John Ventimiglia Biography
Born: July 17, 1968
New York-based character actor John Ventimiglia has built his career playing thugs, guards, cops, and other tough guys in television and movies. He guest starred on crime dramas like Law & Order and NYPD Blue until 1999, when he joined the cast of The_Sopranos as Artie Bucco, the proprietor of the Nuovo Vesuvio restaurant and close personal friend of Tony Soprano. The Artie Bucco character name was used by HBO to sell a whole line of products (pasta sauce, cookbooks, etc.) to promote the show. His film career has been more low-key, mostly made up of small roles in independent dramas. In 1995, he played the stable father Andrew in Rebecca_Miller's directorial debut, Angela. The next year, he had brief parts in four popular independent films: I_Shot_Andy_Warhol, Girls_Town, Trees_Lounge, and The_Funeral. He then co-starred in the crime comedy On the Run, opposite fellow Sopranos cast member Michael_Imperioli, and appeared in King of the World, the made-for-TV movie about Muhammad_Ali. Turning to voice acting, he narrated both the documentary The Art of Amália and Rebecca_Miller's Personal_Velocity. In 2002, he joined up with several other New York actors and writers for DV Workshop, a feature film collection of 24 short films for the Internet. Andrea LeVasseur, Rovi
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