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Livia Soprano
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Livia Soprano
Liviasoprano.jpg
First appearance
"Pilot" (episode 1.01)
Last appearance
"In Camelot" (episode 5.07)
Created by
David Chase
Portrayed by
Nancy Marchand
Laila Robins
 Laurie Williams
Information

Gender
Female
Occupation
Homemaker
Family
Faustino "Augie" Pollio (father)
 Teresa Pollio (mother)
 Gemma Pollio (sister)
Quintina Blundetto (sister)
 Settimia Pollio (sister, deceased)
 Mickey Pollio (brother)
A.J. Soprano (grandson)
Meadow Soprano (granddaughter)
Tony Blundetto (nephew)
Corrado Soprano Jr. (brother-in-law)
Carmela Soprano (daughter-in-Law)
Thomas Giglione (son-in-Law)
Spouse(s)
Johnny Soprano (deceased)
Children
Janice Soprano
Tony Soprano
Barbara Soprano Giglione
Religion
Roman Catholicism
Livia Soprano (née Pollio), played by Nancy Marchand, is a fictional character on the HBO TV series The Sopranos. She is the mother of Tony Soprano. A young Livia, played by Laila Robins and later by Laurie J. Williams is sometimes seen in flashbacks. Series creator David Chase has stated that the main inspiration for the character was his own mother.[1][2]


Contents  [hide]
1 Plot details
2 Character origins
3 References
4 External links

Plot details[edit]
Livia Pollio Soprano was born in Providence, Rhode Island to Faustino "Augie" and Teresa Pollio, Italian immigrants from Avellino. Livia's childhood was poverty-stricken and miserable, and she spent her adult life punishing everyone for it. Marriage to the tough and charismatic Johnny Soprano was Livia's ticket out of her parents' house. But married life, however, was not happy ever after. Livia wasn't particularly interested in housework and as for motherhood, her take on it was that babies were "animals...no different from dogs." Although Johnny was a good provider, in Livia's estimation he was never good enough. She constantly pressured him to earn more, but when he came to her with a plan to move the family to Reno in order to pursue a new business opportunity - something he wanted very much - she quickly put the kibosh on it. Although Livia belittled Johnny practically every day of his life, when he died she instantly canonized him.
Cagey, manipulative, and possessing an encyclopedic memory of every slight she ever suffered Livia Soprano, the family matriarch, seemingly derives little pleasure from life other than making the people around her miserable, especially her three children: Janice, Tony, and Barbara. On her son's wedding day, she tells her new daughter-in-law Carmela that Tony would eventually get bored with her. Years later (in season one of the show proper), she manipulates her brother-in-law, Junior, into putting out a hit on her own son after he tries to put her in a nursing home by mentioning that Tony is seeing a psychiatrist. She later tells Junior that Tony looks exactly like her cousin Cakey after he had a lobotomy, saying that his mother said it would have been better if Cakey had died rather than go on living like that. It is later discovered that the FBI had bugged Green Grove (Livia's nursing home), and the recordings of Livia conspiring with Junior were played to Tony. While she was in hospital, she received a visit from Artie Bucco. She then tells him that Tony burned down his restaurant, presumably in another attempt to have Tony killed. Tony's plot for revenge is foiled when Livia suffers a stroke (said to be induced by repressed rage) and is taken into a hospital. It appeared Tony had originally been planning to suffocate her with a pillow he grabbed on his way to her room, but he is not given the chance when he hears she had suffered a stroke and he sees her being wheeled out on a gurney. He then publicly threatens to kill her, informing her that he had heard her conspiring with Junior, thanks to the FBI tapes, saying, "I'm gonna have a nice, long, happy life, which is more than I can say for you". However, Tony sees Livia smirking at him, and, when Tony points this out, he has to be restrained by the hospital staff. When she gets out, Tony settles for acting as if she were already dead, attempting to end all contact and financial support.
In the second episode of the third season, "Proshai, Livushka", Tony meets with her briefly, and they get into an argument that ends with Tony storming out of the house.
Based on her conversations with Tony, Dr. Melfi speculates that Livia might suffer from some form of borderline or narcissistic personality disorder. Additionally, Tony tells Adriana (in "Irregular Around the Margins") that Livia suffered from Irritable bowel syndrome all her life.
After the second season, a storyline was planned where Livia would be called to testify against her son in court, giving evidence on stolen airline tickets she had received from him, but Marchand died in 2000 before it could be filmed. Existing footage and computer-generated imagery was used to create a final scene between Tony and Livia in the episode "Proshai, Livushka" in Season Three before the character, too, passed on. In the same episode, Artie experiences a brief flashback of a meeting with Livia, showing footage of a scene from a first season episode. Livia nevertheless appeared as a young woman in several flashbacks after then, as well as being frequently referenced, with Tony still far from resolving his feelings towards her.
Janice, during a conversation with Carmela, calls into question whether or not her mother loves them. She goes on to explain that her therapist explained to her that Livia does indeed love them, but does not know how to express it.
During the sixth season episode "Mayham," when Tony is comatose from a gunshot wound, he has a vivid dream that ends with Tony being beckoned into a house by his dead cousin Tony Blundetto; a woman who looks similar to Livia can briefly be seen in the doorway of the house. Tony then hears a child's voice calling "Daddy, don't go, come back." He then awakens to see his daughter Meadow and wife Carmela standing over him.
Character origins[edit]
David Chase, the creator of The Sopranos, based Livia heavily on his own mother, Norma Chase. He described her as being paranoid, prone to often insulting others, abusive, and disregarding her son's career achievements. Many of Livia's memorable lines, such as "Poor you" or "daughters are better at taking care of their mothers than sons," are what Norma Chase would use to say.[2] And, just as Tony Soprano, David Chase spent time in psychotherapy.[3]
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Robin Dougherty (20 January 1999). "Chasing TV". Retrieved 7 September 2013.
2.^ Jump up to: a b Martin, Brett (2007-10-30). ""Once You're in this Family, There's No Getting Out:" Meet the Sopranos". The Sopranos: The Complete Book. New York: Time. pp. 54–55. ISBN 978-1-933821-18-4.
3.Jump up ^ Martin, Brett (2007-10-30). ""Woke Up This Morning": The Birth of a Show". The Sopranos: The Complete Book. New York: Time. p. 10. ISBN 978-1-933821-18-4.
External links[edit]
HBO Profile: Livia Soprano


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Tony Soprano ·
 Jennifer Melfi ·
 Carmela Soprano ·
 Christopher Moltisanti ·
 Junior Soprano ·
 Big Pussy Bonpensiero ·
 Silvio Dante ·
 Paulie Gualtieri ·
 Anthony Soprano, Jr. ·
 Meadow Soprano ·
 Adriana La Cerva ·
 Janice Soprano ·
 Bobby Baccalieri ·
 Livia Soprano
 

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Johnny Sack ·
 Artie Bucco ·
 Dwight Harris ·
 Hesh Rabkin ·
 Rosalie Aprile ·
 Phil Leotardo ·
 Ralph Cifaretto ·
 Tony Blundetto ·
 Richie Aprile ·
 Vito Spatafore ·
 Furio Giunta ·
 Patsy Parisi ·
 Carlo Gervasi ·
 Charmaine Bucco ·
 Carmine Lupertazzi ·
 Little Carmine ·
 Benny Fazio ·
 Ray Curto ·
 Eugene Pontecorvo ·
 Little Paulie Germani ·
 Jackie Aprile, Jr. ·
 Mikey Palmice ·
 Brendan Filone ·
 Matthew Bevilaqua ·
 Sean Gismonte ·
 Larry Barese ·
 Butch DeConcini ·
 Albie Cianflone
 


Episodes


Season 1
"The Sopranos" ·
 "46 Long" ·
 "Denial, Anger, Acceptance" ·
 "Meadowlands" ·
 "College" ·
 "Pax Soprana" ·
 "Down Neck" ·
 "The Legend of Tennessee Moltisanti" ·
 "Boca" ·
 "A Hit Is a Hit" ·
 "Nobody Knows Anything" ·
 "Isabella" ·
 "I Dream of Jeannie Cusamano"
 

Season 2
"Guy Walks into a Psychiatrist's Office..." ·
 "Do Not Resuscitate" ·
 "Toodle Fucking-Oo" ·
 "Commendatori" ·
 "Big Girls Don't Cry" ·
 "The Happy Wanderer" ·
 "D-Girl" ·
 "Full Leather Jacket" ·
 "From Where to Eternity" ·
 "Bust Out" ·
 "House Arrest" ·
 "The Knight in White Satin Armor" ·
 "Funhouse"
 

Season 3
"Mr. Ruggerio's Neighborhood" ·
 "Proshai, Livushka" ·
 "Fortunate Son" ·
 "Employee of the Month" ·
 "Another Toothpick" ·
 "University" ·
 "Second Opinion" ·
 "He Is Risen" ·
 "The Telltale Moozadell" ·
 "...To Save Us All from Satan's Power" ·
 "Pine Barrens" ·
 "Amour Fou" ·
 "Army of One"
 

Season 4
"For All Debts Public and Private" ·
 "No Show" ·
 "Christopher" ·
 "The Weight" ·
 "Pie-O-My" ·
 "Everybody Hurts" ·
 "Watching Too Much Television" ·
 "Mergers and Acquisitions" ·
 "Whoever Did This" ·
 "The Strong, Silent Type" ·
 "Calling All Cars" ·
 "Eloise" ·
 "Whitecaps"
 

Season 5
"Two Tonys" ·
 "Rat Pack" ·
 "Where's Johnny?" ·
 "All Happy Families..." ·
 "Irregular Around the Margins" ·
 "Sentimental Education" ·
 "In Camelot" ·
 "Marco Polo" ·
 "Unidentified Black Males" ·
 "Cold Cuts" ·
 "The Test Dream" ·
 "Long Term Parking" ·
 "All Due Respect"
 

Season 6



Part I

"Members Only" ·
 "Join the Club" ·
 "Mayham" ·
 "The Fleshy Part of the Thigh" ·
 "Mr. & Mrs. John Sacrimoni Request..." ·
 "Live Free or Die" ·
 "Luxury Lounge" ·
 "Johnny Cakes" ·
 "The Ride" ·
 "Moe n' Joe" ·
 "Cold Stones" ·
 "Kaisha"
 


Part II

"Soprano Home Movies" ·
 "Stage 5" ·
 "Remember When" ·
 "Chasing It" ·
 "Walk Like a Man" ·
 "Kennedy and Heidi" ·
 "The Second Coming" ·
 "The Blue Comet" ·
 "Made in America"
 



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Bobby Baccalieri
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Robert Baccalieri, Jr.
BobbyBaccalieri.jpg
First appearance
"Do Not Resuscitate" (episode 2.02)
Last appearance
"The Blue Comet" (episode 6.20)
Created by
David Chase
Portrayed by
Steve R. Schirripa
Information

Aliases
Bobby Bacala, Jim Blake
Gender
Male
Title
Soldier season 2-4, Acting Capo season 4-6, Capo season 6, de facto Underboss season 6
Family
Bobby Baccalieri, Sr. (father (deceased)
Spouse(s)
Karen Baccalieri (deceased)
Janice Soprano
Children
Bobby Baccalieri III (son)
Sophia Baccalieri (daughter)
Domenica Baccalieri (daughter)
Relatives
Tony Soprano (brother-in-law)
Carmela Soprano (sister-in-law)
Livia Soprano (mother-in-law)
Johnny Boy Soprano (father-in-law)
Meadow Soprano (niece)
A.J. Soprano (nephew)
Christopher Moltisanti (Cousin-in-law)
 Terry Zuccone (niece)
Barbara Giglione (sister-in-law)
Robert "Bobby Bacala" Baccalieri, Jr., played by Steve Schirripa, is a fictional character on the HBO TV series The Sopranos. He was a Capo , as well as Tony Soprano's brother-in-law. He was formerly one of the top aides to Corrado "Junior" Soprano.
Biography[edit]
Bobby Bacalà, unlike many of his fellow wiseguys, was big-hearted and quite shy. He ran Junior Soprano's old loan shark business. Although not officially a captain until much later, Bobby was a high-ranking soldier who ran Junior Soprano's old crew and reported directly to Junior, and later to Tony. Before his death, he was thought to be being groomed for the job of boss, if Tony were whacked or arrested. Bobby was the son of Bobby Baccalieri, Sr., a highly respected mobster (whom Tony Soprano referred to as "a real terminator"), who fronted as a barber. Bobby's father returned from retirement for one last job before his death from lung cancer, which Bobby found quite distressing. Before joining Junior Soprano's crew Bobby was a head waiter until at least 1986 and was groomed by his father, Bobby Sr. At some point, Bobby became a made man, although without making his bones (committing murder). Bobby was married to Karen Baccalieri until her death and they had two children, Bobby III and Sophia.
Bobby was quite different from the other men in the Soprano crime family. He was quiet, almost shy, kind-hearted and even-tempered; these traits made him well liked, if not necessarily respected. He was obese, which brought him much ridicule, but he was very loyal and even Tony apologized to him after making cracks about his weight. In turn, Bobby was always respectful, and sometimes affectionate, towards Tony, telling him, "I always liked you", in the aftermath of a feud that saw Tony order the deaths of several members of Junior Soprano's crew that Bobby was in. He bore no lasting grudges against Paulie Gualtieri or Christopher Moltisanti, who carried out these hits, and appeared briefly looking delighted on the day Christopher was "made".
Bobby operated Junior Soprano's loan shark business in his stead and acted as Junior's assistant while Junior was under house arrest on federal racketeering charges. Junior eventually rewarded him by putting Bobby in charge of his loan shark operation during the later part of his prosecution. Bobby was made acting capo when Junior had Murf Lupo step down in "For All Debts Public and Private".
Bobby was very loyal to his wife, Karen, and (as revealed in "Christopher") was the only made man in the Soprano crew without a comaré. The only time he was ever seen with another woman other than his wife was in the episode University. When Ralphie walks back into the Bada Bing! after beating Tracee to death, Bobby could be seen talking to another stripper. However, Bobby lost his wife in a car accident and took it especially hard. Following Karen's death, Janice Soprano, along with many other women, actively pursued Bobby, trying to help him out as much as possible (with cooking and watching over Bobby's two children) but also trying to initiate a relationship with him.
When his grief continued, Janice went so far as to use the internet to expose his children to a Ouija board within their house. This frightened them and cleared a path for Janice to demonstrate that Bobby's grief was affecting his children. Despite Bobby's initial reluctance, the two were soon married and he soon fathered a daughter, Domenica. Bobby remained unaware of his wife's machinations at the start of their relationship. Bobby also enjoyed playing with model trains.
Since 2001, when he assisted Tony in rescuing Christopher Moltisanti and Paulie Gualtieri from the Pine Barrens (in the eponymous episode), Bobby had grown closer to Tony. Additionally, as Ralph Cifaretto put it, "Dating the boss's sister will help a made man's career"; nevertheless, Tony had recently stepped up his expectations of Bobby, whom he felt was taking their newfound family relationship as an excuse not to earn at a competitive level, compared to other members of the family. Bobby rose to the occasion by supplementing his income with $7,000 he received for shooting a rapper he met at the hospital, while Tony was in the ICU, in order to raise the rapper's profile.
In the Season Six episode, "The Ride" Bobby's wife, son and youngest daughter were involved in a ride accident at the feast of St. Elzear, while he took his other daughter to the bathroom. Bobby's initial reaction was relief that his family was unhurt. However, at a Sunday dinner at the Soprano residence, Janice berated Bobby for not standing up for them. She later accompanied him when he paid a visit to the ride's owner. Bobby stormed into his motel room, beat him up and tried to extort money from him but learned that Paulie Gualtieri had been responsible for withholding the funds needed to repair the ride. Bobby tracked Paulie down at the festival and angrily confronted him; the two were separated by other associates in the crime family. At Christopher's belated bachelor party, Bobby left soon after Paulie arrived. Tony ordered Paulie to make things right with Bobby. The episode demonstrated Bobby's devotion to his family, but also confirmed his credentials as a man not to be crossed lightly, further cementing his position in the higher echelons of Tony's crew.
In the Season Six episode, "Moe N' Joe", Bobby was beaten and robbed by a street gang as he was making his collections. One of the gang members fired a shot at the sidewalk near Bacala's face and a concrete fragment injured his right eye. The injury left his sight in the eye uncertain. Despite the injury, Bobby made certain his payments reached Tony, by way of a concerned Carlo Gervasi, who visited Bobby at the hospital.
Bobby's injury prompted Tony to reassess his relationship with his sister and brother-in-law. Tony's feelings of guilt prompted him to broker an agreement with Johnny Sack that allowed Bobby and his family to buy Sack's house at half price.
In the Season Six Episode, "Soprano Home Movies", during a Monopoly game with Bobby, Carmela, and Janice, Tony began to make rude remarks towards Janice in reference to her promiscuous behavior as a younger woman, which Bobby took as a disrespectful affront. Unexpectedly, a usually meek and passive Bobby launched his fist into Tony's face, knocking him to the floor. Bobby won the fight, battering the inebriated Tony quite severely but also injuring his boss's pride. Tony, although reasonably gracious in defeat, was embarrassed at having been defeated in a brawl (especially by Bobby of all people) and frequently asserted to Bobby, Janice, and Carmela that he would have won the fight had he not slipped on the rug nor undergone such physical impotence after being shot by Uncle Junior. As a partial result of this awkward incident, Bobby was tasked with murdering the brother-in-law of one of Tony's Québécois associates, an important hit that formed part of a deal to save money on a pharmaceuticals racket. It was Bobby's first murder; Tony mentioned earlier that Bobby had never "popped his cherry" with wetwork though Bobby was quite remorseful after committing the hit.
Bobby's attitude was also affected by Tony's plan to promote him to Acting Boss. Tony wanted to bring Bobby up into the administration of the organization, because his earlier plan of positioning Christopher Moltisanti as his emissary and eventual heir had failed, following their personal falling out. While Paulie Walnuts nominally held the title of Underboss, Bacala attended high-level meetings and sit-downs alongside Tony and Silvio, identifying him as a high-ranking capo. Even though Bobby was just a capo at the time, he was still consulted in strategy sessions, such as when Tony consulted Bobby about what to do about Phil Leotardo's attempts to displace him as boss of the family. A few years earlier, Tony would have never brought Bobby into such a high-level discussion. And unlike Moltisanti, Bobby neither took Tony's trust for granted nor his new position lightly. Conscious of his abrupt rise from low level soldier to top Capo, and 'de facto' underboss, Bobby actually worked hard to keep Tony's trust and respect, rather than simply coasting on his goodwill as Moltisanti had, and his loyalty and work ethic did not go unnoticed or unappreciated by Tony.
When war erupted between the New Jersey and New York families in the episode "The Blue Comet", New York boss Phil Leotardo ordered the deaths of the DiMeo family's top three "guys": Bacala, Silvio Dante, and Tony Soprano. FBI agent Dwight Harris informed Tony at Satriale's that a snitch in Brooklyn had implied that Phil had ordered a major hit on the New Jersey crew. Tony then gave orders to inform everyone of the upcoming assassination plot. Bobby left his cell phone behind as he entered a hobby shop, preventing him from receiving the warning call. While Bobby was looking at a vintage Blue Comet train set, two men entered the store and opened fire. Multiple gunshots sent Bobby's riddled body crashing on top of a model train display. Later in the episode, when a saddened Tony reflects on Bobby's death, while holding the assault rifle that Bobby gave him on his birthday, Tony flashes back to the moment when he and Bobby were fishing, contemplating their own fates. Bobby observes that when getting killed, you "probably don't even hear it when it happens, right?"
Until at least the first half of season 6, Bobby drives a 1980s Lincoln Mark VII, and his family car after marrying Janice is a third generation Jeep Grand Cherokee, which, in Soprano Home Movies, he backs into a tree while drunk. In "The Blue Comet", he is driving a Cadillac DeVille, which he is seen exiting just moments before his death at the hands of Lupertazzi gunmen.
External links[edit]
HBO Character Profile: Bobby Bacala


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Creator and crew
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 Writers
 

Related articles
Episodes ·
 Awards and nominations ·
 Music ·
 The Sopranos: Road to Respect ·
 Pinball game
 

Fictional universe
Soprano crime family ·
 Members of the Soprano crime family ·
 Lupertazzi crime family ·
 Friends and family ·
 Satriale's Pork Store ·
 Bada Bing ·
 Cleaver ·
 Family tree ·
 FBI
 

Characters


Primary
Tony Soprano ·
 Jennifer Melfi ·
 Carmela Soprano ·
 Christopher Moltisanti ·
 Junior Soprano ·
 Big Pussy Bonpensiero ·
 Silvio Dante ·
 Paulie Gualtieri ·
 Anthony Soprano, Jr. ·
 Meadow Soprano ·
 Adriana La Cerva ·
 Janice Soprano ·
 Bobby Baccalieri ·
 Livia Soprano
 

Secondary
Johnny Sack ·
 Artie Bucco ·
 Dwight Harris ·
 Hesh Rabkin ·
 Rosalie Aprile ·
 Phil Leotardo ·
 Ralph Cifaretto ·
 Tony Blundetto ·
 Richie Aprile ·
 Vito Spatafore ·
 Furio Giunta ·
 Patsy Parisi ·
 Carlo Gervasi ·
 Charmaine Bucco ·
 Carmine Lupertazzi ·
 Little Carmine ·
 Benny Fazio ·
 Ray Curto ·
 Eugene Pontecorvo ·
 Little Paulie Germani ·
 Jackie Aprile, Jr. ·
 Mikey Palmice ·
 Brendan Filone ·
 Matthew Bevilaqua ·
 Sean Gismonte ·
 Larry Barese ·
 Butch DeConcini ·
 Albie Cianflone
 


Episodes


Season 1
"The Sopranos" ·
 "46 Long" ·
 "Denial, Anger, Acceptance" ·
 "Meadowlands" ·
 "College" ·
 "Pax Soprana" ·
 "Down Neck" ·
 "The Legend of Tennessee Moltisanti" ·
 "Boca" ·
 "A Hit Is a Hit" ·
 "Nobody Knows Anything" ·
 "Isabella" ·
 "I Dream of Jeannie Cusamano"
 

Season 2
"Guy Walks into a Psychiatrist's Office..." ·
 "Do Not Resuscitate" ·
 "Toodle Fucking-Oo" ·
 "Commendatori" ·
 "Big Girls Don't Cry" ·
 "The Happy Wanderer" ·
 "D-Girl" ·
 "Full Leather Jacket" ·
 "From Where to Eternity" ·
 "Bust Out" ·
 "House Arrest" ·
 "The Knight in White Satin Armor" ·
 "Funhouse"
 

Season 3
"Mr. Ruggerio's Neighborhood" ·
 "Proshai, Livushka" ·
 "Fortunate Son" ·
 "Employee of the Month" ·
 "Another Toothpick" ·
 "University" ·
 "Second Opinion" ·
 "He Is Risen" ·
 "The Telltale Moozadell" ·
 "...To Save Us All from Satan's Power" ·
 "Pine Barrens" ·
 "Amour Fou" ·
 "Army of One"
 

Season 4
"For All Debts Public and Private" ·
 "No Show" ·
 "Christopher" ·
 "The Weight" ·
 "Pie-O-My" ·
 "Everybody Hurts" ·
 "Watching Too Much Television" ·
 "Mergers and Acquisitions" ·
 "Whoever Did This" ·
 "The Strong, Silent Type" ·
 "Calling All Cars" ·
 "Eloise" ·
 "Whitecaps"
 

Season 5
"Two Tonys" ·
 "Rat Pack" ·
 "Where's Johnny?" ·
 "All Happy Families..." ·
 "Irregular Around the Margins" ·
 "Sentimental Education" ·
 "In Camelot" ·
 "Marco Polo" ·
 "Unidentified Black Males" ·
 "Cold Cuts" ·
 "The Test Dream" ·
 "Long Term Parking" ·
 "All Due Respect"
 

Season 6



Part I

"Members Only" ·
 "Join the Club" ·
 "Mayham" ·
 "The Fleshy Part of the Thigh" ·
 "Mr. & Mrs. John Sacrimoni Request..." ·
 "Live Free or Die" ·
 "Luxury Lounge" ·
 "Johnny Cakes" ·
 "The Ride" ·
 "Moe n' Joe" ·
 "Cold Stones" ·
 "Kaisha"
 


Part II

"Soprano Home Movies" ·
 "Stage 5" ·
 "Remember When" ·
 "Chasing It" ·
 "Walk Like a Man" ·
 "Kennedy and Heidi" ·
 "The Second Coming" ·
 "The Blue Comet" ·
 "Made in America"
 



Episodes ·
 Category Category
 

 


Categories: The Sopranos characters
Fictional American people of Italian descent
Fictional characters introduced in 2000
Fictional mobsters
Fictional murderers
Fictional characters from New Jersey


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Janice Soprano
Janicesoprano.jpg
First appearance
"Down Neck" (episode 1.07)
Last appearance
"Made in America" (episode 6.21)
Created by
David Chase
Portrayed by
Aida Turturro
Information

Nickname(s)
Jan
Aliases
Parvati Wasatch
Gender
Female
Occupation
Housewife
Family
Johnny Soprano (father)
Livia Soprano (mother)
Tony Soprano (brother)
Barbara Soprano Giglione (sister)
Carmela Soprano (sister-in-law)
Anthony Soprano, Jr. (nephew)
Meadow Soprano (niece)
Junior Soprano (uncle)
Bobby Baccalieri Sr. (father-in-law)
Spouse(s)
Eugène (1st husband)
Richie Aprile (ex-fiancee)
Ralph Cifaretto (ex-boyfriend)
Bobby "Bacala" Baccalieri (2nd husband)
Children
Harpo (son)
Domenica Baccalieri (daughter)
Bobby Baccalieri III (step-son)
Sophia Baccalieri (step-daughter)
Religion
Buddhism,
Born again,
Roman Catholicism
Janice Soprano Baccalieri, played by Aida Turturro, is a fictional character on the HBO TV series The Sopranos. She is Tony Soprano's elder sister. A young Janice has appeared in flashbacks, played by Madeline Blue and Juliet Fox.


Contents  [hide]
1 Biography
2 Personality
3 Tragedies of men in her life
4 Murders committed by Janice Soprano
5 External links

Biography[edit]
After graduating high school, Janice joined an ashram in Los Angeles, changing her name to "Parvati Wasatch" in 1978. "Parvati" also travelled across Europe and Sri Lanka, married a Québécois, bore him a son Harpo ("Hal", later revealed to be living on the streets), worked as a furniture mover, and worked at an espresso bar in Seattle (where operating the steamed milk machine supposedly caused her to develop carpal tunnel syndrome, for which she claimed disability benefits) before finally moving back to New Jersey. Her relationship with Tony is often strained, as he still holds her responsible for abandoning the family and leaving him to deal with their abusive mother, Livia, alone.
While in New Jersey, she gets engaged to her high school boyfriend, Richie Aprile, then recently released from prison. She then drastically refashions her appearance from that of an aging hippie to that of an upscale, materialistic, North Jersey Italian housewife.
When Tony and Richie begin feuding, Janice exacerbates the situation by telling Richie that he is being unfairly treated — soon after, Richie and Tony's relationship deteriorates drastically. Tony orders Silvio Dante to have Richie killed after Uncle Junior had informed him of Richie's plan to "move against him". However, after an incident of domestic violence in which Richie punches her in the face for defending his son's potential homosexuality, Janice shoots and kills Richie and calls on her brother to dispose of the body. Tony has Christopher Moltisanti and Furio Giunta dismember Richie's body using a table saw at Satriale's Pork Store. After a time back in Seattle, Janice again returns to New Jersey following the death of her mother.
After Livia's death, Janice becomes obsessed with acquiring her mother's valuable record collection, which Livia gave to her nurse, Svetlana, shortly before her death. Janice, feeling that she should rightfully have the records, absconds with Svetlana's prosthetic leg. She tells Svetlana that the leg would not be returned until she received the records. Svetlana, however, has friends connected with the Russian Mafia physically assault Janice until she reveals the location of the leg. When Tony arrives at the hospital, he is visibly upset with his sister; he angrily tells her that since she had been assaulted, he is now faced with the choice of retaliating, thereby risking a mob war with the Russians, or not retaliating, and losing respect. Bewildered by the sudden turn in her fortunes, she briefly becomes a born-again Christian. Janice's next phase is marked by a brief interest in a Christian music career, as well as an equally brief live-in relationship with narcoleptic boyfriend, Aaron Arkaway.
After the death of Jackie Aprile, Jr., Janice embarks on a clandestine relationship with Ralph Cifaretto, who is engaged to Jackie Jr.'s mother, Rosalie Aprile. With the help of her feminist therapist, Janice soon reaches the conclusion that her affair with Ralph is a mistake, and after Ralph happily tells her that he is no longer seeing Rosalie Aprile and plans to move in with her, Janice responds by flying into a rage, pushing him down a flight of stairs and screaming at him to leave.
Sometime later, Tony asks Janice about Ralph's bizarre sexual fetishes, of which he had recently become aware. She refuses to tell him anything at first, ostensibly to protect Ralph's privacy. When Tony offers her money, however, she immediately tells him everything he wants to know.
Following Ralph's disappearance, Janice sets her sights on the newly widowered Bobby Baccalieri, another of Tony's caporegimes, whose fidelity to his wife while she was alive, and obvious adoration of her after her death, makes him especially appealing. Initially, Janice cooks Bobby's dinners (often claiming other women's plates as her own) and informally dates him. Frustrated with Bobby's refusal to commit, she sends Bobby's children instant messages via her Mac, choosing a user name that appeared satanic, and indicating that she was watching them by referring to objects in their living room (which she could see from her window). This ploy scares them badly, in response to which she subsequently rushed over to help comfort them and curry favor with their bewildered father. She and Bobby eventually marry and have a daughter together, Domenica.
She attacks a player's mother at Sophia's Peewee soccer match and injures her badly enough to require hospitalization, garnering her an assault charge and, to Tony's displeasure, unwanted TV news coverage mentioning his name and line of work. Bobby also insists that she attend anger management counseling, although it is unclear whether or not it has the desired effect.
In the episode "Moe n' Joe", Janice confronts Tony about his treatment of Bobby, and Tony refuses to say what the siblings both knew: Tony blames Bobby (and Janice, to some extent) for his near-fatal shooting by Uncle Junior, because Bobby should have been watching Junior but Janice made him pass the task on to Tony. He angrily confides to Dr. Melfi that Janice "gets nothing" because she didn't have the scars he did from growing up full-time in the same house as Livia. Later in the episode, Tony compensates Janice and Bobby by convincing an imprisoned John Sacrimoni to sell them his home at half price.
Janice and Bobby inherits the late Bobby, Sr.'s cottage in northern New York state, to which they invite Tony and Carmela for Tony's 47th birthday. At the party, Janice gives Tony a gift of Soprano family home videos and tells Carmela an anecdote that embarrasses Tony when it is raised again during a heated, drunken game of Monopoly; Janice and Tony's father once angrily shot a bullet through Livia's beehive hairdo. Bobby later loses his temper and punches Tony in the face after Tony makes an offensive remark about Janice, leading to a fight which Bobby wins (much to Tony's chagrin). Tony then orders Bobby, who admits to Tony that he has never killed a man, to go to Canada and carry out a contract killing. Ironically, defending Janice increases Tony's regard for Bobby, as he is soon elevated into Tony's inner circle (largely displacing Christopher Moltisanti).
Janice suggests to Tony that he help pay to keep Uncle Junior — whose money has run out — in a private care facility, but is rebuffed by Tony, who makes it clear Junior is dead to him. Angered by Janice and Bobby's perceived disloyalty, Tony tells her that he is also going to exile Bobby from his life, although it is likely he is not fully serious.
Soon after that conversation, Janice becomes a widow; Bobby is murdered by two of Phil Leotardo's hit men while buying a model train in a hobby store. Although she claims that her stepchildren have bonded with her and she wants to continue raising them (a dubious claim considering the contempt and disgust Bobby, III and Sofia have shown for her), Janice's primary focus seems to be on whatever assets she might receive such as those from Uncle Junior, prompting Tony to make a deal with "Uncle Pat" ensuring Junior's estate will go into a trust that will benefit Bobby's children and not Janice. Tony also extracts a promise from Phil Leotardo's men to pay a settlement to Janice, after Phil's vendetta against Tony led to Bobby's murder.
Personality[edit]
Janice is rebellious. This is evidenced, in part, by the Rolling Stones tattoo on her breast and her placement on an Unwanted Persons list by Canada, which she was permanently banned from entering.
Janice is also a chronic malingerer. Simply put by her sister-in-law, Carmela, "she has no work ethic". She conveniently claimed she had the Epstein–Barr virus to justify sleeping, as an escape from performing her duties as Bobby Baccala, Jr.'s wife and his children's stepmother. Janice also claimed she developed carpal tunnel syndrome while operating the steamed milk machine at a Seattle espresso bar, in order to claim disability benefits. Later, Janice relied upon the latter excuse to avoid cooking Sunday dinner from scratch (when Tony and Carmela were separated). Her complaint to Tony that the physical attack by the Russians, who had intimidated her into returning Svetlana's prosthetic leg, had exacerbated the pains in her arm gave Tony sufficient ammunition to obtain Slava's blessing to retaliate against Janice's attackers.
Although she would never admit it, Janice's personality is very much like her mother's; they are both manipulative, violently tempestuous, and suffer from narcissistic personality disorder. Janice was manipulative towards Richie Aprile, telling him he deserved more than he received from Tony. During sexual encounters, she made suggestions that Richie take over as boss, and she goaded him into the power play he attempted against Tony. She also manipulated Bobby Baccalieri, after his wife's death, by pretending she had cooked meals other women had sent him and by scaring his children. She knew Baccala would call after being unable to cope with their fear and confusion.
Janice, like Livia (and Meadow), also tends to want what she cannot have. She wanted a bigger house than Tony and Carmela's, with a pool, an expensive wedding, and an affluent lifestyle, even though Richie struggled to afford such luxuries and his attempts to make the necessary income caused conflicts with Tony. She lost interest in Ralph Ciferetto after he dumped Rosalie Aprile for her, although to get what she wanted she indulged both men's sexual fetishes. Later, although Janice went to quite extraordinary lengths to woo Bobby Baccala, she appeared to lose interest in him, too, after they married.
Janice is like Tony as well, in that she is competitive and motivated by the chase. Even before resorting to underhanded tactics when competing with other women for Bobby Baccala's affections, trying to extort Livia's vintage record collection from Svetlana (by stealing Svetlana's prosthetic leg), and desiring a bigger house than Tony's, Janice demonstrated her competitive nature, as a child, in Tony's memory flashbacks and in the family home movies she gave Tony for his 47th birthday.
Janice's personality was likely shaped by both nature and nurture. In addition to sharing the above-described traits with her relatives, Janice was brutally berated by Livia over the years; Tony alluded to this when the morning after Richie was killed, telling his mother: "Janice never had a chance." Additionally, as the oldest child in a household financed by crime, Janice was not only aware of her parents' activities (as Meadow was aware of Tony's), she was complicit in them. For example, "Johnny Boy" recruited Janice to participate with him and other mobsters in using their daughters as "fronts" to justify the men's presence at an amusement park, where the men conducted criminal activities.
Tragedies of men in her life[edit]
Similar to the Aprile crew capos, all of whom succumbed to the ostensible "Aprile Curse", all the men who have been romantically involved with Janice on the show (with the possible exception of Aaron Arkaway) have met horrible demises, one for which she was directly responsible. Janice fatally shot Richie after he punched her. Her brother, Tony, beat Ralphie to death after Ralph and Tony's racehorse died in a suspicious fire. Phil Leotardo's hit men gunned Bobby down during Phil's "decapitation" of Tony's New Jersey mob family.
Janice's close male relatives all suffered dire fates, as well. The fate of her son's father is unknown, but Janice's son Harpo ("Hal") was said to be living on the streets, her father "Johnny Boy" died of cancer, her Uncle Junior suffered from Alzheimer's disease after being committed to life imprisonment in a mental institution, her cousin Tony Blundetto was murdered by her brother Tony S., and even her distant cousin, Christopher Moltisanti, was murdered by Tony S. after being seriously injured in a car accident. Tony Soprano's ultimate fate, in the series finale, is never made explicit, but he is seriously injured when Uncle Junior shoots him, in season 6.
Murders committed by Janice Soprano[edit]
Richie Aprile: Gunshot to the chest and then in the head after punching Janice after an explosive quarrel in which Janice defended Richie's son's possible homosexuality (in "The Knight in White Satin Armor").
External links[edit]
HBO Profile: Janice Soprano


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Creator and crew
David Chase ·
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Episodes ·
 Awards and nominations ·
 Music ·
 The Sopranos: Road to Respect ·
 Pinball game
 

Fictional universe
Soprano crime family ·
 Members of the Soprano crime family ·
 Lupertazzi crime family ·
 Friends and family ·
 Satriale's Pork Store ·
 Bada Bing ·
 Cleaver ·
 Family tree ·
 FBI
 

Characters


Primary
Tony Soprano ·
 Jennifer Melfi ·
 Carmela Soprano ·
 Christopher Moltisanti ·
 Junior Soprano ·
 Big Pussy Bonpensiero ·
 Silvio Dante ·
 Paulie Gualtieri ·
 Anthony Soprano, Jr. ·
 Meadow Soprano ·
 Adriana La Cerva ·
 Janice Soprano ·
 Bobby Baccalieri ·
 Livia Soprano
 

Secondary
Johnny Sack ·
 Artie Bucco ·
 Dwight Harris ·
 Hesh Rabkin ·
 Rosalie Aprile ·
 Phil Leotardo ·
 Ralph Cifaretto ·
 Tony Blundetto ·
 Richie Aprile ·
 Vito Spatafore ·
 Furio Giunta ·
 Patsy Parisi ·
 Carlo Gervasi ·
 Charmaine Bucco ·
 Carmine Lupertazzi ·
 Little Carmine ·
 Benny Fazio ·
 Ray Curto ·
 Eugene Pontecorvo ·
 Little Paulie Germani ·
 Jackie Aprile, Jr. ·
 Mikey Palmice ·
 Brendan Filone ·
 Matthew Bevilaqua ·
 Sean Gismonte ·
 Larry Barese ·
 Butch DeConcini ·
 Albie Cianflone
 


Episodes


Season 1
"The Sopranos" ·
 "46 Long" ·
 "Denial, Anger, Acceptance" ·
 "Meadowlands" ·
 "College" ·
 "Pax Soprana" ·
 "Down Neck" ·
 "The Legend of Tennessee Moltisanti" ·
 "Boca" ·
 "A Hit Is a Hit" ·
 "Nobody Knows Anything" ·
 "Isabella" ·
 "I Dream of Jeannie Cusamano"
 

Season 2
"Guy Walks into a Psychiatrist's Office..." ·
 "Do Not Resuscitate" ·
 "Toodle Fucking-Oo" ·
 "Commendatori" ·
 "Big Girls Don't Cry" ·
 "The Happy Wanderer" ·
 "D-Girl" ·
 "Full Leather Jacket" ·
 "From Where to Eternity" ·
 "Bust Out" ·
 "House Arrest" ·
 "The Knight in White Satin Armor" ·
 "Funhouse"
 

Season 3
"Mr. Ruggerio's Neighborhood" ·
 "Proshai, Livushka" ·
 "Fortunate Son" ·
 "Employee of the Month" ·
 "Another Toothpick" ·
 "University" ·
 "Second Opinion" ·
 "He Is Risen" ·
 "The Telltale Moozadell" ·
 "...To Save Us All from Satan's Power" ·
 "Pine Barrens" ·
 "Amour Fou" ·
 "Army of One"
 

Season 4
"For All Debts Public and Private" ·
 "No Show" ·
 "Christopher" ·
 "The Weight" ·
 "Pie-O-My" ·
 "Everybody Hurts" ·
 "Watching Too Much Television" ·
 "Mergers and Acquisitions" ·
 "Whoever Did This" ·
 "The Strong, Silent Type" ·
 "Calling All Cars" ·
 "Eloise" ·
 "Whitecaps"
 

Season 5
"Two Tonys" ·
 "Rat Pack" ·
 "Where's Johnny?" ·
 "All Happy Families..." ·
 "Irregular Around the Margins" ·
 "Sentimental Education" ·
 "In Camelot" ·
 "Marco Polo" ·
 "Unidentified Black Males" ·
 "Cold Cuts" ·
 "The Test Dream" ·
 "Long Term Parking" ·
 "All Due Respect"
 

Season 6



Part I

"Members Only" ·
 "Join the Club" ·
 "Mayham" ·
 "The Fleshy Part of the Thigh" ·
 "Mr. & Mrs. John Sacrimoni Request..." ·
 "Live Free or Die" ·
 "Luxury Lounge" ·
 "Johnny Cakes" ·
 "The Ride" ·
 "Moe n' Joe" ·
 "Cold Stones" ·
 "Kaisha"
 


Part II

"Soprano Home Movies" ·
 "Stage 5" ·
 "Remember When" ·
 "Chasing It" ·
 "Walk Like a Man" ·
 "Kennedy and Heidi" ·
 "The Second Coming" ·
 "The Blue Comet" ·
 "Made in America"
 



Episodes ·
 Category Category
 

 


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Adriana La Cerva
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Adriana La Cerva
Sopranos ep504.jpg
First appearance
"Pilot" (episode 1.01)
Last appearance
"Cold Stones" (episode 6.11)
Created by
David Chase
Portrayed by
Drea de Matteo
Information

Gender
Female
Occupation
Manager of Club Crazy Horse
Family
Liz La Cerva (mother)
Spouse(s)
Christopher Moltisanti (fiancé)
Relatives
Richie Aprile (maternal uncle)
Jackie Aprile, Sr. (maternal uncle)
Jackie Aprile, Jr. (maternal cousin)
Vito Spatafore (maternal cousin)
Bryan Spatafore (maternal cousin)
Religion
Roman Catholicism
Adriana La Cerva played by Drea de Matteo, is a fictional character on the HBO TV series The Sopranos. She is the long-time girlfriend and, later, fiancée of Tony Soprano's protégé, Christopher Moltisanti. For her performance, De Matteo won the 2004 Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series.


