- Born
- Birth nameArmand Anthony Assante Jr.
- Height5′ 10″ (1.78 m)
- Known as an Actor's Actor, the Four time Golden Globe Nominee, Emmy Award Winning Actor ( Gotti 1996 ) Assante has received acclaim for his work for close to Five decades. Internationally he has been the recipient of Twelve Lifetime Achievement Awards in the past ten years.
Full Biography at ArmandAssante.net
- IMDb mini biography by: johnny@themarketingagency.io
- SpouseKaren Assante(February 28, 1982 - 1994) (divorced, 2 children)
- ParentsArmand Anthony Assante Sr.Katherine Healy
- Gender / Gender identityMale
- Often plays Italian American gangsters.
- He was born in New York City. He comes from a creative, arts-involved family. His Irish-American mother, Katherine Healy, was a music teacher and poet, and his Italian-American father, Armand Anthony Assante Sr., was a painter and artist.
- Christopher Reeve was scheduled to play the lead role in Kidnapped (1995); Armand replaced him following Reeve's paralyzing horse-riding accident.
- Lives on a farm in upstate New York, he has been separated from wife Karen since 1994 and has two daughters, Anya and Alessandra.
- Reportedly gained nearly 50 lbs for his role as John Gotti in Gotti (1996).
- I go out there and make a fool of myself. It's inevitable.
- It's a blessing and a curse. But it's not always the best situation to be in. As a profession, I don't recommend acting at all.
- Literature is air, and I'm suffocating in mediocrity.
- I've got the best deal on earth. Where else can I sin and know that I'm forgiven for it?
- [on the recession] I've never seen a time when the financial end of film was so fragile. Projects come and go on the capacity of whether people have the financial ability, even for the lowest budget projects. It shows what has happened since 2008.
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