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To be included in this list, the person must have a Wikipedia article showing they are Italian American actors or must have references showing they are Italian American actors and are notable. As discussed in the 2005 book Hollywood Italians by Peter E. Bondanella, as well as numerous other sources, Italian-American actors have made a significant impact.[1][2][3][4][5] The Guild of Italian American Actors was founded in 1937.[6]

The list is organized chronologically, listing Italian American actors by birth date periods.

1990s

1980s

1970s

1960s

1950s

  • Ray Abruzzo (born 1954) television actor (The Sopranos)
  • Sharon Angela (born 1958) television actress (The Sopranos)
  • Michael Badalucco (born 1954) film actor (O Brother, Where Art Thou?)
  • Danny Bonaduce (born 1959) Italian father – television actor (The Partridge Family)[135]
  • Elizabeth Bracco (born 1959) Italian father and mother of French descent – television actress (The Sopranos)
  • Lorraine Bracco (born 1954) Italian father and mother of French descent – Academy Award-nominated actress (The Sopranos, Goodfellas)[136]
  • Steve Buscemi (born 1957) Italian father and part Irish mother – actor (Fargo, Reservoir Dogs)[137]
  • Joseph Cali (born 1950) film actor (Saturday Night Fever)
  • Carl Capotorto (born 1959) television actor (The Sopranos)
  • David Caruso (born 1956) Italian father and Irish mother – film/television actor (CSI: Miami)[138]
  • Vincent Curatola (born 1953) television actor (The Sopranos)
  • Beverly D'Angelo (born 1951) father of Italian descent – film actress (Vacation)
  • Tony Danza (born 1951) actor/talk show host (Who's The Boss, Family Law)[139]
  • Robert Davi (born 1951) film actor (The Goonies)
  • Michael DeLorenzo (born 1959) Italian father and Puerto Rican mother – television/film actor (New York Undercover)
  • Vincent D'Onofrio (born 1959) son of Sicilian parents – film/television actor and director (Full Metal Jacket, Law and Order: Criminal Intent)[140][141]
  • Giancarlo Esposito (born 1958) Italian father and African-American mother – film actor[142]
  • Lou Ferrigno (born 1951) bodybuilder and actor (The Hulk)[143]
  • Robert Funaro (born 1959) television actor (The Sopranos)
  • Joseph Gannascoli (born 1959) television actor (The Sopranos)
  • Dan Grimaldi (born 1950) television actor (The Sopranos)
  • Robert Hegyes (1951–2012) television actor (Welcome Back, Kotter) Italian-American mother, Hungarian-American father[144]
  • Hulk Hogan (Terry Gino Bollea) (born 1953) 50% Italian wrestler
  • Anjelica Huston (born 1951) mother of Italian descent and father of English, Irish, and Scottish descent – film actress (Prizzi's Honor)
  • Renée Jones (born 1958) Italian mother and African-American father – soap opera actress (Days of our Lives)
  • Cyndi Lauper (born 1953) Italian mother and Swiss/German father – singer and actress- (Girls Just Wanna Have Fun)[145]
  • Jay Leno (born 1950) Italian-American father and Scottish mother – comedian, former actor, known as host of The Tonight Show[146]
  • Madonna (Ciccone) (born 1958) father of Italian ancestry and mother of French-Canadian ancestry – singer, songwriter, dancer, actress, entertainer (Dick Tracy)[147]
  • Ed Marinaro (born 1950) actor and former football player[148]
  • Chazz Palminteri (born 1952) film actor (A Bronx Tale)[149]
  • Joe Pantoliano (born 1951) film/television actor (The Sopranos)[150]
  • Joe Penny (born 1956) Italian mother and English father – television actor
  • Joe Piscopo (born 1951) actor and comedian (Saturday Night Live)[151]
  • Jon Polito (born 1950) Italian father and Anglo-American mother[citation needed] – actor (The Honeymooners)
  • Ray Romano (born 1957) actor and comedian (Everybody Loves Raymond)[139]
  • Isabella Rossellini (born 1952) Italian father and Swedish mother – actress, filmmaker, author, philanthropist, model[152]
  • James Russo (born 1953) film/television actor (Donnie Brasco)
  • Rene Russo (born 1954) Italian father and Italian maternal grandfather – film actress/model (Lethal Weapon 3, The Thomas Crown Affair)[153]
  • Randy Savage (Randall Mario Poffo) (1952–2011) Italian father and Jewish mother – wrestler and actor
  • Jack Scalia (born 1950) film/television actor (The Genius Club)
  • Steve Schirripa (born 1957) television actor and writer (The Sopranos) – father of Italian descent, and mother of Jewish descent[154]
  • Connie Sellecca (Sellecchia) (born 1955) actress[155]
  • Gary Sinise (born 1955) 25% Italian ancestry – actor (CSI: NY)[citation needed]
  • Joseph Siravo (born 1958) film/television actor (The Sopranos)
  • Rocco Sisto (born 1953) Italian-born actor (The Sopranos)
  • Frank Sivero (LoGiudice) (born 1952) Italian-born actor (Goodfellas)
  • John Travolta (born 1954) Italian-American father and Irish-American mother – Academy Award-nominated actor, singer, dancer (Grease, Saturday Night Fever)[156]
  • John Turturro (born 1957) actor, cousin of Aida Turturro (The Good Shepherd, The Bronx Is Burning)
  • Steven Van Zandt (Lento) (born 1950) musician, songwriter, arranger, record producer, actor, and disc jockey (The Sopranos)[157]
  • Vinny Vella (born 1950) actor and part time comedian[158]
  • Diane Venora (born 1952) actress (Italian-American father)
  • Pia Zadora (born 1954) Broadway actress – Italian father, Polish mother
  • Chuck Zito (born 1957) member of the New York chapter of the Hells Angels, amateur boxer, martial artist, celebrity bodyguard, stuntman and actor[159]