Contents  [hide]
1 Character history 1.1 The mole
1.2 Post-mortem
2 See also
3 References
4 External links

Character history[edit]
Adriana is known as a mobster's dream girl, having grown up around wiseguys all her life by virtue of being the niece of Jackie and Richie Aprile. Growing up she saw and heard plenty, and wasn't at all repulsed by the Mafia lifestyle. Adriana is initially portrayed as shallow and materialistic, interested in the things that Christopher's money could buy: expensive cars, shoes, jewelry, drugs, designer clothing and furs. However, despite the couple growing closer, she becomes a frequent victim of domestic violence at the hands of Christopher, yet she remains devoted to him. She always seems to have Christopher's best interests (as well as hers) in mind. She is very ambitious and wants to have a business of her own; she is eventually set up as the manager of Christopher's Crazy Horse club in Long Branch, New Jersey, which becomes quite successful.
The mole[edit]
The FBI targets Adriana as a potential weakness in the family's organization. Upon the death of Sal "Big Pussy" Bonpensiero, the FBI looks to Adriana as a close relation to a rising star in the crime family and sent Special Agent Deborah Ciccerone to befriend her. Ciccerone succeeds at befriending Adriana, but they have to abandon the mission earlier than planned after Christopher makes a pass at Ciccerone. Nonetheless, the FBI learns of Christopher's heroin addiction, which they knew would enrage Tony Soprano, and turns Adriana into an informant by threatening her with jail time for cocaine distribution at the nightclub she manages.
Out of loyalty to Christopher, Adriana avoids giving up any serious information on the family and does her best to avoid the Soprano family house in order to have nothing to give back to the feds. Her deception catches up with her after the FBI learns of her involvement in covering up a murder at her club and threatens to press charges of being an accessory to murder against her unless she offers full cooperation, which would include wearing a wire. She reveals the truth to Christopher, hoping they can go into the Witness Protection Program together and start new lives. An enraged Christopher beats and almost strangles her, before breaking down crying. His loyalty to his crime family turns out to be greater than his love for Adriana, and he reveals her status as an informant to Tony. Tony telephones Adriana, falsely informing her that Christopher had attempted suicide and has been hospitalized, and that Silvio Dante will drive her to the hospital. En route, Silvio stops the car in the middle of the woods. Realizing what is about to happen, a terrified Adriana tries to flee, but Dante drags her from the car and shoots her dead. Christopher is later seen putting some of her clothes in a red suitcase and dumping them, and then leaves her car at the airport.
Post-mortem[edit]
There was initial speculation Adriana may not have been killed — the primary reasoning for this was her death was not seen, which was unusual in the course of the series; the camera tilted upward, away from Silvio and the crawling Adriana, before two gunshots are heard, however Adriana's screams of distress and Silvio's threatening, venomous and final words to her are confronting and deeply telling. De Matteo was under contract to appear in the sixth season, and in her audio commentary on the fifth season DVD, de Matteo confirmed Adriana is indeed deceased, and the show's frequent use of dream imagery instead provided for her return; she appeared in a dream of Carmela's in the sixth season premiere on March 12, 2006, "Members Only". Also in that episode, Carmela asks Tony about Adriana (he quickly changes the subject).
In the Season 6 episode "The Ride", Carmela Soprano runs into Adriana's mother, Liz La Cerva, who tells Carmela that she believes Christopher killed Adriana, and that the FBI came to her with questions about her. When Carmela tells Tony about their conversation, he dismisses her fears, explaining that if Christopher had killed Adriana then her body would have been found by now. Furthermore, he reminds Carmela that if the FBI really suspected Christopher, then they would have arrested him.
While in Paris, Carmela dreams of seeing Adriana in a park, but a policeman tells her Adriana is dead. Carmela is intent on finding her, especially after Liz La Cerva tries to commit suicide. However, Tony and Silvio pull some strings and Carmela is able to continue construction on her spec house, and the distraction keeps her from investigating the matter further.
See also[edit]
FBI on The Sopranos
References[edit]

External links[edit]
HBO Profile: Adriana La Cerva


[hide]
v ·
 t ·
 e
 
The Sopranos


Creator and crew
David Chase ·
 Writers
 

Related articles
Episodes ·
 Awards and nominations ·
 Music ·
 The Sopranos: Road to Respect ·
 Pinball game
 

Fictional universe
Soprano crime family ·
 Members of the Soprano crime family ·
 Lupertazzi crime family ·
 Friends and family ·
 Satriale's Pork Store ·
 Bada Bing ·
 Cleaver ·
 Family tree ·
 FBI
 

Characters


Primary
Tony Soprano ·
 Jennifer Melfi ·
 Carmela Soprano ·
 Christopher Moltisanti ·
 Junior Soprano ·
 Big Pussy Bonpensiero ·
 Silvio Dante ·
 Paulie Gualtieri ·
 Anthony Soprano, Jr. ·
 Meadow Soprano ·
 Adriana La Cerva ·
 Janice Soprano ·
 Bobby Baccalieri ·
 Livia Soprano
 

Secondary
Johnny Sack ·
 Artie Bucco ·
 Dwight Harris ·
 Hesh Rabkin ·
 Rosalie Aprile ·
 Phil Leotardo ·
 Ralph Cifaretto ·
 Tony Blundetto ·
 Richie Aprile ·
 Vito Spatafore ·
 Furio Giunta ·
 Patsy Parisi ·
 Carlo Gervasi ·
 Charmaine Bucco ·
 Carmine Lupertazzi ·
 Little Carmine ·
 Benny Fazio ·
 Ray Curto ·
 Eugene Pontecorvo ·
 Little Paulie Germani ·
 Jackie Aprile, Jr. ·
 Mikey Palmice ·
 Brendan Filone ·
 Matthew Bevilaqua ·
 Sean Gismonte ·
 Larry Barese ·
 Butch DeConcini ·
 Albie Cianflone
 


Episodes


Season 1
"The Sopranos" ·
 "46 Long" ·
 "Denial, Anger, Acceptance" ·
 "Meadowlands" ·
 "College" ·
 "Pax Soprana" ·
 "Down Neck" ·
 "The Legend of Tennessee Moltisanti" ·
 "Boca" ·
 "A Hit Is a Hit" ·
 "Nobody Knows Anything" ·
 "Isabella" ·
 "I Dream of Jeannie Cusamano"
 

Season 2
"Guy Walks into a Psychiatrist's Office..." ·
 "Do Not Resuscitate" ·
 "Toodle Fucking-Oo" ·
 "Commendatori" ·
 "Big Girls Don't Cry" ·
 "The Happy Wanderer" ·
 "D-Girl" ·
 "Full Leather Jacket" ·
 "From Where to Eternity" ·
 "Bust Out" ·
 "House Arrest" ·
 "The Knight in White Satin Armor" ·
 "Funhouse"
 

Season 3
"Mr. Ruggerio's Neighborhood" ·
 "Proshai, Livushka" ·
 "Fortunate Son" ·
 "Employee of the Month" ·
 "Another Toothpick" ·
 "University" ·
 "Second Opinion" ·
 "He Is Risen" ·
 "The Telltale Moozadell" ·
 "...To Save Us All from Satan's Power" ·
 "Pine Barrens" ·
 "Amour Fou" ·
 "Army of One"
 

Season 4
"For All Debts Public and Private" ·
 "No Show" ·
 "Christopher" ·
 "The Weight" ·
 "Pie-O-My" ·
 "Everybody Hurts" ·
 "Watching Too Much Television" ·
 "Mergers and Acquisitions" ·
 "Whoever Did This" ·
 "The Strong, Silent Type" ·
 "Calling All Cars" ·
 "Eloise" ·
 "Whitecaps"
 

Season 5
"Two Tonys" ·
 "Rat Pack" ·
 "Where's Johnny?" ·
 "All Happy Families..." ·
 "Irregular Around the Margins" ·
 "Sentimental Education" ·
 "In Camelot" ·
 "Marco Polo" ·
 "Unidentified Black Males" ·
 "Cold Cuts" ·
 "The Test Dream" ·
 "Long Term Parking" ·
 "All Due Respect"
 

Season 6



Part I

"Members Only" ·
 "Join the Club" ·
 "Mayham" ·
 "The Fleshy Part of the Thigh" ·
 "Mr. & Mrs. John Sacrimoni Request..." ·
 "Live Free or Die" ·
 "Luxury Lounge" ·
 "Johnny Cakes" ·
 "The Ride" ·
 "Moe n' Joe" ·
 "Cold Stones" ·
 "Kaisha"
 


Part II

"Soprano Home Movies" ·
 "Stage 5" ·
 "Remember When" ·
 "Chasing It" ·
 "Walk Like a Man" ·
 "Kennedy and Heidi" ·
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Meadow Soprano
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Meadow Soprano
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First appearance
"Pilot" (episode 1.01)
Last appearance
"Made in America" (episode 6.21)
Created by
David Chase
Portrayed by
Jamie-Lynn Sigler
Information

Aliases
FBI code name is "Princess Bing", some friends and family call her "Med"
Gender
Female
Occupation
Student
Family
Tony Soprano (father)
Carmela Soprano (mother)
Anthony Soprano, Jr. (brother)
Johnny Soprano (paternal grandfather)
Livia Soprano (paternal grandmother)
Hugh De Angelis (maternal grandfather)
Mary De Angelis (maternal grandmother)
Janice Soprano (paternal aunt)
Barbara Soprano Giglione (paternal aunt)
Junior Soprano (paternal granduncle)
Christopher Moltisanti (maternal cousin)
Domenica Baccalieri (paternal cousin)
Spouse(s)
Eric Scatino (ex-boyfriend)
Noah Tannenbaum (ex-boyfriend)
Jackie Aprile, Jr. (ex-boyfriend)
Finn De Trolio (ex-fiancé)
Patrick Parisi (fiancé)
Meadow Mariangela Soprano (born September 13, 1982), played by Jamie-Lynn Sigler, is a fictional character on the HBO TV series The Sopranos. In the early seasons, Meadow is shown as a smart, spoiled, party-goer, over-dramatic, in-denial, and in some ways, a troubled kid. In the later seasons, she would later learn the consequences and reality of life, money, education, politics, and relationships. Her little brother, A.J., would later go through all these phases as he gets older.
Character[edit]
Meadow is the first-born child of Tony and Carmela Soprano. She was active in extracurricular activities in high school (playing on the championship girls' soccer team and singing in the chorus and school pageants), attended Columbia University, performing well in her classes after a poor first-year performance, and volunteered regularly at the South Bronx Law Center. Since her graduation, Meadow studied for medical school as she was interested in being a pediatrician, but she had second thoughts and considered a career in the legal profession.
Meadow was often resentful of her lineage, stemming from a string of failed relationships first with Noah Tannenbaum, a fellow student who was African American and Jewish, who met with Tony's disapproval, who broke up with Meadow after his own father seemed concerned with Tony's occupation. This was followed by a romance with Jackie Aprile, Jr., the son of Tony's deceased friend and fellow mobster, Jackie Aprile, Sr.. Meadow had fallen in love with Jackie Jr., and he made her happy for a while but cheated on her and became increasingly involved in organized crime. Jackie ultimately organized a robbery of a card game in which one man was killed and two others were wounded.
After this incident and instructions from Tony to make a timely decision one way or the other, Ralph Cifaretto decided to get rid of Jackie Jr. As Jackie was exiting his hiding place, hitman Vito Spatafore came up behind him and shot him through the back of the head, killing him instantly. This hit was publicized as a drug deal gone bad, a story which Meadow saw through, but came to accept, probably for the sake of her close relationship with her family. Her acceptance caused problems elsewhere, however; during her first year in college, she struggles with depression and uses alcohol and drugs.
Just before his death, Meadow came to realize that Jackie was boorish and unfaithful; nevertheless, she was very distressed by his death, initially blaming Tony for Jackie's involvement with crime and Carmela for standing by and supporting Tony. The irony is that Tony did everything he could to discourage Jackie's criminal aspirations, having promised Jackie Sr. on his deathbed to see that Jackie Jr. stayed away from the mob life.
During her teens, Meadow was both very aware and resentful of her father's criminal enterprise and her family's complicity in it. However, Meadow reconciled herself with these facts and her attitude strongly mirrored Tony's own; publicly, she cited her father's position as a "waste management consultant" but in closer circles she rationalized the mafia as a cultural tradition borne out of discrimination against her ancestors' social and national origins. Her life seemed further stabilized by her engagement to a Columbia dental student, Finn DeTrolio, of which her father approved. It was later revealed that Finn and Meadow had broken off the engagement.
At the film premiere for Cleaver, Meadow reunited with and started dating Patrick Parisi. Patrick was the son of one of Tony's capos (Patsy Parisi). Meadow decided to not apply to medical school and, inspired by Patrick's passion for the law, applied to law school instead. She begins to plan her wedding to Patrick and, in the series' final scene, she is shown outside the diner where she arrived late for meeting her family for dinner, making a number of efforts to parallel park before she finally does, and heads toward the diner. In the final shot of the series, Tony looks up after hearing the restaurant door open. This may have been Meadow's entrance.
In Tony's coma, she is voiced by Morgan Saylor.[1]
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ http://www.imdb.com/name
External links[edit]
HBO Profile: Meadow Soprano


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Tony Soprano ·
 Jennifer Melfi ·
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 Christopher Moltisanti ·
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 Big Pussy Bonpensiero ·
 Silvio Dante ·
 Paulie Gualtieri ·
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 Meadow Soprano ·
 Adriana La Cerva ·
 Janice Soprano ·
 Bobby Baccalieri ·
 Livia Soprano
 

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Johnny Sack ·
 Artie Bucco ·
 Dwight Harris ·
 Hesh Rabkin ·
 Rosalie Aprile ·
 Phil Leotardo ·
 Ralph Cifaretto ·
 Tony Blundetto ·
 Richie Aprile ·
 Vito Spatafore ·
 Furio Giunta ·
 Patsy Parisi ·
 Carlo Gervasi ·
 Charmaine Bucco ·
 Carmine Lupertazzi ·
 Little Carmine ·
 Benny Fazio ·
 Ray Curto ·
 Eugene Pontecorvo ·
 Little Paulie Germani ·
 Jackie Aprile, Jr. ·
 Mikey Palmice ·
 Brendan Filone ·
 Matthew Bevilaqua ·
 Sean Gismonte ·
 Larry Barese ·
 Butch DeConcini ·
 Albie Cianflone
 


Episodes


Season 1
"The Sopranos" ·
 "46 Long" ·
 "Denial, Anger, Acceptance" ·
 "Meadowlands" ·
 "College" ·
 "Pax Soprana" ·
 "Down Neck" ·
 "The Legend of Tennessee Moltisanti" ·
 "Boca" ·
 "A Hit Is a Hit" ·
 "Nobody Knows Anything" ·
 "Isabella" ·
 "I Dream of Jeannie Cusamano"
 

Season 2
"Guy Walks into a Psychiatrist's Office..." ·
 "Do Not Resuscitate" ·
 "Toodle Fucking-Oo" ·
 "Commendatori" ·
 "Big Girls Don't Cry" ·
 "The Happy Wanderer" ·
 "D-Girl" ·
 "Full Leather Jacket" ·
 "From Where to Eternity" ·
 "Bust Out" ·
 "House Arrest" ·
 "The Knight in White Satin Armor" ·
 "Funhouse"
 

Season 3
"Mr. Ruggerio's Neighborhood" ·
 "Proshai, Livushka" ·
 "Fortunate Son" ·
 "Employee of the Month" ·
 "Another Toothpick" ·
 "University" ·
 "Second Opinion" ·
 "He Is Risen" ·
 "The Telltale Moozadell" ·
 "...To Save Us All from Satan's Power" ·
 "Pine Barrens" ·
 "Amour Fou" ·
 "Army of One"
 

Season 4
"For All Debts Public and Private" ·
 "No Show" ·
 "Christopher" ·
 "The Weight" ·
 "Pie-O-My" ·
 "Everybody Hurts" ·
 "Watching Too Much Television" ·
 "Mergers and Acquisitions" ·
 "Whoever Did This" ·
 "The Strong, Silent Type" ·
 "Calling All Cars" ·
 "Eloise" ·
 "Whitecaps"
 

Season 5
"Two Tonys" ·
 "Rat Pack" ·
 "Where's Johnny?" ·
 "All Happy Families..." ·
 "Irregular Around the Margins" ·
 "Sentimental Education" ·
 "In Camelot" ·
 "Marco Polo" ·
 "Unidentified Black Males" ·
 "Cold Cuts" ·
 "The Test Dream" ·
 "Long Term Parking" ·
 "All Due Respect"
 

Season 6



Part I

"Members Only" ·
 "Join the Club" ·
 "Mayham" ·
 "The Fleshy Part of the Thigh" ·
 "Mr. & Mrs. John Sacrimoni Request..." ·
 "Live Free or Die" ·
 "Luxury Lounge" ·
 "Johnny Cakes" ·
 "The Ride" ·
 "Moe n' Joe" ·
 "Cold Stones" ·
 "Kaisha"
 


Part II

"Soprano Home Movies" ·
 "Stage 5" ·
 "Remember When" ·
 "Chasing It" ·
 "Walk Like a Man" ·
 "Kennedy and Heidi" ·
 "The Second Coming" ·
 "The Blue Comet" ·
 "Made in America"
 



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Anthony Soprano, Jr.
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A.J. Soprano
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First appearance
"Pilot" (episode 1.01)
Last appearance
"Made in America" (episode 6.21)
Created by
David Chase
Portrayed by
Robert Iler
Information

Aliases
A.J.
 "Baby Bing" (FBI code name)
 Tony Soprano, Jr.
 Anthony Jr.
Occupation
Assistant movie producer
 Formerly: Pizza shop manager
 Construction worker
 Blockbuster Cashier
Family
Tony Soprano (father)
Carmela Soprano (mother)
Meadow Soprano (sister)
Johnny Soprano (paternal grandfather)
Livia Soprano (paternal grandmother)
Hugh De Angelis (maternal grandfather)
Mary De Angelis (maternal grandmother)
Janice Soprano (paternal aunt)
Barbara Soprano Giglione (paternal aunt)
Junior Soprano (paternal granduncle)
Christopher Moltisanti (maternal cousin)
Domenica Baccalieri (paternal cousin)
Spouse(s)
Rhiannon Flammer (girlfriend)
Blanca Selgado (ex-fiancée)
Devin Pillsbury (ex-girlfriend)
Anthony John "A.J." Soprano, Jr. (b. July 15, 1986), played by Robert Iler, is a fictional character on the HBO TV series The Sopranos. He is the son of Carmela and Tony Soprano. He is a prototypical underachiever and is a constant source of stress and anxiety for his parents. While he is the only son of the Don, it becomes obvious he lacks potential for a career in his father's organization, though he tries to kill his own uncle, Junior Soprano, as retaliation for the shooting of his father.
Biography[edit]
Anthony is the chaotic younger brother of his more accomplished sister, Meadow. As a chronic underachiever with many doubts about life, A.J. is diagnosed as borderline ADD. Additionally, he crashed his mother's car, smoked marijuana at his own confirmation, got drunk on stolen communion wine, vandalized his school swimming pool, and was finally expelled after cheating on a test. As a result, his parents arrange to send him to military school, until they discover that he suffers from the same panic attacks that plagued his father and grandfather. Instead, he is sent to another private school. His birthday is July 15. A.J. is shown to be not very bright, though it is unclear how much of this is due to a total lack of effort on his part.
A.J. is shown to be incredibly lazy, selfish, and self-centered, often showing himself to be a stereotypical spoiled-rotten rich teen who takes everything for granted and whines incessantly when he doesn't get his way; much of this is a direct result of his parents not enforcing rules or boundaries and frequently spoiling him with lavish gifts, especially Tony. In the episode "Two Tonys," it is revealed that Tony had bought A.J. an elaborate $5,000 drum set, and in the episode "All Happy Families...," despite discovering that A.J. is not doing well in school and does not have an optimistic future as far as college is concerned, Tony buys him a brand-new Nissan Xterra, though Tony claims it is a "motivational tool." A.J. is clearly excited about the truck, though he initially whines about the environmental impact of SUV's and claims he may encounter social pressure from school friends to drive a different vehicle. During the fifth season he also shows an increasing amount of disrespect to his mother, presumably due to the separation. He tends to relate to his father and ends up moving in with him during the separation, believing that his father will not enforce the rules and imagining life in his father's house will resemble some type of male bonding; however, he quickly lapses back into his disrespectful and entitled self, talking back to and disrespecting his father and culminating in the episode "Sentimental Education," when A.J. and Tony get into a scuffle over A.J.'s disrespect; as his father has him pinned against the wall, A.J. says, "One of these days, you wait...I'm going to kick your fucking ass." Immediately afterwards, A.J. decides he wants to move back in with his mother, and during the subsequent "family meeting" he seems to have completely rewritten history, claiming he never said he moved out because of his mother and snidely threatening to call social services due to the ongoing "violence against children" present in his father's home. Carmela takes the opportunity to demand certain things from A.J. in return for allowing him to move back in; ironically, the things she demands are very basic expectations and rules that should have been enforced from the beginning, like showing respect to his mother by not swearing at her and attending to schoolwork.
Frequently throughout the series, Tony and Carmela express concern about A.J.'s future. Tony has no desire to groom his son into a position within his organization. In the fifth season of the show, A.J. displays an unexpected interest in pursuing a career in event planning, but later derides his parents' mentions of it (e.g., in "Mr. & Mrs. John Sacrimoni Request...").
In all seasons, A.J. is portrayed as a fan of heavy metal, via product placements (shirts, coats, posters and stickers) of bands like Pantera, Nevermore, Marilyn Manson, Slipknot, Coal Chamber, Trivium, Machine Head, and Limp Bizkit though as early as season 1 a poster of an Ulver black metal album can be spotted in his room.
In "Full Leather Jacket", A.J. says that he wants to go to Harvard University or West Point for college. Tony dismisses the idea as unrealistic given A.J.'s poor academic performance. During Season 3, when Tony asks him about it at a family dinner, A.J. claims that he never said that, as he knows his grades wouldn't be good enough. Throughout Season 5, references are made to the unlikelihood of A.J.'s being admitted to a four-year university.
In Season 6, A.J. admits to his parents that he has flunked out of the community college he was attending, a worrying parallel to Tony's own youth. A.J. acquires a large knife and goes to the institution where Uncle Junior is being held, in a futile effort to exact revenge for his father. He is arrested but later released without charge thanks to his father's political connections. At this time, he has been seen delving into the New York City club scene and experimenting with cocaine.
After several days of Anthony's claiming to be searching for jobs on the Internet with no result, Tony intervenes and arranges a construction job for his son. A.J. first claims he cannot do it because he will be trying again for community college, but Tony says that is not a problem as many of the men who work in construction are high school and college students. A.J. is reluctant to accept the job because of the early hours and outdoor work, which makes Tony angry. Tony grabs a football helmet and smashes the windshield of A.J.'s Nissan Xterra, and warns A.J. not to test him. A.J. reluctantly works at the construction site where he meets Blanca Selgado, whom he begins dating. Blanca, who is Dominican and has a three-year-old son named Hector, meets with Carmela's disapproval. Tony however is more approving of the relationship, commenting that Blanca was Catholic like the Sopranos, at least.
In 2007, A.J. proposes to Blanca at a fancy restaurant dinner by telling her that he will own a couple of restaurants in a couple of years. However, Blanca soon gives the ring back and breaks up with him, leaving A.J. severely depressed. He quits his job and mopes about until his father forces him to attend a fraternity party with the college-age relatives of his fellow mafiosi. A.J. grudgingly attends, but soon starts to enjoy himself. Several of the boys run a sports betting operation at the college and after a night of drinking, they beat and torture a college student who neglected to pay them by pouring acid on his foot. A.J. joins in to help forget his relationship problems. Later, he joins his new friends again when one of them carelessly opens the door of his car, hitting a passerby on a bicycle. They make racial slurs towards the man, blame the accident on him, and attack the man. A.J. stands by, neither helping his friends, nor aiding the victim. Following that, A.J. is seen telling his psychiatrist that he is once again depressed about the world due to that incident.
This depression would lead to a botched suicide attempt, wherein A.J. ties a cinder block to his leg with a too-long length of rope and attempts to drown himself in the pool at the Soprano home. His father hears his cries for help and dives into the pool and rescues him. He is then placed in a facility to get psychiatric care, where he meets Rhiannon, an ex-girlfriend of his former friend Hernan. After Tony tells him that his uncle Bobby has been shot dead, A.J. begins to cry and complain about how Bobby's death negatively affects him. Tony loses patience with him, violently drags him out of his bed, slaps him around, and tells him to pack as the family leaves home quickly to elude a possible attack by Phil Leotardo's gang.
In the final episode, A.J. is in his Nissan Xterra with Rhiannon, his new girlfriend, and starts making out with her, but they both rush out of the vehicle when it catches fire due to A.J.'s parking it over a pile of leaves. He later decides he wants to join the Army, but is talked out of it by his parents and girlfriend. Instead, Tony gets him a new BMW M3 and a job working for Little Carmine's production company. This sense of direction seems to alleviate A.J.'s depression, at least temporarily, and he is last seen having dinner with his family. If the cut to black of the final scene did indicate his father's murder, A.J. witnessed it.
External links[edit]
HBO Profile: Anthony Soprano, Jr.


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Fictional universe
Soprano crime family ·
 Members of the Soprano crime family ·
 Lupertazzi crime family ·
 Friends and family ·
 Satriale's Pork Store ·
 Bada Bing ·
 Cleaver ·
 Family tree ·
 FBI
 

Characters


Primary
Tony Soprano ·
 Jennifer Melfi ·
 Carmela Soprano ·
 Christopher Moltisanti ·
 Junior Soprano ·
 Big Pussy Bonpensiero ·
 Silvio Dante ·
 Paulie Gualtieri ·
 Anthony Soprano, Jr. ·
 Meadow Soprano ·
 Adriana La Cerva ·
 Janice Soprano ·
 Bobby Baccalieri ·
 Livia Soprano
 

Secondary
Johnny Sack ·
 Artie Bucco ·
 Dwight Harris ·
 Hesh Rabkin ·
 Rosalie Aprile ·
 Phil Leotardo ·
 Ralph Cifaretto ·
 Tony Blundetto ·
 Richie Aprile ·
 Vito Spatafore ·
 Furio Giunta ·
 Patsy Parisi ·
 Carlo Gervasi ·
 Charmaine Bucco ·
 Carmine Lupertazzi ·
 Little Carmine ·
 Benny Fazio ·
 Ray Curto ·
 Eugene Pontecorvo ·
 Little Paulie Germani ·
 Jackie Aprile, Jr. ·
 Mikey Palmice ·
 Brendan Filone ·
 Matthew Bevilaqua ·
 Sean Gismonte ·
 Larry Barese ·
 Butch DeConcini ·
 Albie Cianflone
 


Episodes


Season 1
"The Sopranos" ·
 "46 Long" ·
 "Denial, Anger, Acceptance" ·
 "Meadowlands" ·
 "College" ·
 "Pax Soprana" ·
 "Down Neck" ·
 "The Legend of Tennessee Moltisanti" ·
 "Boca" ·
 "A Hit Is a Hit" ·
 "Nobody Knows Anything" ·
 "Isabella" ·
 "I Dream of Jeannie Cusamano"
 

Season 2
"Guy Walks into a Psychiatrist's Office..." ·
 "Do Not Resuscitate" ·
 "Toodle Fucking-Oo" ·
 "Commendatori" ·
 "Big Girls Don't Cry" ·
 "The Happy Wanderer" ·
 "D-Girl" ·
 "Full Leather Jacket" ·
 "From Where to Eternity" ·
 "Bust Out" ·
 "House Arrest" ·
 "The Knight in White Satin Armor" ·
 "Funhouse"
 

Season 3
"Mr. Ruggerio's Neighborhood" ·
 "Proshai, Livushka" ·
 "Fortunate Son" ·
 "Employee of the Month" ·
 "Another Toothpick" ·
 "University" ·
 "Second Opinion" ·
 "He Is Risen" ·
 "The Telltale Moozadell" ·
 "...To Save Us All from Satan's Power" ·
 "Pine Barrens" ·
 "Amour Fou" ·
 "Army of One"
 

Season 4
"For All Debts Public and Private" ·
 "No Show" ·
 "Christopher" ·
 "The Weight" ·
 "Pie-O-My" ·
 "Everybody Hurts" ·
 "Watching Too Much Television" ·
 "Mergers and Acquisitions" ·
 "Whoever Did This" ·
 "The Strong, Silent Type" ·
 "Calling All Cars" ·
 "Eloise" ·
 "Whitecaps"
 

Season 5
"Two Tonys" ·
 "Rat Pack" ·
 "Where's Johnny?" ·
 "All Happy Families..." ·
 "Irregular Around the Margins" ·
 "Sentimental Education" ·
 "In Camelot" ·
 "Marco Polo" ·
 "Unidentified Black Males" ·
 "Cold Cuts" ·
 "The Test Dream" ·
 "Long Term Parking" ·
 "All Due Respect"
 

Season 6



Part I

"Members Only" ·
 "Join the Club" ·
 "Mayham" ·
 "The Fleshy Part of the Thigh" ·
 "Mr. & Mrs. John Sacrimoni Request..." ·
 "Live Free or Die" ·
 "Luxury Lounge" ·
 "Johnny Cakes" ·
 "The Ride" ·
 "Moe n' Joe" ·
 "Cold Stones" ·
 "Kaisha"
 


Part II

"Soprano Home Movies" ·
 "Stage 5" ·
 "Remember When" ·
 "Chasing It" ·
 "Walk Like a Man" ·
 "Kennedy and Heidi" ·
 "The Second Coming" ·
 "The Blue Comet" ·
 "Made in America"
 



Episodes ·
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Paulie Gualtieri
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Peter Paul Gualtieri
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First appearance
"Pilot" (episode 1.01)
Last appearance
"Made in America" (episode 6.21)
Created by
David Chase
Portrayed by
Tony Sirico
Information

Nickname(s)
Paulie Walnuts
Aliases
Paul Walnuts, Mr. Walters, Ted Hughes,[1] Clarence,[2] Paoluccio
Occupation
Former waste management executive of Barone Sanitation
 "Professional Investor" as listed on his tax forms
Title
Soldier (1970s - season 1)
Capo (Season 2-6) of the Soprano crime family
Family
Nucci Gualtieri (adopted mother, biological aunt)
 Gerry Gualtieri (adopted brother, biological cousin)
 Rose Gualtieri (adopted sister, biological cousin)
Spouse(s)
none
Children
none
Relatives
Dottie Gualtieri (biological mother, "aunt")
 Marianucci "Nucci" Gualtieri (aunt)
Paulie Germani ("nephew")
Religion
Roman Catholicism, later
Agnosticism
Peter Paul "Paulie Walnuts" Gualtieri played by Tony Sirico, is a fictional character on the HBO TV series The Sopranos. Gualtieri begins the series as a soldier, but later becomes a caporegime and eventually underboss[3] in the DiMeo crime family.


Contents  [hide]
1 Plot details 1.1 Season 1
1.2 Season 2
1.3 Season 3
1.4 Season 4
1.5 Season 5
1.6 Season 6 1.6.1 Part I
1.6.2 Part II

2 Gualtieri crew
3 Murders committed by Paulie
4 Family tree
5 Vehicles
6 Appearances in other media
7 References
8 External links

Plot details[edit]
According to The Sopranos: A Family History, Peter Paul Gualtieri, son of Gennaro Gualtieri (although Paulie's biological father was later revealed to be a World War II soldier named "Russ"), has been a troubled street kid from the age of nine. He dropped out of school after the ninth grade[4] and spent time in and out of juvenile correctional facilities during his early youth. When he was seventeen, he officially became an enforcer/bodyguard for "Johnny Boy" Soprano, Tony's father and captain in the DiMeo crime family. His mother, later discovered to be his aunt, worked at a Krispy Kreme doughnut shop during Paulie's childhood and early adulthood, but has since retired. Paulie's grandfather, who immigrated to the United States in 1910, is from Ariano Irpino, a municipality in the province of Avellino, in Italy's Campania region.[5] Paulie's grandfather and Tony's paternal grandparents were from the same province in Italy. Paulie spent four years in the U.S. Army Signal Corps, where he was eventually drummed out through Section 8 (discharged because of psychiatric reasons). Although Paulie did not have a long military career, he still is proud of it, and few of the other Sopranos characters had military experience. Afterwards, he spent more time in and out of prison on various criminal charges. Eventually, he worked his way up through the DiMeo crime family, reaching the rank of Captain in 2000, shortly after Anthony "Tony" Soprano became Boss of New Jersey. In 2006, Paulie was promoted to underboss, and Christopher Moltisanti was put in charge of Paulie's crew, which earlier was Tony's crew. Paulie got his nickname "Paulie Walnuts" due to hijacking a truck in the early 1990s which he believed to be filled with television-sets, but only contained walnuts[citation needed]. His surname is taken from real life DeCavalcante crime family mobster Frank Gualtieri, who served under Vincent Palermo.
Paulie is one of the show's most colorful characters. Portrayed as a psychopath with little empathy, Paulie is highly paranoid and often refers to the supernatural things he experiences, like déjà vu, seeing the Virgin Mary, and especially his constant fear of death, either natural or probable. Paulie has displayed kindness and loyalty, and usually cracks jokes. However, despite his seniority, Paulie is one of the more eccentric of Tony's associates and is arguably one of the most ruthless, as expressed by his paranoia, mysophobia, competitiveness, miserly nature, impulsive violence and often childlike dependence on Tony's approval. In the first season finale, "I Dream of Jeannie Cusamano," Tony told his crew that he had been in therapy for almost a year, when Paulie revealed that he too had seen a therapist, from whom he "learned some coping skills." Nevertheless, Paulie is recognized throughout the series as one of the top earners and one of Tony's most trustworthy friends in his "inner circle" of Paulie, Silvio Dante, and Christopher Moltisanti. By the end of the series, he is also the only member of Tony's original core crew that is alive, active, and out of prison.
Paulie has no children outside marriage and, uniquely among his colleagues, remains single. Unlike most of the other Mafiosi, he shuns the married life.[6] A girlfriend of Paulie's, played by Judy Reyes, is briefly seen in episode 2.9 ("From Where to Eternity.") In a rare moment, Paulie shows compassion for her two children, putting them back to bed, sadly citing he shouldn't keep everyone up. He is suffering from nightmares after hearing Chris talk about his trip to Hell after being shot. She recommends a psychic, but the session ends with Paulie calling the group a bunch of "fucking queers" after the psychic sees the spirit of Charles "Sonny" Pagano - the first guy Paulie ever whacked - together with other spirits, including Mikey Palmice, who supposedly tells the psychic to ask Paulie if the poison ivy, which he caught on his face while chasing (Palmice) to execute him, still itches.
Season 1[edit]
In the first season, Paulie was a central member of Tony's crew. He executed a Colombian drug dealer and stole a large quantity of drugs and cash from his hotel room. Other tasks he did were retrieving a car, with Salvatore "Big Pussy" Bonpensiero's help, for a teacher of Tony's son, torturing a hotel co-owner so the crew can own 25% of the business, and extorting a soccer coach by giving him an unwanted free TV. When suspicions that Big Pussy was an informant first surfaced, Paulie volunteered to investigate (and murder if necessary). His method of taking Pussy to a bath house and trying to get him to undress for a steambath lacked subtlety and drove Pussy into hiding. In Tony's brief and bloody war with Corrado "Junior" Soprano's crew, following Junior's attempt on Tony's life, Paulie was assigned the hit on Junior's consigliere Mikey Palmice, with assistance from Christopher Moltisanti.
Season 2[edit]
In the second season, when Tony becomes the family's street boss, while Junior only remains boss in name, Paulie is promoted to capo of his old crew. This meant that Pussy, Chris, and Furio Giunta amongst others, reported to him. To help set up the crew's stolen car distribution operation in the country, Paulie traveled with Tony and Chris to Italy. Paulie also helped run the "executive game," a high stakes poker game. In the episode From Where to Eternity, while Chris is in the hospital recovering from the bullet wounds caused by Matthew Bevilaqua and Sean Gismonte's failed assassination attempt (which was engaged in to gain recognition in the DiMeo crime family, particularly with Richie Aprile), when Chris becomes clinically dead for a few minutes after his heart stops while in his comatose state, he has what may have just been a morphine induced dream in which he visits purgatory and sees his deceased father "Dickie" Moltisanti along with his deceased, former best friend Brendan Filone and Mikey Palmice who had slain Brendan earlier in the first season. Ironically, Brendan and Mikey are good friends in the afterlife and even gamble together with Roman soldiers against Irish gangsters whom they constantly lose to according to Christopher's description of what was going on in his ephemeral visit to the realm between Heaven and Hell. Chris informs Tony and Paulie that Mikey had a message for them: Three o' clock is what Mikey told Chris to tell them. It is never actually revealed what this esoteric message is supposed to mean, although Paulie thinks it could have been around the time Mikey was executed. Christopher's spiritual experience, which Tony remains skeptical of and deems just a dream, spooks Paulie intensely. Paulie subsequently begins to have disturbing nightmares of being dragged to Hell. Paulie, at the recommendation of his comare (mistress), goes to see a medium but to confirm for sure the guy is real, Paulie gives a pseudnym when he calls and makes his appointment. Much to Paulie's chagrin, the authenticity of the medium is confirmed when he begins communicating with Charles "Sonny" Pagano who was the first person Paulie ever whacked back in the 1960s and also Mikey Palmice. It becomes abundantly clear that Mikey's spirit is present when the medium informs Paulie that "he" wants to know if the poison ivy still itches (Paulie had inadvertently ran into a batch of poison ivy whilst he and Chris chased Mikey through the woods on the day they murdered him). Paulie abruptly flips out, grabs the medium, and asks who he's been talking to, as he feels he somehow got some very clandestine information on Paulie through an actually still living person. Paulie continues to remain spooked and paranoid, as he also feels he's being haunted by Mikey Palmice accompanied by others he had murdered throughout his criminal life. However, a skeptical Tony informs him that it means nothing. Later in the season, when it was confirmed that Pussy was an informant for the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, Paulie accompanied Tony and Silvio Dante on their trip out on a boat to execute Pussy. Paulie, right before execution is carried out, tells Pussy "you were like a brother to me," at which point Tony adds, "to all of us." Paulie has clearly stated the hurtful impact Pussy's betrayal has had on him but seems to have put the experience behind him. Paulie will also be later haunted by the memory of his deceased friend.
Season 3[edit]
In the third season, Chris often chafed under Paulie's leadership, particularly after Chris became a made man in Paulie's crew. Paulie began to demand regular payments and subjected Chris to humiliating random strip searches for wires. One night, Paulie and Patsy Parisi show up unexpectedly at Christopher's apartment and search it for wires; they also confiscate some stolen shoes Chris got for Adriana to give to their comares. While meddling through a dresser drawer, Chris observes Paulie sniffing Adriana's panties, about which he later complains to Tony who informs Paulie he must apologize. Paulie grows angry at Christopher's tattle-telling and informs him, "If you ever go to the big man [Tony] again about stuff between you and me, we're gonna have a problem my friend." The tensions between Paulie and Chris culminated in "Pine Barrens." when Tony assigns Paulie and Chris the task of collecting a payment owed to Silvio by Russian mobster named Valery. They botched the simple assignment after they got into a fight with Valery at his apartment, which Paulie had instigated. Believing Valery is dead after Paulie chokes him with a lamp, they took Valery out into the Pine Barrens to dispose of him. Valery, who was later revealed to be a former Russian military commando, was still alive, and knocked both Paulie and Chris to the ground with a shovel. He escaped and led Paulie and Chris on a brief chase in the woods. Paulie shoots Valery in the head; however, he and Chris are unable to find the seemingly mortally wounded Valery, and the two are dumbfounded as to what happened to him. Afterwards, Paulie and Chris decide to get in the car and look for him, but they lose their way. The two try continuously to communicate with Tony on the cell phone to get him to come pick them up but as they are deep in the woods, the signal is weak, and every conversation becomes incomplete by static and disconnection. Paulie and Chris feud throughout the night. They become hungry, extremely cold, tired, and frustrated with each other. Later, a heated exchange prompts Chris to pull his gun and threaten to kill him. The next morning, they are rescued by Tony and Bobby Baccalieri, but Tony is disappointed at Paulie's failure to complete such an easy task.
In the season finale "Army of One," Paulie grew upset after Tony ruled against him in a sit down with Ralph Cifaretto. Paulie, who had provided Ralph with the security codes he needed to execute a $100,000 robbery, demanded 50% of the take. Ralph countered by offering only $5,000, claiming Paulie had not done any of the leg work. Ultimately, Tony ruled that Paulie was entitled to $12,000. Paulie, who had just put his mother in the expensive "Green Grove" retirement community, was especially angered by the ruling, as he had been depending on the $50,000 to cover his expenses. Paulie also grew jealous of Ralph's earning ability, which outpaced Paulie's because of Ralph's labor union ties, which helped bring in the highly lucrative Newark Esplanade project, and Ralph's consequently rising stock in Tony's eyes.
Season 4[edit]
Between the third and fourth seasons, Paulie was arrested in Youngstown, Ohio on a gun possession charge. Although no censure was rendered upon him, Paulie's separation from the family, combined with Ralphie's continued earning abilities, continued to erode his reputation and credibility in Tony's eyes. During his four months in jail, he communicated with John "Johnny Sack" Sacramoni, the underboss of New York's Lupertazzi crime family, while under the false impression that he could earn a place with them. It was Paulie who told Johnny Sack that Ralph Cifaretto made a very insensitive joke regarding Ginny Sack's being overweight to the family which compels an infuriated Johnny to sanction a hit on Ralph that was called off at the last minute. A party was thrown at the Bada Bing when he was released, but his wavering loyalty only served to accelerate his marginalization under Tony. Paulie however, by the end of the season (in the season's twelfth episode), realized he had been duped by Johnny Sack and that Carmine Lupertazzi had never even heard of him, much less offered him a place in his New York family. Following this realization, Paulie once again devoted himself fully to Tony and the Soprano family, reclaiming his status as a top earner and his place within Tony's inner circle.
Paulie has always been devoted to his mother, Marianucci "Nucci" Gualtieri, (it's disclosed in the sixth season episode "The Fleshy Part of the Thigh" that she is actually his aunt, however) whom he has watched over constantly. She was delighted when he first placed her at "Green Grove" (in stark contrast to Livia Soprano's reaction), and Paulie also interceded in her social problems with the other residents, going so far as to attack their relatives to ensure civility for his mother. He later learned that one of the women Nucci had trouble with, Minni Matrone, kept all her cash in her home. Paulie broke into Minn's home to try to steal this money, but she caught him in the act. When he failed to talk his way out of it, he suffocated her with a pillow. He gave the money to Tony to rejuvenate Tony's confidence in Paulie.
Season 5[edit]
In the fifth season, Chris and Paulie's bad blood resurfaces when Chris reiterates the story of the Pine Barrens incident to Vito Spatafore, Patsy Parisi, and Benny Fazio. The story starts out friendly, but after Chris embarrasses him in front of the guys, Paulie calls Chris "Tony's little favorite." This leads to Chris and Paulie almost starting a fight and later, Paulie tells the rest of the guys that it's over between the two of them. At comare night, Chris refuses to pay for the dinner, forcing Paulie to pay. At Satriale's the following morning, Paulie demanded the money back, else Chris would begin paying points. At another dinner in Atlantic City, Paulie tells everyone to choose whatever they want in order to inflate Christopher's bill. Tapped out, Chris left a small tip and argued with Paulie in the parking lot until the waiter came out to confront them. Chris responded violently and threw a brick at him. The waiter collapsed and went into convulsions. Panicked, Paulie shot the waiter and retrieved the $1,200 in cash before running away. Paulie later called Chris and they agreed to "bury the hatchet," and split the tab. While this seems to Chris like a fair compromise, it essentially means that Paulie is profiting from the whole situation by only returning half of the cash he stole from the dead waiter.
Paulie also got into a dispute with Michele "Feech" La Manna over their rival landscaping companies. Paulie and Feech both resorted to violence, assaulting the other's gardeners. Paulie's competition with and antagonism of Feech served to highlight Feech's insubordinate tendencies, which caused Tony to "set up" Feech for a return to prison, making it easier for everyone.
Season 6[edit]
Part I[edit]
Between the fifth and sixth seasons, Chris was made Capo of Paulie's crew, with Paulie being elevated to underboss of the family, albeit a nominal one. Paulie's reputation for withholding money from his payments "up the ladder" were observed in "Mayham." While Tony was in a coma, Paulie took part in a heist with associate Cary De Bartolo that led to an immense score of $1,000,000 in Colombian drug money, which was to be divided up fairly in terms of percentage amongst Tony, Paulie, and Vito. The heist resulted from a tip by Vito Spatafore. Although they had agreed to split the acquisition, Paulie later tried to withhold some of Vito's share due to an injury he had received during the heist; Silvio had to mediate as acting boss, informing them that under the circumstances Tony's share would be given to Carmela. Vito and Paulie were strongly reluctant to give Tony's share to Carmela, as they speculated Tony could potentially die at any moment but in the end accepted their obligation. When Vito's homosexuality was later revealed, Paulie was outspoken in his condemnation of homosexuality and desire to see Vito killed. When Vito returned after months in hiding, Tony considered letting his proposal of setting up business in Atlantic City with Silvio in front of Paulie; Paulie remained quiet, but left the room in apparent protest. Tony largely decided to have Vito killed because Paulie's attitude mirrored the lack of respect his underlings would feel for him letting Vito live free, although Phil Leotardo made it a moot point when members of his family beat Vito to death.
In "The Fleshy Part of the Thigh," it was disclosed to Paulie that his dying aunt Dotty, a nun, was actually his mother. She had become impregnated by a soldier identified only as "Russ" during World War II. Nucci, the woman Paulie had thought of as his mother, was really his aunt who took him in to hide the scandal. This flabbergasting news sent Paulie into an emotional tailspin, in the grips of which he severed his ties to his Nucci and did not attend Dotty's funeral. The episode ended with Paulie extorting $4,000 per month (the sum of Nucci's retirement home costs) from the son of the late owner of the Barone Sanitation company, unbeknown to Tony. Earlier, Paulie had witnessed Helen Barone meet with Tony to intercede on her son's behalf, and Tony promised that he would not be harmed; hearing this conversation led Paulie to break down emotionally. This means that Little Paulie Germani is not his nephew, but his first cousin once removed, although he still referred to Little Paulie as his nephew.
In "The Ride" Paulie was responsible for organizing the annual festivities at the Feast of St. Elzear. Paulie had taken over running the festival from Johnny Boy Soprano upon his death, and continued to try to run it for profit. In 2006, it proved a burden—the replacement priest, Father José, tried to renegotiate the payment the church would receive from the feast's proceeds. Paulie refused to pay, and Father José retaliated by refusing to allow St. Elzear's gold hat to be used in the festival. The hat's absence was noticed and complained about by elder residents. Ride maintenance was another area where Paulie decided to save money, which resulted in a malfunction while Bobby Baccalieri's family was on a ride. Janice received minor neck injuries. Subsequently, this resulted in temporary bad blood between Paulie and Bobby which Tony ordered to be resolved.
During the festival, Paulie was tested for prostate cancer because of an elevated PSA. With his uncertain parentage, there was no way of knowing if he was genetically predisposed to the disease or not. During a restless night awaiting his biopsy results, Paulie awoke at 3 a.m. and went to the Bada Bing. There he had a striking vision of the Virgin Mary hovering above the stage. Paulie later visited Nucci at Green Grove, and they had a silent reconciliation. In "Moe N' Joe," Paulie told Tony that he has been diagnosed with prostate cancer. The disease was apparently caught in an early stage, and Paulie underwent radiation therapy. Paulie suggested that his luck at having been diagnosed early was a reward for good deeds in his life, and Tony agreed with him. He stated in "Stage 5," that he beat the cancer, after learning of Johnny Sack's death from lung cancer.
Part II[edit]
In "Remember When," Paulie and Tony went to Miami to lie low when the F.B.I. investigated the old murder case of Tony's first murder victim, Willie Overall. On the trip and in Miami, Paulie begins to reminisce about the old days at which point he brings up Pussy Bonpensiero and Ralph Cifaretto and how they all four went out to dinner the night Tony whacked Willie. Tony begins to grow somewhat suspicious of Paulie's idiosyncrasies and inclination to divulge information to other people, and Tony questioned him several times about the joke Ralph made about Ginny Sacrimoni's weight. Eventually, Overall's murder was blamed on the deceased Jackie Aprile, Sr., so Tony took Paulie on a fishing trip to celebrate. Paulie had serious misgivings about going to sea with Tony due to the boat trip that was used to lure Pussy to his death. On the boat, Paulie continues to deny informing Johnny Sack of Ralph's joke about his wife. While Tony seriously considered murdering Paulie, he ultimately decided to spare his life. Seemingly out of "gratitude," Paulie sent Carmela a $2,000 espresso machine to replace her broken one. The overly expensive gift gave the impression of Paulie to Carmela that "there is something seriously wrong with that man," but Tony defends him, saying it was people like Paulie who allowed Tony and Carmela to live the way they did.
In "Walk like a Man," Paulie's nephew, Little Paulie, was beaten by Chris over a dispute and thrown out a second-story window, suffering six broken vertebrae. A furious Paulie tore up Christopher's lawn with his car, leaving Christopher's wife shaken. Later in the episode, they seemed to have made up, and drank together at the Bada Bing. However, Paulie made off-color remarks about Christopher's daughter, which caused an inebriated Chris to storm out and later kill his A.A. friend J.T. Dolan. In "Kennedy and Heidi," Paulie was left surprisingly grief-stricken when Chris was killed, reflecting that their argument over money and respect was trivial and that he should have been nicer to him, in life. Paulie was later "upstaged" when his aunt/adopted mother Nucci's wake was under-attended because his friends were at Christopher's wake instead. In the final episode "Made in America," Tony asked Paulie to step in and take over the old Aprile/Cifaretto/Spatafore/Gervasi crew. At first, Paulie was hesitant because all the bad luck that had befallen that crew's previous capos but soon changes his mind after clever persuasion.
Gualtieri crew[edit]
Main article: Soprano crime family § Soprano / Gualtieri / Moltisanti crew
When given control of the Soprano crew, Paulie oversaw all of Tony’s old business dealing, which included amongst others, the Paving Union, extorting drug dealers, the pump and dump scams, charging HMOs for fake MRI expenditures, fencing stolen cars, a phone card scam, gambling, loan sharking and the crew’s front businesses: Barone Sanitation and Massarone Construction. Throughout the series, other aspects of the crew's criminal activities developed or were revealed. These include control of the Joint Fitters Union, credit card hijacking (run by Benny Fazio), betting shop, cigarette smuggling (both run by Chris), and protection racketing (run by Patsy). Legit businesses include Pussy’s old auto body shop (now run by his wife Angie), silent partner in a lawn care business, and the Feast of St. Elisario. Paulie soon became Tony's biggest earner. However, by the fourth season, Paulie's business hit a low point, especially in comparison to the Cifaretto and Barese crews. By the fifth season, Paulie's crew regained its position as one of the family's best earners. When Paulie was promoted to underboss between the fifth and sixth seasons, Chris became Capo of his old crew.
Murders committed by Paulie[edit]
The following is a list of murders committed by or referenced to on the series by Paulie. He is depicted killing nine people, the most out of any character on the show.

