Joseph Siravo, the veteran Broadway entertainer and instructor who played “Johnny Boy” Soprano on HBO’s The Sopranos, has passed on after a long fight with colon disease. He was 66.
His companion and The Sopranos co-star Garry Pastore affirmed Siravo’s demise in a post on Instagram on Sunday night. “Tear my dear companion, who battled an unfathomable battle. I will miss you. See you on the opposite side,” Pastore composed.
The BBC cited his little girl Allegra Okarmus, who composed on Instagram: “I was close by when my dear dad spent away today, calmly, in his darling Treehouse… I’m so enormously appreciative to have had him here on earth and I realize that he hasn’t gone far. He had numerous credits, yet his number one by a wide margin was that of Nonno Joe.”
“Joe was a fantastic entertainer and an awesome fellow and he will be remembered fondly sincerely,” The Soprano’s co-star Michael Imperioli said on Instagram. “His presentation [as] Johnny Boy Soprano was right on target and he likewise made an ideal John Gotti in Nick Sandow’s The Wannabe. As I would see it, he was the awesome every one of the entertainers who’ve played the Teflon Don.”
Better known to TV crowds all throughout the planet for his chance as Tony Soprano’s savage dad on The Sopranos, Siravo developed a noteworthy rundown of Broadway, Off-Broadway and territorial auditoriums credits and turned into an essential piece of the principal public visit through the Tony-and Grammy-grant winning Jersey Boys, filling the role of Angelo “Cheat” DeCarlo in more than 2,000 exhibitions.
Brought into the world in Washington D.C. on March 11, 1955, Sivaro went to Stanford University, where he performed for the Stanford Mendicants, an all-male a cappella bunch. He moved on from Stanford in 1977 with a BA and got his MFA from the NYU Tisch School of the Arts Theater Program in 1980, where he prepared under the direction of Ron Van Lieu, Olympia Dukakis and Nora Dunfee.
Siravo previously made his imprint acting in theater. His prominent Broadway credits incorporate J. T. Rogers’ Tony-grant winning play Oslo, Herb Gardner’s Conversations With My Father with Tony Shaloub and Judd Hirsch, the melodic The Boys From Syracuse and Craig Lucas’ melodic The Light In the Piazza.
Off-Broadway he featured in Caryl Churchill’s Mad Forest and Michael Develle Winn’s Up Against The Wind and in the territorial theater he featured in various Shakespeare creations including Hamlet, Anthony and Cleopatra and Othello.
In 2006, Siravo was important for the principal public visit through the marvelously fruitful melodic Jersey Boys, in view of the profession and music of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons. He played Genovese family supervisor Gyp DeCarlo and remained with the creation until 2012, acting in 38 urban communities.
To a more extensive crowd, Siravo will consistently be recognized as “Johnny Boy” Soprano from HBO’s widely praised horde dramatization The Sopranos. Siravo assumed the part of DiMeo wrongdoing family capo and father of Tony Soprano (James Gandolfini). In the show, he showed up in flashback and dream successions in five scenes, showing up in “Down Neck,” the seventh scene in season one with his last one in scene 15 of season six named “Recollect When.”
Siravo’s likewise featured in FX’s Emmy grant winning show The People V. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story, in which he gave an amazing presentation as Fred Goldman, the dad of the killed Ron Goldman.
His other TV credits incorporate For Life, New Amsterdam, Blue Bloods, The Blacklist, Elementary, In Treatment, Made In Jersey, Dirty Sexy Money, Hack, Third Watch, Law and Order, Witness To The Mob and Cosby.
Siravo made his big-screen debut in Brian De Palma’s Carlito’s Way in 1993, in which he played Vinnie Taglialucci, the lamenting child of a horde supervisor who looks for vengeance on David Kleinfeld (Sean Penn) and Carlito Brigante (Al Pacino). Despite the fact that his emphasis was basically on theater and TV, Siravo’s film credits remember Maid for Manhattan, Shark Tale, playing John Gotti in The Wannabe and most as of late The Report, Equity and Motherless in Brooklyn.
All through his profession, Siravo was focused on showing his specialty, and he was a sought-after private acting guide and furthermore an individual from NYU’s Grad Acting staff, driven by Zelda Fichandler, where he showed Voice, Speech and Text with an essential spotlight on Shakespeare. He was additionally the originator of the Shakespeare and Beyond workshop and had a long relationship with the Lucid Shakespeare workshop.
His creating credits incorporate the component film Things That Hang From Trees.
He is made due by his little girl, Allegra, child in-law, Aaron Okarmus and grandson, Atticus; his sister Maria and siblings Mario, Ernest and Michael.
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