1940s

1930s

  • F. Murray Abraham (born 1939) Oscar-winner for Best Actor (mother of Italian descent)
  • Frank Adonis (born 1935) long term character actor
  • Danny Aiello (born 1933) film/television actor[178]
  • Alan Alda (born 1936) actor, writer, director and political activist. His father was of Italian descent[178]
  • Frankie Avalon (Avallone) (born 1939) actor and teen idol in the 1950s and early 1960s[179]
  • Anne Bancroft (Italiano) (1931–2005) Academy Award-winning actress[180]
  • Robert Blake (Gubitosi) (born 1933) film actor, perhaps most famous for starring in the U.S. television series Baretta, and for being found not guilty of the murder of wife Bonnie Lee Bakley[181]
  • Joseph Bologna (born 1934) film/television actor[182]
  • Sonny Bono (1935–1998) son of Sicilian parents- actor and pop singer (Airplane II)
  • Victor Buono (1938–1982) Italian father and German mother – film and television actor, poet
  • Ron Carey (Cicenia) (1935–2007) film and television actor (Barney Miller)[183]
  • Carmine Caridi (born 1934) film actor (The Godfather Part III)
  • Richard S. Castellano (1933–1988) film actor (The Godfather)
  • John Cazale (1935–1978) film actor (The Godfather), father of Italian descent and mother of Irish ancestry[184]
  • Dominic Chianese (born 1931) television actor (The Sopranos)[185]
  • Sam Coppola (born 1935) film/television actor
  • Bobby Darin (Cassoto) (1936–1973) actor, singer and one of the most popular rock and roll American teen idols of the 1950s, maternal grandfather was of Italian ancestry, unclear who Darin's biological father was[186]
  • James Darren (Ercolani) (born 1936) television and film actor, television director, and singer[187]
  • Dom DeLuise (1933–2009) comic actor[188]
  • Connie Francis (Franconero) (born 1938) actress and pop singer, known for her 1957 hit "Who's Sorry Now?"[189]
  • Ben Gazzara (1930–2012) son of Sicilian parents, film/television actor[190]
  • Morgana King (born 1930) (Maria Grazia Morgana Messina DeBerardini) daughter of Sicilian parents- film actress (The Godfather)
  • Frank Langella (born 1938) stage, film and television actor
  • Richard Libertini (born 1933) an American stage, film and television actor known for playing numerous character roles (Popeye)
  • Tony Lo Bianco (born 1936) film and television actor (The French Connection)[191]
  • Robert Loggia (born 1930) son of Sicilian parents- film actor
  • Garry Marshall (Masciarelli) (born 1934) Italian-American father and part Scottish mother—actor, director, and writer – brother of Penny Marshall[192]
  • Sal Mineo (1939–1976) son of Sicilian parents- actor and theater director, famous for his Academy Award-nominated performance opposite James Dean in Rebel Without a Cause[193]
  • Tony Musante (1936–2013), stage, television, and film actor[194]
  • Paula Prentiss (Ragusa) (born 1938) film actress, father of Italian ancestry[195]
  • Alex Rocco (Petricone) (1936–2015) film actor (The Godfather)
  • Reni Santoni (born 1939) 50% Italian, 25% French and 25% Spanish- film actor (Dirty Harry)
  • John Saxon (Orrico) (born 1936) film actor
  • Paul Sorvino (born 1939) actor, father of Mira Sorvino[196]
  • Joe Spinell (Spagnulo) (1936–1989) film actor (The Godfather II)
  • Connie Stevens (Ingolia) (born 1938) Italian father and Irish mother – actress and singer[197]
  • Brenda Vaccaro (born 1939) tv and movie actress
  • Frankie Valli (Castelluccio) (born 1934) singer and actor (The Sopranos)
  • Frank Vincent (Gattuso) (born 1939) film/television actor (The Sopranos)
  • Joe Viterelli (1937–2004) film actor (Shallow Hal)