Victim

Year
Reason
Episode
Charles "Sonny" Pagano mid-1960s Paulie "made his bones" (performed his first contract/ordered killing) by murdering Pagano. From Where to Eternity*
Gallegos 1999 Shot in the forehead by Paulie for operating a drug business within DiMeo family territory. A Hit Is a Hit
Mikey "Grab Bag" Palmice 1999 Executed in the woods by Paulie and Chris for conspiring with Junior to kill Tony and for killing Brendan Filone. I Dream of Jeannie Cusamano
Big Pussy Bonpensiero 2000 Killed on Tony's boat by Paulie, Silvio, and Tony for being an F.B.I. informant. Funhouse
Valery 2001 Possibly killed for attacking Paulie and Chris. Apparently shot in the head. Though officially, according to HBO, his fate is ultimately unknown Pine Barrens
Minn Matrone 2002 Suffocated with a pillow in her apartment, after she caught him searching her bedroom for cash. Eloise
Raoul the Waiter 2004 Shot by Paulie after suffering blunt force trauma from a brick thrown at his head by Chris after a brief argument with them. Two Tonys
Colombian #1 2006 Shot in the neck by Paulie and Cary De Bartolo during an armed robbery. Mayham
Colombian #2 2006 Shot in the chest by Cary De Bartolo and then stabbed by Paulie during armed robbery. Mayham
*First mentioned. Happened before events of series premier.
Family tree[edit]










































































 Russ

 Dottie

 Gennerao Gualtieri

 Marianucci

 Mary













































































 Paulie Gualtieri





 Gerry Gualtieri

 Rose Gualtieri













































































 Paulie Germani





In "Commendatori," when Paulie still believes that Nucci is his mother, he mentions having two brothers and a sister. Only Gerry and Rose are mentioned by name in the series; one of the brothers is a doctor.
In the series finale, Tony mentions a niece of Paulie's who has MS. Because it now is known that Paulie has no siblings, he is referring to one of his cousin's/"siblings'" children.
Vehicles[edit]
Like many other gangsters, Paulie is partial to Cadillacs - favoring beige colored Cadillacs. During the first and second seasons, he drove a green 1996 Cadillac Seville SLS. He drives a beige 1998 Cadillac DeVille in the third season (which was stolen in "Pine Barrens." ) He drives a beige Cadillac Eldorado until the end of the fifth season and a beige Cadillac CTS in the sixth season. One of his Cadillacs plays the "Speak Softly Love" ("Love Theme from The Godfather") as the melody for the car horn ("Nobody Knows Anything").
Appearances in other media[edit]
He appears in a commercial for Aftonbladet, advertising the tabloid's being shipped with a free Sopranos DVD weekly in the 2009 period.[7]
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Ep. 2.22 From Where to Eternity
2.Jump up ^ Ep. 1.09 Boca
3.Jump up ^ http://www.hbo.com/sopranos/cast/character/tony_soprano.shtml
4.Jump up ^ Ep. 4.08 Mergers and Acquisitions
5.Jump up ^ Ep. 2.04 Commendatori
6.Jump up ^ Ep. 4.07 Watching Too Much Television
7.Jump up ^ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0avctOqaZgA
External links[edit]
http://www.hbo.com/sopranos/cast/character/paulie_walnuts.shtml
http://www.hbo.com/sopranos/fbifiles/paulie_walnuts.shtml


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The Sopranos


Creator and crew
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Related articles
Episodes ·
 Awards and nominations ·
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 The Sopranos: Road to Respect ·
 Pinball game
 

Fictional universe
Soprano crime family ·
 Members of the Soprano crime family ·
 Lupertazzi crime family ·
 Friends and family ·
 Satriale's Pork Store ·
 Bada Bing ·
 Cleaver ·
 Family tree ·
 FBI
 

Characters


Primary
Tony Soprano ·
 Jennifer Melfi ·
 Carmela Soprano ·
 Christopher Moltisanti ·
 Junior Soprano ·
 Big Pussy Bonpensiero ·
 Silvio Dante ·
 Paulie Gualtieri ·
 Anthony Soprano, Jr. ·
 Meadow Soprano ·
 Adriana La Cerva ·
 Janice Soprano ·
 Bobby Baccalieri ·
 Livia Soprano
 

Secondary
Johnny Sack ·
 Artie Bucco ·
 Dwight Harris ·
 Hesh Rabkin ·
 Rosalie Aprile ·
 Phil Leotardo ·
 Ralph Cifaretto ·
 Tony Blundetto ·
 Richie Aprile ·
 Vito Spatafore ·
 Furio Giunta ·
 Patsy Parisi ·
 Carlo Gervasi ·
 Charmaine Bucco ·
 Carmine Lupertazzi ·
 Little Carmine ·
 Benny Fazio ·
 Ray Curto ·
 Eugene Pontecorvo ·
 Little Paulie Germani ·
 Jackie Aprile, Jr. ·
 Mikey Palmice ·
 Brendan Filone ·
 Matthew Bevilaqua ·
 Sean Gismonte ·
 Larry Barese ·
 Butch DeConcini ·
 Albie Cianflone
 


Episodes


Season 1
"The Sopranos" ·
 "46 Long" ·
 "Denial, Anger, Acceptance" ·
 "Meadowlands" ·
 "College" ·
 "Pax Soprana" ·
 "Down Neck" ·
 "The Legend of Tennessee Moltisanti" ·
 "Boca" ·
 "A Hit Is a Hit" ·
 "Nobody Knows Anything" ·
 "Isabella" ·
 "I Dream of Jeannie Cusamano"
 

Season 2
"Guy Walks into a Psychiatrist's Office..." ·
 "Do Not Resuscitate" ·
 "Toodle Fucking-Oo" ·
 "Commendatori" ·
 "Big Girls Don't Cry" ·
 "The Happy Wanderer" ·
 "D-Girl" ·
 "Full Leather Jacket" ·
 "From Where to Eternity" ·
 "Bust Out" ·
 "House Arrest" ·
 "The Knight in White Satin Armor" ·
 "Funhouse"
 

Season 3
"Mr. Ruggerio's Neighborhood" ·
 "Proshai, Livushka" ·
 "Fortunate Son" ·
 "Employee of the Month" ·
 "Another Toothpick" ·
 "University" ·
 "Second Opinion" ·
 "He Is Risen" ·
 "The Telltale Moozadell" ·
 "...To Save Us All from Satan's Power" ·
 "Pine Barrens" ·
 "Amour Fou" ·
 "Army of One"
 

Season 4
"For All Debts Public and Private" ·
 "No Show" ·
 "Christopher" ·
 "The Weight" ·
 "Pie-O-My" ·
 "Everybody Hurts" ·
 "Watching Too Much Television" ·
 "Mergers and Acquisitions" ·
 "Whoever Did This" ·
 "The Strong, Silent Type" ·
 "Calling All Cars" ·
 "Eloise" ·
 "Whitecaps"
 

Season 5
"Two Tonys" ·
 "Rat Pack" ·
 "Where's Johnny?" ·
 "All Happy Families..." ·
 "Irregular Around the Margins" ·
 "Sentimental Education" ·
 "In Camelot" ·
 "Marco Polo" ·
 "Unidentified Black Males" ·
 "Cold Cuts" ·
 "The Test Dream" ·
 "Long Term Parking" ·
 "All Due Respect"
 

Season 6



Part I

"Members Only" ·
 "Join the Club" ·
 "Mayham" ·
 "The Fleshy Part of the Thigh" ·
 "Mr. & Mrs. John Sacrimoni Request..." ·
 "Live Free or Die" ·
 "Luxury Lounge" ·
 "Johnny Cakes" ·
 "The Ride" ·
 "Moe n' Joe" ·
 "Cold Stones" ·
 "Kaisha"
 


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Silvio Dante
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First appearance
"Pilot" (episode 1.01)
Last appearance
"Made in America" (episode 6.21)
Created by
David Chase
Portrayed by
Steven Van Zandt
Information

Aliases
Sil
Gender
Male
Occupation
Part Owner and Manager of Bada Bing Strip Club
Title
Associate (1970s)
Soldato (1980s - Season 1)
Consigliere (Seasons 2 - 6)
 Acting Boss (Part of Season 6)
Family
Beppo Dante (father)
Spouse(s)
Gabriella Dante (wife)
Children
Heather Dante (daughter)
Religion
Roman Catholicism
DiMeo crime family

Founded
1950s
Founding location
New Jersey, United States
Years active
1950s–present
Territory
Northern New Jersey
Ethnicity
Italian, Italian-American, made men with other ethnicities as "associates"
Membership
50-60 made men (based on 5-6 crews consisting of approx 10 men each), 200+ associates
Criminal activities
auto theft, bank fraud, bid rigging, bookmaking, building violations, calling card fraud, cement violations, cigarette smuggling, construction violations, contract killing, credit card fraud, drug trafficking, extortion, HUD fraud, identity theft, illegal gambling, insurance fraud, labor racketeering, loan sharking, mail fraud, money laundering, mortgage fraud, Murder, pornography, pier and port theft, racketeering, securities fraud, truck hijacking, waste management, wire fraud, witness tampering
Allies
Lupertazzi crime family, Vittorio/Zucca Camorra family, Russian mafia, Jewish mob and Middle-Eastern crime syndicate
Rivals
Philadelphia crime family, Vipers motorcycle gang, African-American drug crews, Colombian drug crews and other New Jersey gangs, including some of their allies at various times
Silvio Manfred Dante, often referred to as "Sil", played by Steven Van Zandt, is a fictional character on the HBO TV series The Sopranos. He is the consigliere to Tony Soprano in the Soprano crime family. Silvio has one of the lowest profiles on the show. He is usually a behind the scenes figure and tries not to draw much attention to himself. He does very well at maintaining a legitimate business image as the manager and owner of the Bada Bing strip club. Silvio usually keeps his cool in even the worst situations but has been known to unleash his terrible fury and excessive anger when necessary (or when playing poker), revealing a temper comparable to his peers'. Silvio is a movie and film connoisseur and has an encyclopedic mind for movie lines. Throughout the series, he entertains the other members of the crew by getting into character and mimicking Michael Corleone's remark in the The Godfather Part III: "Just when I thought I was out...they pulled me back in." Silvio is one of the most loyal mobsters in the Soprano crime family. He is notorious on the show for executing F.B.I. informants and traitors.


Contents  [hide]
1 Plot details
2 Murders committed by Silvio
3 References
4 External links

Plot details[edit]
According to The Sopranos, A Family History, Silvio was born in June 1957; his father was Joseph "Beppo" Dante (Calabrian origin), a soldier who was "gunned down" in 1959. Silvio was a childhood friend of Tony and his early criminal activity often involved Tony, Ralph Cifaretto and Jackie Aprile, Sr. His original career plan was to be a professional singer, but this dream never materialized. Despite this, Silvio has maintained a connection to show business through ownership of numerous clubs in North Jersey over the years, and in backing aspiring young starlets who come up through his clubs. Silvio's support was instrumental in ensuring Tony took over as capo following the death of his father. Throughout his association with the Soprano crew, Silvio formed friendships with Salvatore "Big Pussy" Bonpensiero and Paulie "Walnuts" Gualtieri.
It was Silvio who reported to Tony that his Uncle Junior planned to murder Pussy Malanga in Artie Bucco's restaurant and who was later entrusted with starting the fire which would ensure the original Vesuvio's burnt down, therefore not ruining its reputation. In the short and bloody war of 1999 with the Junior Soprano crew, Silvio helped Tony to plan hits on Chucky Signore and Mikey Palmice and remained supportive when his friend revealed that he had been seeing a therapist. Silvio is one of the more level-headed associates of Tony Soprano. Where many of Tony's men immediately become hot-headed and resort to violence, Silvio generally helps to mediate many situations and gets along with everyone. He accompanies Tony to most of his "sit-downs" - a formal venue in the organization to resolve disputes. Because of this, Tony relies on Silvio to be a clear-headed thinker and someone he can trust. Silvio is most often the one to quote mafia rules and norms when a tough decision is to be made, even if he ends up disagreeing with Tony. Silvio's move to consigliere, once Tony becomes acting boss, seems completely natural. Indeed, Silvio remains Tony's most reliable adviser and enforcer, with only several incidents that show his aggression, such as when Fat Dom Gamiello makes a remark about the late Vito Spatafore (and implicating that Carlo Gervasi was gay), an enraged Silvio attacked Fat Dom by hitting him in the back of the head with a handheld vacuum, and then holding his arms behind his back, which leads Carlo to stab Dom repeatedly in the abdomen with a large kitchen knife, and during poker, when he often becomes foul-mouthed and paranoid.
Silvio's criminal interests include loan sharking and bookmaking but his day-to-day role is that of managing the Bada Bing, the most recent in a string of strip clubs that he has operated. "The Bing", as it is often referred to, is not only one of the crime family's major meeting spots, but also doubles as a brothel. The most notable instance of Silvio's club's doubling as a house of prostitution is perhaps episode "University", wherein Silvio's role in this arrangement is especially poignant. In spite of his misogyny, Silvio loves and cares about, and is a strong father for his teenage daughter Heather, whom he calls The Principessa. Silvio says that Heather disapproves of his profession calling it "degrading to women". Tony has said to him, "You're a good father." When his daughter's soccer coach was found to be involved with one of his young players, Silvio looked for vengeance but followed Tony's decision to let the authorities deal with him. Apart from periodic instances of adultery, Christopher says during his intervention that Silvio was "fucking every slut you got working in the place", it can be said that he also loves his wife, Gabriella Dante (played by Steven Van Zandt's real life wife Maureen Santoro Van Zandt), very much.
Silvio has a long record of executing traitors throughout the show. He killed Jimmy Altieri at the end of season one. Later, along with Tony and Paulie Gualtieri, he executes Pussy Bonpensiero in season two. In season five, he executes Adriana La Cerva. All were killed when they were discovered to have been cooperating -- or, in the case of Jimmy Altieri, thought to have been cooperating -- with the FBI in their ongoing investigation of the Soprano crime family. Like Tony and Paulie, Bonpensiero's killing haunted Silvio. In Season 6, Silvio also executed Burt Gervasi, by garroting him, after he discovered that he had been working with the Lupertazzi crime family.
Silvio's judgment wavered a little when he realized Tony was positioning Christopher Moltisanti as an intermediary between him and the rest of the organization because of Chris and Tony's blood ties. This was made most apparent when Paulie was arrested on a gun charge and Tony made Christopher acting capo of his crew in Paulie's absence. Sil responded by encouraging Gualtieri crew soldier Patsy Parisi to steal from the Esplanade construction site against Tony's and Chris' orders - creating problems for Chris. Silvio also became embroiled in a conflict over a Columbus Day celebration with Native American protesters - something Tony saw as a distraction - going so far as to get many of the family's associates involved in a violent altercation with the protesters. Silvio found it hard to let the conflict die even once Tony had exhausted all avenues of winning the dispute. Silvio did not take this uncharacteristic behavior any further and, although Tony had noticed it, nothing came of it. Silvio got a chance to vent his frustration with Christopher at an intervention for Chris' drug problem that ended with Chris' being violently put in his place by Paulie and Silvio. Since Chris returned from rehab, his relationship with Silvio seems to have returned to their previous friendly association.
Silvio maintains a realistic relationship with Paulie Gualtieri, well aware of Paulie's tight-fisted attitude towards money and dangerous tendencies. Silvio has remarked to Tony that they know that Paulie does not kick up his full tribute. Silvio also tried to warn Paulie that his distractedness had been noticed at the time when Paulie let his loyalties waver towards the Lupertazzi crime family, not long after Silvio's own crisis of faith in Tony. Paulie and Silvio argued about this - Paulie had been harboring resentment toward Silvio since an illness got Paulie into the Pine Barrens fiasco, while making Silvio's rounds. However, it was not long before Paulie returned his attention to staying in Tony's good graces.
Silvio counseled Tony through difficult decisions about Richie Aprile, and his disputes with Ralph Cifaretto, Feech La Manna and Tony Blundetto. He is often forced to convince Tony to go against his impulses - something that he usually manages without setting off Tony's hair-trigger temper.
When Tony ends up in a coma after being shot by his uncle in a fit of dementia, it falls upon Silvio to take the reins as acting boss of the Soprano family. At first, Silvio seemingly enjoys the job, and even feels a slight bit of regret that he did not accept an offer from the late Jackie Aprile, Sr. to become the boss back in the late '90s. His wife Gabriella prompts him to consider the possibilities of a permanent change. His ambitions quickly subside when he feels the immense pressure of being boss and begins to have asthma attacks brought on by anxiety. As boss, Silvio dealt effectively with Paulie in a dispute over the split of profits from a heist Paulie had undertaken following a tip from Vito Spatafore. However, Silvio was indecisive in his handling of a dispute between Vito and Bobby Bacala over a collection route.
Since his return to the more comfortable role of consigliere, Silvio has again counseled Tony about contentious issues. When Vito was outed to the organization, Silvio convinced Tony of the need to restrain his desire to "give him a pass" because of the effect it would have on the other captains' view of his leadership. When Tony responded with distasteful jokes to Bobby's serious injury, a look from Silvio was enough to tell him he was being unfair.
When Vito Spatafore came back from New Hampshire, Silvio said that there would be popular sentiment to get rid of him, but Tony had initially decided to let Vito run a prostitution ring in Atlantic City. However when Phil Leotardo confronted Tony about Vito being in New Jersey, Silvio and Tony both knew that they couldn't keep fighting with Phil over the issue and that if they wanted to keep the "no show" jobs Vito would have to go. Silvio had always pushed for Spatafore to be taken care of and told Tony that it was the right move and not to beat himself up over the issue.
When Phil Leotardo and his men killed Vito (without the permission from Tony), Tony told Silvio that it wasn't about Vito it was about him. Silvio initially told Tony that they should go after one of Phil's men but Tony was trying to avoid a war and instead decided to blow up Phil's wire room in Sheepshead Bay.
Silvio and Carlo were at Satriale's Pork Store later that day when "Fat Dom" Gamiello came by. Dom started making jokes about Vito's homosexuality and implied that Carlo was homosexual. Silvio told Dom to leave, but when Dom continued his ridicule, anger got the best of the usually calm consigliere as he smashed his hand-held vacuum over Dom's head and held him while Carlo stabbed him to death. A short time afterwards, Tony came by the shop to see them. Silvio advised Tony not to enter, but he couldn't stop Tony from finding Dom. Tony stormed out of the shop with Silvio right behind him telling Tony that "When you kill a made guy this is what happens."
In the episode "Stage 5" Silvio was out at lunch with Gerry Torciano, the man Phil Leotardo wanted to take over as boss of the Lupertazzi family, when one of Doc Santoro's assassins killed Torciano. This outraged Tony, as Silvio could have been hurt during that altercation.
In the episode "The Blue Comet", it is revealed that the Lupertazzi family has recruited Burt Gervasi to begin a rebellion against Tony. Burt goes to Silvio to join in a coup d'état against the boss, but Silvio responds by strangling him to death at his home a short time later. Eventually assassination plots are put on Silvio, Bobby Bacala, and Tony Soprano in order to decapitate the leadership of the family. Shortly after Bobby is killed, while Patsy Parisi drives Silvio outside of the Bada Bing club, a car moves in front of them, with two men coming out shooting multiple times. Silvio tries taking a pistol off of the backseat, only to be shot in the back. Silvio manages to grab his pistol in time while Parisi holds them off. Parisi manages to defend them shortly, but soon the two men begin to target Silvio more. He is shot once more in the chest, while Patsy runs into the woods, fleeing for his life. Afterwards, Silvio is rushed to the hospital and placed in an intensive care unit.
Paulie later tells Tony that Silvio survived the assassination attempt but is in a coma; the doctors say that he is unlikely to regain consciousness. In the final episode Tony visits the still comatose Silvio, whose fate after this is not mentioned again.
Silvio is a fan of Cadillacs, and owns several Cadillac Sevilles throughout the series. In the sixth season, he is driving a black GMC Yukon.
Murders committed by Silvio[edit]
James "Little Jimmy" Altieri: Shot for being a suspected informant. (1999)
Salvatore "Big Pussy" Bonpensiero: Shot by Sil, Paulie and Tony for cooperating with the FBI. (2000)
Adriana La Cerva: Shot in the woods by Silvio for being an informant. (2004)
Dominic "Fat Dom" Gamiello: Stabbed by Carlo Gervasi while Silvio held him down in retaliation for Vito Spatafore's murder. (2006)
Burt Gervasi: Garroted by Silvio for switching alliances to the Lupertazzi family during the war between the families. (2007)
References[edit]

External links[edit]
HBO Profile: Silvio Dante


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 "Second Opinion" ·
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Big Pussy Bonpensiero
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Salvatore Bonpensiero
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First appearance
"Pilot" (episode 1.01)
Last appearance
"Remember When" (episode 6.15)
Created by
David Chase
Portrayed by
Vincent Pastore
Information

Aliases
Puss, Big Pussy, Sal, CW-16 (FBI informant number)
Gender
Male
Occupation
Owner of Bonpensiero Bros. Body Shop
Title
Soprano soldier, drug trader, FBI informant
Family
Lino Bonpensiero (father)
Edward "Duke" Bonpensiero (brother)
 Marianucci (sister, deceased)
A.J. Soprano (godson)
Spouse(s)
Angie Bonpensiero
Children
Kevin Bonpensiero
Matt Bonpensiero
 Terri Bonpensiero (daughter)
 Joey LaRocca
Religion
Roman Catholicism
Salvatore "Big Pussy" Bonpensiero, played by Vincent Pastore, is a fictional character on the HBO TV series The Sopranos. Not to be confused with fellow New Jersey mobster "Little Pussy" Malanga, Big Pussy was one of the men who worked for Tony Soprano and the two were close friends.


Contents  [hide]
1 Biography
2 Murders committed by Bonpensiero
3 Appearances in the show after his death
4 Post references
5 See also
6 References
7 External links

Biography[edit]
The son of Lino Bonpensiero,[1] Salvatore Bonpensiero started out as a cat burglar, and was affectionately known as "Big Pussy" because of this early career ("Pussy" in reference to a "pussy cat" since he was a cat burglar). It is also very likely that he started out solely with the nickname "Pussy," then he got the nickname "Big Pussy" so as to avoid confusion with another crew member, "Little Pussy" Malanga. The name confusion is referenced in the first episode when Tony's confidante Herman "Hesh" Rabkin mistakenly believes that Junior plans to whack Big Pussy Bonpensiero. Tony corrected Hesh by saying that Junior planned to whack Little Pussy Malanga; that if Junior was to attempt an attack on Big Pussy that would result in an automatic mob war since "Big Pussy" was highly respected by everyone, even outside the DiMeo crime family and was also both made and a "good earner." This showed in particular Bonpensiero's high status in the Soprano crew and his closeness to Tony, referring to him as "my pussy."
Big Pussy also ran an auto body shop with his brother Edward "Duke" Bonpensiero. He married his wife, Angela in 1976. He was an associate of Johnny Boy Soprano, whom he supported during the unrest of 1983. Bonpensiero was made sometime after this and acted as a soldier in the Soprano crew from then onwards. He remained loyal to the Soprano family and backed Johnny's wishes to have his son, Tony Soprano, become capo of the crew following Johnny's death in 1986. Bonpensiero worked alongside other longtime Soprano soldiers, Paulie "Walnuts" Gualtieri and Silvio Dante, throughout his career in the Mafia. Following the death of the elder Soprano, Bonpensiero also took on Johnny's tradition of dressing as Santa Claus and giving out presents to local children at Satriale's Pork Store at Christmas time.
Bonpensiero was a kind-hearted man who doted on his wife Angie and their three children, and was a long-time friend of Tony's. However, the money he made from the mob was not enough to raise his three children and put them through college (at Villanova), and he began trafficking in heroin on the side. Soprano, his capo, and Jackie Aprile Sr., then acting boss of the family, were aware of his sideline and urged him to stop dealing. Aprile had advised Big Pussy that if he were in need of money Pussy could come to him.
It was around this time that he was caught by the FBI and given the choice of either working for them as an informant against Tony Soprano and his mob family or facing the possibility of 30 years imprisonment to life in prison. Given Bonpensiero's middle adulthood, even the concept of facing the minimum thirty years in jail would have been an effective life sentence. He agreed and was assigned FBI Agent Skip Lipari as a handler — he was revealed as an informant in the episode "Do Not Resuscitate."
In various flashbacks to 1995, it is shown that Bonpensiero was instrumental in organizing a sit-down between high ranking captain, Junior Soprano, and acting boss, Jackie Aprile. He traveled to Boca Raton to persuade Junior to return to New Jersey and settle a trucking dispute he had got into with Aprile. He was suspiciously late for the actual sitdown and blamed health problems with his comare's mother. He arrived to the Christmas celebrations that year already in his Santa suit and appearing drunk. He became angry when Gualtieri hugged him, quizzed Soprano about business, and almost got into a fight with Christopher Moltisanti. Soprano later remembered these events and decided Bonpensiero must have turned informant shortly before this. This is unlikely given that in the episode "Do Not Resuscitate" (season 2), Agent Skip Lapari said to Pussy "you been with us (the FBI) since '98".
In 1999, Bonpensiero was an essential part of the Soprano crew's operation and was exposed to a number of things he could have reported. He intimidated a debtor into starting up Hesh Rabkin and Soprano's HMO insurance scam. He also helped associate Christopher Moltisanti dispose of the body of Emil Kolar — who Christopher killed in a dispute over the crew's Tri-Borough Towers garbage routes. As the crew's car expert, he was assigned to retrieve a car stolen from Tony's son's teacher — he found the thieves and kidnapped them but the car had already been chopped. He came up with a novel solution — steal a car of the same model and repaint it. He was present when Soprano and the other capos discussed their problems with new figurehead acting boss, Junior. When indictments were threatened, he fled and burned papers in his back garden — perhaps a sign that he was not co-operating fully.
Later that year, he was arrested at a card game run by Soprano family capo, Jimmy Altieri. He tried to escape but threw his back out and was caught on the corner of the block (he was later criticized for breaking the Mafia's policy against physically running from the authorities). He was quickly bailed out by Angie, but was confined to his house, popping pain killers. Shortly afterward, dirty cop Vin Makazian told Soprano he had a rat in his organization and pointed the finger at Bonpensiero. Soprano assigned Gualtieri to see if he could feel out where Bonpensiero's loyalties lay, by checking him for a wire, even authorizing him to kill his old friend if he saw one with his own eyes. Soprano was obviously distressed to have to ask Gualtieri to do this to a trusted member of the crew. However, his orders were cut-and-dried, that if Gaultieri did not see a wire, he was not to do the hit. Gualtieri then surprised Bonpensiero with a trip to a bath house, where he refused to undress and left — blaming high blood pressure. This behavior served to heighten his crew's suspicions, but meant Paulie had to abide by the letter of the law of Tony's orders. Since no wire was physically sighted, Paulie could not eliminate Pussy. After this unnerving experience, he disappeared. While he was away, Gualtieri took over his collections, and the crew killed Altieri (believing him to be an FBI informant), taking the heat off Bonpensiero as the crew figured Jimmy was the "rat."
Bonpensiero resurfaced at Sopranos' home in 2000, claiming to have been in Puerto Rico getting treatment for his bad back from an acupuncturist. When reporting to Lipari after the meeting, Bonpensiero lied about Soprano; showing a reluctance to give anything up. He was left out of the crew's trip to Italy to discuss exporting stolen cars with a local mafia family. While meeting Lipari in a distant party goods store, he was spotted by an Elvis impersonator and acquaintance named Jimmy Bones. Lipari reassured him that they had handled it well. However, Bonpensiero later went to Bones' house and murdered him with a ball-peen hammer for fear of being revealed.
Since his return, he and his wife had been having trouble and she discussed leaving him with Carmela Soprano, who dissuaded her because of their Catholicism. Angie settled for sleeping in separate bedrooms.
Upon his return from Italy, Soprano re-organized his crew — Gualtieri would be a capo now that Tony was acting boss, Dante would become Tony's consigliere, and new addition Furio Giunta would be on an equal footing with Bonpensiero despite his years of long service. Bonpensiero was obviously distressed at the new order, openly hostile to Giunta, and complained to Lipari that "this thing of ours" turned into "this thing of mine." His reservations about informing on Soprano began to dissipate.
Lipari persuaded Bonpensiero to wear a wire to A.J.'s confirmation, but he spent most of his time upstairs with A.J., telling him that his father would do anything for him instead of talking business. He ends the evening sobbing in the bathroom, still trapped in an impossible situation.
Following Moltisanti's shooting by associates Matthew Bevilaqua and Sean Gismonte, Bonpensiero fell back into his loyal soldier role; he tracked down the escaped Bevilaqua, phoned Soprano, met him at Satriale's to tool up and took him to get the traitor. They drew out the murder, talking to the frightened upstart for a while before unloading their weapons into him. Soprano took Bonpensiero for dinner afterward, and it seemed to be just like old times. When Lipari called Bonpensiero, saying a witness to Bevilaqua's shooting identified Soprano and "a second, husky figure," he flatly denied any involvement. Lipari chose to believe him, but pressured him to get a confession from Soprano on tape. The FBI's murder case fell apart when the witness withdrew his statement when he realized that he had implicated high-level Mafia figures.
Bonpensiero eventually began to co-operate and gave Lipari information on Soprano's stolen airline ticket scam. Lipari said that Bonpensiero had a case of Stockholm syndrome when he suggested that he could work in law enforcement once he finished helping the FBI build their case. Lipari coldly said that Bonpensiero's future involved testifying against Tony Soprano and his friends, doing prison time for selling heroin, and then a life in the Witness Protection Program. Bonpensiero began recording notes and tailing members of his crew. He ended up in a car accident in an unrequested "stake-out" gone wrong.
Soprano eventually abandoned the blinding affection he held for Bonpensiero and realized his old friend's betrayal after a portentous dream where Bonpensiero appeared as a fish and told him that he had known all along. Soprano decided he had to be sure, so he visited Bonpensiero's home to search for evidence while Silvio distracted him. Soprano found a wire in the false-bottom of a cigar box on his dresser. He then had Bonpensiero meet him on the pretense of checking out a new boat. Soprano, Dante and Gualtieri confronted their former friend once they got out to sea and got him to admit that he had informed on them. Bonpensiero claimed that he had been acting as a double agent as a strategy to feed misinformation to the FBI. Soprano, Gualtieri, and Bonpensiero have some Tequila, and have one last toast to good times had. Dante then came down into the cabin and Bonpensiero realized that he would not make it off the boat alive and requested to not be shot in the face. Paulie Walnuts told Bonpensiero, "You were like a brother to me." Pussy requested to sit down, and then Soprano opened fire; Paulie and Silvio also shot Bonpensiero. They didn't hit him above the neck. Paulie then took his jewelry off and the three bagged him up, weighed him down and threw him overboard. All three have since been haunted by the memory of their old friend's betrayal and murder.
Bonpensiero was survived by his wife, Angie, and children, Matt, Kevin, and Terri. He is also survived by his illegitimate son, Joseph "Joey" LaRocca, as revealed in the videogame The Sopranos: Road to Respect. Angie inherited the body shop, which she co-owns with Salvatore's younger brother Duke, and continued his involvement with the DiMeo Crime Family. Although Tony was at first hostile to Angie because he believed she was scamming Carmela for money, Carmela has seen Angie struggling and later sees her working at a grocery store, handing out free samples. Carmela's insistence has changed Tony's attitude towards Angie, and he has referred much of his crew and other people to the Bonpensiero Body Shop.
Murders committed by Bonpensiero[edit]
Jimmy Bones: beaten over the head several times with a hammer by Bonpensiero for seeing him with his FBI agent (2000).
Matthew Bevilaqua: executed by Tony and Pussy for his attempt to murder Christopher (2000).
Appearances in the show after his death[edit]
"Mr. Ruggerio's Neighborhood": at the New Jersey FBI office where Skip Lipari is playing tapes of Bonpensiero attempting to elicit information from Tony about the murder of Matthew Bevilaqua, and the FBI has accepted that Bonpensiero is presumably dead, with Lipari saying "I think it's time to declare CW-16 (Pussy) compost" and his picture being removed from the Soprano family's organization chart and thrown in the garbage. Vincent Pastore is credited for this episode as the recording was not played on screen before this.
"Proshai, Livushka": when Tony Soprano opens a closet at the gathering after his mother Livia's funeral, Big Pussy's reflection can be briefly seen in the mirror of the closet door.
"...To Save Us All From Satan's Power": seen in flashback sequences to 1995 and in Silvio's dream.
"The Test Dream": appears in Tony's dream.
"Remember When": Pussy's death is replayed in Paulie's head and later Pussy appears in his kitchen in one of his dreams shortly after Tony contemplates whacking Paulie.
Post references[edit]
In the season 3 episode "...To Save Us All From Satan's Power", Tony and Paulie have a one-on-one meeting on the boardwalk at the beach where Tony is gazing at the ocean when Paulie walks up. When Paulie asks Tony what he's doing, Tony replies, "I'm just thinking about our friend", pointing his head towards the ocean where Pussy's body was dumped. Paulie replies, "Him?! Not me. Never. I'd kill em' again if I could." Throughout the rest of the episode, Pussy is discussed between Tony, Paulie, and Silvio. Silvio even has a very disturbing dream involving Pussy. Tony spends a lot of time dwelling on how he should have known sooner that Pussy had been flipped.
In the season 4 episode "Pie-O-My", the F.B.I. is telling Adriana the potential peril she and Christopher will remain in if they continue to affiliate themselves with Tony Soprano to which Adriana replies, "Tony loves Christopher; he would never let anything happen to him." Agent Sanseverino replies, "He loved Pussy Bonpensiero. What happened to him?"
In the season 5 episode "Marco Polo", when Phil Leotardo is at Pussy's old body shop getting his car repaired, which is now being run by his wife, Angie, and his brother, Edward "Duke" Bonpensiero, Phil tells Duke, "I was away, in the can when that stuff went down with your brother. What happened there?" Duke replies simply, "We don't like to talk about it."
In the season 6 episode "Mayham", Paulie talks to Tony while he is in comatose after being shot by Uncle Junior telling Tony about his service in the Army and all the let downs he's had in his life, eventually stating "then there's Pussy, stand up guy one day, rat-fuck the next. I tell you T, I felt it right here (tapping his heart)."
In the season 6 part II episode "Remember When", Paulie recalls to Tony how he, Tony, Ralph Cifaretto, and Pussy all went out to dinner at a steakhouse after Tony performed his first murder. Fans wondered if Tony was going to kill Paulie in that episode because both Pussy and Ralph ended up being murdered by Tony. While Tony did contemplate stabbing Paulie to death while they were on a fishing boat in Miami, he decided not to do anything to him.
See also[edit]
FBI on The Sopranos
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Rucker, Allen & David Chase. The Sopranos, A Family History. New York, American Library, 2003
External links[edit]
HBO Profile: Big Pussy Bonpensiero
Official web site of Vincent Pastore


