His first on-screen role was playing Sylvester Stallone's brother in Paradise Alley and 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. His first film was The Lords of Flatbush (1974), although his work did not appear in the final cut of the film and the end credits misspelled his last name as Assanti.
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He played the main stage of almost every regional theatre on the East Coast since he was nineteen years of age for the first ten years of his career.ĭuring the 1970s, Assante was a regular on two NBC soap operas, How to Survive a Marriage as Johnny McGee and The Doctors as Dr. He mentored with Cliff Osmond with whom he developed roles and scripts for twenty years subsequently. He spent ten years in the theater before his film debut in 1977, remaining a devoted student of Mira Rostova in New York for twenty five years.
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He is still close to his Family relations in Naples and in Rome, Italy.Īssante entered the American Academy of Dramatic Arts at the age of seventeen where he won the Jehlinger Award for Best Actor in 1969, making his professional theatre debut that same year opposite Imogene Coca in ‘Why I Went Crazy’ under the direction of Joshua Logan.
(August 5, 1922-August 25, 2017) and Irish American Musician and Poet Katharine Theresa Healy (October 16, 1921-June 29, 2011) In a career that has spanned over five decades internationally he is sought in the Film sector as much as he has been the guest of leading industrialists and leaders around the world.īorn on Manhattan’s upper west side in Washington Heights to a large and accomplished Italian/Irish Family he is the son of an Italian American Artist Armand Anthony Assante Sr. At the time it aired in the USA, ‘The Odyssey’ was the highest watched miniseries on any network since 1994 (and NBC’s highest since 1991) attracting 50 million viewers. Assante as well received the Capri Hollywood Award in Capri, Italy in December 1997, for the same performance.ĭropping the fifty pounds he donned for ‘Gotti’ he followed in 1997 with Andre Konchalovsky’s ‘The Odyssey’ In September of that same year the country of Greece, in their premiere of ‘The Odyssey,’ Assante was honored at the Acropolis and in January of 1998 was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for this starring role. for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Special for his portrayal of notorious crime boss, John Gotti, in HBO Pictures biographical drama Gotti. In September of 1997 his performance in ‘Gotti’ earned him a Primetime Emmy Award and nominations for the Golden Globe Award and the Screen Actors Guild Award.
He is best known for his roles as mobster John Gotti in the 1996 HBO television film Gotti, Nietzsche in When Nietzsche Wept and Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer in 1982's I, the Jury. Armand Anthony Assante (born October 4, 1949) is an American actor.
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