1920s

1910s

1900s

  • Don Ameche (Amici) (1908–1993) 50% Italian, actor and director[210]
  • Argentina Brunetti (1907–2005) actress (It's a Wonderful Life)
  • Iron Eyes Cody (Espera Decorti) (1907–1999) son of Sicilian parents – actor, frequently played Native Americans[211]
  • Russ Columbo (1908–1934) singer, violinist and actor, perhaps most famous for his signature tune, "You Call It Madness, But I Call It Love", and the legend surrounding his early death[212]
  • Lou Costello (Cristillo) (1906–1959) 62.5% Italian, 12.5% French, and 25% Irish blood – actor and comedian known as half of the comedy team of Abbott and Costello[213]
  • Cesar Romero (1907–1994) Italian father and Cuban mother – film and television actor (Batman)[214]
  • Renata Vanni (1909–2004) Italian-born American film actress.[215]

1890s

  • Frank Capra (1897–1991) a Sicilian born actor and director (It's a Wonderful Life)
  • Jimmy Durante (1893–1980) actor and singer
  • Rudolph Valentino (1895–1926) born Rodolfo Alfonso Rafaello Piero Filiberto Gugliemi di Valentina, Hollywood's first sex symbol and the first "Latin Lover" (Italian father, Giovanni Antonio Giuseppe Fedele Guglielmi di Valentina D'Antonguolla, and French mother, Marie Berta Gabrielle Barbin; Valentino was born in Italy)

1880s

Non-Italian American actors

  • Laura Benanti (born 1979) American actress, stepfather is of Italian descent. She is of Yugoslavian-German-Irish-Native American heritage.
  • Lillo Brancato (born 1976) Colombian-born American actor, adopted son of Italian-American parents.
  • Marlon Brando (1924–2004) film actor. Brando's family was of German, Dutch, Irish, and English ancestry.
  • Ray Liotta (born 1954) film actor, adopted son of Italian-American father. Has stated that he is not of Italian descent.
  • Roma Maffia (born 1958) American actress, stepfather is of Italian descent. She is of West Indian, English and German descent.
  • Nicole Polizzi (born 1987) Chilean-born American reality star actress, adopted daughter of Italian-American parents.