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Junior Soprano
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First appearance
"Pilot" (episode 1.01)
Last appearance
"Made in America" (episode 6.21)
Created by
David Chase
Portrayed by
Dominic Chianese
Rocco Sisto
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Aliases
"Junior", "Uncle June"
Gender
Male
Title
Soldier (unknown)
Capo (unknown-season 1)
Boss (season 1 - season 6)
 Retired boss (season 6)
Family
Corrado Soprano, Sr. (father, deceased)
Johnny Soprano (brother, deceased)
Ercoli "Eckley" Soprano (brother, deceased)
Tony Soprano (nephew)
Janice Soprano (niece)
Barbara Soprano Giglione (niece)
Livia Soprano (sister-in-law, deceased)
Spouse(s)
none
Children
none
Religion
Roman Catholicism
Corrado John Soprano, Jr., played by Dominic Chianese, is a fictional character from the HBO TV series The Sopranos. Usually referred to as "Junior" or "Uncle Jun'", is for most of the series the official boss of the DiMeo crime family. He is the mentor and surrogate father for his nephew and DiMeo crime family capo Tony Soprano. A younger Corrado sometimes appears in flashbacks and is played by Rocco Sisto. Although Junior is portrayed as conniving and deceitful in the first season, he shows a more considerate and humorous side of him in the later seasons and reveals a sensitive side during his illness and house arrest, making the audience feel a slight bit of sympathy and compassion for him.
Junior is portrayed as an arrogant, selfish, misanthropic and impulsive character. In Mafia jargon, he "ate alone." Junior was very envious of others who held an advantage or position of superiority over him (especially towards his own family). He had an uneasy relationship with his nephew Tony Soprano, for his fast ascendancy as a star of the family and their often conflicting business interests. Although Junior never directly murders anyone on the show, in Season One, he orders the murders of six people, including Brendan Filone and the unsuccessful hit on Tony after he believed Tony was conspiring against him. He also ordered a mock execution on Christopher Moltisanti for hijacking one of his trucks.
After a brief power struggle during season one, Tony stood aside and allowed Junior to become boss of the family. Shortly afterwards Junior was indicted for racketeering and placed under house arrest, leaving Tony as de facto boss. He would spend the next three seasons awaiting trial and trying to avoid prosecution on the grounds of his failing health, whilst struggling to cope with his virtual imprisonment; he was only allowed to leave the house for doctors' appointments and funerals. Eventually a member of Junior's crew managed to intimidate one of the jurors, resulting in a mis-trial. Over this period Junior's mental state gradually deteriorated, resulting in him shooting Tony, believing him to be his old enemy Pussy Malanga. He was subsequently committed to a psychiatric hospital. When Tony visited him for the last time, it was apparent that Junior was in the advanced stages of dementia, as he did not even recognize his nephew.
The Junior Soprano character may have been loosely based on the real life presumed boss of the Gambino crime family, Peter Gotti, with similarities in look, age, inheritance of the leadership from his nephew, John A. Gotti, and his relationship with longtime girlfriend Marjorie Alexander. Junior is also based on "Uncle Joe" Giacobbe, a veteran made man in the DeCavalcante crime family. Likewise, his attempt to feign mental illness in order to escape indictment for his crimes mirrors the real life case of Genovese crime family boss Vincent Gigante. According to series creator David Chase the name Junior was taken from one of his own older cousins.
Plot details[edit]
Junior is Tony Soprano's uncle: Junior's younger brother was John Francis "Johnny Boy" Soprano, Tony's father. Both Junior and Johnny Boy dropped out of high school to join the DiMeo crime family. Junior and Johnny Boy were responsible for acquiring longtime Soprano hangout and de facto headquarters, Satriale's Meat Market, from the eponymous Francis Satriale. Mr. Satriale was a gambling addict that owed Johnny money and refused to pay and was avoiding Johnny. Mr. Satriale eventually committed suicide, leaving the pork store in the Soprano brothers' hands because of his large debts. Junior always watched after Tony but after Johnny Boy's death from emphysema in 1986, Junior became Tony's surrogate father. Junior acted as Tony's mentor, helping him rise through the ranks, eventually being made in 1982, and taking over his deceased father's crew in the late-eighties, becoming the DiMeo Family's youngest captain.
Following the arrest of DiMeo family boss Ercoli "Eckley" DiMeo in late 1995, Junior got into a trucking dispute with new acting boss Jackie Aprile, Sr. He fled to Boca Raton to avoid any repercussions but Tony arranged a sit down through Soprano soldier Sal "Big Pussy" Bonpensiero to solve the problem.
In the opening episode, Junior planned to kill "Little Pussy" Malanga in Vesuvio, a restaurant owned by Tony's childhood friend, Artie Bucco. Tony made many attempts to prevent the murder and eventually resorted to fire bombing the restaurant to force its closure so the hit would happen elsewhere.
Upon Jackie's death, Tony and Junior squabbled over control of the family. Brendan Filone, an associate of Tony's crew, was killed by Junior's right-hand man, Mikey Palmice. Before the situation could be elevated to a war, Tony agreed to let Junior become boss. Although Junior technically became the boss, Tony had more control of the family and was using Junior as a front to distract law enforcement with the agreement of the other caporegimes (all of which was unknown by Junior).
Junior Soprano gained the distrust of the others when Mikey Palmice, a soldier in his crew busted up a card game under DiMeo capo Jimmy Altieri's protection, as his first act as boss. Furthermore, Tony had to deal with the other family captains when Junior attempted to tax Herman "Hesh" Rabkin and demanded a piece of his shylocking business. Junior received $250,000 as a result, although the others believed that Junior was abusing his position.
Junior and Tony argued again when Tony made reference to Junior's sexual relationship (specifically cunnilingus, seen as embarrassing for a mafioso to give) with a longtime friend, prompting Junior to end the association. Tony also upset Junior by placing his mother, Livia Soprano, into the Green Grove retirement community. Resentful, Livia tried to take advantage of both of their grudges and covertly gave Junior the go ahead to kill Tony. She prompted the action by revealing Tony's visits to Dr. Melfi, a therapist. However, the hit failed and Tony used the situation to cut Junior out of the loop in the family almost completely by arranging for Junior's top men, Mikey Palmice and Chucky Signore to be assassinated. Junior was coincidentally arrested on federal racketeering charges on the very day he was to be assassinated, foiling Tony's plan, but leaving Tony as the street boss of the family.
In the episode "Down Neck", a younger Corrado Soprano is seen with (presumably) a brand-new car.
This cut Junior's ability to pull another attack and sent his former crew into turmoil. Junior's underboss, Joe Sasso, was arrested at the same time as Junior. Junior's replacement capo, Philly "Spoons" Parisi, kept commenting on the conflict between Tony and his uncle and also Livia's involvement, so Tony had him killed. Finally, Tony moved two soldiers from Junior's crew, Patsy Parisi (Philly's twin brother), and Gigi Cestone, over to his crew. This left Junior the senile Murf Lupo as capo, Beppy Scerbo and the dimwitted, obese Bobby "Bacala" Baccalieri as soldiers. Through Bobby, Tony informed Junior that he could keep the title of Boss, almost all of his businesses were forfeited, and Tony would let him keep a 5% tribute, which would be (barely) enough to live on and pay his legal bills.
Soon, Junior was released from jail and placed under house arrest while awaiting trial, after his attorney convinced the judge that Junior was much sicker than he actually was. This mimics the real life tactics of Genovese crime family mob boss Vincent Gigante who feigned mental illness to avoid federal prosecution. While he was under house arrest, Soprano captain Richie Aprile was released from prison after serving ten years, and actively sought Junior's friendship. Soon, Junior found himself at the epicenter of a growing power struggle between Richie and Tony, with Richie wishing to assume Tony's position as "street boss". Junior was extremely conflicted over which side to favor, but eventually decided that while Tony could be selfish and impulsive, Richie simply did not have the respect of the family members, and his violent and brutish tendencies could mean the end of the family itself. Junior finally told Tony of Richie's plans against him. Grateful for the warning, Tony increased by half (5% to 7.5%) Junior's percentage of his former businesses, and the two (more or less) buried the hatchet.
During this time, Bobby Baccalieri became Junior's replacement, right-hand man and closest confidant. Bobby accompanied Junior on hospital visits during his battles with stomach cancer, which he eventually overcame. Junior tried to warn Bobby not to get involved with his always scheming niece, Janice, after the death of Bobby's wife, but Janice persisted and Bobby and Janice eventually were married and had a child together.
Junior found various ways to get around his house arrest—using his doctor's office to conduct business (until the feds placed an agent there posing as a nurse) and attending as many funerals and family functions as possible.
Although Tony considered him to be arrogant and incompetent as a boss, he has often turned to Junior as the voice of experience. Although Junior has survived cancer and possible prison time, the toll of a series of 'mini-strokes' and the confinement of house arrest has since left him confused, depressed, and borderline senile, giving reason to gradually retire him as the official head of the DiMeo Crime Family and making him increasingly dependent on family care and support.
In Season Six of The Sopranos, Junior's dementia has worsened over the two year interval, as he becomes paranoid that his long-deceased enemy, "Little Pussy" Malanga, is after him. Tony, however, refuses to put his uncle in a nursing home, feeling obligated to care for Junior himself with the aid of his sisters and Bobby. The decision proved nearly fatal. Tony arrives at Junior's house one evening and finds that his uncle is missing his false teeth. Tony sends Junior upstairs to look for the missing teeth while Tony prepares dinner for him. When Junior hears Tony's voice from downstairs telling him that dinner is almost ready, his dementia comes into play once again. Junior descends the stairs and believing his nephew to be Malanga, he shoots Tony in the abdomen. Frightened and in a state of panic, Junior runs upstairs, hiding away in his bedroom closet while Tony struggles to dial 9-1-1 before losing consciousness.
Junior was arrested and taken into Federal custody over the shooting, but his lawyer secured him a release into a cushy mental institution, claiming he is currently unfit to stand trial. Tony is apparently unaware of this, having refused all contact with, or even mention of, his uncle since the shooting. (It is ironic that Tony wants nothing to do with Junior after this shooting, even though Junior had no idea what he was doing, when he basically forgave Junior for sanctioning a hit on Tony in the first season, when Junior was in full possession of his faculties.) Junior remains confused and distressed by proceedings and denies that he could have deliberately shot his own nephew. Junior's dementia has progressed to such an extreme state that when his great-nephew A.J. Soprano visits him with the intention of killing him as revenge, Junior does not even recognize the peril he is in. Junior's advanced dementia causes him to think A.J. is actually Tony and he states, with great excitement when A.J. arrives, "Anthony! My nephew!" Fortunately, A.J.'s plan is botched when he inadvertently drops the knife on the floor. He attempts to escape when a staff member shouts, "Knife!", informing everyone else, but is caught, arrested, and jailed. Tony pulls some strings with former Assemblyman, now State Senator, Ronald Zellman to get A.J. released with no censure and after he and A.J. have an intense, verbal fight over whether A.J.'s actions were justified, Tony finally calms down and is just thankful the plan fell through.
In the Wyckoff therapeutic center, Junior began to put portions of his old life back together. He still collects weekly payments from his organizations and is occasionally visited by Pat Blundetto and Beppy Scerbo, where he delusively tells them that he expects an apology from Tony over his commitment (the two men nervously say they'll relay the message to Tony). Within the walls of the home, Junior behaves like a typical Mafia chieftain; bribing orderlies, organizing card games and physically abusing rivals. A young Chinese American looks up to Junior as a mentor and father figure. However, after Junior loses control of his bladder, the center's administrators conclude that he is ditching his medications. Junior is confronted with the choice of either taking the medication that will make him docile or being moved to (probably) a less pleasant facility. Junior agrees to take the medication. The result is numbing as he first loses his aggressiveness and personality. He is badly beaten by his anger-prone protégé, who doesn't want to lose Junior as a mentor. In the final scene of "Remember When" Junior sits passively, black and blue, with broken glasses from his beating, silently sitting and petting a cat sitting on his lap.
In the episode "The Blue Comet", Janice approached Tony while he is draining his pool. She tells him that Junior has run out of money, and will be removed from the Wyckoff therapeutic center unless someone helps him out, with her strongly implying that Tony should step in because she and Bobby don't have the money to help significantly. Tony shows no sympathy for Junior, and offers a single five dollar bill to Janice, an insulting gesture designed to demonstrate his indifference to Junior's predicament. Janice walks away without accepting the derisive offer, and leaves after Tony tells her that he is finished with Bobby over Bobby's support for her plan, as Tony goes back to draining the pool.
In the final episode, "Made in America", Janice visits Junior at a state facility, his home since being removed from the Wyckoff facility. He calls her Livia, her mother's name. He also thinks Janice's daughter is actually Janice herself. She tries to tell him that his former soldier Bobby is dead, but he doesn't comprehend (thinking she meant Bobby Kennedy). Tony later visits a now sick and feeble Junior for the first time since the shooting. Junior recognizes him as someone he used to play catch with, remembering playing with Tony as a child. Tony tries to remind Junior of who he was, and even who his brother was, but Junior cannot remember. Tony tells him that he and his father used to run all of North Jersey, "this thing of ours" (meaning Cosa Nostra), to which Junior simply smiles and replies, "Well that's nice". A frustrated and visibly saddened Tony finally knows Junior is in an advanced stage of dementia. Tony simply looks at Junior then tearfully leaves his wheelchair-bound uncle without saying goodbye.
Murders ordered by Junior Soprano[edit]
Pussy Malanga - Murdered on orders from Junior for reasons unknown, although it is known Malanga was Junior's arch enemy (first mentioned in the pilot episode, 1999).
Brendan Filone - Shot clean through the eye in his bathtub by Mikey Palmice for hijacking Junior's trucks (in episode 1x3, "Denial, Anger, Acceptance", 1999).
Rusty Irish - Thrown off the Patterson Falls bridge by Mikey Palmice for selling drugs to Old Man Capri's grandson (in episode 1x6, "Pax Soprana", 1999).
Donnie Paduana - Shot on Junior's orders by Mikey Palmice for making jokes about Tony's mother wanting him clipped (in episode 1x12, "Isabella", 1999).
Jimmy Altieri - Sanctioned a hit on him (executed by Christopher Moltisanti and Silvio Dante) after Tony convinced Junior that Jimmy was an informant (in episode 1x13, "I Dream of Jeannie Cusamano", 1999).
External links[edit]
HBO Profile: Corrado "Junior" Soprano


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Christopher Moltisanti
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Christopher Moltisanti
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First appearance
"Pilot" (episode 1.01)
Last appearance
"Kennedy and Heidi" (episode 6.18)
Created by
David Chase
Portrayed by
Michael Imperioli
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Aliases
Chris Maccaviti (episode 2.05)
 Chris Montevani (episode 5.11) Chrissy
Gender
Male
Occupation
Union safety official, Stock market Chief Compliance Officer, movie producer, nightclub owner
Title
Associate (Seasons 1 - 2), Soldier (Seasons 3 - 5), Capo (Season 6)
Family
Joanne Moltisanti (mother)
Richard "Dickie" Moltisanti (father)
Carmela Soprano (cousin)
Tony Blundetto (cousin)
Spouse(s)
Kelli Lombardo Moltisanti (wife)
Adriana La Cerva (late fiancee)
Children
Caitlin Lombardo Moltisanti (daughter)
Relatives
Tony Soprano (cousin - by marriage)
Janice Soprano (cousin - by marriage)
Barbara Soprano Giglione (cousin - by marriage)
 Al Blundetto (uncle)
Pat Blundetto (uncle)
Meadow Soprano (second cousin)
A.J. Soprano (second cousin)
Hugh De Angelis (great uncle)
Religion
Roman Catholicism
Christopher Moltisanti, played by Michael Imperioli, is a fictional character on the HBO TV series The Sopranos. He is Tony Soprano's protégé and a Capo in the DiMeo crime family.
Tony Soprano has been a father figure to Christopher since the death of his father, Dickie Moltisanti. Tony affectionately refers to Christopher as his "nephew," but in fact he is a cousin of Tony's wife Carmela as well as a biological distant cousin of Tony himself.
Christopher is a volatile and impulsive young man, frustrated by his perceived lack of progress in the business. Christopher oversteps his authority when he hijacks trucks under the protection of family boss Junior Soprano. To teach him a lesson, Junior orders a mock execution on him. Christopher shoots a bakery clerk in the foot for ignoring him, commenting "It happens," a nod to Imperioli's role in Goodfellas where he is shot in the foot by Joe Pesci's character Tommy DeVito. In the second season Chris is shot by his subordinates Matthew Bevilaqua and Sean Gismonte but survives.
Nonetheless, Tony trusts Christopher with sensitive tasks, such as disposing of the bodies of murdered capos Richie Aprile and Ralph Cifaretto, and arranging the assassination of New York boss Carmine Lupertazzi. In the third season Chris finally becomes a made man. This leads to friction with his new capo Paulie Gualtieri, culminating in the Pine Barrens incident and although they make an uneasy truce, they clash again on several occasions. By the sixth season he is promoted to capo, and Tony tells Christopher that he will lead the family into the 21st century.
Christopher has a tumultuous and abusive relationship with his long-term girlfriend Adriana La Cerva. He comes close to death when, enraged about rumors that his fiancée Adriana and Tony are having an affair, he pulls a gun on Tony, who is ready to kill him for the insult. He is spared only after Tony Blundetto intercedes for him. In the fifth season Chris learns that Adriana has been working as an informant for the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation and that she wants them to go into the Witness Protection Program. Valuing loyalty over love, Christopher reports Adriana's actions to Tony, who has Silvio Dante kill her.
Christopher then marries his new girlfriend Kelli Lombardo and they have a daughter, Caitlyn, but his interest in his new wife soon wanes. He grows disillusioned with Tony and frustrated with his progress in the family, and distances himself from the business by making a film and trying to become a Hollywood screenwriter.
Christopher struggles throughout the series with major drug and alcohol addictions and repeatedly spends time at AA and drug rehabilitation centers. Despite wanting Christopher to succeed, Tony doubts his nephew's loyalty and suitability to be his successor, and he fears that Christopher's immaturity and frequent drug problems make him a ripe target to turn state's evidence. Christopher's efforts to stay clean of drugs and alcohol cause him to spend less time at their regular haunts, which further arouses Tony's suspicions. After Adriana's death, Christopher relapses into heroin abuse, and he causes a car crash as he is driving Tony home while high. After seeing that Caitlyn's baby seat has been completely destroyed in the accident, Tony suffocates the injured Chris and is finally rid of his troublesome nephew.
The character of Christopher contains various nods to actor Michael Imperioli's own life and career. Like Imperioli, Chris is a film and television buff with ambitions to be a scriptwriter (Imperioli wrote several episodes of the series), and there are references to Imperioli's appearances in Goodfellas and Dead Presidents. After auditioning for the role of Christopher, Imperioli thought that series creator David Chase was unimpressed with his audition and thus was surprised to be offered the part. Chase also said he wanted Imperioli because he had appeared in Goodfellas.[1]


Contents  [hide]
1 Biography 1.1 "Nephew" to Tony Soprano
1.2 Season One
1.3 Season Two
1.4 Season Three
1.5 Season Four
1.6 Season Five
1.7 Season Six, Part One
1.8 Season Six, Part Two
1.9 Clandestine knowledge
2 Killings or possible killings committed or assisted by Christopher
3 References to Imperioli's career
4 Reception
5 References
6 External links

Biography[edit]
Christopher Moltisanti was born in either 1966 or 1967 to Richard "Dickie" Moltisanti (their surname is Italian for "Many Saints" - David Chase frequently gives Sopranos characters ironic or symbolic names), a soldier in the DiMeo crime family's Soprano crew, and Joanne Blundetto. Chris is a first cousin once removed of Carmela Soprano and a second cousin of Meadow Soprano and Anthony Soprano, Jr. Christopher's actual father, Dickie, was killed when Chris was very young. Tony Soprano affectionately considers Christopher a nephew (they had a cousin in common growing up; see below), and looks out for him over the years. Moltisanti is engaged to Adriana La Cerva before her murder.
Christopher is very loyal to his uncle — whom he once called "the man I'm going to hell for" — and Tony trusts him in return. Tony often entrusts Chris with sensitive jobs, including disposing of the bodies of capos Richie Aprile and Ralph Cifaretto. Moltisanti acts as Tony's mouthpiece, issuing Tony's orders to insulate Tony from potential racketeering charges. Tony plans to making Chris his successor.
Chris has his share of problems; he is prone to violent and impulsive behavior, and he has been distracted, at times, by lofty pursuits such as screenwriting. Some of the crime family's members appear to be jealous of Christopher's closeness to Tony. In particular, his fast ascent leads to friction with fellow mobsters Silvio Dante, Patsy Parisi and Paulie Gualtieri. He also has problems with substance abuse, eventually becoming addicted to heroin and alcohol, and being forced into rehab by his family, friends, and his fiancée, Adriana.
Christopher's substance abuse is likely a result of nature as well as nurture. On the nature side, Chris - like his gambling addict cousin Tony Blundetto - likely inherited his addictive personality; Christopher's mother Joanne was shown to be an alcoholic and his father, Dickie, had been drug-addicted. On the nurture side, Chris regularly associates with people who sell drugs (such as Junior Soprano and Mikey Palmice), who abuse drugs (such as Brendan Filone and Ralph Cifaretto), and who used a variety of methods of self-medication and escapism (such as Tony Soprano's gluttony and Janice Soprano's flirtations with various religions).
Chris abets others' drug use, as well. He provides Tony's daughter Meadow with speed when she requests it in order to study for an exam. His rationale is that if he refused, she would go to a less reputable dealer and possibly receive harmfully adulterated drugs or be raped and murdered. His drug use inspires Adriana to experiment with heroin, and - in the course of confronting Adriana about her and Tony's activities the night they crashed Tony's SUV - Chris alludes to financing Adriana's drug use. Later, after marrying Kelli Lombardo, Chris and fellow twelve-step program participant Julianna Skiff began an affair that reignites both addicts' heroin use.
Chris frequently wears FILA tracksuits and tank tops, and he has a penchant for pop culture (to which his frequent references engendered ribbing from the other northern New Jersey mobsters), and for having affairs, behind Adriana's back, with good-looking women of dubious repute. Some of the women are prostitutes who, Chris tells Paulie, Chris didn't have to pay; others are strippers (such as Sonya Aragon in Las Vegas) and even white-collar professionals (such as Julianna Skiff). Chris also loves expensive cars, having owned a Lexus LS400, Mercedes CLK 430,[BMW Z3] Land Rover Range Rover, Hummer H2, John Sacrimoni's Maserati Coupé (which "Sack" sells after he is arrested), and the 2007 Cadillac Escalade EXT, which he purchases after the Maserati is seized by the government and which he fatally crashes.
Christopher's catchphrase on the show is, "I'm sorry, T!" ("T" being shorthand for Tony.) He is notorious for frequently being late to meetings, irresponsible in his business dealings, and generally less "together" in his affairs than the rest of Tony's crew, due to his chronic drug and alcohol abuse, and so is constantly in the position of having to apologize to his uncle and boss for his shortcomings. Chris commits the first murder of the series by shooting Emil Kolar. Chris is occasionally haunted in dreams by Kolar's "ghost".
"Nephew" to Tony Soprano[edit]
Dickie Moltisanti was a soldier in Johnny Soprano's crew and was very close to Tony Soprano. Tony reminisces that Dickie was like a big brother to him and so, when Dickie died while Chris was still young, Tony looked out for Chris, affectionately referring to him as his nephew. However, Tony is, technically, not Christopher's uncle.
Tony and Carmela Soprano are connected to Chris via two separate family relationships:
Christopher's late father, Dickie Moltisanti, was Carmela's first cousin, as Dickie's mother and Carmela's father are siblings. This means Chris is Carmela's first cousin, once removed.
Christopher's mother Joanne, whose maiden name is Blundetto, is Al Blundetto's sister. Al Blundetto's wife, Quintina, is Livia Soprano's sister and Tony Soprano's maternal aunt. Thus, Al and Quintina Blundetto, who are Tony Blundetto's parents, are uncle and aunt to both Tony Soprano and Chris. Accordingly, Tony Soprano and Chris are both first cousins to Tony Blundetto, but not to each other. However, Adriana once mentioned that Chris and Tony do have a distant blood relation, so did Tony after saying Chris would bring the family into the 21st century saying Silvio isn't the same "they aren't my blood".
Season One[edit]
Christopher's main goal in joining the Mafia was to get noticed and to rise up through the ranks; he was overjoyed when he found his name printed in a local newspaper alongside other mobsters. He was Tony's driver initially, and helped him as an enforcer. He "made his bones" by killing Emil Kolar in order to settle a dispute the family was having over the Triborough Towers garbage routes. He initially planned to place the body in a Kolar Bros. dumpster to send a warning, à la Luca Brasi from The Godfather. "Big Pussy" Bonpensiero convinced him to put it elsewhere as the mystery would be more effective and bring less heat to the crew. Chris later complained that he didn't receive enough recognition for his resolution of this problem. This murder haunted his dreams, and he twice had to dig up and move Kolar's corpse.
Christopher's legitimate job at the time was a Union Safety Official position in a local union that Tony got for him in order to keep the U.S. Internal Revenue Service off his financial history.
Another notable instance of Christopher's early criminal activity with the Soprano crew is his hijacking of Comley trucks with his friend Brendan Filone. These trucks were under Junior Soprano's protection, and the hijacking prompted Junior to request a sit-down and demand compensation. The late Acting Boss Jackie Aprile Sr. ruled that Chris and Brendan make restitution to Junior and leave Comley trucks alone. The two reluctantly complied and paid the $15,000 tribute to Junior, although Tony did take his cut, somewhere around $3,000. At a club with their girlfriends, Chris and Brendan planned another heist while high on crystal meth. However, on the night of the job, Chris backed down because he had decided to throw his loyalty wholly in with Tony and his crew. Brendan went through with the hijacking with two others, but it went sour and Brendan's associate dropped his firearm, causing it to fire and strike the driver, killing him. Brendan contacted Chris for help. Chris was reprimanded by Tony for not using his leadership to prevent Brendan from undertaking the job. The pair were ordered to return the truck to Comley and they complied. Chris was also extorting drug dealers for 10 percent of their income before Junior's crew took over his collections.
Junior was angered that his authority was flouted, however, and organized a mock execution for Chris. Tony's mother, Livia, held Chris in high regard because he had once put up her storm windows, and this affection may have saved him from a worse fate. He was abducted from a hot dog stand and driven out to the New Jersey Meadowlands by two Eastern European thugs where they performed Junior's orders. The less fortunate Brendan was shot in the eye by Mikey Palmice while in his bathtub. Later in the season, Chris confronted and killed Palmice under Tony's orders.
Chris also assisted in Jimmy Altieri's murder by luring him to a hotel room where he was shot by Silvio Dante.
Season Two[edit]
Chris was put in charge of the family's Webistics pump and dump stock scam. He received his stockbroker license by having someone take the exam in his name. Matthew Bevilaqua and Sean Gismonte were his subordinates in this operation, and were also used by Chris to crack bank safes for extra income. Chris also continued to dabble in writing and acting, though this was strongly dissuaded by Tony.
Eventually, Bevilaqua and Gismonte grew tired of Moltisanti and decided to murder him to gain favor with Richie Aprile. The pair ambushed Chris outside a diner and wounded him badly, though Gismonte was killed in return. Bevilaqua fled the scene. Chris had to have his spleen removed and went through a traumatic recovery process with Adriana by his side. Bevilaqua was eventually tracked down, and he was shot to death by Tony and Pussy. Chris later told the crew that during his coma, he had seen himself in either hell or purgatory after being shot and warned them that Brendan Filone and Mikey Palmice told him that three o'clock would be a significant time in their future.
Following Richie Aprile's death, Tony called Chris and Furio Giunta to dispose of his body; they used Satriale's butchery facilities to dismember the corpse. At Meadow Soprano's graduation, Tony proposed Chris for membership (becoming a made man).
Season Three[edit]
Chris became a made man in 2001 alongside Eugene Pontecorvo. He noticed a crow on the windowsill at the ceremony and took this as a bad omen. As the Family's newest member, Chris inherited a betting shop from Paulie Gualtieri and was charged with a minimum weekly dues payment to Paulie, Christopher's capo. Friction was created early on between Chris and Paulie. Chris had difficulty making minimum payments to Paulie. Paulie would humiliate Chris by checking him for wires and taking advantage of Chris being a lower level mobster by having Chris pay for meals. This created a gradually building tension between the two that peaked during the Pine Barrens incident. They later agreed to bury the hatchet due to their mutual friendship. Christopher's other early work involved robbing a charity concert at Rutgers University, and working with Jackie Aprile, Jr. and his friend Benny Fazio. He also opened the Crazy Horse Nightclub in Long Branch, New Jersey with Furio Giunta as a partner, and Adrianna as front operator.
Chris was present when Jackie Aprile, Jr. and friends tried to rob a card game run by Pontecorvo. Chris and Acting Capo Albert Barese killed Aprile's friend Dino Zerrilli as he tried to escape. Chris immediately expressed to Tony his intent to murder Aprile, a request which Tony denied, causing Chris to question Tony's leadership. Eventually, a contract was put on Aprile and he was eventually found in the Boonton Projects. Vito Spatafore shot Aprile in the head, killing him. At Aprile's funeral, Chris was arrested on a gambling charge along with Patsy Parisi and Silvio Dante.
Season Four[edit]
Tony made Chris his main contact in his criminal dealings to insulate himself from prosecution. He then bonded his nephew to him by having him murder Lt. Det. Barry Haydu. He told Chris that Haydu had murdered his father, and gave him the detective's address. Chris surprised Haydu in his home and restrained him in order to question him. Haydu denied any guilt, but his involvement was clear by his repeated cries of 'I'm sorry!' and Chris killed him.
He was made acting capo of his crew when Paulie was imprisoned on a gun charge and was awarded a no-show job at the Esplanade construction site. His promotion irked Patsy, who had seniority. The two came to blows over Patsy's continued theft from the construction site, despite orders from Tony. Silvio was actually the guiding force behind Patsy's actions, as he was also jealous of Christopher's promotion. Chris was also entrusted with traveling to meet an aging family of hitmen with Silvio while organizing a hit on Johnny Sack. When Sack resolved his dispute with Ralph, the hit was called off.
Christopher's drug use spiraled out of control following his temporary promotion. When Tony called upon him to dispose of Ralph's body, Tony realized that Chris was high. Although they successfully concealed the body, Tony decided his nephew needed help. Later, Chris was car jacked by a Latino gang while trying to buy heroin. After Chris physically abused Adriana, Tony organized an intervention. When Tony learned that Chris had accidentally killed Adriana's dog, Cosette, by sitting on it when high, he became very angry, despite the fact that Chris had justified it by the fact that the dog must have crawled under him for warmth. He insisted Chris go into rehab and assigned Patsy to guard him.
Following Christopher's successful rehabilitation, Tony entrusted him with the planned hit on Carmine Lupertazzi; Chris contracted the job out to Credenzo Curtis and Stanley Johnson, some associates from the days of his heroin usage. When the job was called off and Tony urged him to make sure it couldn't be traced to them, Chris had Benny and Peter "Bissell" De La Rosa murder Curtis and Johnson while he waited in his car.
Season Five[edit]
Chris got into an argument with Paulie while hanging out telling past stories including the Pine Barrens tale. Paulie called Chris "Tony's Little Favorite." They later agreed to stop fighting before things got out of control.
Chris was put in charge of a cigarette smuggling operation; he partnered with Paulie and told to split the difference. While Chris was traveling to North Carolina to pick up some cigarettes, Tony and Adriana were involved in a car accident, and rumors began to spread about how the crash had been caused by Adriana performing oral sex on Tony. Chris found out, got drunk, started a fight with Vito Spatafore and pulled a gun on Tony in the Bada Bing. Following this incident, Tony was ready to kill Chris when their cousin Tony Blundetto stepped in and saved his life. Blundetto arranged a meeting with the doctor who treated Tony and Adriana following the crash to explain that both passengers must have been upright and in their seat belts when it occurred. Chris reconciled with both Vito and Tony.
Chris later travelled to his uncle Pat Blundetto's farm alongside Soprano and Tony Blundetto. They helped Pat move bodies hidden on the farm as Pat was planning to move away. While there, Chris recalled being bullied by the two Tonys and their behavior seemed to repeat itself when they ribbed him over his addiction problems.
Throughout this time, Chris maintained a turbulent and sometimes violent relationship with Adriana. He indulged her aspirations for a career in the music business by allowing her to produce a demo and later giving her a club to run. They became engaged before his drug addiction forced him into rehab. Years later, however, after he learned that Adriana was reluctantly providing information to the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, he turned to Tony rather than accept her plea to join her as a government informant. Tony then deceived Adriana by convincing her that Chris had attempted suicide and that he was sending Silvio Dante to transport her to the hospital, only for her to be driven into the woods and executed. Chris later relapsed into heroin use and wept to Tony out of grief for Adriana.
Blundetto almost started a war with the Lupertazzi crime family by killing Phil Leotardo's brother Billy. Following this Tony had Chris go into hiding because he feared Phil might seek revenge on Blundetto's family. Eventually, Tony was forced to kill Blundetto himself.
Season Six, Part One[edit]
Chris was promoted to capo in the DiMeo family sometime between 2004 and 2006, in keeping with Tony's long term plan to raise his nephew through the ranks until he is his sole contact to the rest of the family, through which all orders are issued, and eventually boss of the family. He used Chris to organize the sensitive hit on Rusty Millio. Chris initially questioned Tony's decision to contract the job out to their friends in Naples, but later decided it was a smart move. He used his Italian-speaking associate Corky Caporale to communicate with the hitmen and provide them with weapons and instructions, while paying him off with heroin. Christopher's readiness for the responsibility of leading his own crew is unclear as he has been distracted by the lure of a Hollywood career, relapsed into drug use, and displayed unresolved feelings over his murdered fiancee.
Christopher's crew got involved in a credit card fraud scam; his AA sponsor James "Murmur" Zancone and Benny Fazio take numbers from local businesses and sell them on to associates Ahmed and Muhammad. He wonders about whether these men have links to terrorism. The use of numbers from Nuovo Vesuvio led to a violent dispute between Benny and Tony's friend Artie Bucco. Tony blamed Christopher's trip to Los Angeles for the dispute not being settled quickly.
Chris married Kelli Lombardo in 2006 after learning that she was pregnant with his child. They made an offer on a new home together. He had a belated bachelor party with the Soprano crime family at Nuovo Vesuvio where "Larry Boy" Barese made a toast to his future. When he later delivered Corky's final payment, including more heroin, however, he watched his friend inject the drug and could not resist following suit. He spent the night at the Feast of St. Elzear festival with a stray dog.
Chris took a road trip to Pennsylvania with Tony just before the feast. On their way home, they spotted some bikers robbing a strip mall and took part of the haul for themselves. This led to a firefight (started by the bikers immediately after Chris shot out one of the tires on the bikers' van so the bikers wouldn't be able to pursue them) in which Chris shot one of the bikers as Tony drove away. Later, the two got drunk on the wine they had stolen, and Chris recalled telling Tony of Adriana's treachery. The two expressed their love for and loyalty to each other — though when the two later tried to recreate their camaraderie sober, it fell flat and ended in an awkward silence. Months later, Chris was back in AA meetings.
Season Six, Part Two[edit]
Chris calls Tony to wish him a belated birthday while he is celebrating it at the Adirondacks but Tony, disgusted, hangs up on him.
Chris premiered his film Cleaver in 2007 at a private screening with other Soprano family members and friends and is looking to have it distributed nationwide. He also seems to be distancing himself from the criminal lifestyle and staying away from the Bada Bing where he might go back into drug and alcohol use. In general, his relationship with Tony has cooled. When Tony begins grooming Bobby Bacala for the position Chris once held, it is clear that their relationship will never be the same. Given Christopher's resentment towards Tony about Adriana's death, and his continued desire to enter the film business, he and Tony continue to drift apart. When he relapsed to drinking after yet another confrontation with Paulie, he became very angry with the crew and left. He later ended up at his "friend" J.T. Dolan's home, looking for someone to talk to. When J.T. foolishly made explicit mention of Christopher's membership in the Mafia, and refused to let Chris talk out his problems that night, Chris shot him in the head and left.
Chris and his wife Kelli had a daughter named Caitlyn.
In "Kennedy and Heidi", as Tony and Chris are driving back from a meeting with Phil Leotardo and the New York crew, Chris, clearly impaired by drugs and alcohol, loses control of his Cadillac Escalade EXT and runs it off the road, turning over several times and coming to a stop in a ditch. Tony is well enough to climb out of the truck, but Chris is badly injured and coughing up blood. He pleads for Tony's help, mumbling that he wouldn't pass a drugs test and could lose his licence. After getting out, Tony sees a tree branch impaling a car seat where Christopher's daughter could have been sitting and pinches Christopher's nostrils shut, causing him to choke to death on his own blood.
Throughout the episode's remainder, Tony displays the proper decorum for the family in mourning yet can barely restrain his relief that he is finally free of the burden Chris has placed upon him for so long; the many instances of insubordination, his drug and alcohol addictions, his reckless and thoughtless behavior, and his constant complaining about his frustrated ambitions. He also describes Chris as a "drag" on his emotions, and "a weak, lying drug addict." In a dream, Tony admits to Dr. Melfi that he did in fact murder Chris as well as other friends and family members before, specifically mentioning Tony Blundetto, Big Pussy Bonpensiero and Ralph Cifaretto. In the series' final episodes, Christopher's picture is hung in the pork store in his honor; Paulie is disturbed that the resident cat spends its days staring at the picture.
Clandestine knowledge[edit]
Because of his close relationship with Tony Soprano, Christopher is the only one (besides Tony) who knows which bodies were buried at "Uncle Pat" Blundetto's farm and where they were moved after Pat sold the farm, where Tony Blundetto's body was buried after Tony Soprano shot him, and what really happened to Ralph Cifaretto. Chris is also one of the few (along with Furio Giunta) to know Richie Aprile was murdered by Janice Soprano, and (along with Silvio Dante) to know about Tony Soprano's murder of Fabian Petrulio, about the aborted plan to hit New York boss Carmine Lupertazzi, Sr. and about Silvio's murder of Christopher's fiancee, Adriana La Cerva.
Killings or possible killings committed or assisted by Christopher[edit]
Emil Kolar: Shot in the head by Chris over a business deal gone wrong in the back of Satriale's Pork Store. (1999)
Russo's bakery worker in Nutley, New Jersey shot in foot after he was feeling disrespected by waiting in line for sweets. Chris blows his big toe off and police are investigating the shooting.
Mikey Palmice: Shot in the chest by Chris and Paulie for conspiring to kill Tony with Junior and for killing Brendan Filone, Christopher's friend. (1999)
Sean Gismonte: Shot and killed by Chris in self-defense after he and associate Matthew Bevilaqua attempted to kill him. (2000)
Carlo Renzi: Shot in the head and killed by Chris during poker game robbery. (2001)
Dino Zerilli: Shot and killed by Chris and Albert Barese after Zerilli and Jackie, Jr. shot and killed Sunshine and wounded Furio Giunta during a poker-game robbery. (2001)
Det. Lt. Barry Haydu: Executed in his home by Chris after Tony informed Chris he was the man who was contracted to kill his father many years ago. (2002)
J.T. Dolan: Shot in the head by an inebriated Chris after Dolan persistently refused to listen to Christopher's personal problems and exclaimed, "Chris, you're in the Mafia!" (2007)
Christopher has helped dispose of several people murdered by other people throughout the series, mainly Tony.
Jimmy Altieri: Lured by Christopher to his death, a bullet to the back of the head courtesy of Silvio Dante. Chrissy helped Silvio get rid of (or at least transport) the corpse, as he followed Silvio's orders to "get the piano dolly" to transport Jimmy's body. (1999)
Richie Aprile: Bagged up, carried off, and cut up in the basement of Satriale's as requested by Tony after he was shot by Janice Soprano for hitting her. (2000)
Tracee: Ralph Cifaretto beat the stripper to death; Tony and his crew were horrified at Ralphie's actions and Silvio told Christopher to "get a sheet" from inside the strip club to cover up her corpse. (2001)
Valery: Possibly alive, he was shot in the head by Paulie in the woods when Chris and Paulie were chasing him. (2001)
Ralph Cifaretto: Decapitation and removal of hands with a cleaver. Head and hands placed in a bowling bag by Christopher, who subsequently helped Tony dispose of the bag and Ralph's body. Ralph had been beaten and choked to death by Tony. (2002)
Credenzo Curtis and Stanley Johnson: After being released from the Eleuthra drug recovery program, Tony gave Christopher the responsibility of hiring a couple of assassins to take out New York boss Carmine Lupertazzi, Sr. at the request of Johnny Sack. He chooses Curtis and Johnson, two African Americans from Irvington who he believes would be good at making it look like a carjacking. When Johnny comes to an agreement with Carmine and calls off the hit, Christopher is given the new task of eliminating the two hired hands. He meets with the hitmen in a parking lot and gives them the money for the hit that never happened. Benny Fazio and Petey LaRosa surprise the two hitmen when they suddenly appear, and shoot and kill them in their car. (2002)
Raoul: Christopher threw a brick at him and then Paulie shot him. (2004)
"Black" Jack Massarone: Christopher volunteered to do the hit on Massarone after Tony suspected "Black Jack" of wearing a wire under his hat; it is unclear who murdered Massarone later in the episode, but there is strong evidence that Moltisanti was directly responsible for it. (2004)
Adriana La Cerva: Once she confessed to Christopher that she had been an FBI informant, divulging important information about the Soprano Crime Family, Christopher went to Tony's basement, distraught and in tears because he knew she would have to be killed. After checking Christopher for a wire, he agreed to Chris's request that he not murder his fiancee. However, Christopher did park Adriana's car (which contained a suitcase that he had stuffed with some of her personal belongings and clothes) at an airport's "Long Term Parking" lot in an attempt to make it look like she had fled. (2004)
Tony Blundetto: Buried by Christopher after Tony shot him with a 12-gauge Ithaca 37 shotgun to appease New York. (2004)
Teddy Spirodakis: Chris asked Eugene to do him the favor of going to whack Spirodakis in exchange for Chris' putting in a good word to Tony for Eugene's retirement from the Family. (2006)
Rusty Millio: Organized the discreet hit on orders from Tony via Italian hitmen as a favor to Johnny Sack. (2006)
References to Imperioli's career[edit]
in the episode "46 Long", Christopher and Brendan Filone encounter Martin Scorsese (portrayed by a lookalike) outside of a club. Christopher yells "Marty! Kundun! I liked it!". Imperioli acted in Scorsese's gangster film Goodfellas in a minor role, "Spider".
In Season 1 Moltisanti shoots a bakery clerk in the foot in retaliation for a perceived lack of respect and service — a nod to Imperioli's Goodfellas character Spider, shot in the foot for the same reason. When the bakery clerk was yelling in pain about his foot being shot, Christopher replies "It happens!"
In reference to his Goodfellas character, Spider, being shot and killed by Joe Pesci's character, Tommy DeVito. In season 2 episode, "Big Girls Don't Cry", when Christopher gets his confidence up as a student actor, Adrianna tells him "I like you as an actor." and Christopher replies "Joe Pesci or so.", he then does a Joe Pesci impression of him saying a line in Jimmy Hollywood.
In the episode "Live Free or Die", after it is confirmed that Vito Spatafore is gay, Christopher states "I wanna kill the fat faggot myself, it'd be a fucking honor. Cut off his braciole and feed it to him." This is a reference to Imperioli's character d'Ambrosio in the film Dead Presidents having exactly the same thing done to him by North Vietnamese. Braciole is an Italian-American dish made by rolling meat into tubes; thus, its slang connotation with penis.
Reception[edit]
TV Guide rated him #13 on their list of "TV's Top 100 Characters".
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Biskind, Peter (April 2007). An American Family. Vanity Fair. Retrieved 2012-03-21.
External links[edit]
HBO Profile: Christopher Moltisanti
IMDB: Christopher Moltisanti


