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Dominic Chianese
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Actor Born: February 24, 1931 in New York City, NY Biography:After decades of honing his acting skills on stage and screen, and eventually carving out a niche for himself as a "gangster," "Dominic Chianese" came upon his most widely recognized role as Uncle Junior on the hit HBO mob series "The Sopranos", beginning in 1999. Born in 1931, in Bronx, NY, Chianese attended Brooklyn College, and began appearing on-stage in 1952. He would appear on and off-Broadway in theater for over 45 years before his famous role on "The Sopranos", adding film and television to his repertoire along the way.
After his first film role in 1972, as a panhandler in a drama called "Fuzz", he embarked on what would become the trademark of his career with his first gangster role, as Johnny Ola in Coppola's "The Godfather Pt. II" (1974), the classic, starring "Al Pacino". Chianese also appeared in "All the President's Men" in 1976, and would work with Pacino again in the 1979 thriller... Full Biography
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