Voice actors

See also

References

  • Peter Bogdanella, Hollywood Italians: Dagos, Palookas, Romeos, Wise Guys, and Sopranos, New York: The Continuum IPG, 2004 – ISBN 0-8264-1544-X
  • Victoria Thomas, Hollywood's Latin Lovers: Latino, Italian, and French Men Who Make the Screen Smolder, Santa Monica: Angel City Press, 1998 - ISBN 1-8833-1841-6

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  107. ^ [17] ""I get a lot of scripts now for Italian mothers", she adds. "I'm only half-Italian.""
  108. ^ [18] "Favreau jokes that, being half Jewish and half Italian, he has nowhere to run if he wants to lose weight, because food is such a big part of both cultures."
  109. ^ [19] "What she really is is a Philadelphia-born, blue-collar, Italian-American Catholic with a knack for flaunting the rules."
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  113. ^ [21] "Italian-American scion of a Connecticut family..." [22] "Given his half-Italian father, Bart Giamatti... Irish mother, Toni, a high-school teacher"
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  116. ^ [24] "Is Italian-American"
  117. ^ [25] "Working long afternoons with his loving contractor father, Artie developed a comical view of social classes, and his place in life as a barrel chested Italian boy."
  118. ^ [26] "The National Italian American Foundation in Washington DC, recently honored LeBlanc for his contribution to the world of entertainment."
  119. ^ "NIAF News Releases". Niaf.org. Retrieved December 6, 2010.
  120. ^ Sachs, Mark (February 15, 2007). "Family Unit time in the Valley". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved October 4, 2014.
  121. ^ [27] "No more than anybody else, but yes, I have a little bit of a temper. I'm from Louisiana. So – and I'm Irish and Italian... My mother's side is the Italian – I got a little Irish and Italian from my mother's side and of course, like I was telling you before, Scotch Irish on my father's side. So, there's a little bit of temper in there." [28] "Country star TIM McGRAW was as surprised as his fans when he was feted by the Italian American Foundation recently—after the organization learned his mother is half Italian. "With a name like McGraw, you don't think about (getting such an honour) very often. But I do have strong Italian heritage, from my great-grandfather DONATO AUGUSTO D'AGOSTINO, my grandpop GIOVANNI GIUSEPPI D'AGOSTINO – and my mom teaching me to make pasta and spaghetti sauce, which is one of my specialties. I grew up in the South. In a lot of ways the Italian culture and the southern culture go hand in hand, because it's all about family, neighbours and community.""
  122. ^ [29] "I'm third-generation Italian, but I still have a strong sense of my heritage. There are certain Italianisms that ring very true in this play – the place of the man in the household, the idea of respect . . . of omerta."
  123. ^ [30]"Erik Palladino:...Is Italian-Armenian."
  124. ^ [31] "Nationality: Italian/American"
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  126. ^ [32] "I lived on the edge of a forest. We had a very big Italian family with lots of love." Perhaps his Italian great-grandfather's interest in commedia dell'arte had a genetic influence on Ruffalo's choice of careers, but not at first."
  127. ^ [33] "The Italian-American actress..."
  128. ^ [34] "This Italian-American, Brooklyn-bred actress..."
  129. ^ [35] "If Nick looks familiar, it's because this Italian stallion has appeared on Sex and the City..."
  130. ^ [36] "That Italian-American actress."
  131. ^ [37] "Stefani was brought up in Anaheim, California, one of four children in a close-knit Irish-Italian, Roman Catholic family."
  132. ^ [38] "we found that there was a lot to like about this Italian beauty..."
  133. ^ [39] "As Stanley Tucci describes it, "everything always came back to being Italian.""
  134. ^ [40] "Italian-American Turturro"
  135. ^ [41] "I'm Italian. I make big points" [42] "I’m Italian—I’m too selfish to ever kill myself"
  136. ^ [43] "And also, as an Italian-American woman—which I'm very proud to be—I like that in The Sopranos you come from one side of the block, I come from the other."
  137. ^ [44] "floppy-thin Irish-Italian"
  138. ^ [45] "http://www.superiorpics.com/david_caruso/"
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  142. ^ [46] "Half-African American, half-Italian"
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  145. ^ [47] "LR: How can you be Italian with a name like Lauper? CL: Lauper's my father's name. He's Swiss and my mom's Italian. So I'm Swiss and Sicilian. Kinda like cold cuts. [laughs] The Italian in me is always fighting the Swiss in me', "OK, let's talk here. Everybody calm down." [both laugh]"
