Globe Awards, and two Screen Actors Guild Awards. Assante also played 'Dominic Cattano', who was based on the real-life Lucchese family boss Carmine Tramunti, in the 2007 film American Gangster alongside Denzel Washington, Josh Brolin and Russell Crowe, which was nominated for two Oscars at the 80th Academy Awards in 2008.

Sources & attribution

Wikidata · revision
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Wikipedia · revision 1373803796
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Catalogue credits: Wikidata and Open Media Database. Sources & licences.