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 Brendan Filone ·
 Matthew Bevilaqua ·
 Sean Gismonte ·
 Larry Barese ·
 Butch DeConcini ·
 Albie Cianflone
 


Episodes


Season 1
"The Sopranos" ·
 "46 Long" ·
 "Denial, Anger, Acceptance" ·
 "Meadowlands" ·
 "College" ·
 "Pax Soprana" ·
 "Down Neck" ·
 "The Legend of Tennessee Moltisanti" ·
 "Boca" ·
 "A Hit Is a Hit" ·
 "Nobody Knows Anything" ·
 "Isabella" ·
 "I Dream of Jeannie Cusamano"
 

Season 2
"Guy Walks into a Psychiatrist's Office..." ·
 "Do Not Resuscitate" ·
 "Toodle Fucking-Oo" ·
 "Commendatori" ·
 "Big Girls Don't Cry" ·
 "The Happy Wanderer" ·
 "D-Girl" ·
 "Full Leather Jacket" ·
 "From Where to Eternity" ·
 "Bust Out" ·
 "House Arrest" ·
 "The Knight in White Satin Armor" ·
 "Funhouse"
 

Season 3
"Mr. Ruggerio's Neighborhood" ·
 "Proshai, Livushka" ·
 "Fortunate Son" ·
 "Employee of the Month" ·
 "Another Toothpick" ·
 "University" ·
 "Second Opinion" ·
 "He Is Risen" ·
 "The Telltale Moozadell" ·
 "...To Save Us All from Satan's Power" ·
 "Pine Barrens" ·
 "Amour Fou" ·
 "Army of One"
 

Season 4
"For All Debts Public and Private" ·
 "No Show" ·
 "Christopher" ·
 "The Weight" ·
 "Pie-O-My" ·
 "Everybody Hurts" ·
 "Watching Too Much Television" ·
 "Mergers and Acquisitions" ·
 "Whoever Did This" ·
 "The Strong, Silent Type" ·
 "Calling All Cars" ·
 "Eloise" ·
 "Whitecaps"
 

Season 5
"Two Tonys" ·
 "Rat Pack" ·
 "Where's Johnny?" ·
 "All Happy Families..." ·
 "Irregular Around the Margins" ·
 "Sentimental Education" ·
 "In Camelot" ·
 "Marco Polo" ·
 "Unidentified Black Males" ·
 "Cold Cuts" ·
 "The Test Dream" ·
 "Long Term Parking" ·
 "All Due Respect"
 

Season 6



Part I

"Members Only" ·
 "Join the Club" ·
 "Mayham" ·
 "The Fleshy Part of the Thigh" ·
 "Mr. & Mrs. John Sacrimoni Request..." ·
 "Live Free or Die" ·
 "Luxury Lounge" ·
 "Johnny Cakes" ·
 "The Ride" ·
 "Moe n' Joe" ·
 "Cold Stones" ·
 "Kaisha"
 


Part II

"Soprano Home Movies" ·
 "Stage 5" ·
 "Remember When" ·
 "Chasing It" ·
 "Walk Like a Man" ·
 "Kennedy and Heidi" ·
 "The Second Coming" ·
 "The Blue Comet" ·
 "Made in America"
 



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Carmela Soprano
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Carmela Soprano
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First appearance
"Pilot" (episode 1.01)
Last appearance
"Made in America" (episode 6.21)
Created by
David Chase
Portrayed by
Edie Falco
Information

Aliases
Carmela De Angelis (née), "Carm", "Mel", and her FBI Code Name is Mrs. Bing
Gender
Female
Occupation
Housewife, real estate investor
Family
Hugh De Angelis (father)
Mary De Angelis (mother)
 Unnamed Sister
Livia Soprano (mother-in-law)
Johnny Boy Soprano (father-in-law)
Janice Soprano (sister-in-law)
Barbara Giglione (sister-in-law)
Christopher Moltisanti (cousin)
Brian Cammarata (cousin)
Spouse(s)
Tony Soprano (husband)
Children
Anthony Soprano, Jr. (son)
Meadow Soprano (daughter)
Religion
Roman Catholicism
Carmela Soprano (née DeAngelis), played by Edie Falco, is a fictional character on the HBO TV series The Sopranos. She is the wife of Mafia boss Tony Soprano and the program's most prominent female character along with Tony's psychiatrist Dr. Jennifer Melfi.
Edie Falco's performance as Carmela was universally lauded, winning her Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series three times in 1999, 2001 and 2003, and received six nominations overall. Falco has also won two Golden Globes and three Screen Actors Guild Awards, and the character Carmela itself has since become an iconic female character.
Character biography[edit]
Carmela was Tony Soprano's high school sweetheart. The couple married at a young age. Carmela attended Montclair State University for an unspecified period of time before dropping out. Carmela plays a homemaker for the Soprano household, and works to create a semblance of legitimacy for her family even though she is well aware their wealth is built on blood money. Tony trusts Carmela enough to confide in her, to a degree, about some of his Mafia dealings (notably the failed attempt on his life and the death of Richie Aprile). Tony's work and constant infidelity have put a serious strain on the marriage and cause a period of separation. Carmela is an observant Roman Catholic and has difficulty rationalizing her husband's profession and the flaws in their marriage.
Carmela has sometimes sacrificed her children's security for the luxuries Tony's career could provide, while defending her children when they did something wrong. She has shown herself willing to use her mob-wife status to intimidate others, as she did in "Full Leather Jacket", where she not-too-subtly manipulated her neighbor's Georgetown-alumna sister into writing a letter of recommendation for Meadow Soprano to Georgetown, so that Meadow would not go to UC Berkeley but rather stay closer to home. Also, she discarded a letter from Berkeley to Meadow requesting transcripts, but later retrieved it from the trash in a moment of guilt. While she is very proud of Meadow's accomplishments and ambition, she also envies and resents her for achieving the independence she always wanted. She constantly frets over A.J.'s troubles and inactivity, yet tends to coddle him and is unwilling to impose any real restrictions on him. She has trouble with her husband's profession, considering him more a Robin Hood-like character and just another "crook" rather than a brutal murderer.
Carmela's resentment of her husband's infidelity has often driven her to the brink of breaking her marriage vows during some sexually charged moments with her priest, Father Phil Intintola (in "College"), and painter-decorator Vic Musto. During the fourth season, Carmela had a mutual romantic infatuation with Furio Giunta, one of Tony's soldiers. Furio was an Italian national and member of the Neapolitan Mafia Family (although in Naples Mafia is called Camorra), deeply linked to the Soprano family and several other Jersey and New York crime families. Tony had sequestered Furio while on an inaugural trip to Naples, the Soprano family homeland, a trip that Carmela had wanted to be a part of as she had never been. Carmela had reached a low point with Tony's constant string of affairs and the two had a romantically-tense but "arms-length" relationship for a period. Each confided to separate friends that they were falling for each other but Furio, fearing for his life if he loved the boss' wife, sold his house and moved back to Italy. This sent Carmela into depression.
By the end of the fourth season, Tony and Carmela separated after she learned of his latest indiscretion, although Tony continued to provide for her and the children. Carmela even began dating A.J.'s guidance counselor, Robert Wegler, and pursuing divorce proceedings against Tony, but was drawn back to her husband by financial concerns and difficulties in rearing A.J., as well as a difficult breakup with Wegler, who accused Carmela of manipulating him into special treatment for her son. At the end of the fifth season, Carmela agreed to reunite with Tony after he agreed to purchase a $600,000 investment property in Montville, under Carmela's name, so she could build a spec house. Despite some initial awkwardness, the two were firmly reunited after Tony was shot by his uncle, Junior Soprano, both during his coma and after his hospital release. The crisis seems to have strengthened their bond.
Carmela's materialistic nature, however, is never far from the surface. After Tony surprised his delighted wife with a Porsche Cayenne Turbo, Carmela proceeded to flaunt her new car in front of Ginny Sacrimoni and Angie Bonpensiero, both of whom were reported to be having serious financial problems. Carmela was somewhat embarrassed when Angie admired Carmela's car and told her that she recently purchased a Corvette with her own money, showing that Angie had significantly turned her money problems around through inheriting her late husband's body shop and making it profitable.
Carmela's own efforts to become financially independent have been less successful, as Tony neglected to intervene for a long period when an inspector determined that materials used on her spec house were not up to code, thereby halting construction and straining her relationship with her father, who was building the house with her. Tony later recanted, however, and ordered Silvio Dante to lean on the inspector to change his mind. Around this time, Carmela was concerned for the whereabouts of Adriana La Cerva, who seemingly had disappeared. When she questions Tony about this, he tells her that Adriana had broken up with Christopher Moltisanti and ran off with another man. Carmela's concern intensified when she encountered Adriana's mother, Liz La Cerva, at the Feast of St. Elzear (Episode 74, "The Ride"). Liz, who has stopped taking care of herself, tells Carmela that in fact Adriana is dead and Christopher is responsible, going on to say the FBI told her so. The next day, Carmela confronts Tony, who dismisses her: "Let me school you on domestic violence," he says. "First and foremost, there is always a body."
Carmela was not aware that Adriana was a low-level informant for the FBI and that Christopher, who had learned this truth from Adriana herself, informed Tony, who in turn had her executed by Silvio (in "Long Term Parking"). She is also unaware that Tony murdered Christopher after Chris had flipped off the highway the SUV in which both were traveling (in "Kennedy and Heidi"). Her grief for her cousin, however, is soon eclipsed by her concern for A.J. after he tries to commit suicide and is subsequently placed in the psychiatric ward at Mountainside Hospital. Carmela, along with Tony, encourages AJ to become part of the production team for a film written by Daniel Baldwin and financed by Little Carmine, rather than enlist in the Army. She is shown considering building plans for a beach house, and in the final scene of the series, she meets Tony at a diner for a family meal.
References[edit]

External links[edit]
HBO Character Profile: Carmela Soprano


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Jennifer Melfi
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Jennifer Melfi
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First appearance
"The Sopranos" (Episode 1.01)
Last appearance
"The Blue Comet" (Episode 6.20)
Created by
David Chase
Portrayed by
Lorraine Bracco
Information

Gender
Female
Occupation
Psychiatrist
Title
Doctor
Family
Aida Melfi (mother)
Joseph Melfi (father)
Spouse(s)
Richard LaPenna (ex-husband)
Children
Jason LaPenna (son)
Jennifer Melfi, M.D., is a fictional character on the HBO TV series The Sopranos. She is the psychiatrist of Mafia boss Tony Soprano. She is portrayed by Lorraine Bracco.


Contents  [hide]
1 Character description
2 On the run
3 Rape incident
4 Seeking therapy
5 Relationship ends permanently
6 Notes
7 External links

Character description[edit]
Like most of the primary characters in The Sopranos, Melfi is Italian-American. Her father's family has roots in Caserta. She is a graduate of Bard College and Tufts University School of Medicine[1] and lives an upscale lifestyle, living in a three-bedroom condominium in Essex Fells, New Jersey and shopping frequently at gourmet Italian shops (as revealed in "Meadowlands"). She is probably the person closest to truly understanding Tony Soprano. Over the years, Tony Soprano has been able to confide in Melfi many things that he has told no one else, not even his associates or his wife, Carmela. However, Melfi and Soprano have an unusual, on-again, off-again relationship. He inwardly fears Melfi's prying into his life during their sessions, but he also fears the results of not dealing with the problem. As a result, she watches him go through frequent mood swings during their time together, sometimes acting playful, other times violent — sometimes acting responsive, other times being cold and distant. At times Tony also expresses frustration with the pace of his treatment and berates Melfi with short outbursts, when he feels she is not following his train of thought.
For her part, Melfi has tried hard to help Soprano as much as possible, half chalking it up to some sort of vicarious thrill of helping a gangster but also trying to resist the idea that she has romantic thoughts about the man. Nevertheless, Melfi wants to keep their relationship professional which she does for the entirety of the series. Melfi, in addition, has an ongoing battle with alcoholism. While she resisted Soprano's constant advances, which have simultaneously attracted and appalled her, Soprano no longer wishes for their relationship to remain strictly professional, for he seems to see her as the one thing that he is unable to truly have and, while continuing to pursue her, also resents her for it.
Melfi's son, Jason LaPenna, has a recurring role in her life as he is her only child. Jason's father is her ex-husband, Richard LaPenna.
During Season 1, she is seen driving both a Jaguar XJ and a Saab 900. In Seasons 2 and 3, she drives a Volvo S70.
On the run[edit]
Throughout Season 1, during the power struggle between Tony and Uncle Junior over who will be boss, Junior informs Mikey Palmice that Tony is seeing a psychiatrist. This makes Junior, Mikey, and all other members of Junior's crew who were informed extremely angry and paranoid, for they fear Melfi could be potentially used as a witness to testify in court against the activities of the DiMeo Crime Family. In the Season 1 penultimate episode "Isabella", two hit men are sent by Junior and Mikey Palmice in an attempt to assassinate Tony for supposedly giving mafia-related information to Melfi; unfortunately for Junior and Mikey, the hit fails. One assailant is inadvertently killed by the other while trying to shoot Tony in his driver seat from the passenger side after Tony grabs the first assassin's gun. Tony throws the other hit man off onto the road, not killing, but injuring him. Tony laughs ecstatically but has taken his eyes off the road long enough to crash his SUV into a parked car, knocking him unconscious. Tony later informs Melfi that his enemies are aware of their therapy sessions, and she must go into hiding to avoid getting killed until everything blows over. To save his own life and Melfi's, Junior's top lieutenants Mikey Palmice and Chucky Signore are subsequently killed, the latter by Tony himself. Junior is only saved by being arrested by the F.B.I. on racketeering charges. In the Season 2 premiere episode "Guy Walks Into a Psychiatrist's Office...", Melfi is shown doing business and living in a small roadside motel in Wayne, New Jersey, telling her patients her office is being remodeled. After the last troublesome member of Junior's crew, Philly "Spoons" Parisi, is murdered, Tony informs Melfi that "it's over" and that she can go back to her normal life.
Rape incident[edit]
In the Season 3 episode "Employee of the Month", Melfi is walking alone through the parking garage to her car when she is attacked by a man. He grabs her from behind and, after she attempts escape and cries out for help, proceeds to drag her to the stairway of her building, where he violently rapes her. He leaves her lying helpless in the stairway, crying.
At the hospital, she is visited by her ex-husband, Richard, who is relieved to find she is okay. Once he discovers the man who raped her also has an Italian surname, he begins to feel embarrassment for himself and the Italian people, indicating that rapists make Italians like him look bad. Melfi feels his reaction is ridiculous and irrelevant. Although her rapist is arrested, he is subsequently released because of an improper procedure performed by police. This infuriates Melfi, in shock that he was released. She comments to her psychiatrist and colleague Dr. Elliot Kupferberg, "I could have that asshole squashed like a bug," meaning that she could have Tony arrange for the rapist to be killed. More shock comes when Melfi is in the fast food restaurant where the rapist works. She sees his smiling picture on the wall as Employee of the Month (hence the episode title). She is tempted to tell Tony what happened but is torn between wanting to see her rapist punished and not wishing to involve herself in Tony's world. During her second session with Tony after the rape, Melfi is overcome by her inner conflict and breaks down. When Tony, apparently distraught at her grief, attempts to console her and asks "Do you want to say something?", she regains her composure and responds flatly, "No."
Seeking therapy[edit]
Melfi also sees a psychiatrist and colleague, Dr. Elliot Kupferberg (played by Peter Bogdanovich), on a regular basis. In "The Second Coming," he tells her that a recent study has shown that talk therapy may only help a sociopath become more sociopathic. Elliot has commented that treating Tony Soprano gives her a "vicarious thrill". Melfi tells Elliott she used to find Tony sexy at first, but no longer--she does not mention that shortly before this session, she had an erotic dream about herself and Tony.
Relationship ends permanently[edit]
Despite several failed attempts by both Melfi and Tony to end their therapy sessions, a dinner party Melfi attends with colleagues during the episode ("The Blue Comet") breaks the balance. Dr. Elliot Kupferberg mentions a study that found therapy is a failure with sociopathic people, and goes on to reveal to the other guests that Melfi is treating Tony Soprano, which angers Melfi. Following the discussion, Melfi reads the article, which states that therapy can sometimes justify the criminal acts of a sociopath or criminal. She begins to realize that perhaps treating Tony has been useless and has aided his criminal lifestyle.
At the next therapy session, Dr. Melfi scolds Tony, for she has seen him ripping out a page from a magazine. Melfi then proceeds to attack Tony throughout their session, mainly firing sarcastic comments whilst he discusses his recent problems. As the session continues, she offers to refer Tony to another doctor, leaving him somewhat confused. Finally, Melfi tells Tony that she cannot help him, saying that, due to his current family crisis, she does not want to waste his time. Tony gets up and leaves the room as Melfi follows him back to the waiting room. Tony then takes out the folded-up steak recipe page out of his pocket, unfolds it, and gently and sarcastically places it back inside the magazine from which it came. Melfi then shuts the door, seemingly ending her professional relationship with Tony Soprano once and for all.
Notes[edit]
1.Jump up ^ "Pilot" (Episode 1.01)
External links[edit]
HBO Profile: Dr. Jennifer Melfi
Walrus article Dr. Jennifer Melfi and Psychoanalysis


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Tony Soprano ·
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 Carmela Soprano ·
 Christopher Moltisanti ·
 Junior Soprano ·
 Big Pussy Bonpensiero ·
 Silvio Dante ·
 Paulie Gualtieri ·
 Anthony Soprano, Jr. ·
 Meadow Soprano ·
 Adriana La Cerva ·
 Janice Soprano ·
 Bobby Baccalieri ·
 Livia Soprano
 

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Johnny Sack ·
 Artie Bucco ·
 Dwight Harris ·
 Hesh Rabkin ·
 Rosalie Aprile ·
 Phil Leotardo ·
 Ralph Cifaretto ·
 Tony Blundetto ·
 Richie Aprile ·
 Vito Spatafore ·
 Furio Giunta ·
 Patsy Parisi ·
 Carlo Gervasi ·
 Charmaine Bucco ·
 Carmine Lupertazzi ·
 Little Carmine ·
 Benny Fazio ·
 Ray Curto ·
 Eugene Pontecorvo ·
 Little Paulie Germani ·
 Jackie Aprile, Jr. ·
 Mikey Palmice ·
 Brendan Filone ·
 Matthew Bevilaqua ·
 Sean Gismonte ·
 Larry Barese ·
 Butch DeConcini ·
 Albie Cianflone
 


Episodes


Season 1
"The Sopranos" ·
 "46 Long" ·
 "Denial, Anger, Acceptance" ·
 "Meadowlands" ·
 "College" ·
 "Pax Soprana" ·
 "Down Neck" ·
 "The Legend of Tennessee Moltisanti" ·
 "Boca" ·
 "A Hit Is a Hit" ·
 "Nobody Knows Anything" ·
 "Isabella" ·
 "I Dream of Jeannie Cusamano"
 

Season 2
"Guy Walks into a Psychiatrist's Office..." ·
 "Do Not Resuscitate" ·
 "Toodle Fucking-Oo" ·
 "Commendatori" ·
 "Big Girls Don't Cry" ·
 "The Happy Wanderer" ·
 "D-Girl" ·
 "Full Leather Jacket" ·
 "From Where to Eternity" ·
 "Bust Out" ·
 "House Arrest" ·
 "The Knight in White Satin Armor" ·
 "Funhouse"
 

Season 3
"Mr. Ruggerio's Neighborhood" ·
 "Proshai, Livushka" ·
 "Fortunate Son" ·
 "Employee of the Month" ·
 "Another Toothpick" ·
 "University" ·
 "Second Opinion" ·
 "He Is Risen" ·
 "The Telltale Moozadell" ·
 "...To Save Us All from Satan's Power" ·
 "Pine Barrens" ·
 "Amour Fou" ·
 "Army of One"
 

Season 4
"For All Debts Public and Private" ·
 "No Show" ·
 "Christopher" ·
 "The Weight" ·
 "Pie-O-My" ·
 "Everybody Hurts" ·
 "Watching Too Much Television" ·
 "Mergers and Acquisitions" ·
 "Whoever Did This" ·
 "The Strong, Silent Type" ·
 "Calling All Cars" ·
 "Eloise" ·
 "Whitecaps"
 

Season 5
"Two Tonys" ·
 "Rat Pack" ·
 "Where's Johnny?" ·
 "All Happy Families..." ·
 "Irregular Around the Margins" ·
 "Sentimental Education" ·
 "In Camelot" ·
 "Marco Polo" ·
 "Unidentified Black Males" ·
 "Cold Cuts" ·
 "The Test Dream" ·
 "Long Term Parking" ·
 "All Due Respect"
 

Season 6



Part I

"Members Only" ·
 "Join the Club" ·
 "Mayham" ·
 "The Fleshy Part of the Thigh" ·
 "Mr. & Mrs. John Sacrimoni Request..." ·
 "Live Free or Die" ·
 "Luxury Lounge" ·
 "Johnny Cakes" ·
 "The Ride" ·
 "Moe n' Joe" ·
 "Cold Stones" ·
 "Kaisha"
 


Part II

"Soprano Home Movies" ·
 "Stage 5" ·
 "Remember When" ·
 "Chasing It" ·
 "Walk Like a Man" ·
 "Kennedy and Heidi" ·
 "The Second Coming" ·
 "The Blue Comet" ·
 "Made in America"
 



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Tony Soprano
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Not to be confused with Tony Sparano.

Tony Soprano
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James Gandolfini as Tony Soprano in "The Sopranos".

First appearance
"The Sopranos"
Last appearance
"Made in America"
Created by
David Chase
Portrayed by

James Gandolfini
Bobby Borriello (as child in one episode)
Danny Petrillo (as teenager in three episodes)

Information

Aliases
Tony Uncle Johnny, Ronald 'Big Ron' F. Spears, Don Antonio, Kevin Finnerty, Mr. Petraglia, Bada Bing (FBI code name), Skip, T, Tone, Leadbelly, The Boss
Gender
Male
Occupation
Crime boss
 Formerly: Waste Management Consultant of Barone Sanitation
 Co-owner of Satriale's Meat Market and Bada Bing
Title
Soldier (1982 – 1986)
Capo (1986 – season 1)
de facto Boss (season 2 – season 6)
Boss (season 6)
Family
Livia Soprano (mother)
Johnny Soprano (father)
Ercoli Soprano (uncle)
Corrado Soprano, Jr. (uncle)
Quintina Blundetto (aunt)
Janice Soprano (sister)
Barbara Giglione (sister)
Tony Blundetto (cousin)
Spouse(s)
Carmela Soprano (wife)
Children
Anthony Soprano, Jr. (son)
Meadow Soprano (daughter)
Relatives
Hugh De Angelis (father-in-law)
Mary De Angelis (mother-in-law)
Christopher Moltisanti (cousin in-law)
Bobby Baccalieri (brother-in-law)
 Harpo (last name unknown; nephew)
Bobby Baccalieri III (step-nephew)
Sophia Baccalieri (step-niece)
Domenica Baccalieri (niece)
Religion
Roman Catholic
Anthony John "Tony" Soprano is an Italian-American fictional character and the protagonist in the HBO television drama series The Sopranos, on which he was portrayed by James Gandolfini. The character was conceived by The Sopranos' creator and show runner David Chase, who was also largely responsible for the character's story arc throughout the show's six seasons. Bobby Boriello portrayed Tony Soprano as a child in one episode and Danny Petrillo played the character as a teenager in three episodes. The character is loosely based on real-life New Jersey mobster Vincent "Vinny Ocean" Palermo (born 1944), a former caporegime (capo) and de facto street boss of the DeCavalcante crime family of New Jersey. Considered to be the model for the Soprano family, several incidents involving the DeCavalcantes were incorporated into Sopranos scripts.
In the first season, Tony is a capo in the DiMeo crime family. Between the first and second seasons, he is promoted to street boss, a position he retains until the sixth season (his uncle Corrado "Junior" Soprano is the official boss up until early on in season 6, but has little or no actual power). Throughout the series, Tony struggles to balance the conflicting requirements of his "two families": his actual family—wife Carmela, daughter Meadow, son Anthony "A. J. " Soprano, Jr., and mother Livia — and the criminal organization he heads. He often displays behavior traits characteristic of a violent sociopath, but also struggles with depression and is prone to panic attacks. In the first episode he seeks treatment from Dr. Jennifer Melfi and remains in therapy on and off up until the penultimate episode of the series.
Gandolfini garnered enormous praise for this portrayal, winning three Emmy Awards for Best Lead Actor in a Drama Series, three Screen Actors Guild Awards for Best Male Actor in a Drama Series and a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Drama Series as well as two further SAG Awards for Best Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series.
Gandolfini's portrayal of the character has been cited as an influence on other cable TV protagonists, including Vic Mackey, Don Draper and Walter White.[1]


Contents  [hide]
1 Influence
2 Fictional character biography 2.1 Early life
2.2 Narrated killings committed by Tony Soprano
2.3 As a father
2.4 Interests and hobbies
2.5 Vehicles
2.6 Extramarital affairs
2.7 Therapy
2.8 Shootings
2.9 Dreams
3 See also
4 References
5 External links

Influence[edit]
Following Gandolfini's death on June 19, 2013, Gandolfini's portrayal of Tony Soprano was praised for its influence on subsequent other TV characters. TV Guide columnist Matt Roush stated, "Without Tony, there's no Vic Mackey of The Shield, no Al Swearengen of Deadwood, no Don Draper of Mad Men (whose creator, Matthew Weiner, honed his craft as a writer on The Sopranos)." Similar testimonials were included by his costars and colleagues, Bryan Cranston, who stated that his Breaking Bad character Walter White would not have existed without Tony Soprano.[1]
Fictional character biography[edit]
Early life[edit]
Tony was born in 1959, to Livia and "Johnny Boy" Soprano. He grew up living with his mother, father, and two sisters, Janice and Barbara, in the Ironbound neighborhood – known to locals as "Down Neck" – in Newark, New Jersey. His father was a capo in the DiMeo crime family and Tony recalls some of his activities in flashbacks on the show. Tony's paternal grandfather, Corrado Soprano Sr., was a master stonemason who emigrated from Avellino, Italy in 1910. He helped to build a church in Tony's old neighborhood in Newark. Tony takes his children there so he can tell them about their heritage and the value of hard work.
Bobby Boriello played Tony in the episode "Down Neck", in which Tony recalls childhood events relating to his realization that his father was involved in organized crime. He recalls how his father, "Johnny Boy" Soprano, used his older sister, Janice, as a cover for attending meetings with criminal associates at a children's amusement park. At the time, Tony thought Janice was his father's favorite child. In therapy, when asked to remember happy childhood memories about his mother, Tony struggles to come up with any, eventually recalling that he witnessed his father falling down the stairs, causing the whole family to laugh, even his mother; he later describes his mother as a cruel, joyless woman who wore his father down "to a little nub". Tony has an affectionate but troubled relationship with Janice, because she is always asking him for money and once tried to sell Livia's house by herself. Tony had to dispose of the body of Janice's re-acquainted boyfriend Richie Aprile, after Janice killed him.
Tony went to high school (school letters "WOHS", suggesting West Orange High School, were seen in the episode "The Test Dream") with Artie Bucco and Davey Scatino, and remains friends with them into adult life. He played baseball and football, and according to Sal Bonpensiero, he nearly made All-County. He met his future bride, Carmela DeAngelis, in high school. Tony was close to his cousin Tony Blundetto, and neighborhood kids called them Tony Uncle-Al and Tony Uncle-Johnny (after their fathers) to tell them apart.
In their teenage years, the two Tonys spent summers at their Uncle Pat Blundetto's farm – Pat was a soldier in the DiMeo organization. Blundetto was arrested for his part in a hijacking when the two Tonys were young men. Tony was supposed to join Blundetto on the job but failed to appear because of a panic attack; at the time, he told people he had been attacked and injured. Tony attended Seton Hall University for a semester and a half before dropping out to pursue a life of crime.
Tony was part of an unofficial crew of young criminals consisting of Silvio Dante, Ralph Cifaretto, and Jackie Aprile, Sr. Tony gained notoriety in the DiMeo crime family by robbing a card game run by Michele "Feech" La Manna along with Jackie. From then on, he was on a fast track to becoming a made man. He committed his first murder in 1982 at the age of 22, killing a small-time bookie named Willie Overall. In season one, Tony states that he knew Mafia boss John Gotti in the 1980s; he said that because his golfing friends were asking him about life in the mob, so he made them look ridiculous with a story about bidding against Gotti for an old Bungalow Bar ice cream truck.
His father shepherded Tony through his ascendancy until his death in 1986 from emphysema. When he died, Johnny Boy had risen to the level of captain of his own crew—as had his brother, Junior. Junior took over the paternal role and continued to advise and assist Tony. Tony remembers having to buy expensive dinners for Richie Aprile as a newly made man. Soldiers from Johnny Boy's crew, Salvatore "Big Pussy" Bonpensiero and Paulie "Walnuts" Gualtieri, passed their loyalty on to Tony after Johnny Boy died. Tony then became acting capo of his father's old crew in 1986, making him the youngest capo in the family, at age 26. He was elevated to permanent capo in the late 1980s. His old friend, Silvio Dante, joined him as a soldier in his crew.
By 1995, Tony was a well-respected caporegime in the organization when the boss of the family, Ercole "Eckley" DiMeo, was sent to prison. Tony's longtime friend and fellow captain Jackie Aprile, Sr. took on the role of acting boss in December 1995. With DiMeo in prison, Aprile became the official "Street Boss" of the family.
Under Jackie's rule, the DiMeo Family was peaceful and prosperous until 1998, when Jackie was diagnosed with intestinal cancer; afterward, the family slowly descended into turmoil. With Jackie in and out of the hospital, and as such not able to fully run the family, Tony began to take on many of his duties, much to his Uncle Junior's chagrin.
For a time in early 1999, Jackie seemed cured and was back on the street as boss and the family's woes were eased. By late spring, however, he was back in the hospital and had begun chemotherapy treatments. With Tony's role in the family's operation increasing and disagreements, including Tony thwarting Junior's plot to kill "Little Pussy" Malanga in Artie Bucco's restaurant, tensions between Tony and Uncle Junior rose and reached an all-time high as Jackie's condition turned for the worse.
With Jackie's death in mid-1999, a crisis emerged as to who would run the family, and the soldiers and other captains began to prepare for all-out war within the family. Tony brought a quick end to the conflict by making Junior the official boss of the family. Junior would unknowingly act as the lightning rod for the feds, while Tony would run the family from behind the scenes as a de facto boss starting in 2000.
Narrated killings committed by Tony Soprano[edit]
Tony has personally committed eight murders in the show. Furthermore, as a Boss, he is responsible for the deaths of others killed on his orders. The eight known murders, all explicitly presented onscreen, were:
Willie Overall, shot and killed by Tony to "make his bones" (become a made man) (1982, shown in "Remember When").
Fabian "Febby" Petrulio, strangled by Tony for ratting out members of Paulie and Pussy's crew and joining the witness protection program (1999, shown in "College").
Chucky Signore, shot and killed by Tony for conspiring to kill him with Junior (1999, in "I Dream of Jeannie Cusamano").
Matthew Bevilaqua, killed by Tony and Big Pussy for attempting to kill Christopher Moltisanti (Tony's protégé and cousin in-law) (2000, shown in "From Where to Eternity").
Salvatore "Big Pussy" Bonpensiero, executed by Tony, Silvio, and Paulie on a yacht, after they discovered that he was an FBI informant (2000), shown in "Funhouse").
Ralph Cifaretto, choked/bludgeoned to death in a fight over Ralph's supposedly killing of their prize-winning race horse "Pie-O-My" for insurance money. (2002, shown in "Whoever Did This").
Tony Blundetto, shot and killed by Tony with a shotgun for the unauthorized killings of Joe Peeps and Billy Leotardo, in order to spare him from being the subject of torture from Phil Leotardo in revenge for his brother's death (2004, shown in "All Due Respect").
Christopher Moltisanti, suffocated by Tony when after a major car accident Christopher revealed he was still using drugs (2007, shown in "Kennedy and Heidi").
It is made clear that some of these murders leave Tony perplexed as to how to cope with the situation; most notably, after murdering Christopher Moltisanti, he feels a rush of relief for finally being rid of an associate whom he feels he can no longer trust. He has to "show the sad face" while the rest of the family grieves, but Tony reassures himself that Moltisanti's murder was necessary, despite the hurt caused to the family.
The murder of "Big Pussy" in "Funhouse" weighs heavily on Tony. He is at first tempted to spare his old friend, but in the end knows what his priorities are. In the years to follow, Tony—along with Silvio and Paulie—have haunting dreams of the murder of their friend.
Tony kills Ralph Cifaretto after their horse, Pie-O-My, dies amid suspicious circumstances in "Whoever Did This". Tony tries to confront Ralph about the situation but, after some heated words, Tony loses control and violently murders Ralph. Though no solid proof was found that the fire killing Pie-O-My was arson, Tony is convinced Ralph did it.
The murder of Matthew Bevilaqua was vengeance, an act that had to be carried out since the fact that Christopher was shot was a direct affront to him as Boss. Tony takes satisfaction in it, as it is revenge for an attempt on the life of one of his relatives. He is however still at unease with the murder due to Bevilaqua's young age.
The murder of his cousin, Tony Blundetto (in "All Due Respect"), is solely to save him from a far worse death if he were to fall into Phil's hands, and so that Tony does not lose his reputation as a Boss.
The murder of his nephew, Christopher Moltisanti (in "Kennedy and Heidi"), is not done out of necessity; while Moltisanti presents a threat to Tony's life and the New Jersey Mob (Christopher has been addicted to heroin, cocaine, and alcohol for many years and could not defeat his addiction in rehab), it is ultimately an emotional reaction. When Tony was about to call 911 for help, he sees that a baby seat in the back seat of the SUV has been destroyed by a tree branch; he closes his phone and suffocates Christopher by holding his nose shut so he chokes to death on his own blood. Tony did not plan to murder Christopher but saw the opportunity after the car accident. After killing Christopher, Tony tries to discover whether other mobsters or family members had similar feelings; it seems that they do not. Tony is never suspected of this murder.
As a father[edit]
Tony has two children: Meadow Soprano and Anthony (A.J.) Soprano. He also treats Christopher Moltisanti, his wife's first cousin once removed, as a son in many ways.
Tony was often portrayed as a loving father—he attends his children's sporting events on a regular basis and does all he can to ensure they have luxuries and opportunities. He hopes that both his children will escape the life of crime he has led. Tony takes great pride in Meadow's achievements. In Season 1, he is moved to tears by her performance at a choir recital. He often tells people about her aspiration to become a pediatrician.
He also sometimes alienates his children with his behavior. He has always tried to conceal his criminal life from them—something that Meadow saw through early on and A.J. also realized with guidance from his sister.
Tony's over-protectiveness of Meadow led to feuds between them on several occasions. For example, her first boyfriend at college was of black and Jewish ancestry, and Tony's racism led him to try to drive him away. Meadow learned of her father's actions and did not speak to him for several months, eventually reconciling at Christmas in 2001.
Meadow's next boyfriend was Jackie Aprile, Jr., the son of Tony's old friend, the late Jackie Aprile, Sr. Tony had promised Jackie Jr.'s father that he would keep his son out of the Mafia life. Tony was initially pleased with the relationship, believing Jackie to be a hard-working pre-med student from a good family. However, since Jackie's uncle Richie Aprile's release from prison and subsequent death, Tony realized that Jackie had become more involved in the Mafia when he saw him at strip clubs and a casino. He eventually beat Jackie up to warn him about abusing his daughter's feelings and confiscated his gun. Tony began seeing much of himself and his treatment of Carmela in Jackie's relationship with Meadow. Jackie was killed by Vito for his involvement in a robbery at Christopher's and Furio's executive card game, and for shooting a made man, Furio. This drove Meadow to drinking and depression, although they'd broken up shortly before his death.
After Jackie's death, Tony accepts Meadow's college friends and gets along well with her fiancé, Finn, before the two separated under unrevealed circumstances.
When Meadow is out for dinner with her "mystery" boyfriend Patrick Parisi, New York mob member Coco walks up to the table and makes drunk remarks about her looks and how "Tony must love tucking you in at night". After taking advice from her mother, Meadow tells Tony, who hides his rage and says Coco is "harmless" and "an idiot". Tony then tracks down Coco and Butch DeConcini at John's Restaurant on East 12th Street in Manhattan. Tony viciously pistol-whips Coco several times with a snubnose revolver and warns Butch at gunpoint to shut up and remain seated at his table. After breaking off some of Coco's teeth with a curb stomp, Tony leaves the restaurant.
Tony's feelings toward his son are mixed; he worries about his future. From the beginning, Tony had doubts that his son could succeed in the Mafia telling Dr. Melfi "he'd never make it". His fears are confirmed as A.J. consistently demonstrates throughout the series that he lacks his father's cunning and dominating persona. Tony tells A.J. numerous times that he is proud that his son is gentle and kind. Tony was especially proud of A.J.'s prowess on the football field, even amid his failing grades in high school, but is frustrated with A.J.'s lack of focus after graduation.
After flunking out of Ramapo State, A.J. loafs around the house, parties, and for a time holds a job at Blockbuster, until his father gets him a job working construction. There, A.J. meets Blanca, and in Tony's opinion, A.J. was doing well until he and Blanca broke up. Tony worries about A.J.'s depression, the 'rotten putrid Soprano gene' that Tony believes he passed down to his son.
Hoping to get A.J. back on track, Tony rekindles A.J.'s friendship with "the Jasons", sons of two of his associates, and A.J. seems to be doing better. With the help of a therapist and medication, A.J. is finally getting back to college, this time at Rutgers University, to take classes and party with girls as Tony believes every college kid should. This later turns sour after A.J. sees his new friends attack a Somalian student on a bike and he regresses into depression. A.J. tries to drown himself in a swimming pool, but decides he wants to live; he is unable to escape the pool, however. Tony hears his cries for help, and rescues him. After A.J. is released from a mental health ward, Tony and Carmela dissuade him from joining the Army, and convince him instead to become involved in a film bankrolled by Carmine Lupertazzi, Jr., with the possibility of opening his own club.
Interests and hobbies[edit]
Tony is an avid animal lover, and enjoys feeding the ducks which visit his pool. He has a sentimental attachment towards animals, as he had been traumatized by the loss of his childhood dog (as revealed in the episode "In Camelot"), whose name was "Tippy". In Christopher Moltisanti's intervention, when Tony hears Christopher accidentally suffocated Adrianna's dog, he went furious saying "I oughta suffocate you, you little prick!" He becomes involved in horse racing through his friend Hesh, who owns a stable, and invests in a racehorse named Pie-O-My. When his horse is killed in a fire – possibly set by Ralph Cifaretto – Tony is deeply upset and saddened and kills Cifaretto, yelling: "She was a beautiful innocent creature. What did she ever do to you?" He repeats "You fucking killed her!", while banging Cifaretto's head against the floor. When informed by Carmela that a black bear has been foraging in his home's backyard while they were separated, during Season 5, he reacts with interest, rather than fear.[citation needed] During his stay in the hospital after his shooting, he can be seen reading a book about dinosaurs, given by Carmela. In the series finale, Tony finds a stray cat at his safehouse during the war with New York and takes a liking to it. He brings it back to Satriale's, where it stares at the deceased Chris Moltisanti's photo (much to Paulie's dismay).
Tony is seen many times over the course of the show engaging in both freshwater and saltwater angling. His son Anthony, Jr. sometimes accompanies him on fishing outings. During the second season he presents his son with a Fenwick rod and a Penn International reel, both extremely high quality products. In the sixth season, while in Florida with Paulie, he rents a sport fishing boat. He is sometimes haunted by visions of Pussy Bonpensiero incarnated in the form of a fish – presumably a reference to the disposal of his body in the ocean. A Big Mouth Billy Bass novelty singing fish, brought into the Bada Bing by Georgie and another later presented to him as a Christmas present by his daughter Meadow, recalled his nightmare and disturbed him greatly.
Tony enjoys fresh air by himself, gazing over water, and having a cigar at the same time, which is seen throughout the series.
He is also a gun enthusiast and is shown to have an arsenal in his home. He gives guns as birthday gifts to his father-in-law Hugh DeAngelis (in "Marco Polo") and received one from Bobby Baccialieri on his own birthday (in "Soprano Home Movies").
Tony enjoys sports, particularly baseball, football, basketball, golf, and horse racing. He played baseball and football in high school, plays golf, and is a fan of the New York Yankees and New York Jets. A large portion of his income is derived from illegal sports betting.
Tony is an amateur yachtsman and has owned two motor yachts over the course of the show: Stugots and Stugots II. The name comes from the Southern Italian phrase stu cazz meaning "This dick",[citation needed] or in paraphrase, "Fuck it".[citation needed]
Tony maintains an avid interest in history, particularly World War II. Throughout seasons 4 and 5, Tony is seen watching Vietnam War documentaries.[citation needed] He is a big fan of President John F. Kennedy and owns one of his captain sailor hats, which he won at an auction. He is often shown watching programs on the History Channel about great leaders such as George S. Patton, Erwin Rommel, and Winston Churchill. He reads The Art of War by Sun Tzu, which is quoted by several other characters on the show, particularly Paulie Gualtieri.
Tony is often seen watching classic mob films. For example, he is shown watching The Public Enemy (1931) throughout the episode "Proshai, Livushka", which addresses his mother's death. He also shares a love for The Godfather series (wondering what went wrong in the third installment).
Tony listens to classic rock and pop music, particularly of the 1960s and 70s. Over the course of the show he is seen to enjoy AC/DC, Deep Purple, Eagles, Eric Clapton, Jefferson Airplane, Jethro Tull, Journey, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Pink Floyd, Rush, Steely Dan, The Clash, The Chi-Lites, The Lost Boys, Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers, and Van Morrison.
Vehicles[edit]
Like most of the mobsters in the series, Tony is shown to be partial to Cadillac and Lincoln vehicles. When discussing with Dr. Melfi a bizarre dream in which his penis fell off, he mentions that he went to the guy who used to "work on my Lincoln, when I drove Lincolns". For the first four seasons, Tony drives a burgundy 1999 Chevrolet Suburban LT 4x4, but in season 5, this has been replaced with a black Cadillac Escalade ESV. This black Escalade is totaled in an accident, and quickly replaced with a white Escalade ESV. Tony has this Escalade until the end of the series.
Extramarital affairs[edit]
Throughout the series Tony is shown to be a serial adulterer. He typically has mistresses whom he consistently sees for long periods of time, though he also has a number of brief one-night stands with strippers from the Bada Bing.
His wife Carmela is tacitly aware of his many infidelities and usually turns a blind eye, though sometimes the bottled-up tensions explode in domestic arguments. At the end of Season 4, Irina telephones Carmela in a jealous rage at Tony's cheating on her with her cousin Svetlana, which causes Carmela to finally snap. Carmela throws Tony out of the house and begins divorce proceedings.
Tony has a strong preference for women of European, particularly Italian descent, with dark hair and eyes and exotic features. His mistresses have been, in chronological order, of Russian (Irina and later Svetlana), Italian (e.g., Gloria Trillo, Italian/Cuban (Valentina La Paz), and Jewish descent (Julianna Skiff). He favors dark features but also has a few brief flings with blonde American European women, including a stewardess from Icelandic Airways and a medical assistant. He had one very short encounter with an Asian-American escort during The Test Dream.
Mistresses:
Irina Peltsin – a young Russian woman whom he sees consistently throughout the first two seasons. She is a severe alcoholic and frequently calls Tony's house when drunk, and when Carmela hints that she knows that he is seeing her, he breaks off the relationship.
Gloria Trillo – an Italian-American Mercedes-Benz saleswoman with stylish tastes and exotic looks. Tony dates her throughout Season 3 after meeting her at Dr. Melfi's office. He eventually stops seeing her when she begins stalking him and calling his house. She commits suicide after the breakup.
Valentina La Paz – a beautiful art dealer of Italian and Cuban descent, initially the mistress of Ralph Cifaretto. Tony dates her throughout Season 4. They share a love of horses, and she visits Pie-O-My at the stable with Tony. She accidentally sets her robe on fire in Season 5 while cooking eggs for Tony. Shortly thereafter he decides to get back together with Carmela, and he breaks up with Valentina while she is in the hospital recovering from second degree burns to her head, face, and arm. Their relationship ends on bad terms.
Julianna Skiff – a real estate developer of Jewish descent. She meets Tony in Season 6 when offering to buy a building that he owns, to be converted into a Jamba Juice. They later begin an affair, along with a business relationship, but never consummate their relationship sexually; Tony backs off and decides to be faithful to Carmela, who stuck with him after the shooting and seemed re-devoted to him. Julianna eventually dates Christopher Moltisanti and the two begin a very destructive, co-dependent drug habit; she is last seen attending Christopher's funeral service, where she mentions that they had split up.
Therapy[edit]
Tony has suffered from panic attacks that sometimes cause him to lose consciousness since his childhood. He has his first on-screen panic attack while cooking sausages at his son's birthday party—this occurs in a flashback in the pilot episode. Tony loses consciousness and causes a small explosion when he drops a bottle of lighter fluid onto the coals. Tony describes the experience of the panic attack as feeling like he had "ginger ale in his skull". This prompts him to seek help for the attacks. After extensive testing that includes an MRI scan and blood work no physical cause can be found, so Dr. Cusamano referred Tony to psychiatrist Dr. Jennifer Melfi.
Tony's therapy allows a discussion of his thoughts and feelings away from both aspects of his life—this forum for reaching into the character's thoughts has been described as a Greek chorus, and as a key for viewers to understand the character.[2]
Tony was initially very resistant to the idea that there was a psychiatric cause for his symptoms. He resented being in therapy, and refused to accept the diagnosis of panic attacks given him by the neurologists who had investigated his illness. Tony begins to open up once Dr. Melfi explains the doctor-patient confidentiality rules. He tells her about the stress of his business life—he has a feeling that he has come in at the end of something, and describes a reverence for the glorified "old days" of the Mafia. Tony leaves out the violence associated with his criminal career. Tony tells Dr. Melfi a story about ducks landing in his pool. He describes his mother Livia, a cold, mean-spirited woman with whom he has an openly hostile relationship. By the end of the first session Tony has admitted that he feels depressed, but storms out when Dr. Melfi presses him further about the relationship between his symptoms and the ducks.
When the family visits Green Grove, a retirement community where Tony is trying to place his mother, Livia's derisive outburst prompts a second panic attack. Melfi prescribes Prozac as an anti-depressant, telling him that no one needs to suffer from depression with the wonders of modern pharmacology. Tony fails to attend their next scheduled session.
At their next session, Tony is still reluctant to face his own psychological weaknesses. Tony is quick to credit the medication for his improved mood, but Dr. Melfi tells him it cannot be that, as it takes six weeks to work—she credits their therapy sessions. Tony describes a dream where a bird steals his penis. Melfi extrapolates that Tony has projected his love for his family onto the family of ducks living in his pool. This brings him to tears, to his consternation. She tells him that their flight from the pool sparked his panic attack through the overwhelming fear of somehow losing his own family.
In the episode "46 Long", they continue discussing Tony's mother and her difficulties living alone. Tony admits that he feels guilty because his mother could not be allowed to live with his family. We learn that he has been left to care for his mother alone by his sisters. When Dr. Melfi asks him to remember good experiences from his childhood, he has difficulty. He blames Carmela for preventing his mother from living with them. Later they discuss Livia's car accident, and Melfi suggests depression may have contributed to the accident – Tony misunderstands her and becomes angry. Tony has a panic attack while visiting his mother's home after she moves to Green Grove. In a later session, Dr. Melfi pushes Tony to admit he has feelings of anger towards his mother, and he again storms out. During this episode Tony introduces the concept of him acting like the sad clown – happy on the outside but sad on the inside.
In "Denial, Anger, Acceptance", Tony discusses Jackie's cancer with Dr. Melfi. She tries to use it as an example of Tony's negative thinking contributing to his depression. Tony becomes angry and storms out. He feels she is trying to trick him and manipulate his thoughts using the pictures that decorate her office. After Jackie worsens and Tony is called a Frankenstein by a business associate, he returns to therapy to discuss these things with Dr. Melfi. She asks him if he feels like a monster.
In "Fortunate Son", Tony discusses a childhood memory of an early panic attack. He saw his father and uncle mutilate Mr. Satriale, the local butcher, and later fainted at a family dinner made with free meat from Satriale's shop. Dr. Melfi makes a connection between meat and Tony's panic attacks. She explores his mother's attitude to the fruits of his father's labor.
Later Dr. Melfi tries prescribing Lithium as a mood stabilizer. In the episode "Isabella", Tony sinks into a severe depressive episode and experiences hallucinations—he sees a beautiful Italian woman named Isabella in his neighbor's garden. Tony sees Isabella several times during the episode, and later learns that she never existed. Melfi theorizes that Isabella was an idealized maternal figure that Tony's subconscious produced because of he was deeply upset about his own mother's actions at the time.
In "I Dream of Jeannie Cusamano", Tony abruptly ends his therapy and persuades Dr. Melfi to go into hiding when he discovers that Uncle Junior has found out about their sessions.
The relationship between Tony and Dr. Melfi is up-and-down, with Tony reaching a level of comfort with Dr. Melfi that he has never experienced with anyone else before, not even his wife. This closeness leads Tony to have something of a "crush" on Dr. Melfi, something that is unattainable. However, the "prying" from Dr. Melfi is uncomfortable for Tony and he often turns sarcastic and antagonistic towards her, leading to an ongoing strain in their relationship. In the episode when Tony's sister, Janice, goes back to Seattle, it is revealed during a rushed conversation between Janice and Tony that their mother suffers from narcissistic personality disorder.
During the episode "The Second Coming", aired in part II of season six, Melfi's own therapist suggests to her that her work with Tony could be considered enabling toward Tony's sociopathic tendencies. Finally, in the penultimate episode of the series, "The Blue Comet", Melfi severs her relationship with Tony after reading research recommended by her own therapist that indicates sociopaths can use talk therapy to improve their skills in manipulating others, and use what is learned in therapy to become more capable criminals.
Shootings[edit]
In the first season, Tony is attacked by William Johnson "Petite" Clayborn and Rasheen Ray, two thugs sent by Donnie Paduana to execute Tony. Tony sustains an injury to his ear, which is partially shot off, and minor bruises and cuts from crashing his vehicle. One of the two assailants, Clayborn, is shot dead by Ray in an attempt to kill Tony, and Ray is left bruised, but runs off.
In the premiere of the sixth season, "Members Only", Junior Soprano, suffering from dementia, believes Tony to be "Little Pussy" Malanga, and shoots him in the abdomen. Tony dials 911 but loses consciousness before being able to tell the operator what happened.
The second episode of the sixth season, "Join the Club", Tony is in a medically induced coma in the hospital. In the second and third episode the viewer sees Tony in a dream-like state, eventually arriving at what could be purgatory, where he is greeted by a man who takes the physical form of his late cousin Tony Blundetto. The shadowy figure in the doorway of the house has the profile of his mother, who is dead. The voice of a younger version of his daughter calls him back. At the end of the third episode, he awakes from his coma in a confused but stable state.
By the fourth episode, Tony is mobile and fully aware, and has regained his voice. Tony's attitude to life has changed by his near death experience. He has yet to discuss his experiences while unconscious with anyone close to him. However, in the Season 6 episode "Kaisha", he admits to Phil Leotardo (who had just suffered a heart attack), that while he was in a coma, he went to a place where he never wants to go again. While talking philosophy with John Schwinn, another patient at the hospital, he mentions that while in the coma he had the experience of being drawn towards somewhere he did not want to go and narrowly avoided it.
In the sixth episode of season 6, part 2, "Kennedy and Heidi", Tony sustains minor injuries in a car accident that seriously injures his nephew, Christopher Moltisanti. Tony suffocates Christopher after this accident. Tony was on bed rest for a few days and quickly recovered. Nonetheless, this gave his family quite a scare and a painful memory of his nearly fatal shooting the previous year.
Dreams[edit]
Tony sometimes has vivid dreams that are shown to the viewer. Episodes with dream sequences include "Pax Soprana", "Isabella", "Funhouse", "Everybody Hurts", "Calling All Cars", and "The Test Dream".
In the pilot, Tony tells Dr. Melfi about a dream he had wherein a screw in his belly button, when removed, causes his penis to fall off. He tries to find a car mechanic (who had worked on his Lincoln when Tony drove Lincolns) to put it back on, but a duck swoops down and snatches it from his hand.
In "Meadowlands", Tony has a dream that several people in his life are present in Dr. Melfi's office: Herman "Hesh" Rabkin scrolling by the window, A.J. behind the door, Silvio Dante having sex with a woman in the waiting room, and Paulie Walnuts and Big Pussy reading Chinese newspapers. This causes him to worry that people will find out he is seeing a psychiatrist. The dream ends with Tony confronting Melfi, seeing Jackie Aprile, Sr. in his death bed smoking a cigarette, asking Tony, "You smell that? That's rain.", and only to find out that Melfi is his mother, Livia.
In "Pax Soprana", Tony has several dreams and fantasies about Dr. Melfi. He becomes convinced that he is in love with her, but she turns him down when he makes advances towards her.
In "Isabella", Tony, suffering from depression after Big Pussy disappears, acquaints himself with a dental student named Isabella who is staying in the Cusamano home while they are on vacation. He later discovers that he'd hallucinated Isabella due to taking too much lithium, and that Isabella represented the mother he never had.
In "Funhouse", an extended dream sequence exposes many of Tony's subconscious thoughts and feelings through symbolic and sometimes bizarre events: he attempts suicide to preempt a doctor's diagnosis of early death by dousing himself in gasoline and lighting himself on fire; he witnesses himself shooting Paulie "Walnuts" Gaultieri to death during a card game; he has an innuendo-laden conversation with his therapist Dr. Melfi while sporting a prominent erection; and a fish that speaks with the voice of Sal "Big Pussy" Bonpensiero confirms his suspicions that the longtime friend and soldier is a federal informant.
In "Everybody Hurts", Tony dreams of his ex-comaré Gloria Trillo shortly after learning of her suicide by hanging. He visits her apartment and finds her in a black dress with a black scarf around her neck. She is cooking dinner, and when she goes over to the oven the scarf drapes across Tony. Plaster falls down in front of Tony and when he looks up, he sees that the chandelier is almost pulled out of the ceiling. Gloria is suddenly back at the table and offers Tony a choice between seeing what she has under her dress or under her scarf. As she begins to peel away the scarf, Tony wakes up and makes his way to the bathroom for some medication.
In "Calling All Cars", Tony has two dreams featuring Ralph Cifaretto. In the first, he is being driven by Carmela in the back of his father's old car while Ralph sits in the passenger seat. There is a caterpillar crawling on the back of Ralph's head. Tony's fellow passenger in the back seat changes—Gloria Trillo and Svetlana Kirilenko are both seen. The caterpillar turns into a butterfly. Dr. Melfi later tells him that the dream signifies a change for Ralphie (recently killed by Tony) and Carmela being in control, which Tony doesn't like.
In the second dream, Tony follows Ralph to an old house, which Ralph enters. Tony is dressed in trousers, suspenders, and an undershirt. He knocks on the door and a female figure descends slowly in shadow; the door creaks ominously. Tony says he is there for the stonemason job but does not speak English well (Tony's grandfather was an immigrant stonemason). Just as Tony is about to enter the house, he wakes up.
In "The Test Dream", Tony comes to terms with having to kill his cousin Tony Blundetto. The episode reflects on his inner demons and fears, including his children's future, his relationship with his wife, his infidelities, deceased acquaintances—including some who have died by his hand or by his orders—his fate, and his relationship with his father. He is again shown in his father's old car, accompanied by a range of past associates.
In "Join the Club", a comatose Tony finds himself in an alternate universe where he is a law-abiding salesman on a business trip. Among other differences, his accent has changed and his hotel's bartender condescends him (in sharp contrast to the bartender at The Bing, who is a recurring punching bag for Tony). Tony has mistakenly taken another man's briefcase – Kevin Finnerty's – along with all of his identification and work. The episode follows his attempts to discern his identity, recover his briefcase, and get back to his family.
In "Kennedy and Heidi", a stressed Tony Soprano has a dream following the death of Christopher Moltisanti. In this dream, he tells his therapist that Christopher was a burden and that he is relieved that he was dead. After that he also tells her that he murdered Big Pussy and his cousin Tony Blundetto. Following the dream, he acts differently to his friends and family, trying to see if they also feel relieved now that Christopher is dead.
See also[edit]

