James Joseph Gandolfini was an American actor and producer best known for playing Tony Soprano in the Italian-American criminal leader in HBO’s television series The Sopranos, for which he received three Emmy Awards, three Screen Actors Guild Awards, and one Golden Globe Award.
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Gandolfini’s depiction of Tony Soprano is widely considered as one of the best television performances ever.
Gandolfini was born on September 18, 1961, in Westwood, New Jersey, where he grew up with his parents and two sisters. Santa, his mother, was an Italian-American high school food service worker who was born in the United States and raised in Naples.
James Joseph Gandolfini Sr., an Italian immigrant from Borgo Val di Taro, worked as a bricklayer and cement mason before becoming the head custodian at Paramus Catholic High School. Gandolfini was up in a family where his parents were fervent Catholics who spoke Italian.
James Joseph Gandolfini Death
James Gandolfini, On June 19, 2013, died suddenly at the age of 51, just days before flying to Sicily to receive an award at the Taormina Film Festival.
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Who is Marcy Wudarski?
Marcy Wudarski and Gandolfini were married in March 1999 and had their son Michael Gandolfini, that same year but would divorce in December 2002.
Marcy Wudarski is the daughter of Edward B. Wudarski and Mary Ann Wudarski. Both of them were Pennsylvania natives. She was born on 6th February 1967 to her father Edward B. Wudarski, a former Army lieutenant colonel and a retired comptroller for the Department of the Army in Washington, and her mother, Mary Ann Wudarski.
Edward died on 23rd March, six days after his 66th birthday in 1986.
Marcy Wudarsk has worked as a producer in the past. As an executive producer, she has only one acting credit. In 2013, She had a role in the film Wish You Were Here.
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