  146. ^ [48] "he's Italian and Scottish" [49] "KING: Who had the chin, mom or dad? J. LENO: I guess that's from the Scotch [sic] side of the family. Yeah, that would probably be more of the Scotch side, my mom. My mom was Scottish. My father was Italian, which is a wonderful area for comedy as a kid..."
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  149. ^ [51] "Well, I'm Italian, I'm dark, Sicilian, so they see the Mafia guy, or I could be a cop."
  150. ^ [52] "We were made from the same stuff, homegrown Hoboken Italian-America... Who's sorry now, us Italians".
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  152. ^ [53] "As an Italian who has become an American citizen, I felt profoundly embarrassed ..."
  153. ^ [54] "We're both Italian so we both kind of have that fire."
  154. ^ [55] ""Steve Schirripa is the best Italian writer since Maya Angelou and I’m not just saying that because he has a gun to my head . . . okay, yes I am." – Chris Rock"
  155. ^ "NIAF News Releases". Niaf.org. Retrieved December 6, 2010.
  156. ^ [56] "Although the Italian side of his lineage is what he is most recognised for, Travolta himself sees it differently. He told Plus Magazine recently, "The emotional, romantic, whimsical part of me is Irish. Spiritually, I probably feel more like an Irishman – that's where my heart is." He went on, "The feelings I have for food and dance is probably the Italian side of me. I have the sexuality of an Italian but I think the Irish are very sexy too. I grew up in an all-Irish neighbourhood and it was as sexual as anything.""
  157. ^ [57] "I am Italian. Springsteen's mostly Italian, too. We're both Italians with Dutch names, one of the many things we have in common. My mother remarried when I was young, and my stepfather adopted me."
  158. ^ [58] "Vinny Vella has also appeared on episodes of top-rated TV shows like The Sopranos and Law & Order`as well as 25 TV commercials for ESPN alongside fellow Italian-American actor Joe Rigano..."
  159. ^ [59] "Italian Bad Boy Chuck Zito"
  160. ^ [60] "...son of Italian immigrants (coming from Puglia and Sicily)"
  161. ^ [61] "the handsome Irish-Italian actor..."
  162. ^ [62] "Behar opts for thin but entertaining enough anecdotes about her Italian-American family..." [63] "Behar describes herself as an "Italian Catholic."
  163. ^ [64] "The part-Italian actor defended the parts, saying: "The characters I play are real. So they have as much right to be portrayed as any other characters." His citizenship ceremony was postponed after objections from US-based group the Order of Sons of Italy. Speaking at the Venice Film Festival, he said: "I'm part Italian, part Dutch, part French, part German and part Irish, but I probably identify more with my Italian side than any other parts. "Italy is such a great and wonderful country, I'm very proud and honoured to be asked to be a citizen.""
  164. ^ [65] "Yes, but I am an Italian man and that never will pass my lips. We still see each other every once in a while."
  165. ^ "Hey! It's That Guy! :: Dennis Farina". Fametracker. Retrieved December 6, 2010.
  166. ^ [66] "She was even voted the Italian-American Welfare League's Woman of the Year" [67] "My father's Italian, my mother was of Swedish descent. They're both first-generation Americans."
  167. ^ [68]"I'm totally Italian, but I'm not a diva. If you could see the way I'm dressed in daily life, that's not a diva. Appearances are so not important to me." [69]
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  172. ^ [70] "Susan Sarandon, Bruce Springsteen, and Ann Bancroft are Italian American"
  173. ^ [71] "The youngest member of an Italian family teeming with artistic gifts, she was born Talia Rose Coppola on April 25, 1946 – plunging her into an environment dominated by masculinity, especially a masculine struggle for achievement. Both of her parents were first-generation Italian-Americans, the children of immigrants who left Italy for the United States around the turn of the [20th] century."
  174. ^ [72] "Hazlewood recognised that there was too much Doris Day in Nancy and not enough Janis Joplin. Here was a girl, after all, who left college in the Sixties "to marry and have sex because I was raised Catholic and Italian"."
  175. ^ [73]"Susan Sarandon, Bruce Springsteen, and Ann Bancroft are Italian American."
  176. ^ [74] "stoic Italian-American actor"
  177. ^ __2510?____ghwgnumperpage=2075 "This voluptuous dark-haired Italian beauty was named Playmate of the Year in May '68..."
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