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References[edit]
1.^ Jump up to: a b Roush, Matt (July 1, 2013). "A Soprano's Swan Song". TV Guide. pp. 18 - 21.
2.Jump up ^ William Bender, "The Last Aria of Tony Soprano", The New York Times, February 26, 2006
External links[edit]
HBO Character Profile: Tony Soprano


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 "Another Toothpick" ·
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 "Second Opinion" ·
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 "No Show" ·
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 "Everybody Hurts" ·
 "Watching Too Much Television" ·
 "Mergers and Acquisitions" ·
 "Whoever Did This" ·
 "The Strong, Silent Type" ·
 "Calling All Cars" ·
 "Eloise" ·
 "Whitecaps"
 

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 "Where's Johnny?" ·
 "All Happy Families..." ·
 "Irregular Around the Margins" ·
 "Sentimental Education" ·
 "In Camelot" ·
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The following is a listing of fictional characters from the HBO series The Sopranos. To view characters organized by their associations, see the subpages section.


Contents  [hide]
1 Main characters
2 Supporting characters
3 Recurring guest stars
4 Secondary character biographies 4.1 Rosalie Aprile 4.1.1 External links
4.2 Bobby Baccalieri 4.2.1 Biography
4.2.2 Murders committed by Baccalieri
4.2.3 External links
4.3 Artie Bucco 4.3.1 Biography
4.3.2 Past
4.3.3 External links
4.4 Charmaine Bucco 4.4.1 Biography
4.4.2 External links
4.5 Albie Cianflone 4.5.1 Murders Ordered By Cianflone
4.6 Ralph Cifaretto 4.6.1 Posthumous appearances
4.6.2 External links
4.7 Butch DeConcini 4.7.1 Murders ordered by DeConcini
4.8 Benny Fazio 4.8.1 Biography
4.8.2 Murders committed by Fazio
4.9 Brendan Filone 4.9.1 Murders connected to Filone
4.10 Little Paulie Germani 4.10.1 External links
4.11 Carlo Gervasi 4.11.1 Murders committed by Gervasi
4.12 Furio Giunta 4.12.1 Biography
4.12.2 Season 2
4.12.3 Season 3
4.12.4 Season 4
4.13 Phil Leotardo 4.13.1 Biography
4.13.2 Murders committed & ordered by Leotardo
4.13.3 See also
4.14 Little Carmine Lupertazzi 4.14.1 External links
4.15 Patsy Parisi 4.15.1 Loyalties
4.15.2 As a soldier
4.15.3 Personal
4.15.4 External links
4.16 Eugene Pontecorvo 4.16.1 Season 3
4.16.2 Season 4
4.16.3 Season 5
4.16.4 Season 6
4.16.5 Murders committed by Pontecorvo
4.17 Hesh Rabkin 4.17.1 Biography
4.18 Johnny Sack 4.18.1 Career
4.18.2 Personality
4.18.3 External links
4.19 Vito Spatafore 4.19.1 Biography
4.19.2 Assault on his brother
4.19.3 Whacking Jackie Aprile, Jr.
4.19.4 Rise to capo
4.19.5 Secret revealed
4.19.6 Weight loss
4.19.7 Outing
4.19.8 Time in hiding
4.19.9 Return to New Jersey
4.19.10 Aftermath
4.19.11 Murders committed by Vito Spatafore

5 Minor characters 5.1 A
5.2 B
5.3 C
5.4 D
5.5 E
5.6 F
5.7 G
5.8 H
5.9 I
5.10 J
5.11 K
5.12 L
5.13 M
5.14 O
5.15 P
5.16 R
5.17 S
5.18 T
5.19 V
5.20 W
5.21 Y
5.22 Z
6 Subpages
7 See also
8 References
9 External links

