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Armand Anthony Assante, Jr. (born October 4, 1949) is an Emmy-winning and four-time Golden Globe-nominated American actor. sante was born in New York City and raised in Cornwall, New York, and is the son of Katherine, a music teacher and poet, and Armand Anthony Assante, Sr., a painter and artist. His father was of Italian heritage and his mother was Irish, and Assante was raised in a devoutly Roman Catholic family.
During the 1970s, Assante was a regular on two NBC soap operas, How to Survive a Marriage as Johnny McGee and The Doctors as Dr. Mike Powers. His first film was The Lords of Flatbush (1974). A role that brought him greater attention came in 1980`s Private Benjamin as a handsome Frenchman who becomes the love interest of a U.S. soldier played by Goldie Hawn. His somewhat sinister look has made him a popular choice for tough-guy heroes, as in his starring role as private eye Mike Hammer in the film I, the Jury (1982) or as Mafia gangsters like that of Michael Moretti in Sidney Sheldon`s Rage of Angels. He portrayed the notorious Bugsy Siegel in a comedy, Neil Simon`s The Marrying Man (1991), another mobster in Hoffa (1992) starring Jack Nicholson and crime kingpin John Gotti in the 1996 made-for-television biopic Gotti, for which he won his Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie. Other notable film appearances include one as a Cuban bandleader in The Mambo Kings opposite Antonio Banderas and in the adaptation of the science-fiction story Judge Dredd with Sylvester Stallone, his co-star in two previous films. More recently he appeared in American Gangster (2007) with Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe. He has had a recurring guest star role in several episodes of NCIS, playing the international arms dealer René Benoit. Outside of the U.S., he has participated in several film projects in Eastern European countries like Macedonia, Turkey, Serbia and Romania. He was married to Karen McArn from 1982 to 1994. He lives in upstate New York and has two daughters, Anya and Alessandra. Biography Credit: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armand_Assante |
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Trivia and QuotesQuotes Literature is air, and I`m suffocating in mediocrity. Acting is a total physical, emotional sensation. The Italian gangster thing has become a form of the modern-day Western. I`ve worked for 27 years nonstop in theater and films. That`s a lot of work. The whole industry is so screwed up by economics. It`s disgusting to me. I stopped courting Hollywood a long time ago. I don`t champion the idea of being in a Hollywood movie. I never had fun in one of them. I`ve got the best deal on Earth. Where else can I sin and know that I`m forgiven for it? My dream as a youngster was to be like Olivier. To be a great stage actor. To be a great Shakespearean actor. To me that is the Olympics of acting. I never pursued a career relentlessly. I go out there and make a fool of myself. It`s inevitable. You love what you do, you are cursed with it, and then you get known for being cursed with it. I do not want to act unless I have a a great intimacy with the people I`m working with. It`s a blessing and a curse. But it`s not always the best situation to be in. As a profession, I don`t recommend acting at all. I go out there and make a fool of myself. It`s inevitable. Maybe you don`t work for seven months a year, but you`ll work again. It may be a piece of garbage, so you wear hip boots. I live a very quiet life, although I`m very urban and a diehard New Yorker. I`ve brought my daughters all over the world-they travel with me. I drag them out of school just to keep the relationship. When I`m home I`m a big-time daddy. It`s a blessing and a curse. But it`s not always the best situation to be in. As a profession, I don`t recommend acting at all. I never pursued Hollywood banging my drum, because I was never in a film big enough to do that.Trivia Living in upstate New York, he has been separated from wife Karen since 1994 and has two daughters, Anya and Alessandra. Lives on a 225 acre farm in upstate New York. Reportedly gained nearly 50 lbs for his role in Gotti. Friends with Jennifer Blanc since they filmed The Third Wish. Came from a creative, arts-related family. His Irish mother, Katherine, was a music teacher and poet; his Italian father, Armand Sr., a painter and artist. He is the son of an Irish mother and an Italian father, but contrary to many popular beliefs, he was born in New York City. Christopher Reeve was scheduled to play the lead role in Kidnapped (1995) (TV); Armand replaced him following Reeve's paralyzing horse-riding accident. Graduated from Cornwall Central High School in upstate New York. | ||
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