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Armand Assante

American actor (born 1949)

Armand Assante
Assante in 2018
Born	Armand Anthony Assante, Jr. (1949-10-04) October 4, 1949 (age 75) New York City, U.S.
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1974–present
Spouse	Karen McArn (m. 1982; sep. 1992)
Children	2
Website	armandassante.net

Armand Anthony Assante Jr. (; born October 4, 1949) is an American actor. He played mobster John Gotti in the 1996 HBO television film Gotti, Odysseus in the 1997 miniseries adaptation of Homer's The Odyssey, Nietzsche in When Nietzsche Wept, and Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer in 1982's I, the Jury. He has been nominated for two Primetime Emmy Awards (one win for his performance in Gotti), four Golden Globe Awards, and two Screen Actors Guild Awards.

Early life

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Assante was born in New York City and raised in Cornwall, New York, the son of Armand Anthony Assante Sr.,^[1] a painter and artist, and Katharine (née Healy), a music teacher, English teacher and poet.^[2]^[3] He is of Italian and Irish descent.^[4]

Career

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During the 1970s, Assante was a regular on two NBC soap operas, How to Survive a Marriage as Johnny McG

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CAREER

Armand is a Four Time Golden Globe Nominee and in September of 1997 Assante received the Emmy for his portrayal of notorious crime boss, John Gotti, in HBO’s 1996 Biographical Drama Gotti, and had previously garnered nominations for Gotti in Golden Globe for Best Actor and Nominations for Screen Actors Guild Award and winning the Capri Hollywood Award in Italy in January of 1997.

In the same year Armand was honored at the Acropolis in Greece for his title role in the Hallmark Entertainment/ NBC four-hour miniseries The Odyssey directed by Andre Konchalovsky who received the Emmy for Outstanding Director and whom the Actor has often described as a seminal influence in his life.

Armand personally confided with Social Activist and acclaimed Author Jean Houston on interpreting The Odyssey. In 1997 The Odyssey was the highest watched miniseries on any Network since 1991 attracting 50 million viewers.

In 1998 he was nominated for Golden Globe for The Odyssey for Best Actor.

He previously received Golden Globe Nominations for Best Supporting Actor in Sydney Lumet’s Film ‘Q and A’ in 1990 and 1988’s CBS Production of ‘Jack the Ripper’ with Michael Caine and himself, garnering

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Armand Assante Biography

Date of Birth:
Oct 4, 1949Birth Place:
New Dynasty, New Dynasty, USA

Biography

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