Main characters[edit]
James Gandolfini — Tony Soprano (season 1-6)
Lorraine Bracco — Dr. Jennifer Melfi (season 1-6)
Edie Falco — Carmela Soprano (season 1-6)
Michael Imperioli — Christopher Moltisanti (season 1-6)
Dominic Chianese — Corrado "Junior" Soprano, Jr. (season 1-6)
Vincent Pastore — Sal "Big Pussy" Bonpensiero (season 1-2)
Steven Van Zandt — Silvio Dante (season 1-6)
Tony Sirico — Paul "Paulie Walnuts" Gualtieri (season 1-6)
Robert Iler — Anthony Soprano, Jr. (season 1-6)
Jamie-Lynn Sigler — Meadow Soprano (season 1-6)
Drea de Matteo — Adriana La Cerva (season 1-5)
Aida Turturro — Janice Soprano (season 2-6)
Nancy Marchand — Livia Soprano (season 1-3)
Joe Pantoliano - Ralph Cifaretto (season 3-4)
Steve Schirripa - Bobby Baccalieri (season 2-6)
Supporting characters[edit]
Federico Castelluccio — Furio Giunta (season 2-4)
John Ventimiglia — Artie Bucco (season 1-6)
Frank Vincent — Phil Leotardo (season 5-6)
Robert Funaro — Eugene Pontecorvo (season 3-6)
Katherine Narducci — Charmaine Bucco (season 1-6)
Vincent Curatola — John "Johnny Sack" Sacrimoni (season 1-6)
Steve Buscemi — Tony Blundetto (season 5)
Dan Grimaldi — Patsy Parisi (season 2-6)
Joseph R. Gannascoli — Vito Spatafore (season 2-6)
David Proval — Richie Aprile (season 2)
Toni Kalem — Angie Bonpensiero (season 2-6)
Ray Abruzzo — Carmine Lupertazzi, Jr. (season 4-6)
Sharon Angela — Rosalie Aprile (season 1-6)
Gregory Antonacci — Butch DeConcini (season 6)
Max Casella — Benny Fazio (season 3-6)
Carl Capotorto — "Little" Paulie Germani (season 3-6)
Arthur Nascarella — Carlo Gervasi (season 4-6)
Matt Servitto — Agent Dwight Harris (season 1-6)
Maureen Van Zandt — Gabriella Dante (season 1-6)
Recurring guest stars[edit]
Jerry Adler — Herman "Hesh" Rabkin (1999–2007)
Paul Schulze — Father Phil Intintola (1999, 2001–2006)
John Heard — Vin Makazian (1999, 2004)
Tom Aldredge — Hugh DeAngelis (2000–2007)
Suzanne Shepherd — Mary DeAngelis (2000–2007)
Peter Bogdanovich — Dr. Elliot Kupferberg (2000–2007)
Jason Cerbone — Jackie Aprile, Jr. (2000–2001)
Tony Lip — Carmine Lupertazzi, Sr. (2001–2004)
Annabella Sciorra — Gloria Trillo (2001–2004)
Robert Loggia — Feech La Manna (2004)
Cara Buono — Kelli Lombardo Moltisanti (2006–2007)
Joe Lisi — Dick Barone (1999–2000)
Secondary character biographies[edit]
Rosalie Aprile[edit]
Rosalie "Ro" Aprile, played by Sharon Angela, is the widow of Jackie Aprile, Sr, and the mother of Jackie, Jr. and Kelli. She is good friends with mob wives Carmela Soprano and Gabriella Dante, to whom she offers characteristically frank advice.
Rosalie was always frank with her friends that she knew her husband, Jackie, had affairs, but seemed to have made her peace with his infidelity. During her marriage to Jackie, Ro had an affair with a man named Steve from her gym, which remained a source of guilt.
One year after Jackie Sr.'s death, she started a relationship with Ralph Cifaretto. Ralph had been a friend of Jackie's growing up and later a soldier in Jackie's crew before he moved to Miami. Their relationship became romantic after Ralph returned from Miami in 2000, following the deaths of both Jackie Sr. and Rosalie's brother-in-law, Richie Aprile. Ralph encouraged Jackie Jr. as he became more and more involved in the family business, providing him with a gun, accepting payments from him, involving him in making collections, and offering advice. Jackie Jr. tried to make a name for himself by robbing a card game (inspired by Ralph's telling the story of how Jackie Sr. made a name for himself by robbing a card game with Tony Soprano), but the heist went awry and a contract was put out on him. Unbeknownst to Rosalie, it was Ralph who ordered her son's death. Jackie Jr.'s cousin, Vito Spatafore, executed the hit, and the official story (as told to Rosalie, the rest of her family, and family friends) was that Jackie Jr. was killed by black drug dealers.
Following her son's death, Rosalie sunk into a prolonged period of mourning. Ralph began an affair with Janice Soprano. Rosalie's friend Karen Baccalieri died soon after Jackie Jr., and Ro's depression worsened. Ralph chose this opportunity to break up with Rosalie, claiming he was tired of her constant grief. Rosalie, angered by his selfishness, ordered him out of her home. (He left and attempted to move in with Janice.) She eventually forgave him, though, and visited him when his son was in the hospital.
Rosalie has always been a loyal friend to Carmela, and her advice to her friend is generally loving but blunt. Of particular note was their discussion of A.J. after he dropped out of college in season six. Rosalie told Carmela to be firm with A.J., because she didn't want Carmela to make the same mistakes she had, and end up burying her son. Rosalie also advised Carmela throughout the latter's flirtation with decorator Vic Musto — warning her of the dangers of infidelity and the guilt from her own experience but was supportive about the difficulties of living with the double standards inherent in a mafia marriage. Rosalie is considered an aunt by Carmela's children.
Rosalie had severed her relationship with Angie Bonpensiero following Big Pussy's disappearance (he was believed by the wives to have entered the witness protection program), but they ultimately reconciled and Angie discussed her increasing business involvement with the Soprano/DiMeo crime family with Rosalie. Rosalie belongs to the same church as Carmela and is a friend of Father Phil Intintola — she thinks of him as a sweet man. After Carmela pulls back from her relationship with Father Phil he seems to replace her with Rosalie. Rosalie was also friends with Adriana La Cerva (to whom she was related by marriage through Jackie Aprile) and attended her wedding shower.
Rosalie was supportive of Ginny Sacrimoni when her husband John was arrested; she attended the wedding of Ginny's daughter Allegra, and took part in a birthday celebration for Ginny at her home.
Rosalie accompanied Carmela on a trip to Paris in the Season 6 episode "Cold Stones". They visited many of the city's sights and Ro lit candles for her late husband and son in a church. While there, she pursued a brief relationship with a much younger Frenchman named Michel. Carmela upset Rosalie by asking about her grief over her son and husband while they were supposed to be enjoying their trip, but Rosalie was quick to forgive her friend. She also comforted Carmela through some difficult moments while they were away. Rosalie attended Bobby's wake in the series finale, "Made in America".
External links[edit]
HBO Profile: Rosalie Aprile
Rosalie Aprile on Myspace.com
Bobby Baccalieri[edit]
Main article: Bobby Baccalieri
Robert "Bobby Bacala" Baccalieri, Jr., played by Steve Schirripa, was a Capo and later the acting underboss of the DiMeo Crime Family, as well as Tony Soprano's brother-in-law. He was formerly one of the top aides to Corrado "Junior" Soprano.
Biography[edit]
His name is derived from real life organized crime figure Robert Bisaccia, also known as Bobby Cabert, who is an alleged member of the Gambino crime family based in New Jersey. Bobby Bacala, unlike many of his fellow wiseguys, was big-hearted and quite shy. He ran Junior Soprano's old loan shark business. Although not officially a captain, Bobby was a high-ranking soldier who ran Junior Soprano's interests as acting captain and reported directly to Junior, and more recently to Tony. Before his death, he was thought to be the heir to the job of boss, if Tony was whacked or arrested. Bobby was the son of Bobby Baccalieri, Sr., a highly respected mobster, (Tony Soprano referred to him as "a real terminator") who fronted as a barber. Bobby's father suffered from advanced lung cancer, but returned from retirement for one last job before his death in an auto crash, which Bobby found quite distressing. Before joining Junior Soprano's crew Bobby was a head waiter until at least 1986 and was groomed by his father Bobby Sr. At some point, Bobby became a made man, although without making his bones. Bobby was married to Karen Baccalieri until her death and they had two children, Bobby III and Sophia.
Bobby was quite different from the other men in the Soprano crime family. He was quiet, almost shy, sweet and even-tempered; these traits made him well-liked, if not necessarily respected. He was obese, which brought him much ridicule, but he was very loyal and even Tony apologized to him after making cracks about his weight. In turn, Bobby was always respectful, and sometimes affectionate, towards Tony, telling him "I always liked you," in the aftermath of a feud that saw Tony order the deaths of several members of Junior Soprano's crew, with Bobby ("The Last Man Standing") and Junior the sole survivors. He bore no lasting grudges against Paulie Gualtieri or Christopher Moltisanti, who carried out these hits, and appeared briefly looking delighted on the day Christopher was 'made.'
Bobby operated Junior Soprano's loan shark business in his stead and also acted as Junior's assistant while he was under house arrest on federal racketeering charges. Junior eventually rewarded him by putting him in charge of his loan shark operation during the later part of his prosecution. Bobby was made acting capo when Junior had Murf Lupo step down in "For All Debts Public and Private".
Bobby was very loyal to his wife, Karen, and was the only made man in the Soprano crew without a comaré. The only time he was ever seen with another woman other than his wife was in the episode University. When Ralphie walks back into the Bada Bing after beating Tracee to death, Bobby could be seen talking to another stripper. However, Bobby lost his wife in a car accident and took it especially hard. Following Karen's death, Janice Soprano, along with many other women, actively pursued Bobby, trying to help him out as much as possible (with cooking and watching over Bobby's two children) but also trying to initiate a relationship with him.
When his grief continued, Janice went so far as to use the internet to expose his children to a Ouija board within their house. This frightened them and cleared a path for Janice to demonstrate that Bobby's grief was affecting his children. Despite Bobby's initial reluctance, the two were soon married and he soon fathered a daughter, Domenica. Bobby remained unaware of his wife's machinations at the start of their relationship. Bobby also enjoyed playing with model trains.
Since 2001, when he assisted Tony in rescuing Christopher Moltisanti and Paulie Gualtieri from the Pine Barrens, Bobby had grown closer to Tony. Additionally, as Ralph Cifaretto put it, "dating the boss's sister will help a made man's career"; nevertheless, Tony had recently stepped up his expectations of Bobby, whom he felt was taking their brother-in-law relationship as an excuse not to earn at a competitive level, compared to other members of the family. Bobby rose to the occasion by supplementing his income with $7000 he received for shooting a rapper he met at the hospital, while Tony was in the ICU, in order to raise the rapper's profile.
In the Season Six episode, "The Ride" Bobby's wife, son and youngest daughter were involved in a ride accident at the feast of St. Elzear while he took his other daughter to the bathroom. Bobby's initial reaction was relief that his family were unhurt. Janice berated him for not standing up for them at a later Sunday dinner at the Soprano residence. She later accompanied him when he paid a visit to the ride owner. Bobby stormed into his motel room, beat him up and tried to extort money from him but learned that Paulie Gualtieri had been responsible for withholding the funds needed to repair the ride. Bobby tracked him down at the festival and angrily confronted him - the two were separated by other associates in the crime family. At Christopher's belated bachelor party, Bobby left soon after Paulie arrived. Tony ordered Paulie to make things right with Bobby. The episode demonstrated Bobby's devotion to his family, but also confirmed his credentials as a man not to be crossed lightly, further cementing his position in the higher echelons of Tony's crew.
In the Season Six episode, "Moe N' Joe", Bobby was beaten and robbed by a street gang as he was making his collections. One of the gang members fired a shot at the sidewalk near Bacala's face and a concrete fragment injured his right eye. The injury left his sight in the eye uncertain. Despite the injury, Bobby made certain his payments reached Tony, by way of a concerned Carlo Gervasi visiting Bobby at the hospital.
Bobby's injury prompted Tony to reassess his relationship with his sister and brother-in-law. Tony's feelings of guilt prompted him to broker an agreement with Johnny Sack that allowed Bobby and his family to buy Sack's house at half price.
In the Season Six Episode, "Soprano Home Movies", during a game of Monopoly with Bobby, Carmela, and Janice, Tony began to make rude remarks towards Janice in reference to her promiscuous behavior as a younger woman, which Bobby took as a disrespectful affront. Unexpectedly, a usually meek and passive Bobby launched his fist into Tony's face, knocking him to the floor. Bobby won the fight, battering the inebriated Tony quite severely but also injuring his boss's pride. Tony, although reasonably gracious in defeat, was embarrassed at having been defeated in a brawl (especially by Bobby of all people) and frequently asserted to Bobby, Janice, and Carmela that he would have won the fight had he not slipped on the rug nor undergone such physical impotence since being shot by Uncle Junior. As a partial result of this awkward incident, Bobby was tasked with murdering the brother-in-law of one of Tony's Québécois associates, an important hit that formed part of a deal to save money on a pharmaceuticals racket. It was Bobby's first murder; Tony mentioned earlier that Bobby had never "popped his cherry" with wetwork.
Bobby's attitude was also affected by his elevation to Tony's acting underboss, and the added responsibility and privileges of the position. Tony brought Bobby up into the administration of the organization, because his earlier plan of positioning Christopher Moltisanti as his emissary and eventual heir had failed, following their personal falling out. While Paulie Walnuts held the nominal title of underboss, Bacala attended high-level meets and sit-downs alongside Tony and Silvio being a high-ranking capo however, he was never considered as an underboss but was consulted in strategy sessions, such as when Tony consulted Bobby about what to do about Phil Leotardo's attempts to displace him as boss of the family. A few years earlier, Tony would have never brought Bobby into such a high-level discussion. And unlike Moltisanti, Bobby did not take Tony's trust for granted nor did he take his new position lightly. Conscious of his abrupt rise from low level soldier to underboss, Bobby actually worked hard to keep Tony's trust and respect, rather than simply coasting on his goodwill as Moltisanti had, and his loyalty and work ethic hadn't gone unnoticed or unappreciated by Tony.
War broke out between the New Jersey and New York families in the episode "The Blue Comet". New York boss Phil Leotardo ordered the deaths of Bacala, Silvio Dante, and Tony Soprano. FBI agent Dwight Harris informed Tony at Satriale's that a snitch in Brooklyn implied that Phil had ordered a major hit on the New Jersey crew. Tony then gave orders to inform everyone of the upcoming assassination plot. Bobby left his cell phone behind as he entered a hobby shop, preventing him from receiving the call about the likely assassinations. While looking at a vintage train set, "The Blue Comet", two men entered the store and opened fire. Multiple gunshots sent his riddled body crashing on top of a model train display. Later in the episode, when a saddened Tony is reflecting on Bobby's death, holding the assault rifle that Bobby gave him on his birthday, Tony flashes back to the moment when he and Bobby were fishing, contemplating their own fates. Bobby observes that when getting killed, you "probably don't even hear it when it happens, right?"
Until at least the first half of season 6, Bobby drives a 1980s Lincoln Mark VII, and his family car after marrying Janice is a third generation Jeep Grand Cherokee, which, in Soprano Home Movies, he backs into a tree while drunk. In The Blue Comet, he is driving a Cadillac DeVille, which he is seen exiting just moments before his death at the hands of Lupertazzi gunmen.
Murders committed by Baccalieri[edit]
René LeCours: killed to appease the brother-in-law of one of Tony's Québécois associates and lower prices on a pharmaceuticals racket; also in compensation for striking Tony, which led to a long drawn-out brawl the night before. Being Bobby's first murder, he hesitated when killing him. (2007)
External links[edit]
HBO Profile: Bobby Bacala Baccalieri
Artie Bucco[edit]
Arthur "Artie" Bucco, Jr., played by John Ventimiglia, is a restaurateur and childhood friend of Tony Soprano. Artie appears throughout the series, from the first episode to the penultimate episode.
Biography[edit]
Artie is a longtime childhood friend of Tony Soprano; they went to elementary and high school together. He works as the co-owner and head chef of Nuovo Vesuvio, a local, upscale, Italian restaurant. He sometimes wishes he could be involved in Tony's seemingly glamorous criminal activities, but lacks the "image" and know-how. His wife, Charmaine Bucco is the mother of his children Chiara Bucco, Melissa Bucco and Arthur "Art" Bucco III. She is frequently concerned about his attraction to Tony's "business", often warning him about his occasional attempts at involvement, or even when he hints that he may wish to get involved. David Chase has stated that Artie's is based on a man named Daniel Somers—Chase's NYU roommate—who was known to be a self-loathing man; and like Artie, enjoyed basking and wallowing in self-pity. Despite Artie and Tony's close friendship, their relationship has seen several low-points. At the end of Season One, Artie learns from Tony's mother, Livia, that Tony was responsible for burning down his original restaurant, Vesuvio. Tony's Uncle Junior had been planning to stage a hit at Vesuvio on "Little Pussy" Malanga (not to be confused with Salvatore "Big Pussy" Bonpensiero) and, despite Tony's repeated requests, refused to move the hit to some other venue because the target felt comfortable there. Tony, knowing that the restaurant's patrons would be permanently chased away if a hit occurred there, devised arson as the win-win solution to this problem (i.e., no hit at Vesuvio, and Artie could rebuild it with the pay-out from his insurance policy). Artie builds a bigger and even more prosperous restaurant, the Nuovo Vesuvio. However, Artie had a strong emotional attachment to the old restaurant (which he inherited from his father), and goes on an angry rampage when he finds out that his best friend destroyed it (confronting Tony with a hunting rifle in the parking lot of Satriale's). Eventually, Artie believes Tony's repeated denials of having been the arsonist (only technically true, since Silvio actually firebombed the place on Tony's orders), and he destroys his rifle before driving off erratically. There is a brief tension between the two, but by the end of the Season One finale, they have made up. Artie even keeps his kitchen open past closing time to prepare a special meal for the Sopranos when they seek refuge at Nuovo Vesuvio during a fierce thunderstorm. Tensions over Tony's arson briefly resurface after the death of Tony's mother in Season Three. At a gathering at the Soprano household after Livia's funeral, Artie, who was catering the affair, turns over Tony's garbage cans and tells Tony that he guesses that their "secret" died with Livia.
In Season Four, Artie approaches Ralph Cifaretto for a $50,000 loan. This money would let him act as a moneylender to Jean-Philippe, the brother of the new French hostess at Vesuvio, who needed $50,000 short-term to fund a business venture. Ralph denies Artie's request on the grounds that if Artie couldn't pay him back, he wouldn't be able to hurt Artie in revenge because of his close relationship with Tony. Tony finds out, and is hurt that Artie didn't come to him first for the loan. Tony agrees to lend Artie the money on relatively generous terms (3% interest) and Artie, in turn, lends the money to the Frenchman on more strict terms (15% interest). Jean-Philippe defaults (as he was scamming Artie the whole time), and Artie, seeking to force payment, visits him to rough him up—only to get beaten up himself. Despondent and unable to repay Tony's loan, Artie attempts suicide by overdosing on pills and alcohol, calling Tony before he loses consciousness, sobbing, "I love you and I'm sorry I let you down." Tony had been in a fragile emotional state to begin with because he had just learned that his ex-comáre, Gloria Trillo, had committed suicide—which he blamed himself for. Tony calls 911 but is angry when he shows up at the hospital because of Artie's lack of consideration for those around him in attempting suicide, asking him, "Suppose I come over to your house and find you dead? How am I supposed to feel?" Tony tells Artie that he'll assume the Frenchman's debt (including the interest), and collect it himself, if Artie agrees to cancel Tony's $6,000 tab at the restaurant. Artie agrees, but suggests that Tony knew how the whole thing would play out from the beginning (Artie would get suckered and fail; Tony would benefit twice by taking collecting on Jean-Philippe's debt, and get his restaurant tab erased). Tony becomes irately indignant over this suggestion and storms out, telling Artie not to tell anyone about either their arrangement or the suicide attempt. The two don't speak to each other for the rest of Season Four, and into Season Five; although, Tony still frequents Vesuvio during this timeframe.
In the third episode of Season Five, Tony learns that Artie has been living in a Motel 6 since his wife (Charmaine Bucco) got the house in their separation. Tony offers to let Artie stay in his mother's old house, where Tony has been living since his separation from Carmela. Artie accepts, and the old friends reconcile.
By Season Six, Artie and Charmaine have reconciled. There is a growing sense of dissatisfaction amongst Nuovo Vesuvio's diners, culminating in the episode "Luxury Lounge". Artie has hired another young hostess that he lusts after—Martina, an undocumented Albanian immigrant that he has been helping through the U.S. government's immigration process. Soprano crew associate Benny Fazio is a regular fixture at the restaurant's bar, flirting with Martina (to Artie's chagrin, ostensibly because Benny has a wife who is expecting their first baby soon). The restaurant is losing many customers to a new rival restaurant (Da Giovanni's). Also, Artie spends increasingly less time cooking the food, delegating his Italian family recipes to non-Italian, illegal immigrant, line cooks. Charmaine worries that Artie's constant presence on the floor, chatting to customers, is also hurting business. Carmela sums up the restaurant's problems as a depressing atmosphere, stale menu, and aging decor. Tony suggests to Artie that promotional discount offers might help; Artie responds with hostility to any advice given. He accuses Tony of disloyalty for dining at Da Giovanni's, and again references his involvement in the arson of the first Vesuvio. The restaurant's finances worsen when American Express won't let its customers use its cards there, because several account numbers have already been stolen there and fraudulently misused to run-up charges elsewhere. Artie calls a staff meeting to ask the perpetrator to come forward, or to at least halt his/her activities. However, his insecurities once again get the better of him, and he becomes irate and accuses one, then all, of the employees of stealing from him. The coat-check girl, Sandy, tells Artie after the meeting that she has noticed immigrant Martina wearing new, $600 shoes. Artie confronts Martina and she instantly breaks, tearfully admitting to stealing, then passing, the charge card numbers to Benny; but, she instantly accuses Artie of changing his attitude toward her (from helping, to harassing) once he realized that she was sexually attracted to Benny, not him. Artie is enraged and storms to Benny's house in the middle of the night. The undersized Benny tries to deny his involvement, but Artie is undeterred. Artie starts a brawl, and surprisingly, beats Benny unconscious on his own front porch. He seems particularly angry that Benny saw him as an easy target, because he is not a wiseguy.
Tony invites Artie and his wife out on his boat, then lectures Artie about his behavior. He tells him Benny is baying for blood. Artie again refuses to accept advice, bemoaning the lack of fruit for his years of labor. Tony insists that Benny dine with his family at Vesuvio to celebrate his parents' anniversary—not the ultra-popular Da Giovanni's, as Benny had planned to. The occasion falls at the same time as the restaurant's first "twofers night" — an occasion that disgusts Artie (who has always regarded his restaurant as being above such promotions). Artie makes a veiled reference to the affair between Benny and Martina while chatting-up the family at their table; this prompts a humiliated Benny to storm into Vesuvio's kitchen, and plunge Artie's right hand into a scalding pot of tomato sauce. Tony visits Vesuvio with his wife and mother-in-law, and privately suggests that Artie go see Dr. Melfi for help, as he has been "going about his life in pity for himself". Artie insults Tony by telling him to go to Giovanni's, instead (rhetorically questioning whether they would serve him customized food, bland enough for his damaged pancreas, as Artie did him after his shooting). Tony responds by telling Artie a hard truth: no one likes his excessive chatter on the restaurant floor, and he should spend more time in the kitchen.
In 2007, the indication is that Artie has dealt with his personal issues, and worked to restore his business—Nuovo Vesuvio even plays host to then-New York Jets head coach Eric Mangini (in a cameo appearance). Artie had also catered Christopher Moltisanti's belated bachelor party at Nuovo Vesuvio, and without coming into confrontation with Benny.
Past[edit]
Artie's father (also Arthur Bucco) was a chef and was married to Dorothy "Dot" D'Auria Bucco; they were both born in Newark, New Jersey. His paternal grandparents, Angelo Bucco and Concetta Palagonia Bucco, emigrated from Baiano, Avellino, Italy in 1913 and opened the family's first restaurant in 1926. This was Bucco's Vesuvio in the Italian First Ward of Newark, New Jersey. The second Bucco's Vesuvio opened in Bloomfield, New Jersey in the early 1950s. Artie's parents helped finance his attendance at the Cooks Culinary Academy in London, England. Soon after he graduated, his parents retired to New Brunswick, New Jersey, and Artie and Charmaine took over Vesuvio as equal partners.
External links[edit]
HBO Profile: Artie Bucco
Charmaine Bucco[edit]
Charmaine Bucco, played by Kathrine Narducci, is the wife of Artie Bucco and a childhood friend of Carmela and Tony Soprano.
Biography[edit]
Charmaine is an old friend of Carmela Soprano's, and married Artie Bucco—a friend of Tony Soprano's ever since grade school. She also dated Tony Soprano in high school, and several allusions to their high school sex life are spread throughout the series—especially one scene in the episode, The Test Dream. Artie and Charmaine co-own an upscale Italian restaurant, Vesuvio (inherited from Artie's father); Charmaine runs the front-of-the-house, and Artie is the head chef. Charmaine's education is referenced periodically in the series: for instance, in The Test Dream, Tony reveals that Charmaine is a licensed notary public. Also, in the Season Four episode Everybody Hurts, when Charmaine raises concerns over losing control of Vesuvio, in relation to Artie's excitement over Tony's offer to become an "investor" in Vesuvio (which would fund Artie's dreams of transforming the restaurant into an ultra-high-end, extension of his own ego), Artie sarcastically retorts that this business idea would never pass Charmaine's "incredibly high Wharton School of Business standards".
Artie and Charmaine have three children together, one son, and two daughters. One of their daughters played with Meadow on the high school soccer team.
In Season One (1999), Charmaine and Carmela have drifted apart. Charmaine resents that Carmela enjoys an affluent lifestyle that is only made possible by her husband's criminal activities. She discourages Artie from associating with Tony because of those mafia connections, and talks Artie out of accepting suspiciously generous gifts from Tony. Charmaine and Carmela's friendship reaches a crisis point when Carmela hires the Buccos to cater a silent auction fundraiser at the Soprano home. Carmela treats Charmaine like a servant, prompting Charmaine to exact revenge by revealing that she slept with and dated Tony at the same time he was beginning to date Carmela (who was on a trip with her parents at the time).
Charmaine often appears shrewish and irritable, and she rarely masks her growing annoyance at her husband's deepening association with members of the Soprano crime family. However, she could also be considered one of the series's few moral anchors. She never compromises her moral and ethical decency; as a result, she's one of the few recurring characters who is never corrupted by Tony Soprano's influence.
Following a series of escalating arguments, Artie and Charmaine finally separate. Artie sees Tony as the person who can help him realize his dreams of fame and fortune. Charmaine sees Tony as a cancer-like threat to their family's chances to achieve The American Dream. She also feels that the more Artie pursues Tony's influence and approval, the less Artie likes and listens to her. She leaves, telling him, "You're not getting the kids". Since the split, Charmaine considerably improved her personal appearance, while defiantly continuing to work at Nuovo Vesuvio (which the Buccos opened to replace Vesuvio, which burned down in Season 1, episode 1).
Charmaine ultimately reconciles with Artie. During their restaurant's financial difficulties in 2006, Charmaine remains level-headed and actually supportive of her husband.
External links[edit]
HBO.com
Albie Cianflone[edit]
Albert "Albie" Cianflone, played by John "Cha Cha" Ciarcia, is the reputed consigliere to Phil Leotardo.
Albie is a former soldier in the Leotardo crew, and has reputedly worked for Phil Leotardo since the 1980s. After Johnny Sack was arrested and indicted on various charges, Phil was promoted to Acting boss, and Albie was made new consigliere. Albie helped mediate the Barone Sanitation dispute with the Soprano crime family. He also attended Allegra Sacrimoni's wedding, and sat at Phil's left hand at the meal to celebrate Gerry Torciano getting his "button" at the Vesuvio. Albie accompanied Phil to New Jersey for the Feast of St. Elzear, and helped organize the distribution of stolen vitamins that Tony offered them from a truck hijacking. Once Johnny Sack allocuted in federal court, Albie expressed relief, saying, "Could have been worse. He could've flipped." Phil expressed outrage at this statement, feeling that Johnny should have stood trial instead of admitting the existence of "this thing of ours." Alongside newly made Underboss Butch DeConcini, Albie was one of Phil's most trusted advisors and confidants, often seen talking either only to Butch or Phil himself. After Phil hatches the plot to kill the entire regime of the Soprano crime family, Albie first protests in shock that taking out an entire family is impossible, however, he later agrees to Phil's decision. Along with Butch, Albie plans the executions of Tony Soprano, Silvio Dante and Bobby Baccalieri. In the final episode, "Made in America", Albie meets with Tony, Paulie Gualtieri, Little Carmine, Butch DeConcini, and George Paglieri, in New York, where the Lupertazzis agree to end their war with the Sopranos.
Murders Ordered By Cianflone[edit]
Faustino "Doc" Santoro: Killed during the New York power struggle.
Ralph Cifaretto[edit]
Ralph "Ralphie" Cifaretto, played by Joe Pantoliano, is not present in Season 1 or 2, as he spends a prolonged period of time in Miami. Ralph first appears as a soldier in the Aprile Crew in the second episode of season 3, "Proshai, Livushka". He is characterized as an excellent earner but also unstable and prone to violence.
Ralph was born in the late-1950s and grew up in New Jersey along with associates Tony, Silvio, and Jackie Aprile Sr. He did not move up in the ranks nearly as fast as his peers; he credits this to not going along with the robbing of Feech La Mana's card game, which led to Tony, Silvio, and Jackie, Sr. getting made and respected. At one point, Ralph mentions he wanted to be an architect but had to drop out of the eleventh grade after his mother's death, to raise his brothers and sisters. Ralph was sent down to Florida to watch over the family's interests in Miami, where he developed an addiction to cocaine, which he would later blame for his violent outbursts.
He returned to New Jersey in mid-2000, following the disappearance of Richie Aprile. As a high-ranking soldier, he tried to take over the crew despite Tony's reluctance to make him captain, and often referred to it as "my crew". Upon his return from Miami, he (as Junior says) "really whipped the Aprile Crew into shape." Tony viewed Ralph as obnoxious and insubordinate, so he passed Ralph over for promotion and made Gigi Cestone captain. After Cestone dies of a heart attack, Tony reluctantly installs Ralph as captain of the Aprile Crew.
In the episode "University", Ralph is involved with a 20-year-old stripper named Tracee, who becomes pregnant. At the Bing, Tracee insults Ralph in front of his friends. He follows her outside, where they argue, she spits at him, and he beats her to death. Tony sees Ralph is lying and strikes him repeatedly. Ralph defends himself by shouting, "I'm a made guy!" Tony justifies his actions by saying that Ralph "disrespected the Bing".
Ralph purchases a race horse from Hesh Rabkin named Pie-O-My. The horse is a winner and makes Ralph and Tony a lot of money. While Ralph only cares about the horse as a means to make money, Tony becomes emotionally attached, even paying for a veterinarian and staying with her when she gets sick.
When his son Justin is accidentally shot in the chest with an arrow, Ralph is devastated and turns to Father Intintola for guidance. After Pie-O-My dies in a stable fire, Tony confronts Ralph over the suspicious timing of the fire with the $200,000 insurance pay out which was also his son's required medical expenses. Ralph denies the accusation and rebukes Tony for being emotionally attached to the horse. A fight ensues in which Tony chokes Ralph to death. Tony and Chris dismember Ralph's body, bury some pieces at a farm and sink the rest in a river.
Posthumous appearances[edit]
Later on in the series, Tony has three dreams which include Ralph:
In the season 4 episode "Calling All Cars", the first dream involves Carmela driving Tony's father's old Cadillac with Ralph in the passenger seat. A caterpillar appears on Ralph's bald head and then turns into a butterfly. When Tony discusses this dream with Dr. Melfi, she points out the transition of the caterpillar to butterfly signifies a change.
The second dream of the episode involves Tony following Ralph into an old house where Tony sees a silhouette of a woman at the top of the stairs.
In the episode "The Test Dream", Tony rides in a car with Ralph, Pussy, Mikey Palmice and several other deceased characters. When Tony asks, "Where we going?", Ralphie replies, "We're driving you to the job."
External links[edit]
HBO Profile: Ralph Cifaretto
Butch DeConcini[edit]
Butch "The Little Guy" DeConcini, played by Greg Antonacci, is a high-ranking member of the Lupertazzi crime family, first appearing in the show as a capo and later being promoted to underboss.
Butch is initially a capo but later becomes the underboss of the Lupertazzi crime family under Phil Leotardo. He attended Little Carmine Lupertazzi's "meeting of minds" to try to resolve a dispute with the Soprano crime family in 2006 after Tony responded to the murder of Vito Spatafore by blowing up a wire room in Sheepshead Bay that was owned by Phil Leotardo. After the effort failed, DeConcini was vocal in his desire to move against Tony Soprano. DeConcini was critical of Albie Cianfalone's assertion that the attack showed that Tony had balls, saying he felt his bombing of one of Phil's properties was similar to the 9/11 attacks and should be met with an effort to eradicate the perpetrators. When Phil refused to consider killing a boss, it was Butch who suggested they move on someone else in Tony's family. Phil soon suffered a heart attack and Butch kept watch at the hospital with others—he was confrontational when Tony visited Phil. When Phil ordered a hit on Doc Santoro to take over the Lupertazzi family once and for all, it was Butch who oversaw the assassination behind the wheel of one of the getaway cars. Upon Phil's permanent elevation to boss, Butch was made underboss of the family. Alongside Albie Cianflone, Butch is one of Phil's primary confidants and advisors. While Butch may have an old grudge against the Soprano family, he puts business first when it becomes clear that Phil's attempt to wipe out the Soprano family leadership has failed, and he notices Phil's threatening tone regarding his future due to the failure to find and murder Tony. During a sit-down with Tony Soprano and Paulie Gualtieri, he, along with Albie Cianflone and Little Carmine Lupertazzi, agree to end the war against the Soprano family. While Butch will not give up Phil's whereabouts (it is earlier established that Phil won't tell Butch where he is), he gives consent on behalf of the Lupertazzi family for Tony to hunt down and murder Phil. Butch would seem to be the likely choice to become Boss of the Lupertazzi family.
Murders ordered by DeConcini[edit]
Faustino "Doc" Santoro: Multiple gunshot wounds to various parts of the abdomen and face. Killed during the New York power struggle. (2007)
Benny Fazio[edit]
Benito "Benny" Fazio, Jr., played by Max Casella, is a soldier of Christopher Moltisanti, who began working for the DiMeo crime family with Chris under Capo Paulie Gualtieri and continued to work for Chris after his elevation to Caporegime.
Biography[edit]
Benny debuted in the third episode of Season 3, with his release from county jail and renewed association with Christopher. Benny belongs to the crew run by Paulie and later Moltisanti. He began working for Christopher just after Christopher became a made man in 2001 (Season 3). Benny's star began to rise due to his association with Christopher, as well as the fact that he is the godson of Soprano capo Larry Barese.
In 2001, Benny and Chris often hung out at the Ooh-Fa Pizzeria, which brought them into contact with Jackie Aprile, Jr. Jackie informed them of an opportunity to rob a Jewel concert at Rutgers University. Benny and Chris committed the robbery and made a clean escape with Jackie driving.
In 2002 (Season 4), Benny was awarded one of the "no-work" carpenter jobs at the esplanade construction site and was often found there following this. He was assigned the important task of killing two would-be assassins contracted by Tony to whack New York boss Carmine Lupertazzi after the hit was called off. Benny and Petey LaRosa ambushed and killed the hitmen - two black heroin dealers - who were set up by Christopher Moltisanti.
Over time, Benny became a trusted associate and came to be known by boss Tony Soprano, acting both as a driver and as a guard of his house during his separation with Carmela. Benny also worked with Christopher as part of Tony's scheme to get Feech La Manna sent back to prison — they pretended to mention a truck of stolen electronics only in passing, but knew Feech would want to get involved. He did, and stored them in his garage, but his parole officer had been tipped off and came to investigate.
However, in late 2004, Benny was seriously beaten by New York capo Phil Leotardo. The crisis brought on by Tony Blundetto was reaching a head and Phil severely beat Benny to send a message to Tony. Phil knew of Benny's friendship with Chris and position as driver to Tony; Phil and Benny had been present together at meetings between Tony and Johnny Sack. Tony, feeling guilty about Benny's fractured skull, offered to give Benny his button when he recovers, as a consolation, meaning he will become a made man.
By 2006 Benny appeared to have recovered from the attack fully. His responsibilities included driving acting boss Silvio Dante while Tony was in the ICU, guarding Tony's ICU room and chasing down Vito Spatafore to his comare's beach house following the revelation that he was homosexual. Benny was partnered with Patsy Parisi in a business relationship with Angie Bonpensiero and was responsible for assisting her auto body shop business and handling money she invests in loan sharking.
It was revealed that Benny is married to Jen Fazio with a son on the way. However, Benny began an affair with Martina, the newest hostess at Nuovo Vesuvio's, much to the irritation of owner and head chef Artie Bucco who had his eyes on her.
Benny was involved in Chris' credit card fraud scheme with Mohammed and Ahmed, using his relationship with Martina to get account numbers used at Nuovo Vesuvio and selling them on through Soprano crew associate James "Murmur" Zancone. Benny was also responsible for paying Chris' tribute to Tony while Chris visited L.A. Tony had Benny deliver the money straight to Artie to cover his tab at Artie's restaurant, ironically paying Artie back with money drained from his own business.
American Express investigated Vesuvio's role in the credit card fraud and pulls his ability to accept their cards, prompting Artie to identify Martina as the criminal in his staff. Artie confronted Benny at his home; the scuffle that followed sent Benny to the hospital. Despite orders from Tony to make peace with Artie, Benny later gets revenge after Artie insults him at a family dinner that Tony insisted he organize at Vesuvio. Benny was there to celebrate his parents' anniversary and Artie offers him a "Martina", saying it is an Albanian martini, adding that "...they go down real easy". Enraged, Benny follows Artie to the kitchen and holds his arm in a pot of boiling tomato sauce, burning him very badly, and also rams his head into the large metal counter. Benny later attended Chris' belated bachelor party, also at Nuovo Vesuvio which was hosted by Artie, but the two refrained from initiating further violence.
Benny was also able to exact some revenge for his beating by Phil Leotardo. Tony assigned Benny the task of watching Phil's wire room in Sheepshead Bay when the Soprano crew bombed it. Benny was pleased to report to Tony that Phil and his girlfriend arrived just before the explosion and was knocked down (but relatively unharmed) by the blast. By 2007, Benny was a made man making his own collections, with a rank of "Soldier".
Benny is present at a card game where Little Paulie Germani is thrown out of a window by Christopher Moltisanti. Benny, shocked by what Chris has done, calls an ambulance. He has also accompanied Paulie Gualtieri and Silvio to the Bada Bing and was in Atlantic City with Tony and crew while Tony gambled away a lot of money. Following Moltisanti's death, Benny is saddened, as the two were close, but consoled himself with the thought that Chris had persevered to battle his drug problem. After Chris's death in the episode "Kennedy and Heidi" Benny remarked he was out making his collections when he heard of Chris's death. Benny also helped guard Tony while he was on the lam from Phil Leotardo. Benny and several of Tony's other crew members were checking gas stations to find Phil Leotardo after a some intel from Agent Harris. Benny is last seen acting as the getaway driver when Walden Belfiore shot Phil Leotardo to death at a Raceway Gas Station. In season 5, he drives a Chevrolet Camaro which he crashes into the side of a building while trying to escape from Phil Leotardo. In season 6, he is shown to be driving a Chrysler 300.
Murders committed by Fazio[edit]
Stanley Johnson: order of Tony Soprano and Christopher Moltisanti. (2002)
Brendan Filone[edit]
Brendan Filone was Christopher Moltisanti's friend and partner in crime and an associate of Tony Soprano. Brendan was addicted to crystal meth, and often used it with Christopher. In the episode "46 Long", Brendan and Christopher hijacked a Comley Trucking truck and stole a number of DVD players. Comley Trucking was under the protection of Junior Soprano, who demanded restitution. At a sit down, Junior tells Tony to keep Brendan and Christopher's "loose cannon" behavior under control. In a nightclub, Brendan tries his best to convince Chris to neglect Tony and Uncle Junior since they were both being denied a rise. Early the next morning, Brendan urges Chris to get ready for the next heist, a truckload of high-end Italian suits. Christopher tells him that he has decided to go along with the rules instead.
Always high on crystal meth and unable to comply with orders, Brendan, this time without Christopher, hijacks another Comley truck with two cohorts. In the process, the driver of this second truck is accidentally shot and killed by a ricochet bullet when one of the thugs drops his gun. Once Tony learns about this mishap, Brendan and Christopher receive a lecture about leadership and are ordered to return the truck to Comley. However, Uncle Junior isn't satisfied. Mikey Palmice and Livia Soprano both give Uncle Junior advice on the matter. Because of this, Junior orders that Christopher has a mock execution — and Brendan is shot clean through the eye while in his bathtub by Uncle Junior's trigger man, Mikey Palmice whilst Junior stands by. This scene is inter-cut with Meadow's rendition of the lullaby All Through the Night.
In the aftermath, Christopher and Adriana find Brendan's body in his bathtub and Christopher calls for harsh retaliation against Palmice. Tony decides to confront his uncle and Mikey for their punishing methods by beating Mikey to the ground and stapling him with some tickets. He then goes to have a sit-down with Uncle Junior for his orders.
Anthony DeSando's last onscreen appearance as Brendan Filone was in the first season episode "The Legend of Tennessee Moltisanti." He is one of the main concentrations on television when Jeffrey Wernick is interviewed about the murder charges. Wernick reveals that Filone was a loyal soldier and associate and his murder was as yet unsolved from the eyes of a federal agent. The amount of attention and coverage Brendan receives after his demise makes Christopher annoyed and jealous. Even Georgie says that he is amazed to have known Brendan.
Later, when Jimmy Altieri attends a funeral, he notifies Uncle Junior of how sad Brendan Filone's mother was at his funeral. Junior reciprocates by telling Mikey and Chuckie about Jimmy's remark, noting that this is the kind of things they are talking about behind his back, namely the "Brendan Filone hit."
Later, in retaliation for the attempted hit on Tony, Mikey Palmice is killed after Chris and Paulie Gualtieri chase him down while he is jogging. Mikey tries to blame all the recent events on Junior, even Brendan's death, but Chris replies, "My friend Brendan, you shot him in his bathtub naked, no chance to run." Paulie and Chris then execute Mikey, leave him dead in the woods.
In season two, after Christopher is shot by Sean Gismonte and Matthew Bevilaqua, he has a near-death experience in the hospital where he goes to "hell" and explains that he saw Brendan Filone and Mikey Palmice playing cards with a bunch of Roman soldiers and Irish men. Chris also mentions that Brendan and Mikey are friends in hell although they were enemies when alive. Paulie assumes that Chris went to purgatory and tries to reassure him that it isn't as bad as hell, although Paulie becomes obsessed with his own fears of ghosts. With the exception of Paulie's concern, most of the other Soprano crew chalk up Christopher's experience as a hallucination.
Murders connected to Filone[edit]
Hector Anthony - Shot during a botched truck hijacking planned by Filone. (1999)
Little Paulie Germani[edit]
Paul "Little Paulie" Germani, played by Carl Capotorto, is thought to be the nephew (later revealed to actually be a first cousin) and right-hand of Soprano family Underboss Paulie Gualtieri. Germani is an associate and later soldier in the Moltisanti crew.
Later in Season 4, Germani was tasked with vandalizing Carmine Lupertazzi's restaurant when Tony and Carmine got into a dispute over the HUD scam. He was also responsible for intimidating Alan Sapinsly after Tony's separation caused him to withdraw from a contract to buy property from Sapinsly. Paulie and Benny used Tony's home entertainment system speakers on his boat to blast Dean Martin recordings at the Sapinsly home at all hours.
Germani regularly hangs out with Christopher and accompanies him on debt collections visits. Germani has taken a few knocks in the past, noticeably at a Columbus Day rally and after taking a joke too far with Eugene Pontecorvo at the Esplanade construction site. In season 5, Little Paulie accompanied Chris when collecting a loan from writer J. T. Dolan. In season 6, Germani has been seen enjoying the private room at the Bada Bing with Benny and Chris. Paulie also attended Chris's belated bachelor party.
Germani helped his uncle organize the 2006 Feast of Saint Elzear and when his corner-cutting caused a ride to malfunction, Little Paulie was left to deal with the police.
In the Season 6, part II episode "Walk like a Man", Little Paulie is badly hurt after being pushed out of a second story window by Christopher during a feud with Paulie. He suffers 6 broken vertebrae. He helps in the war with the Lupertazzi crime family, disguising himself as a police officer while searching for Phil Leotardo.
External links[edit]
HBO Profile: "Little" Paulie Germani
Carlo Gervasi[edit]
Carlo Gervasi, played by Arthur J. Nascarella, was a capo in the Soprano crime family, before turning FBI informant.
Gervasi was promoted to caporegime of Jimmy Altieri's crew after Jimmy was murdered on suspicion of being an F.B.I. informant. He had the unique position of being in charge of obtaining grey-market goods from container ships docking at the Newark ports. These procurements included everything from Vespa scooters to provolone cheese. Carlo also accompanied Tony, Ralph and Hesh to the stables to purchase the racing horse Pie-O-My. In Season 6, Carlo attended two celebration dinners at Nuovo Vesuvio, first when his cousin Burt Gervasi became a made man and a second for Christopher Moltisanti's belated bachelor party. When Bobby Baccalieri was injured, Gervasi visited him in the hospital and passed his collections up to an indifferent Tony Soprano. He shares the same last name as reputed Montreal, Canada mobsters Paolo Gervasi, and his son Salvatore Gervasi.[1] The Italian surname Gervasi, along with the French name Gervais, is in honor of the Catholic martyr Saint Gervasius. Carlo's surname is somewhat ironic, in that Saint Gervasius is said to have been beheaded,[2] and Carlo himself beheads the body of Dominic "Fat Dom" Gamiello after stabbing him to death. It is unknown whether or not this was an intentional reference by the show's creators.
Very little is known about Carlo's character. For all of his time on the screen, the audience knows virtually nothing about him. He shares this distinction with Patsy Parisi, another member of the group who has very little back-story and few lines relative to his frequent visual presence. He first appears in a meeting of Tony's crew in the first episode of Season 4, but there was no explanation as to where he came from and how he became part of the gang's inner circle. Carlo is not even directly referenced by name until the sixth season.
His personal life is also shrouded in mystery. Though Carlo has two sons, Jason (who is seen on the show) and James (who is not), Carlo's wife (if he has one) is never seen by the audience, or even mentioned, nor is Carlo ever seen with a comare or mistress. This is in stark contrast to the rest of Tony's crew, all of whom but Paulie have significant others or families who are regularly shown. Carlo rarely speaks, compared to the rest of the crew. The most detail of his life outside of his mob activities that the audience ever sees is shown in the episode "Kaisha", where his house and garage are shown for the only time in the series as he retrieves Dominic "Fat Dom" Gamiello's head from his refrigerator in order to dispose of it. A Jet Ski is seen in his garage; outside of this, nothing is known of his hobbies or interests.
It is only in Season Six that Carlo begins to emerge from the background and become a more important character. Gervasi was given all of Vito Spatafore's construction business in addition to the ports, after the revelation of Vito's sexual orientation and his subsequent downfall, but has suffered recent work stoppages. Gervasi was also outspoken about his disapproval of Spatafore's homosexuality, suggesting to Soprano that his cousin, Tommy knew a detective who might be useful in tracking down Spatafore. His notorious hatred of homosexuals surprised even the other mobsters, wishing that Spatafore be "dragged behind his car." When Soprano decided that Spatafore had to be killed to appease acting New York boss Phil Leotardo, and Silvio Dante asked if the hit should be assigned to anyone in particular, Soprano suggested Gervasi for the job because of his strong views. Tony compares him to Roy Bean. However, Spatafore was beaten to death by Phil Leotardo's men Gerry Torciano and Dominic "Fat Dom" Gamiello before Gervasi could act. Gervasi expressed admiration for Leotardo's commitment to his views, despite the killing of a made man being performed without Tony's permission. Silvio comments that he is as talkative about the subject as Jimmy Olsen. Carlo later avenged his family's honor by stabbing Fat Dom four times with a gigantic chef's knife for making jokes about Spatafore's murder and implying that Gervasi was also homosexual. The killing occurred in the back room of Satriale's pork store and Silvio also took part; Tony Soprano later discovered them waiting to dispose of the body and was angry because of the murder's possible repercussions. Gervasi took charge of disposing of Gamiello's body and drove to Connecticut to deposit his head in a storm drain, phoning Silvio to confirm that the last part was safely away and to ask about Tony's plans to blow up Leotardo's wire room.
Soprano later placed Gervasi in charge of Spatafore's construction business, but he was disappointed with Gervasi's earning capacity in this new role. Gervasi's son Jason attends Rutgers University and is involved in gambling and loansharking there.
Gervasi is later seen participating in the production of Cleaver with Christopher Moltisanti and Little Carmine. He appears to be acting as a consultant, suggesting that more graphic violence may bolster the film's success.
Gervasi's cousin, Burt switched sides during the Lupertazzi/Soprano war and was killed for his disloyalty by Silvio Dante. Carlo wasn't seen to react to the murder of his cousin, but it may have influenced his decision to cooperate with law enforcement. Gervasi accompanied Tony to a safe house to help protect him from Phil Leotardo's hitmen.
In the series finale, Gervasi's son was picked up by the FBI for drug-dealing. Gervasi failed to show up for a meeting with Paulie Gualtieri, which worried Tony Soprano that he may have been cutting a deal. Soprano's attorney confirmed that someone was, in fact testifying before a grand jury and that indictments were forthcoming. In the final scene, Tony told Carmela that Carlo was testifying, thus confirming that he turned informant, likely to keep his son out of jail.
Murders committed by Gervasi[edit]
Dominic "Fat Dom" Gamiello: Stabbed in the stomach multiple times after deriding Vito's murder and also implying Gervasi was a homosexual.
Furio Giunta[edit]
Main article: Furio Giunta
Furio Giunta, played by Federico Castelluccio, is an Italian gangster working for Tony Soprano.
Biography[edit]
Furio was one of two members of the DiMeo crime family born in Italy (the other being Michele "Feech" LaManna). Tony bargained with the Neapolitan Camorra mob boss Annalisa Zucca for Furio to come to New Jersey to work for him as part of an international car theft operation. This impulse to integrate Furio into his association emerged once he saw Furio beat a young boy for playing with firecrackers and consequently imitating the sound of gun shots. Tony Soprano saw that Furio had absolutely no inhibitions and a merciless wrath embedded by a sincere loyalty to his boss (Furio shields his boss with his own body when the firecrackers are first heard). In order to get Furio a visa, Tony got him a job as a mozzarella maker in the Nuovo Vesuvio Restaurant, enticing Artie Bucco with the idea that Tony will pay Furio's salary and he does not have to be on Vesuvio's payroll. Furio did not particularly excel at honest work, mainly because Artie imposed tougher standards on his kitchen workers than restaurants in Italy, such as hair nets and no smoking on duty. Upon his arrival in New Jersey, Furio became one of Tony's most feared enforcers, intimidating and beating up multiple people who owed Tony money as well as acting as Tony's driver and bodyguard, to the initial resentment of long time senior Soprano soldier Salvatore "Big Pussy" Bonpensiero.
Furio was an extremely loyal and dedicated soldier for his boss Tony, but he does not appear to have been a violent individual outside of that context. On the contrary, his personality was rather passive and sometimes even childlike, and he generally behaved in a very calm and polite manner. He spoke respectfully at all times and was not known to lose his temper, nor did he ever become entangled in rivalries within the Soprano crew. He also displayed a great deal of sentimentality and nostalgia when talking of his native land of Naples and his former employment working in the olive garden of a rich man. Before his employment with the Italian mafia, he presumably worked as a master cheese maker. Furio was also known for his long hair, which he usually wore in a ponytail, and his penchant for elaborate, flashy silk shirts.
Season 2[edit]
Furio's first assignment was to extract payment from a massage parlor owner whose wife had convinced him to withhold payment. In an earlier visit, Chris had acted in an intimidating manner and shoved a paintbrush dipped in paint into his nostril. Furio was less restrained - he fearlessly smashed up the place, and showed no hesitation about hitting the guests or the owner's wife. He then broke the owner's arm with a baseball bat and shot him in the kneecap - all of which made a positive impression on Tony. Furio was also one of the few people to know that Richie Aprile had been killed, as Tony tasked Furio and Christopher for assistance with dismembering Richie's body at Satriale's. Furio made collections from low-level associates Matthew Bevilaqua and Sean Gismonte and was not above taking a cut of his own. Furio's grabbiness with Matt and Sean would cause problems later, as they are convinced they are being used by Tony, and then attempt to murder Christopher by shooting him.
Season 3[edit]
Furio's role in the overall plot of season 3 is minor. Most notably, in "Amour Fou", Furio is shot in the leg by Jackie Aprile, Jr. while Jackie and his friends Dino Zerilli and Carlo Renzi were robbing Ralph Cifaretto's card game in an attempt to gain some recognition amongst the crime family and possibly get made. Because of his injury, Furio walks with a cane for the next episode (the finale of season 3), but is fine several months later when season 4 begins. In that episode, Furio accompanies Vito Spatafore when Vito hunts Jackie down and executes him.
Season 4[edit]
In the season 4 episode "Everybody Hurts", a sly Frenchman named Jean-Pierre Colbert cons Artie Bucco into temporarily lending him $50,000 for a business investment back in France. Artie borrows the money from Tony Soprano but when Artie goes to Jean Pierre's apartment to collect the money, he claims he doesn't have it and doesn't know when he's going to "get it." Artie and Jean-Pierre scuffle briefly, but Artie leaves bruised and bloodied. Furio is later tasked with reclaiming Tony's assumed debt from Jean-Pierre Colbert, which he does.
Furio eventually began to fall in love with Tony's wife, Carmela, who also saw him as a dashing, sensitive man — Tony's polar opposite — but the two never truly became romantically entwined. Carmela tried to deflect her attraction by arranging dates for Furio. For a time, however, there was significant sexual tension between them. Carmela found excuses to visit Furio including assisting him in buying and decorating a house, and planning a house-warming party, but made sure she was never alone with him. At the house-warming they shared a sexually charged dance, Furio later claims he forgot his sunglasses at the Soprano house, just as a ploy to talk with Carmela.
When Furio's father died, he returned to Italy for the funeral. He sought the advice of his uncle, another Mafia member, telling him that Italy no longer felt like home and that he was in love with his boss's wife, feeling that they could truly communicate. His uncle made it clear he had to move on or kill his boss. Upon his return, Furio withdrew from Carmela, presenting gifts to her children but not her. In the season 4 penultimate episode "Eloise", Furio witnesses Tony's infidelity first hand on a night out at a casino when Tony was dancing and being excessively flirtatious with a stripper. This enrages Furio to no end, as he thinks Carmela deserves better. A helicopter had been arranged to take them home and while Tony was urinating on the tarmac, Furio suddenly grabs him by his jacket and contemplates pushing Tony into the back rotor blades of the helicopter. "What the fuck you doin'?!" exclaimed Tony in a very inebriated voice. Furio then pulls him away and plays if off by telling Tony "You were standing too close..." Fortunately, Tony was so intoxicated he only seemed slightly fazed and didn't seem to recall the incident the following day. Faced with the possibility of being killed by a vengeful Tony — and with ongoing thoughts of killing Tony himself — Furio packed up, moved back to Italy and disappeared. Carmela later went by Furio's house and stared in awe at the fact it was empty and for sale. Carmela was devastated, and eventually revealed her feelings for him in an argument with Tony, to which Tony replies "If certain men see him, he's a dead man". (This is one of the only times in the show that Tony explicitly concedes to Carmela that murder is part of his business). In Season 5, it is said that Tony has men looking for him in Italy. However, it is never stated whether Furio was found, as this is the last time anyone spoke of him on the show. Furio's fate ultimately remains unknown.
Phil Leotardo[edit]
Philip "Phil" Leotardo, played by actor Frank Vincent, was originally a captain in the Lupertazzi Crime Family, but following the death of the original Boss, Carmine Lupertazzi, the imprisonment and death of his successor Johnny Sacrimoni, commonly known as Johnny Sack, and a brief power struggle with would-be boss Faustino "Doc" Santoro, Phil became the Boss of the Family. Phil was married to Patty Leotardo and was a second cousin of Marie Spatafore. Phil bears a resemblance to the last Shah of Iran, leading to Tony Soprano and the DiMeo crime family often referring to him as "The Shah". He expressed dislike for the nickname.
Biography[edit]
A prominent member and longtime captain of the Lupertazzi crime family, Phil Leotardo was one of the wiseguys who were sent to prison during the "Mafia Crackdown of the 1980s" and, after serving 20 years, was released as part of the "Class of '04" at the beginning of season 5. Phil was always good at his job; he had an alleged 27 hits to his credit. He quickly rejoined the Lupertazzi crime family, of Brooklyn, New York, once he was released from prison.
Phil had a percentage in a midget car racetrack, which was co-owned by Johnny Soprano and Hesh Rabkin. When Tony Soprano found out that Hesh had been keeping Johnny's share for himself instead of giving it to Johnny's mistress Fran Felstein, he demanded a sit-down with Johnny Sack who ruled in Tony's favor and said that Phil should pay 25% of his share which Phil said was around $40,000. Phil enraged Tony by saying that he "has some balls, kid", as Feech La Manna also viewed him as a kid. Although Johnny Sack and Silvio tried to calm the situation, Tony angrily replied to Phil that "it is not the 1970s and he is not a kid", demanded payment within five days and stormed out. Johnny Sack chastised Phil for disrespecting Tony and reminded Phil that "Tony is a boss". Phil indicated that he, like Carmine Lupertazzi, did not see the DiMeo family as a Mafia crime family and therefore their leader was not a boss. Phil tried to avoid Tony but he was forced off the road and crashed into a parked truck and injured his neck. He had to wear a neck brace for the next few weeks. Tony later compensated Phil for this by repairing Phil's car at the Bonpensiero Brothers' Body Shop. Phil took full advantage of this and tried to wring as much work as possible out of the deal at no charge.
Following Carmine Sr.'s death, a power struggle between two factions ensued. One side was led by Carmine's underboss, Johnny Sack, while the other was ostensibly led by Carmine's only son and Miami Capo "Little Carmine" Lupertazzi, although it is likely that Consigliere Angelo Garepe and Capo Rusty Millio were the real power behind this faction, and Little Carmine would be used as a "puppet" of sorts.
Phil became Johnny's right-hand man during the war, and carried out murders in order to weaken Little Carmine's resolve. Phil performed a mock execution of Lorraine Calluzzo, while she was tightly taped and gagged, shooting at her while holding a phone book in the path of the bullet, to persuade her to redirect her payments from Little Carmine to Johnny Sack. When she failed to comply Phil returned with his younger brother, Billy Leotardo, and Joe Peeps who killed Lorraine. When Peeps was later killed, Phil and Billy murdered Angelo Garepe in response. Phil coldly ignored Angelo's pleas to spare him because they knew each other. Acting only as Johnny's field marshal until that point, Phil became personally involved in the war when his brother Billy was murdered by Tony Blundetto, as revenge for the hit the Leotardo brothers carried out on Angelo, who was Blundetto's close friend.
Tony Soprano initially protected Blundetto against Phil. Phil stalked New Jersey looking for Blundetto hounding Christopher Moltisanti to his mother Joanne's home and badly beating Soprano associate Benny Fazio. When it became clear that Tony's men would not allow themselves to be imperiled for no good reason, Tony was forced to act. Tony ultimately murdered his own cousin to save his family and give Blundetto a quick and painless death. Soprano did this because at an earlier meeting, Johnny Sack had made it clear that Phil would torture Blundetto if he got his hands on him.
Phil was, according to Johnny Sack, 'beside himself' that his opportunity for vengeance was stolen. However, at a meeting between the two bosses, Johnny and Tony made peace, but the moment was interrupted by Johnny's arrest by the FBI, while Tony escaped. With Johnny in Federal custody, Phil became acting boss of the Lupertazzi family, and on the surface was faithful in continuing the work of Johnny Sack. Even Tony Soprano commended his leadership skills.
Phil worked closely with Tony and Vito Spatafore, the husband of his cousin, on the two family's joint construction efforts. Phil mediated the dispute over the sale of Barone sanitation passing messages back and forth between Tony and Johnny Sack. Phil also resolved a dispute over the beating of Hesh Rabkin's son-in-law Eli by offering generous compensation.
However, due to Phil's "old-school" mentality, he developed contempt for formerly close friends who have displayed what he sees as "effeminate" qualities: particularly for Vito when his homosexuality was revealed, and even his own boss Johnny Sack for sobbing when forced to leave his daughter's wedding. At the wedding, Phil also watched as Tony collapsed when asked to remove his shoes. Phil's homophobia is portrayed as excessive even by Mafia standards.
Distracted with all the duties of an acting boss Phil made elderly Lupertazzi mobster Albie Cianfalone his consigliere. Phil also placed Gerry Torciano in charge of his old Brooklyn, NY territory. Gerry received his button soon after being given his new responsibilities and Phil gave a speech at a celebratory dinner held at Nuovo Vesuvio. Phil used the opportunity to expound on his feelings about Vito's homosexuality.
Phil visited Marie to try to find out if she knew where Vito was, when she pleaded for mercy for her husband he told her they just wanted to get Vito help. Phil also harassed Tony about his efforts to find Vito.
Phil visited Tony at the Feast of St. Elzear and they planned a last minute hijacking together - Phil suggested they cut Johnny out of a share in the profits and Tony agreed. When Johnny was planning to give in to asset seizures to reduce his sentence he avoided using Phil to conduct any of his business. Once Johnny's allocution at his trial became public, Phil again expressed his disappointment in the boss in front of his crew.
In the episode "Cold Stones", Phil played in the background for the majority of the episode, busy sorting out Johnny Sack's turning. Vito, who was back in New Jersey, met Tony and offered to buy his way back into the family. Tony refused, but didn't attempt to harm Vito. Phil and his associates later showed up to ask Tony Soprano about Vito Spatafore's whereabouts. Tony lied, delaying the inevitable.
Tony had arranged for Carlo Gervasi to execute Vito at the mall early in the morning on the pretense that Vito was supposedly meeting up with Tony, to straighten out the messy situation. The night before Vito was supposed to meet up with Tony, Vito returned to his hotel where Phil's soldiers Gerry Torciano and Dominic "Fat Dom" Gamielleo ambushed Vito with pool sticks when he walked in the door. After knocking him down on the floor, Phil ironically emerges from the closet. He slowly walks up to Vito who is being held by Gerry and Fat Dom and sits down on the bed. He looks Vito in the eye and says, "You're a fucking disgrace." And with that, Fat Dom and Gerry Torciano proceed to beat Vito to death with the pool sticks as Phil watches. After murdering him, they subsequently stick a pool stick up his rectum to signify their extreme disdain for homosexuality.
Phil soon returned to routine business, apparently not expecting a response from New Jersey. Yet not long after the murder, Fat Dom was murdered by an enraged Carlo during a visit to Satriale's when he made one too many jokes at Vito's expense, and the body quietly disposed of. Next, Leotardo himself received a shock from Tony Soprano's official response; while on a date with his Ukrainian housemaid, Leotardo approached one of his Brooklyn businesses, only to be blown off of his feet by a bomb planted in the wire room the building had housed.
After an unsuccessful attempt by Little Carmine Lupertazzi to broker peace between the families, Leotardo and his crew plotted revenge. Although Phil balked at the idea of killing Tony himself, captain Butch DeConcini seemingly persuaded him to target someone important to the DiMeo family. However, their planning was cut short when Phil suffered a late-night heart attack and was hospitalized during Christmas 2006. There, Tony paid him a visit, relating the fear and regret Tony had felt during his own near-death experience, and asking for peace in the interests of business. Tony's words seemed effective, even moving Phil to tears. As of 2007, a healed Phil expressed a wish to spend more time at home with his (blood) family, in keeping with the sentiment offered to him by Tony. He had decided to step down as boss and leave the Lupertazzi crime family with his protégé Gerry Torciano in charge. Yet Phil did not strongly back Torciano as successor, and Lupertazzi underboss Doc Santoro soon made his own bid for power by having Torciano murdered.
After deciding to get back in the game, Phil waited, working under Doc Santoro until the old man's arrogance got too much to handle. As Phil sat down to dinner with Doc to acknowledge him as boss, Doc humiliated Phil by literally taking food from his plate. Knowing that he had broad support, including Tony's, Phil ordered a hit on Santoro. Driven by Butch DeConcini, Phil's crew murdered Santoro and an associate outside a massage parlor, leaving him dead on the sidewalk. After the assassination, Phil was permanently elevated to Boss of the Lupertazzi Family, with Cianfalone cemented as Consigliere and DeConcini as Underboss.
Phil rejects Tony's offer of compromise on an asbestos removal project. After Tony viciously beats one of Phil's men, Coco, for threatening his daughter, Phil refuses to meet with Tony and then launches a war against the DiMeo family, ordering that New York is to "decapitate" New Jersey and do business with what's left, instructing that hits be made on Tony, Bobby, and Silvio Dante. Bobby is killed and Sil is wounded so badly that he falls into a coma.
In the Sopranos series finale, "Made in America", Butch DeConcini and Albie Cianfalone arrange a sit down with Tony and Paulie, where they express their dissatisfaction with Phil's leadership and agree to a ceasefire of the war. Butchie says he will not reveal the location of Phil, but then says "You do what you got to do." This following a recent phone conversation with Butchie and Phil, where Phil expressed great disappointment with Butchie and his inability to find Tony Soprano. Shortly thereafter, Leotardo is shown talking to his wife through a car window at a Raceway gas station when he is suddenly shot in the head by Walden Belfiore, a soldier in the Gervasi crew of the DiMeo crime family. Leaving the grandchildren in her Ford Expedition, Leotardo's wife rushes to Phil's side in a panic. Unattended and still in drive with the engine running, the large SUV idles forward and a wheel rolls over and crushes Phil's skull. Leotardo's murder was the 92nd and final murder on the series.
Murders committed & ordered by Leotardo[edit]
Angelo Garepe: Killed by Phil in retaliation for the murder of Joe Peeps, he was ambushed by Phil and his brother Billy, and shot to death in the trunk of Phil's Lincoln Town Car.
Lorraine Caluzzo : Phil was the lookout at her killing when she was shot and killed by Phil's brother Billy in the early power struggle between New York's families in Season 5 (they also killed Lorraine's boyfriend, Jason Evanina, though this wasn't necessarily planned or ordered).
Vito Spatafore: Ordered his death through Gerry Torciano and Dominic "Fat Dom" Gamiello, beating Vito to death in his motel room with pool sticks as Phil sat on the end of Vito's bed and silently watched.
Bobby Baccalieri : Ordered hits on the three top members of the DiMeo (Soprano) Crime Family, Bobby Baccalieri, Silvio Dante, and Tony Soprano, during the War of 2007. Two assailants shot Bobby multiple times in the head, chest, and torso in a hobby shop.
See also[edit]
List of characters from The Sopranos in the Lupertazzi Crime Family
Little Carmine Lupertazzi[edit]
Carmine "Little Carmine" Lupertazzi, Jr., played by actor Ray Abruzzo, is a Capo and the son of Carmine Lupertazzi, the leader of one of New York's Five Families.
Little Carmine is introduced in 2002 when Tony Soprano visits him in Miami to seek his counsel in regard to settling a dispute with Carmine Sr. While Little Carmine is initially viewed as a pompous blowhard whose constant malapropisms convey his poor intellect, he later becomes a thorn in the side of Carmine's underboss, Johnny Sack, and ultimately, instrumental to Tony Soprano in his taking down of Phil Leotardo.
In 2004, Carmine Lupertazzi Sr. has a massive stroke and dies a few days later. Little Carmine immediately comes up to New York from Florida for the funeral, and quickly becomes embroiled in a power struggle with Johnny Sack. Since Little Carmine is the son of the former boss, he has some claim, albeit tenuous, to the throne, and this angers Johnny. Even Tony has no faith in Little Carmine's capacity to run New York, jokingly referring to him as "Brainless the Second." Despite his inexperience (Johnny describes Little Carmine as an "idiot" who spends his time "fixing wet t-shirt contests" in Miami.) Little Carmine finds backers in Carmine Sr.'s recently paroled former consigliere, Angelo Garepe, and long-time Lupertazzi Capo Rusty Millio. Angelo and Rusty, along with Rusty's right-hand man Eddie Pietro, pull most of the strings during the war between Johnny and Little Carmine.
However, after a cycle of bloodshed that escalates into war, Little Carmine ultimately finds it difficult to stomach the continuing violence, and abdicates. His decision was heavily influenced by the murder of Angelo Garepe, one of the kingmakers who backed him. After Little Carmine's capitulation, Johnny Sack finally becomes the boss of the Lupertazzi Crime Family. He was arrested soon after by the FBI who were acting on information given to them by Johnny's trusted ally and Carmine's long-time consigliere Jimmy Petrille. With Johnny in federal custody during his federal racketeering trial, Phil Leotardo has become the acting boss in New York. In 2006, Little Carmine is brought in as an investor to a movie project that Christopher Moltisanti has come up with. Little Carmine was instrumental in organizing a meeting with Sir Ben Kingsley in Los Angeles to court his interest in the project but he eventually passed on the lead role.
Little Carmine is not shown with other Lupertazzi crime family members and appears to be keeping a low profile within the family. His other backer Rusty Millio was murdered because Johnny feared Rusty would back someone else to take over as boss while he was in prison - Johnny no longer seemed to consider Little Carmine a threat after that.
Johnny Sack, soon after being convicted of racketeering, develops lung cancer and dies in a prison hospital. After this, Tony Soprano approaches Little Carmine about taking control of the family. Little Carmine wryly remarks '"You never thought you'd mutter those words.'" Little Carmine appears to have realized people generally do not consider him to be as clever or respected in the family business as his father. Carmine then proceeds to tell Tony about a dream he had after his father died. In the dream, Carmine Lupertazzi was disappointed in Little Carmine. While Tony took this as a sign that Carmine wanted Little Carmine to succeed him as boss of the family, Little Carmine told Tony that the dream meant that Little Carmine did not have a full life. He also said that he had a near panic attack one day and his wife told him she wanted him to live a long and healthy life and not leave her a rich widow. In expressing this, he told Tony that he did not want to succeed Johnny Sack as the boss of the Lupertazzi Crime Family, that his interests and what made him happy, as well as wealthy, were outside of the organization. This seems to make Tony envious of Little Carmine's situation.
Little Carmine and Tony both turned to a neutral party, George Paglieri, to broker a secret negotiation between Tony and Butch DeConcini, the acting/street boss for Phil Leotardo while he was in hiding. Tony, attending with Paulie Gualtieri, and Butch, with Albie Cianfalone, came to a decision that ended Phil's war between New Jersey and New York. Phil, though his specific location was not betrayed, was abandoned to Tony's revenge by the Lupertazzi administration, and restitution was offered to the Sopranos for the hit on Bobby Baccalieri.
External links[edit]
HBO Profile: Little Carmine
Patsy Parisi[edit]
Pasquale "Patsy" Parisi, played by Dan Grimaldi, is the accountant for Tony Soprano's crew, and is often seen calculating the group's finances in the Bada Bing or Satriale's offices. He, like his brother, is also Tony's cousin on his mother's side. He also acts as a soldier, performing various enforcement tasks for the family. In addition to that, he also procures fine Italian suits for his friends and associates. Patsy is something of a "dark horse" character; he has very little back-story compared to the other members of the crew, and relatively few lines, but visually he is very frequently present on screen. He shares this characteristic with Carlo Gervasi, another high-up member of Tony's crew who is frequently seen but about whom little is known to the audience. Patsy has the distinction of being the only mobster in Tony's group with eyeglasses, giving him a scholarly appearance. He is also never seen smoking cigarettes or cigars, and appears to be in better physical shape for his age than most of the crew — in the episode "Christopher", he single-handedly climbs up a metal utility pole to take down an effigy of Christopher Columbus during a Native American protest. He and Burt Gervasi run the North Ward Emergency Merchants Protective Cooperative: an extortion racket hitting storeowners.
Loyalties[edit]
Patsy had an identical twin brother, Phillip "Philly Spoons" Parisi (whom Dan Grimaldi also played), who had a hit taken out on him by Tony and was killed by Soprano soldier Gigi Cestone. He was born eleven minutes after his brother Pasquale. He is described by Patsy after his death as a "sweet" and "gentle man" who was never "heavy" (violent) with anyone. He is fluent in English and Italian. At the time, Philly was acting capo of Junior Soprano's crew and Patsy was a member. He is from Bloomfield, New Jersey. Patsy never had concrete evidence about his brother's murder but it occurred soon after a brief and bloody war between Junior and Tony, and Philly was known to be talking about Tony's actions. It was this killing that prompted Tony to move Patsy to keep an eye on him. Patsy took the killing very hard, which brought on a problem with alcoholism and considering killing Tony — in March 2001 a drunken Patsy was observed by Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents outside the Soprano family home leveling a gun at Tony through his window on his birthday. He reconsidered though, and only urinated in the Sopranos' pool. Patsy also openly vented his feelings of loss to the Soprano crew in front of the men responsible for his brother's death, Gigi and Tony, at a dinner in the back of Satriale's. However, he eventually put his grief behind him.
Patsy still has questionable loyalties. When Patsy's then capo Paulie Gualtieri was in prison in 2001, Tony promoted Christopher Moltisanti to acting captain over Patsy (who had seniority). Patsy didn't take this well, eventually getting into a fight with Christopher. When Paulie was released and promoted to underboss, Christopher was made capo permanently. Patsy eventually seemed comfortable working with him.
In the penultimate episode "The Blue Comet", Patsy is nearly killed by two men sent to murder Silvio Dante. Patsy manages to hold them off, but Silvio is badly wounded and put into a coma, and Patsy runs into the woods fleeing for his life. He survives and later celebrates his son's engagement to Meadow Soprano with Tony and his family, seeing a great opportunity to get closer to Tony.
As a soldier[edit]
Throughout his time with the crew, Patsy has never been seen to commit murder. However, he showed a certain skill for intimidation when warning off Tony's ex-comàre, Gloria Trillo.
Early in the series, Patsy was involved in a smuggling run of luxury clothing, supplying Carmela with a fur coat and Tony's cousin Brian with Italian suits. Patsy and Benny Fazio work with Angie Bonpensiero, handling her money on the street and providing stolen car parts for her auto body repair shop. Patsy helped Paulie intimidate Jason Barone when he was considering selling Barone sanitation following his father's death. He was present when Tony won the respect of the crew by beating up Perry Annunziata at Satriale's. With the revelation that Vito Spatafore was homosexual, Patsy was one of the few crew members not to bay for blood — he laughed at Christopher's jokes and his statement "I could care less" earned derision from Paulie Gualtieri.
Despite not being considered one of Tony's "inner circle," Patsy is viewed as a reliable and trustworthy soldier by Tony. When Christopher Moltisanti is forced to go into rehabilitation for his heroin addiction, Patsy is entrusted with watching him to ensure he does not try to escape. It was implied Tony authorized Patsy to eliminate Christopher should he have escaped, however in Whitecaps, Patsy reports to Tony that Christopher graduated drug rehab, making murder unnecessary.
Patsy makes collections in the North Ward neighborhood. He has been having problems in the area with franchised businesses that refuse to pay him, and the selling of Caputo's poultry (a longtime local store) by Tony annoyed Patsy. Patsy was accompanied on his rounds by newly made man Burt Gervasi. Patsy helped Paulie organize the Feast of St. Elzear in co-ordination with the local church. Patsy genuflected upon entering the church for a meeting with the priest—he takes his Catholicism seriously despite his lifestyle.
Personal[edit]
Pasquale Parisi is a second generation Italian-American, his family's from San Bassano di Puglia, in the Puglia region of southern Italy.
Patsy is married to Donna Parisi but has been shown with other women while the crew are out with their girlfriends. There is some suggestion that at one point in time Pasquale and Ralph Cifaretto shared a mistress. He has two sons— Patrick in the legal field and Jason who attends college and is involved with sports betting. In the episode Mr. Ruggerio's Neighborhood, Tony mentions a daughter of Patsy's, but she is never referenced again. In Season Six, Patsy seems pleased that Patrick is dating Meadow Soprano and tells Tony that "wedding bells are in the air" and that they are not too young to be grandfathers. He also previously expressed his pride in Jason's computer and gambling skills. It is also interesting to note that while his eldest son Patrick appears to be an upstanding citizen, pursuing a career in law and dating Meadow Soprano, a like-minded individual, his younger son Jason appears to be a complete sociopath. He is sadistically violent and as he is already involved in sports betting at a young age looks like he is an ideal recruit for the next generation of the DiMeo crime family.
Patsy Parisi is the show's only minor character to appear in more than half the episodes.
External links[edit]
HBO Profile: Patsy Parisi
Eugene Pontecorvo[edit]
Eugene Pontecorvo, played by Robert Funaro, was a made man in the Soprano crew, whose jobs included running a low stakes poker game, a sports betting agency, and a "no work" job at the Esplanade construction site.
Season 3[edit]
Eugene Pontecorvo was introduced on the show as an associate in the Soprano crime family in the episode "Proshai, Livushka". Eugene subsequently becomes a made man in the following episode "Fortunate Son" along with Christopher Moltisanti. Like Vito Spatafore and Benny Fazio, he is initially introduced as a small character, whose role slowly increases throughout the series. His first act on the show is seen in "Proshai, Livushka" when he and Bobby Zanone assault a garbage sanitation man for threatening to rat out Ralph Cifaretto. Eugene Pontecorvo also appears in a flashback to 1995 in the episode "...To Save Us All From Satan's Power" as a bodyguard of Junior Soprano's, along with Gigi Cestone. He, along with Vito Spatafore and Donny K., found Gigi Cestone dead on the toilet in the Aprile Crew hangout after suffering a constipation-induced heart attack. His father died of a heart attack at fifty-two and since he is nearing the age his mortality is starting to scare him.
Season 4[edit]
Eugene reveals his mean streak once again in the episode "Eloise" when he and another associate are sent to intimidate a juror who is on Junior Soprano's trial. He pays for the man's candy and drink at a check out counter in the store, intimidating him by expressing "I know you'll do the right thing", implicating he knows he will be a deadlock juror and thereby hinder Junior's conviction.
Season 5[edit]
Although mild-mannered, Eugene has a tendency to lose his temper, similar to Ralph Cifaretto. In the episode Unidentified Black Males, while he and Little Paulie Germani are engaging in what initially began as a harmless banter at the Esplanade construction site, Little Paulie goes too far in Eugene's mind when he conveys through an innuendo that Eugene is a homosexual. Eugene responds by smashing a glass Snapple bottle over Little Paulie's head, causing a severe gash over his eye, and kicks him repeatedly in the head. Vito instructs an overwrought Eugene to take the rest of the day off. When Eugene asks "what about him (Little Paulie)?", Vito responds with "What? I thought I saw a couple of niggers running that way." It's also a reference to the episode's title, "Unidentified Black Males".
Season 6[edit]
In Season Six's premiere episode "Members Only", Eugene inherited 2 million dollars from his deceased aunt Edie who was married to the show business agent that represented Victor Borge. He begins developing serious stress with his home life due to his wife pushing him to talk Tony into their retiring to Florida with the money and also his son's incessant drug-use. He states to his friends that, "The only thing I ever found in the street was my first wife," showing that he has already had at least one failed marriage. Eugene has a talk with Tony about him and his family moving to Florida permanently. Tony says he'll consider it, but he states Eugene took an oath indicating it is highly unlikely he'll approve. Christopher Moltisanti assigns Eugene the task of taking out a guy named Teddy Spirodakis in Boston who owed Christopher money and failed to pay him. Eugene is reluctant, but has to follow Christopher's order due to his rank of capo. Chris assures Eugene he will put in a good word for him to Tony as a favor for doing the hit. Eugene drives to Boston and finds Teddy eating dinner at a fast food restaurant and shoots him repeatedly in the head. Eugene then walks out calmly.
It is revealed Eugene has been an informant for the F.B.I., though it is unclear for how long. After Raymond Curto dies of a massive stroke while giving potentially damaging information to Agent Robyn Sanseverino about Tony discussing a murder, the F.B.I. informs Eugene they also refuse his notion to move to Florida, as they need him in Jersey to help build a case against Tony in the wake of Curto's death.
Silvio informs Gene that Tony denied his request to move. With Tony and the Feds both hindering Eugene's chance to escape the mafia life and his stress caused by his unstable home life, Eugene sees no way out and hangs himself in his basement.
Murders committed by Pontecorvo[edit]
Teddy Spirodakis: Killed at a diner by Eugene on orders from Christopher Moltisanti for failing to pay his debts. (2006)
Hesh Rabkin[edit]
Herman "Hesh" Rabkin, played by Jerry Adler, is an advisor and friend to Tony Soprano. He first appeared in the "Pilot".
The character Hesh Rabkin may be a composite character inspired by music mogul Morris "Mo" Levy,[3][4] founder of Roulette Records, who had connections to the Mafia and owned a string of racehorses[5] and Gaetano "Corky" Vastola who was a member of the Mafia in New Jersey and worked with Roulette Records.[6]
Biography[edit]
Hesh is a loan shark and an advisor to Tony (the same role he performed for Tony's father, mob captain "Johnny Boy" Soprano). Despite Hesh's long-standing closeness to the Sopranos, as a non-Italian and Jew, he is not and never can be a made man. Nevertheless, Tony frequently seeks out Hesh's advice on a number of issues. When Tony was estranged from his therapist he sought out Hesh as a sympathetic ear but found his listening skills not quite up to his standards, and often Tony gets annoyed in several scenes because Hesh keeps talking. Hesh has the lowest profile out of anyone in the crime family. He is frequently seen in the back room of Satriale's Pork Store and the Bada Bing nightclub, playing cards with Tony's crew or eating with them.
Hesh is an intelligent and shrewd businessman, having made his fortune in the recording industry by founding "F-Note Records" during the 1950s and 1960s by bringing many young black musicians to prominence, getting royalties by having his name added as a co-writer on many songs. Apart from an unabashed greedy streak, Hesh is largely cool-headed and good-natured. He is also unique among Tony's inner circle in that he is well educated. Outside of business, Hesh's passions include his stable of horses and a penchant for statuesque black women. Hesh has a son-in-law named Eli who is also involved in his loan-shark business. Hesh has an encyclopedic knowledge of Soprano criminal activities.
Hesh first appeared in the pilot working with Tony on setting up a scam to defraud HMO medical insurance companies through their debtor Alex Mahaffey. Hesh accompanied Big Pussy to a waterfall to intimidate Mahaffey into participating, although both did it in a non-threatening way, and Mahaffey knew that non-cooperation would end his life, making threats unnecessary. Later, Hesh advised Tony against getting involved with the Teitlemanns, a family of Hasidic Jews, in a dispute over ownership of their hotel. Hesh's predictions of their obstinacy proved correct. Hesh was able to help Tony end a particularly arduous "negotiation" with a novel torture threat.
In "A Hit Is a Hit" Hesh helped Tony's nephew Christopher Moltisanti to realize that his partner and girlfriend Adriana La Cerva had little aptitude for work in the music business. Chris also made contact with Hesh on behalf of Massive Genius—a rapper who claimed Hesh owed compensation to the widow of a black musician he allegedly defrauded. When Hesh refused to pay, Massive threatened litigation; Hesh shrewdly threatened a countersuit of his own, alleging that the samples used in Massive's music infringed on his copyrights. Its revealed in this episode that Johnny Soprano was a silent partner in Hesh's record company "F-Note Records".
In "Christopher" Hesh helped Silvio in his Christopher Columbus day dispute by putting him in touch with a sympathetic Native American casino owner through his friend Jerry Schwartz. Hesh also sold Ralph Cifaretto the ill-fated racehorse Pie-O-My.
In the Season Five episode "In Camelot" Tony discovered that his father, Hesh and Phil Leotardo had been co-owners of a racetrack and that his father had promised a share to his comare Fran Felstein. Tony arranged a sitdown with Phil and Hesh to secure the share which they reluctantly gave up.
In the Season Six premiere "Members Only" Hesh and his son-in-law Eli were attacked by members of Phil Leotardo's crew - they had targeted Eli because they thought he was making collections on their turf without permission. The mobsters set fire to Eli's gas tank to get him and Hesh out of the car and then set about beating Eli. Eli was seriously hurt when he was the victim of a hit-and-run trying to escape the mobsters. Hesh was punched in the face. Hesh demanded and received restitution from Phil at a sit-down mediated by Tony. Hesh visited Tony in the hospital when he was recovering from his shooting.
In the final season Hesh gives Tony a $200,000 bridge loan to help Tony cover a string of gambling losses. Tony fails to repay the loan on time and starts berating Hesh about the vig on the loan which was $3,000 a week, leading to bad blood on both sides. When Hesh's girlfriend, Renata, dies of a stroke, Tony repays the loan out of loyalty but offers only brief and impersonal condolences to his once-close friend, suggesting that the financial dispute has strained their relationship. As of the end of the series, Hesh's fate remains unknown.
Johnny Sack[edit]
Main article: Johnny Sack
John "Johnny Sack" Sacrimoni, played by Vince Curatola, was the longtime underboss and later the boss of the Brooklyn-based Lupertazzi crime family.
Career[edit]
Operating out of his Construction Company or Social Club, Johnny Sack was a major player in the New York crime family formerly led by Carmine Lupertazzi. Johnny was Carmine's Underboss for many years, handling political payoffs and bid-rigging for the organization. He ultimately became boss after Carmine's death. Johnny was also a friend of Tony Soprano. Johnny Sack worked to maintain the peace with the other families, reasoning that peace between the families meant prosperity for all the families. He was not, however, above stirring up trouble in Iago-like fashion, sowing dissent and suspicion among the ranks of the Soprano crime family. In the last two seasons Sack showed his brutal side and shed much of his earlier pragmatism and aversion to violence, as he ruthlessly eliminated rivals and potential threats to his power.
But while Johnny Sack usually maintained his cool (he answered his phone by saying "speak"), he was very sensitive about his wife, Ginny, who was obese. Johnny became violently angry when any remarks were made about Ginny's weight. He once ordered a hit put on Ralph Cifaretto for making one such off-color joke, although he later cooled down and called it off. This saved Ralphie's life, and also, although unknown to Johnny, his own, since Tony had obtained approval from Carmine to hit Johnny in order to protect the highly valuable Esplanade project to which Ralphie's involvement was key.
Johnny cultivated a friendship with Paulie Gualtieri, making use of him as a source of information about Soprano family business. The relationship began when Paulie felt sidelined by Tony over the esplanade construction project and proved most fruitful when Paulie was imprisoned in 2002 — a time when he felt particularly neglected by his friends. Johnny lied to Paulie — telling him that Carmine held him in high regard and often asked about him. This encouraged Paulie to place more faith in his friendship with Johnny than in the loyalty of his friends in the Soprano crime family. Through Paulie, Johnny learned about Tony's Frelinghuysen Avenue property windfall and HUD scam — allowing the Lupertazzi crime family to demand a piece of the action because their mutual interests made both projects possible. It was also Paulie who told John about the insult that Ralphie made about his wife. However, after a chance meeting with Carmine, Paulie discovered that Carmine didn't even know who he was. Angered by John's deceit, Paulie became one of his biggest detractors.
Johnny Sack sometimes chafed under Carmine's leadership of the family, particularly over Carmine's apparent plans to name his hedonistic and catachresis-prone son Carmine Jr. (aka Little Carmine) as his successor. During the abortive war with the Soprano crew over Tony's Frelinghuysen Avenue operation, he authorized Tony to arrange to have Carmine assassinated. Much to Johnny's chagrin, Tony accepted Carmine's offer of settlement and canceled the hit.
Following the (natural) death of Carmine in 2004, Johnny's crew engaged in a bitter war over the family leadership with Carmine's son, Little Carmine. More violence was threatened upon Tony Soprano's New Jersey family following the unauthorized murder of two of Johnny's men by Tony's cousin, Tony Blundetto, on Little Carmine's behalf. After both New York factions suffered heavy casualties, the conflict was brought to an end with Little Carmine surrendering control of the family. This was followed by a tentative reconciliation with Tony, who had personally taken the life of Blundetto to bury the hatchet. However, the moment was cut short when Johnny was promptly arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation after the family's consigliere, Jimmy Petrille, turned state's evidence. Even while in jail awaiting trial he remained in control of the Lupertazzi family.
In the sixth season, Johnny entrusted Phil Leotardo with the role of acting boss while he was in jail. Johnny's brother-in-law Anthony Infante acted as a back channel for communications to reach him while he was imprisoned. His wife remained supportive, often visiting him in prison. Johnny was portrayed as becoming more selfish while imprisoned — he commonly disregards the problems of others stating that his "situation" should take precedence. He ordered Phil to maintain a good relationship with Tony and avoid starting a war over any business disputes, particularly the new office park construction project - another shared venture like the esplanade project.
After the death of Dick Barone, while Tony was recovering from a gunshot, Lupertazzi front organization Cinelli Sanitation tried to buy Barone Sanitation, a Soprano front, from its naive new owner Jason Barone. John mediated negotiations about Tony's compensation for this from prison, through Phil. Phil told Tony that Johnny was in a panic state over his finances while in prison. Phil agreed to a solution with Tony, perhaps better than he had been expecting because of Tony's new outlook. Johnny later asked Phil to reach out to Tony to organize a hit on Rusty Millio, but Tony refused, saying he needed to set some boundaries.
Johnny was granted a release from prison to attend his daughter Allegra's wedding. However, he had to cover the cost of U.S. Marshals and metal detectors for the wedding and would have 6 hours maximum. Johnny seemed to enjoy the wedding despite covering its huge cost personally. When the time came for Johnny to leave the wedding he was reluctant to go — he wanted to wait until his daughter and her new groom left. However, the marshals blocked her limousine and dragged Johnny away in handcuffs, causing him to break down in tears. Later, his crew discussed this show as a display of weakness. Tony was the only one to stand up for Johnny, saying that when it comes to daughters, "all bets are off."
While at the wedding John took the chance to talk business, personally asking Tony to perform the hit on Rusty Millio because he was worried Rusty would again act as a king maker, and try to replace him while he was away. John hinted that he was worried that Phil might be the one nominated by Rusty. Tony agreed to take on the job and he contracted it out to a two-man crew flown in from Naples, Italy, Italo and Salvatore, who executed Millio and quickly returned to Italy.
Johnny again reached out to Tony for help, this time with his financial situation. Johnny elected to use his brother-in-law Anthony as a go-between instead of Phil. Johnny knew he faced asset seizures and wanted to secure some capital for his family — he planned to sell his share as a silent partner in a heavy equipment lending firm in New Orleans. Johnny had received the share when one of the owners, Paul Calviac, got into thousands of dollars of gambling debt with him. The deal was not without difficulties. Calviac was embittered and unwilling to sell any of the company facing huge profits following Hurricane Katrina, Anthony had trouble communicating in code with Johnny and Tony wanted more than the 7% of the sale that Johnny had suggested. Johnny eventually let Tony's brother-in-law, Bobby Baccalieri, buy his home at half price in order to ensure that Tony would enforce the sale.
Johnny's efforts to maintain control of his family ultimately proved futile. His lawyer, Ron Perse, floated the possibility of cooperating with the FBI, but John was quick to dismiss this. However, as the trial neared, Ron arranged a deal with the government on Johnny's behalf. Facing a massive asset seizure that would have left both him and beloved wife destitute and a case he could not possibly beat, Johnny pleaded guilty to 47 Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) predicates for a reduced sentence of 15 years and a fine of 4.2 million dollars — effectively ending his position as boss (but still leaving Ginny enough money to live comfortably). As part of the deal, he was also required to give an allocution admitting his involvement in organized crime (although he did not reveal the names of any associates). Members of both the Soprano and Lupertazzi families were angered by his allocution, believing that John should have stood trial before admitting anything regarding La Cosa Nostra. Johnny was now serving 15 years in federal prison, and was considered persona non grata among his former associates.
During his incarceration, Johnny developed a highly malignant form of lung cancer brought on by a 38-year smoking habit. He died at the United States Medical Center for Federal Prisoners in Springfield, Missouri not long after receiving a grim prognosis from an oncologist at the Cleveland Clinic. Before his death, John asked his brother-in-law how he'd be remembered, to which he responded, "well-liked and respected" but added he was a bit of a hot-head. John simply shrugged, as he knew that no one really knows the stress involved in being a boss, possibly foreshadowing the mayhem to follow in New York after his death. When news spread to the Bada Bing and Tony's crew that Johnny had passed he was given a touching salute from his friends and fellow boss, showing that despite his guilty plea Johnny was still a respected mobster and Cosa Nostra associate. A picture of John at a healthier age was put up next to portraits of Carmine Lupertazzi Sr. and Billy Leotardo on the wall in John's social club, now owned by Phil, to commemorate the late Don of New York.
Personality[edit]
Unusual for a Mafioso, it was implied that Johnny Sack was always faithful to his wife, whom he loved deeply. If so, this would make him one of the only two married wiseguys in The Sopranos to stay monogamous, along with Bobby Baccalieri.
John drove a Mercedes-Benz S500 and later bought a Maserati Coupé and dressed stylishly. His usual calm demeanor and respectful way of carrying himself made him suitable for the role of underboss.
John was a walking paradox. His enigmatic expressions while in deliberation were contrasted by his decisive expression when giving out orders. He was in control of those around him. It can be noted that Johnny Sack would rarely visibly display his rage or irritation, except when his wife's reputation was involved. In most other cases, Johnny chose not to show his feelings, but rather acted behind the scenes to take his revenge or undermine people. This would mean he was invisibly pulling strings in certain situations to sabotage people or deals. Also, his loyalty, even in an organized crime context, can be seen as flexible. Depending on the opportunity, he was prepared to either help or at least not try to prevent hits on Junior Soprano, Tony and Carmine.
When disputes between the Soprano and Lupertazzi families occurred, John was publicly almost always the voice of moderation. When Tony and Carmine both declined to back off in their dispute on the Esplanade deal, Johnny tried to convince Carmine to still change his mind and not resort to violence. For Johnny, it was the profit of all involved (including his own) that mattered most in such cases, not honor and respect.
External links[edit]
HBO Profile: Johnny "Sack" Sacramoni (sic)
Vito Spatafore[edit]
Main article: Vito Spatafore
Vito Spatafore, Sr., played by Joseph R. Gannascoli, was a member of the DiMeo Crime Family and a subordinate of Tony Soprano. He was married to Marie Spatafore with two children, Francesca and Vito, Jr., and was a closeted homosexual. This was revealed in the show's fifth season and later became one of the more prominent subplots in the sixth season.
Biography[edit]
Although Vito Spatafore wasn't introduced on The Sopranos until the Season 2 episode "The Happy Wanderer" as a nephew to fellow mobster Richie Aprile and later a cousin to Adriana La Cerva and Jackie Aprile, Jr, the actor who plays his role, Joseph R. Gannascoli, appears in the Season 1 episode, "The Legend of Tennessee Moltisanti" as pastry shop patron named "Gino". Vito is inducted into the Aprile crew upon Richie's release from prison and quickly rises through the ranks to Capo after the deaths of capos Richie Aprile, Gigi Cestone and Ralph Cifaretto. Vito's character is based on Vito Arena, a homosexual mob associate in the Gambino crime family.
Assault on his brother[edit]
In the season 3 episode "Another Toothpick", Vito's brother, Bryan Spatafore, is violently beaten with a golf club by a young hot-head known as Salvatore "Mustang Sally" Intile and put into a coma. Vito is vindictive and demands someone render Sal's comeuppance. Tony Soprano enlists in the help of Bobby Baccalieri's father, Bobby Baccalieri, Sr., to perform the hit on Mustang Sally.
Whacking Jackie Aprile, Jr.[edit]
In 2001, in the season 3 finale episode "Army of One", after Jackie Aprile, Jr. had gone into hiding after he and his friends hit Ralph Cifaretto's card game. This ended with Jackie, Jr. panicking and killing Ralph's dealer, Sunshine. Ralph Cifaretto was pressured by Tony to give Jackie Jr. "a pass". In spite of this, Ralph ordered the hit on Jackie Jr. and Vito performs his first on-screen murder by shooting Jackie, Jr. in the back of the head. Although the cover story for Jackie, Jr.'s death was being "killed by African-American drug dealers", his sister doesn't buy the story, given the fact they grew up in the Mafia world and stating, "He was killed by some fat fuck in see-through socks. Take your pick. They all look alike."
Rise to capo[edit]
In 2002, in the Season 4 episode "Whoever Did This", Tony Soprano brutally strangles and beats Ralph Cifaretto to death after it is believed by Tony that Ralph is responsible for the death of their prized racehorse Pie-O-My. Vito is subsequently promoted to capo of the Aprile Crew, as he was second-in-command.
Secret revealed[edit]
In 2004, in the Season 5 episode "Unidentified Black Males", it is disclosed to viewers Vito is in fact homosexual after he is caught performing oral sex on a security guard early one morning at the Esplanade construction site by Meadow's boyfriend, Finn De Trolio. Vito intimidates Finn into silence, conveying the impression that if Finn lets the word slip that the consequences could result in his own demise.
Weight loss[edit]
By the Season 6 premiere "Members Only" in 2006, Vito has lost over 160 pounds to appear for a weight loss commercial. After Tony was shot by Uncle Junior in the same episode, Tony was in a coma for two episodes. While Tony's recovery seemed uncertain, Vito hinted at the idea that he should take over as boss. At the time, Silvio Dante was acting boss, but Dante suffered an asthma attack from the stress of being boss. Vito informed DiMeo Family capo Larry Boy Barese that he was the best candidate for boss since he was the capo of the highest-earning crew in the family. While Tony was comatose, Vito also provided information to Paulie about the location of $1 million in drug money hidden by Colombian drug dealers. Paulie and an associate stole the money, although they were nearly killed by two Colombians guarding the stash. Paulie was seriously injured during the theft when one of the dealers kicked him in the groin, causing serious medical problems. Paulie demanded a higher cut because of his injury. Paulie and Vito also became angry when Silvio demanded a higher percentage of the cut go to Carmela in case Tony did not recover. Tony finally awoke from his coma, which made everyone ecstatic—except Vito who was hoping to step in and take Tony's place. His weight problems and attempts to lose weight resemble the health problems which were suffered by Colombo Crime Family capo Gerald Clemenza.
Outing[edit]
In the episode "Mr. & Mrs. John Sacrimoni Request", during the wedding of Johnny Sack's daughter, Allegra, Vito claimed he wasn't feeling well. He and his family left the wedding. But back at home, Vito informed his wife he was going to "make some collections". She found it odd that he would be making collections so late at night. Later, that evening while making a collection at a gay bar, two Lupertazzi Family associates, one named Sal Iaccuzzo, saw Vito dancing and kissing open mouthed with a gay man. Vito tried to play it off as a joke, although the two men were not fooled.
Time in hiding[edit]
Petrified of the consequences if his homosexuality were made public, Vito went into hiding. He stayed at a bed-and-breakfast in New Hampshire and tried to pursue a new life away from the Mafia. Under the alias "Vince," he took an interest in antiques and claimed to be writing a book on Italian boxers. He contacted his family only once during a brief phone call. He also began drinking heavily.
He started a relationship with Jim Witowski (aka 'Johnny Cakes'), a short-order cook who worked at the restaurant where Vito regularly stopped for breakfast. Vito was impressed when he found out Jim was a volunteer fireman. When Jim first tried to kiss him, Vito pushed him away, called him a fag, and the two scuffled briefly. Several days later, Vito went back to the restaurant and apologized, saying, "Sometimes you tell a lie so long, you don't know when to stop." The two men reconciled. They drove on their motorcycles to a secluded spot by a nearby lake, where they picnicked and made love. Vito moved in with Jim shortly thereafter.
Vito continued to spend time with Jim, but Jim eventually saw through his story about being a writer. Vito confessed to some of his past but continued to lie, claiming he was a divorced construction worker. Jim arranged for Vito to work as a handyman, but Vito soon tired of the tedium of a working life. Vito's drinking worsened. Finally, Vito decided to return to his former life in New Jersey. He cooked a dinner for Jim and left the next morning while Jim slept.
Return to New Jersey[edit]
Vito drank while driving back to New Jersey, and crashed his car into a parked vehicle. When he failed to convince the owner to keep the accident from the police, Vito shot and killed the man. Vito returned home and remained conflicted about whether or not to reinitiate contact with his old mafia family.
Vito eventually approached Tony Soprano at a mall, while Vito's brother, Bryan, kept watch. Vito claimed that his homosexual behavior had been caused by medication. Wanting to "buy himself back" into the business, he offered Tony $200,000 and said he would run the family's Atlantic City prostitution and drug businesses. Tony was tempted by the offer, but realized this would bring him into open war with the Lupertazzis. Lupertazzi crime family boss Phil Leotardo, who disliked homosexuals, a cousin of Vito's wife Marie, demanded Vito's death, so Tony quietly arranged for Carlo Gervasi to make a hit on Vito. Meanwhile, Vito reunited with his family. He explained his absence to his children by claiming that he was an undercover CIA agent hiding out in Afghanistan, and warned them not to tell anybody. He later ran into Terry Doria, whom he agreed to loan $20,000 for child support.
That night, Vito returned to his motel room and was ambushed by Phil Leotardo and two of his soldiers, Gerry Torciano and "Fat Dom" Gamiello. Torciano and Gamiello duct-taped Vito's mouth shut and beat him to death while Phil Leotardo watched. It was later revealed that Vito was found with a pool cue stick in his anus, a message that he was killed because of his homosexuality.
Aftermath[edit]
Phil's unsanctioned murder of Vito proved to be a serious point of contention in his working relationship with Tony. The relationship was further strained when Phil correctly suspected the New Jersey mob in the disappearance of Gamiello, who had been killed by Silvio and Carlo Gervasi after making repeated wisecracks, in the wake of Vito's death, about the sexual orientation of New Jersey mobsters.
Phil Leotardo later told Vito's wife, Marie, that her husband was probably killed by two homosexual transients Vito had picked up at a bar. He told Marie that he loved Vito "like a brother-in-law," and suggested that Vito's death was probably for the best because a bisexual man would have made a poor role model for the children. However, a newspaper reported Vito was killed by mobsters after requesting to live an openly gay lifestyle. Vito's children read the story, destroying the illusion of their father being a CIA agent.
A year later Vito's son, Vito Jr. began to go through a rebellious phase in reaction to his father's murder and cruelty from his peers in light of his father's sexual orientation, entering the Goth subculture and performing various acts of vandalism. His mother, Marie, asked Tony Soprano for money so she could relocate her family to Maine, where no one would know them or what happened to Vito. Tony asked Phil Leotardo to also intervene, because of his involvement in Vito's death. Both paid separate visits to Vito Jr. and told him to start acting more like an adult. But Vito Jr. continued to act out, and later flatulently defecated in a shower at school.
Tony decided to help Marie Spatafore move to Maine, but gambled away the money he had intended to give her. Instead, Tony told Marie he would only pay for Vito Jr. to attend a "tough love" camp in Idaho. The camp's counselors abducted Vito Jr. from his bed at night before taking him to the camp, much to Marie's despair. Vito's homosexuality may have been a contributing factor in Phil Leotardo declaring war on the DiMeo Crime Family, as Leotardo implies that others do not respect him any longer due to Vito's "disgrace."
Murders committed by Vito Spatafore[edit]
Jackie Aprile, Jr.: Shot in the back of the head in retaliation for murdering Sunshine, shooting at Christopher Moltisanti, Albert Barese and wounding Furio Giunta.(2001)
Unnamed male civilian: Shot in the back of the head for intending to call the police and refusing a bribe to keep silent after a drunken Vito crashed his automobile into the man's parked car. (2006)
Minor characters[edit]

