Joseph Siravo was an American actor, producer, and educator.
10 Facts About Joseph Siravo
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Joseph Siravo acted on Broadway in the Tony Award-winning productions of Oslo and The Light in the Piazza.
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Joseph Siravo was a graduate of both Stanford University and the Tisch School of the Arts.
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Joseph Siravo was cast in 1999 to play the role of Johnny Soprano, father of Tony Soprano, on The Sopranos.
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Joseph Siravo's character was included in five episodes during the series' run.
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Joseph Siravo portrayed mobster John Gotti in the 2015 film The Wannabe as well as Gene Gotti in the 1998 made-for-TV film Witness to the Mob.
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Joseph Siravo played the role of Niko in seasons one and two of the NBC show The Blacklist, and in 2015 played the role of Nicholas Bianco, the husband of Anna Bianco, in "Love Stories", the 13th episode of the fifth season of the CBS police procedural drama Blue Bloods.
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Simpson: American Crime Story, Joseph Siravo portrayed Fred Goldman, father of murder victim Ronald Goldman.
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Joseph Siravo died from cancer on April 11,2021, at the age of 66.
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Joseph Siravo had been diagnosed with stage four prostate cancer in 2017, which subsequently spread to his colon.