Tony Darrow

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Tony Darrow (born Anthony Borgese on December 23, 1938 in Brooklyn , New York , USA ) is an Italian-American actor .

Tony grew up in a poor neighborhood in east Brooklyn and had an excellent singing voice as a child. As a teenager, he participated in and won awards in a few talent shows while doing various odd jobs. Since 1981 he has worked successfully as a well-known nightclub actor.

After ten years of singing in nightclubs, he was offered a role in the trash film Street Trash and accepted. There he played the role of the funny gangster Nick Duran . After Martin Scorsese saw his role in Street Trash, he invited him to audition for a role in GoodFellas, Three Decades in the Mafia . The audition turned out to be worthwhile because he was cast for a brief role as Sonny Bunz in the film. He then starred in several Woody Allen films, such as Bullets Over Broadway , Beloved Aphrodite , Harry beside himself , Sweet and Lowdown and Narrow Gauge Crooks . In 1999 he got a bigger role in the movie A Matter of Nerves alongside Robert DeNiro and Billy Crystal . He also got a bigger appearance in some episodes of the television series The Sopranos as gangster Larry Boy Barese .

In June 2009, Darrow was charged with extortion. In 2004, he had in common with a Soldato the Gambino family threatened named Joseph "Joey Boy" Orlando and the Associate Giovanni "Johnny" Monteleone a man and blackmails which a loan shark money owed. Darrow pleaded guilty and received a 33-month prison sentence in 2011.

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  1. ↑ John Marzulli: 'Sopranos', 'GoodFellas' actor Anthony Borgese aka Tony Darrow charged with trying to extort money . In: New York Daily News , June 6, 2009. 

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SURNAME Darrow, Tony
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Borgese, Anthony (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-American actor
DATE OF BIRTH December 23, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Brooklyn , New York , USA