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John Ventimiglia (born July 17, 1963) is an American actor
Actor

An actor or actress is a person who acting in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio programming in that capacity....
, most famous for his role as Artie Bucco
Artie Bucco

Arthur "Artie" Bucco, Jr., played by John Ventimiglia, is a fictional character on the HBO television series The Sopranos. He is a restaurateur and childhood friend of Tony Soprano....
 on the HBO television
Television

Television is a widely used telecommunication mass-media for transmitting and receiving moving , either monochrome or color, usually accompanied by sound....
 series The Sopranos
The Sopranos

The Sopranos was an United States television drama series created and Executive producer#Television by David Chase. It was originally broadcast in the United States on the premium television cable television HBO from January 10, 1999 to June 10, 2007, spanning List of The Sopranos episodes....
. He has had parts in feature film
Film

Film encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the film industry. Films are produced by recording images from the world with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or special effects....
s such as Cop Land
Cop Land

Cop Land is a 1997 in film Cinema of the United States drama film written and directed by James Mangold with an Ensemble cast featuring Sylvester Stallone, Harvey Keitel, Ray Liotta, Robert De Niro, Robert Patrick, Peter Berg, and Michael Rapaport....
 and Mickey Blue Eyes
Mickey Blue Eyes

Mickey Blue Eyes is a 1999 in film directed by Kelly Makin. Hugh Grant stars as Michael Felgate, an English auctioner living in New York City who becomes entangled in his soon-to-be father in-law's mafia connections....
 and has appeared in numerous television shows including Law & Order
Law & Order

Law & Order is an United States police procedural and legal drama Television program created by Dick Wolf. It has been broadcast on NBC since its debut on September 13, 1990....
 and NYPD Blue
NYPD Blue

NYPD Blue is an United States TV show police drama set in New York City, exploring the internal and external struggles of the fictional 15th precinct of Manhattan.....
. In August, 2007, he and the David Amram
David Amram

David Amram is an United States composer, musician, Conducting, and writer. As a classical composer and virtuoso performer, his integration of jazz , ethnic and folk music has led him to work with the likes of Thelonious Monk, Dizzy Gillespie, Willie Nelson, Charles Mingus, Leonard Bernstein, Sir James Galway, Arthur Miller and Jack Kerouac...
 quartet presented a musical and oral homage to sociologist C. Wright Mills
C. Wright Mills

Charles Wright Mills was an United States sociology. Mills is best remembered for his 1959 book The Sociological Imagination in which he lays out a view of the proper relationship between biography and history, theory and method in sociological scholarship....
 and beat author Jack Kerouac
Jack Kerouac

Jack Kerouac was an American author, poet and Painting. Alongside William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, he is considered a pioneer of the Beat Generation....
. They will continue with a Kerouac show in Denmark, Fall 2007.






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John Ventimiglia (born July 17, 1963) is an American actor
Actor

An actor or actress is a person who acting in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio programming in that capacity....
, most famous for his role as Artie Bucco
Artie Bucco

Arthur "Artie" Bucco, Jr., played by John Ventimiglia, is a fictional character on the HBO television series The Sopranos. He is a restaurateur and childhood friend of Tony Soprano....
 on the HBO television
Television

Television is a widely used telecommunication mass-media for transmitting and receiving moving , either monochrome or color, usually accompanied by sound....
 series The Sopranos
The Sopranos

The Sopranos was an United States television drama series created and Executive producer#Television by David Chase. It was originally broadcast in the United States on the premium television cable television HBO from January 10, 1999 to June 10, 2007, spanning List of The Sopranos episodes....
. He has had parts in feature film
Film

Film encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the film industry. Films are produced by recording images from the world with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or special effects....
s such as Cop Land
Cop Land

Cop Land is a 1997 in film Cinema of the United States drama film written and directed by James Mangold with an Ensemble cast featuring Sylvester Stallone, Harvey Keitel, Ray Liotta, Robert De Niro, Robert Patrick, Peter Berg, and Michael Rapaport....
 and Mickey Blue Eyes
Mickey Blue Eyes

Mickey Blue Eyes is a 1999 in film directed by Kelly Makin. Hugh Grant stars as Michael Felgate, an English auctioner living in New York City who becomes entangled in his soon-to-be father in-law's mafia connections....
 and has appeared in numerous television shows including Law & Order
Law & Order

Law & Order is an United States police procedural and legal drama Television program created by Dick Wolf. It has been broadcast on NBC since its debut on September 13, 1990....
 and NYPD Blue
NYPD Blue

NYPD Blue is an United States TV show police drama set in New York City, exploring the internal and external struggles of the fictional 15th precinct of Manhattan.....
. In August, 2007, he and the David Amram
David Amram

David Amram is an United States composer, musician, Conducting, and writer. As a classical composer and virtuoso performer, his integration of jazz , ethnic and folk music has led him to work with the likes of Thelonious Monk, Dizzy Gillespie, Willie Nelson, Charles Mingus, Leonard Bernstein, Sir James Galway, Arthur Miller and Jack Kerouac...
 quartet presented a musical and oral homage to sociologist C. Wright Mills
C. Wright Mills

Charles Wright Mills was an United States sociology. Mills is best remembered for his 1959 book The Sociological Imagination in which he lays out a view of the proper relationship between biography and history, theory and method in sociological scholarship....
 and beat author Jack Kerouac
Jack Kerouac

Jack Kerouac was an American author, poet and Painting. Alongside William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, he is considered a pioneer of the Beat Generation....
. They will continue with a Kerouac show in Denmark, Fall 2007. He also stars in the vampire comedy Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Undead
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Undead

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Undead is a 2008 United States independent film written and directed by Jordan Galland. The film's title refers to a fictitious play-within-the-movie, which is a comic reinterpretation of Shakespeare?s Hamlet and its aftermath....
 (2008) playing the role of Theo Horace. He frequently visited Farleigh Dickinson University to hang out with Debbie and Janice to play music together. Many may not be aware of what a talented guitar player he is.

Ventimiglia was born in Ridgewood, Queens
Ridgewood, Queens

Ridgewood is a neighborhood in the New York City Borough of Queens, that borders the neighborhoods of Maspeth, Queens, Middle Village, Queens and Glendale, Queens, as well as the Brooklyn neighborhood of Bushwick, Brooklyn....
, New York City
New York City

The City of New York is the List of United States cities by population in the United States, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the List of urban areas by population....
 and grew up in Teaneck, New Jersey
Teaneck, New Jersey

Teaneck is a Township in Bergen County, New Jersey, New Jersey, and is a suburb in the New York metropolitan area. As of the United States 2000 Census, the township population was 39,260....
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