James Gandolfini

It's rare that someone with character-actor looks becomes a bona fide leading man, but Gandolfini's career has been anything but ordinary. In 1992 the New Jersey-born thespian made both his Broadway (...
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09/17/1961
Westwood, NJ
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Before becoming an actor, worked as a bartender, nightclub bouncer and truck driver.
In 2003, engaged in a bitter salary dispute with HBO that ended when he agreed to drop his lawsuit and return to work on The Sopranos.
Touted alma mater Rutgers University's football program in a 2001 commercial directed by Michael Imperioli.