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 C ·
 D ·
 E ·
 F ·
 G ·
 H ·
 I ·
 J ·
 K ·
 L ·
 M ·
 N ·
 O ·
 P ·
 Q ·
 R ·
 S ·
 T ·
 U ·
 V ·
 W ·
 X ·
 Y ·
 Z

A[edit]
Ahmed
Alfie
Jimmy Altieri
Jerry Anastasia
Perry Annunziata
Anthony
Hector Anthony
Antjuan
Augustus "Little Auggie" Aprile
Jackie Aprile, Sr.
Kelli Aprile
Aaron Arkaway
Ariel
B[edit]
Dr. Ba
Domenica Baccalieri
Robert "Bobby" Baccalieri, Sr.
Karen Baccalieri
Albert "Ally Boy" Barese
Lawrence "Larry Boy" Barese
Richard "Dick" Barone
Jerry Basile
Matthew Bevilaqua
Jason Blundetto
Justin Blundetto
Kelly Blundetto
Louise Blundetto
Pat Blundetto
Quintina Pollio Blundetto
Edward "Duke" Bonpensiero
Kevin Bonpensiero
Matt Bonpensiero
Nils Borglund
C[edit]
Lorraine Calluzzo
Brian Cammarata
Corky Caporale
Vic Caputo
Gigi Cestone
Albie Cianflone
Justin Cifaretto
Charles Cinelli
John Clayborn
Joseph "Joey" Cogo
Frankie Cortese
Chief Frank Cubitoso
Credenzo Curtis
Ray Curto
Dr. Bruce Cusamano
Jeannie Cusamano
D[edit]
Heather Dante
Eric DeBenedetto
Butch DeConcini
Hugh De Angelis
Mary Pellegrino De Angelis
Peter "Bissel" LaRosa aka "Petey"
Finn DeTrolio
Cary De Bartolo
Dominic Ercoli "Eckley" DiMeo
Rocco DiMeo
Thomas "Tommy" Di Palma
Dogsy
J.T. Dolan
Terry Doria
Warren Dupree
Denis
E[edit]
Jason Evanina
F[edit]
Fanny
Benny Fazio, Sr.
Connie Fazio
Jen Fazio
Fran Felstein
FBI Tech
Tina Francesco
Dr. Ira Fried
G[edit]
Peter "Beansie" Gaeta
Dominic "Fat Dom" Gamiello
Angelo Garepe
Georgie
Burt Gervasi
Carlo Gervasi
Jason Gervasi
Dov Ginsberg
Tom Giglione
Barbara Soprano Giglione
Sean Gismonte
Agent Ron Goddard
Agent Ron Gosling
Agent Frank Grasso
Dante Greco
Sammy Grigio
Maria Nuccia Gualtieri
H[edit]
Detective Lieutenant Barry Haydu
Agent Dwight Harris
Coach Don Hauser
I[edit]
Corky Ianucci
George "Gus" Inzerillo
Anthony Infante
Salvatore "Mustang Sally" Intile
Father Phil Intintola
Rusty Irish
Italo
J[edit]
Orange J
Reverend James Junior
Stanley Johnson
K[edit]
Donny K
Special K
Dr. John Kennedy
Svetlana Kirilenko
Kamal
Eli Kaplan
Dr. Wendy Kobler
Emil Kolar
Dr. Krakower
L[edit]
Liz La Cerva
E Gary La Manna
Jimmy La Manna
Valentina La Paz
Jason LaPenna
Richard LaPenna
Jimmy Lauria
Billy Leotardo
Richard Leech
Patty Leotardo
Agent Skip Lipari
Nicole Lupertazzi
Murf Lupo
Kevan Lush
M[edit]
Alex Mahaffey
Vin Makazian
"Little Pussy" Malanga
Agent Joe Marquez
Jack Massarone
Massive Genius
Jason Masucci
Matush Gia
Aida Melfi
Joseph Melfi
Harold Melvoin
Gianna Millio
Rusty Millio
Neil Mink
Jason Molinaro
Joanne Moltisanti
Richard "Dickie" Moltisanti
Muhammad
Vic Musto
Joey Marino
Normand
O[edit]
Willie Overall
P[edit]
Donnie Paduana
JoJo Palmice
Mikey Palmice
Donna Parisi
Phillip "Philly Spoons" Parisi
Jason Parisi
Timothy A. Feliciano
David Pasquale
Irina Peltsin
Joe "Peeps" Peparelli
Jimmy Petrille
Fabian "Febby" Petrullio
Eddie Pietro
George Piocosta
Jeremy Piocosta
Devin Pillsbury
Vinny "Pitts" Pittsadora
Dr. Lior Plepler
Ally Pontecorvo
Deanna Pontecorvo
Robby Pontecorvo
R[edit]
Hesh Rabkin
Rasheen Ray
Carlo Renzi
Rhiannon
Ray-Ray D'Abaldo
S[edit]
Allegra Marie Sacrimoni
Catherine Sacrimoni
Ginny Sacrimoni
Amy Safir
Roberta "Bobbi" Sanfillipo
Agent Robyn Sanseverino
Faustino "Doc" Santoro
Reuben "The Cuban" Santiago
Richie Santini
Joseph "Beppy" Sasso
Hunter Scangarelo
David Scatino
Beppy Scerbo
Dr. Douglas Schreck
Marty Schwartz
Blanca Selgado
Dr. B Shah
Charles "Chucky" Signore
Julianna Skiff
Chief Doug Smith
Agent Smyj
Corrado Soprano, Sr.
Ercoli Soprano
Harpo "Hal" Soprano
John Francis "Johnny Boy" Soprano
Bryan Spatafore
Marie Spatafore
Teddy Spirodakis
Sunshine
T[edit]
Noah Tannenbaum
Matt Testa
Hillel Teittleman
Shlomo Teittleman
Maurice Tiffen
Gerry Torciano
Tracee
Tommy Mack
V[edit]
"Juan Valdez"
Valery
Ally Vandermeed
Sal Vitro
Dr. Richard Vogel
W[edit]
Waldemar Wyzchuck
Agent Deborah Ciccerone Waldrup
Agent Mike Waldrup
Robert Wegler
Lilliana Wosilius
Y[edit]
Z[edit]
James "Murmur" Zancone
Ronald Zellman
Dino Zerilli
Annalisa Zucca
Subpages[edit]
List of characters from The Sopranos in the Soprano crime family
List of characters from The Sopranos – friends and family
FBI on The Sopranos
List of characters from The Sopranos in the Lupertazzi crime family
See also[edit]
List of The Sopranos episodes
References[edit]
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2.Jump up ^ Wikisource-logo.svg "Sts. Gervasius and Protasius". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. 1913.
3.Jump up ^ Elizabeth, Mary (2001-05-19). "Tony Soprano's female trouble - Salon.com". Archive.salon.com. Retrieved 2010-04-03.
4.Jump up ^ "Arthur Kempton; Identity theory interview". identitytheory.com. 2003-10-20. Retrieved 2010-04-03.
5.Jump up ^ "Hip-Hop Happens; Culture". Vanity Fair. 2009-10-20. Retrieved 2010-04-03.
6.Jump up ^ "Real Life Sopranos - Crime Library on truTV.com". Crimelibrary.com. Retrieved 2010-04-03.
External links[edit]
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