Dominic Chianese
Dominic Chianese
Dominic Chianeseis an American actor, singer, and musician. He is best known for his role as Corrado "Junior" Soprano on the HBO series The Sopranos, and Johnny Ola in The Godfather Part II...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth24 February 1931
CityBronx, NY
CountryUnited States of America
play
I went on tour in the play H.M.S. Pinafore.
kids guy want
Im the kind of guy, when the marriage is breaking up, who doesnt want to yell in front of the kids. So I left, but it was very hard.
children italian ideas
I had no idea what they were saying in Italian as a child, they spoke too quickly on the radio. But I realized that language was very funny.
mother father grandparent
I enjoyed my grandparents very much. My mother and father would always allow me to stay with them.
song sweet nice
They would wake me up when I was sleeping, and say sing a song for our friends. I had a sweet voice, I had a nice little tenor voice. God knows what I sang, but my whole family would admire me.
character mean guy
I had to audition for the part of Jnior, and I wanted the role terribly because I knew it was a great character. This guy is a wonderful, funny, mean old guy.
men thinking play
I've always wanted to play Don Quixote in some way. It's a great role. I think the idealism of the man shows that hope that we have in the human breast to achieve something.
uncles father son
The anger that Uncle Junior has comes from my background. My father was the son of an Italian immigrant, and I've seen the fire of the Italian temperament. It can be explosive sometimes in ways that are both funny and tragic.
beautiful girl children
I went to Brooklyn College and met this beautiful Jewish girl named Merle, with dark hair, exotic looking and brilliant. So we got married and had three children.
years sight singing
When I started really singing I was 17, 18 years old. I used to go around trying to be a singer in the Bronx. My knees would shake but I learned by doing.
uncles character writing
For TV I don't think I could have gotten a better part than Uncle Junior because of the intimacy of the character based on David Chase's brilliant writing.
uncles people watches
Uncle Junior is a criminal, which makes him a villain, so it makes people want to watch him. My whole life as an actor has been preparing for something like this.
uncles way dresses
I don't like the way Uncle Junior dresses. He loves it.
father believe italian
My father was an American who could cuss in Italian and make an aria out of it. It was wonderful to watch. But then again, he was a Gemini. I believe in that stuff.