Joseph Siravo

Joseph Siravo (born March 11, 1955 in Washington, DC - April 11, 2021 ) was an American actor .

Life

Siravo graduated from Stanford University and the Tisch School of the Arts of New York University . He has appeared several times on New York's Broadway since the 1990s . In the national tour of the play Jersey Boys , he appeared as Gyp DeCarlo over 1000 times.

Siravo was often cast as a mafioso in film and television productions, possibly also because of his Italian-American ancestry . One of his best-known roles is that of "Johnny Boy" Soprano, Tony Soprano's father in flashbacks, in the hit television series The Sopranos . As early as 1993, in his film debut in Brian de Palma's Carlito’s Way, he played Vincent “Vinnie” Taglialucci in a supporting role, a mafioso who tries to murder Carlito, played by Al Pacino . Siravo then played a seedy bar owner with ties to the Mafia in the 2002 film Wisegirls . He played both the mobster John Gotti (in the movie The Wannabe , 2015) and his brother Gene Gotti (in the TV movie Witness to the Mob , 1998). He had a slightly different role in 2016 in the series American Crime Story , in which he played the father of the murder victim Ronald Goldman .

Siravo's work for film and television includes 50 productions. He died of cancer.

Filmography

1991: Tiger Hunt in Manhattan ( NYPD Mounted , TV movie)
1992–2000: Law & Order (TV series, four episodes)
1993: Carlito's Way
1994: Another World (TV series, one episode)
1994: Loving (TV series, episode)
1994: In Search of Jimmy Hoyt (The Search for One-eye Jimmy)
1995: Animal Room
1995: New York News front page hunt ( New York News , TV series, episode A Question of Truth )
1996: Walking and Talking
1996: Swift Justice (TV series, episode Horses )
1997: Dellaventura (TV series, episode With a Vengence )
1998: Cosby (TV series, episode Mud )
1998: The Mob ( Witness to the Mob , TV movie)
1998: New York Undercover (TV series, episode Capital Punishment )
1999–2007: The Sopranos ( The Soparanos , television series, five episodes)
1999: Snow Days
2000: 101 Ways (The Things a Girl Will Do to Keep Her Volvo)
2000: Labor Pains
2000: Third Watch - Operation at the Limit (TV series, episode Just Another Night at the Opera )
2001: A Day in Black and White
2001: Thirteen Conversations About One Thing
2001–2010: Criminal Intent - Crime in the sights ( Law & Order: Criminal Intent , television series, three episodes)
2002: Wisegirls
2002: Manhattan Love Story
2002: Porn 'n Chicken (TV movie)
2002–2003: The Streets of Philadelphia ( Hack , TV series, two episodes)
2003/2009: Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV series, two episodes)
2004: Big Sharks - Small Fish ( Shark Tale , voice)
2005: Law & Order : Trial by Jury (TV series, episode Blue Wall )
2005: Jonny Zero (TV series, episode Diamonds & Guns )
2006: Tierisch wild ( The Wild , voice)
2006: 16 blocks
2006: Live from Lincoln Center (theater recording, episode The Light in the Piazza )
2007: Rockaway
2007: Turn the River
2007: Enchanted (Enchanted)
2007–2008: Dirty Sexy Money (TV series, three episodes)
2010: In Treatment - The Therapist (TV series, episode Jesse: Week Seven )
2012: Made in Jersey (TV series, five episodes)
2013: Elementary (TV series, episode Dead Man's Switch )
2014: The Blacklist (TV series, two episodes)
2015: Blue Bloods - Crime Scene New York ( Blue Bloods , TV series, episode Love Stories )
2015: The Wannabe
2016: Equity - Money, Power and Women (Equity)
2016: American Crime Story (TV series, seven episodes)
2018: Stand-In (TV series, pilot film)
2019: The Report
2019: New Amsterdam (TV series, episode Croaklahoma )
2019: Motherless Brooklyn
2020: For Life (TV series, five episodes)

Theater appearances (selection)

Broadway

Off-Broadway

Web links

Joseph Siravo in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Joseph Siravo, Veteran Broadway Actor and Johnny Soprano in 'The Sopranos,' Dies at 66 April 12, 2021, accessed April 13, 2021 .
^ NYU Graduate Acting Alumni . 2011. Retrieved December 1, 2011.
↑ Joseph Siravo - Broadway Cast & Staff | IBDB. Retrieved April 12, 2021 .

personal data
SURNAME	Siravo, Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	US-American actor
DATE OF BIRTH	March 11, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH	Washington, DC
DATE OF DEATH	April 11, 2021

[HR-1] Joseph Siravo, Veteran Broadway Actor and Johnny Soprano in 'The Sopranos,' Dies at 66 April 12, 2021, accessed April 13, 2021 .

[2] NYU Graduate Acting Alumni . 2011. Retrieved December 1, 2011.

[3] Joseph Siravo - Broadway Cast & Staff | IBDB. Retrieved April 12, 2021 .