1. Anthony LaPaglia has won three AACTA Awards, Best Actor in a Leading Role for Lantana and Balibo, and Best Actor in a Supporting Role for Nitram.
35 Facts About Anthony LaPaglia
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Anthony LaPaglia acted in Betsy's Wedding, Mixed Nuts, Empire Records, Sweet and Lowdown, Autumn in New York, Road to Perdition, Mental, and Holding the Man.
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Anthony LaPaglia voiced a skua in Happy Feet and its 2011 sequel.
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Anthony LaPaglia's mother was Dutch, and his father emigrated from Bovalino, Calabria, Italy, at the age of eighteen.
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Anthony LaPaglia's younger brother, Jonathan LaPaglia, is an actor, and his other brother, Michael, is a car wholesaler in Los Angeles.
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Anthony LaPaglia was working in Adelaide as a shoe salesman for Florsheim Shoes in the early 1980s.
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Anthony LaPaglia asked to be transferred to the US and continued working there while studying acting as he was rejected by the prestigious Sydney drama school NIDA.
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Anthony LaPaglia first began his venture into dramatic art in his late teens, when he enrolled in an acting course at the South Australian Castings Agency in Adelaide.
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Anthony LaPaglia's earliest credit was a 1985 part in an episode of the television series Steven Spielberg's Amazing Stories.
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Anthony LaPaglia had a supporting role as a mobster in the minor hit Betsy's Wedding.
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Anthony LaPaglia appeared in the role of Jimmy Wyler, lead character in the TV series Murder One, during its second and final season.
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Anthony LaPaglia made his debut in an Australian production opposite Hugo Weaving in The Custodian.
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Anthony LaPaglia played a hit man in Bulletproof Heart with Mimi Rogers and starred alongside future wife Gia Carides in the romantic comedy Paperback Romance.
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Anthony LaPaglia played Tito Merelli in Ken Ludwig's Lend Me a Tenor on Broadway.
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However, various factors, including Fox and his Broadway role, prevented Anthony LaPaglia from obtaining the role.
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In 2002, Anthony LaPaglia co-starred as a fire captain opposite Sigourney Weaver in The Guys, a film about New York firemen who died in the World Trade Center.
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Anthony LaPaglia played the role onstage, rotating with Bill Murray and others.
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In 2009, Anthony LaPaglia played the part of Roger East, a real-life Australian journalist, in the political thriller Balibo, about the killing in 1975 of five Australian journalists by the Indonesian Army in the town of Balibo, East Timor.
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In 2012 Anthony LaPaglia starred in the ABC drama pilot Americana, but it was not picked up.
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Anthony LaPaglia next appeared in the feature adaptation of Stephen King's A Good Marriage with Joan Allen.
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In 2014, Anthony LaPaglia appeared in a CBS terrorism drama pilot titled Red Zone starring as a retired CIA operative and current high school football coach who returns to active duty after a terrorist attack in Washington, DC It was renamed Field of Play but never aired.
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From about 2012, Anthony LaPaglia began accepting work in Australia more frequently.
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In that year Anthony LaPaglia returned to his home city, Adelaide, to star in A Month of Sundays as Frank, a miserable real estate agent who finds solace and redemption in a chance friendship with an elderly woman who reminds him of his mother.
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In 2018, Anthony LaPaglia appeared in the fifth season of the comedy Rake, based loosely on the life and misadventures of Charles Waterstreet.
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In 2017, Anthony LaPaglia played Vito Rizzuto in the Simon Barry Canadian TV series Bad Blood, which aired on Citytv, in French on ICI Radio-Canada.
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In 2023, Anthony LaPaglia appeared in the ABC TV series The Black Hand, which explores the activities of the Italian 'Ndrangheta in the cane fields of Queensland, Australia, in the 1920s and 1930s.
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Anthony LaPaglia has said that he adopted an American accent to help him get acting work after moving to the US.
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Anthony LaPaglia is the godfather of Poppy Montgomery and Adam Kaufman's son, Jackson.
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Anthony LaPaglia married Alexandra Henkel, who is 30 years younger, on 28 April 2018.
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Anthony LaPaglia was part owner of A-League club Sydney FC until 2008; flying from California to Sydney to attend their matches since their inception in 2005.
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Anthony LaPaglia was the narrator and executive producer of The Away Game, a critically acclaimed television documentary exploring the experiences of Australian men's soccer players in Europe.
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Anthony LaPaglia plays occasionally with Hollywood United, an amateur organisation of which he is club president, with others in the entertainment industry including Frank Leboeuf, Vinnie Jones, Steve Jones and others.
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Anthony LaPaglia has a minority shareholding in the International Goalkeepers Academy.
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Anthony LaPaglia has volunteered as an actor with the Young Storytellers Program.
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Anthony LaPaglia played in a charity soccer match in 2007 to raise funds for Southern California wildfire relief.