Dominic Chianese
Dominic Chianese
Dominic Chianeseis an American actor, singer, and musician. He is best known for his role as Corrado "Junior" Soprano on the HBO series The Sopranos, and Johnny Ola in The Godfather Part II...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth24 February 1931
CityBronx, NY
CountryUnited States of America
uncles father son
The anger that Uncle Junior has comes from my background. My father was the son of an Italian immigrant, and I've seen the fire of the Italian temperament. It can be explosive sometimes in ways that are both funny and tragic.
uncles character writing
For TV I don't think I could have gotten a better part than Uncle Junior because of the intimacy of the character based on David Chase's brilliant writing.
uncles people watches
Uncle Junior is a criminal, which makes him a villain, so it makes people want to watch him. My whole life as an actor has been preparing for something like this.
uncles way dresses
I don't like the way Uncle Junior dresses. He loves it.
advertising bus lay loved lying newspaper sing
I was on the bus with Pop, going to lay brick. There was a newspaper lying on the seat, advertising for singers. I loved to sing as a child.
uncle
There is a lot of me in Uncle Junior.
play
I went on tour in the play H.M.S. Pinafore.
kids guy want
Im the kind of guy, when the marriage is breaking up, who doesnt want to yell in front of the kids. So I left, but it was very hard.
children italian ideas
I had no idea what they were saying in Italian as a child, they spoke too quickly on the radio. But I realized that language was very funny.
mother father grandparent
I enjoyed my grandparents very much. My mother and father would always allow me to stay with them.
song sweet nice
They would wake me up when I was sleeping, and say sing a song for our friends. I had a sweet voice, I had a nice little tenor voice. God knows what I sang, but my whole family would admire me.
character mean guy
I had to audition for the part of Jnior, and I wanted the role terribly because I knew it was a great character. This guy is a wonderful, funny, mean old guy.
men thinking play
I've always wanted to play Don Quixote in some way. It's a great role. I think the idealism of the man shows that hope that we have in the human breast to achieve something.
radio comedy language
The radio was my big influence. Comedy came from the instinctual feel I had for language.