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Armand Assante - Biography, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Filmography
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Armand Anthony Assante Jr. (English Armand Anthony Assante Jr.) was born in New York in 1949 in the family of the painter Armand Anthony Assante-Sr. and his wife, music teacher and poet Catherine Assante. His father had Italian roots, and his mother's ancestors were from Ireland, and therefore the future actor was brought up in Catholic traditions.
He made his acting debut in 1974 in Lords of Flatbush, and he achieved success a couple of years later, after roles in the series How to Survive a Marriage and The Doctor. The role of the handsome Frenchman Henri Alan Tremont, beloved heroine of Goldie Hawn, in the comedy "Private Benjamin" also added to his popularity.
This was followed by a series of famous gangsters: in The Habit to Marry he played Bugsy Siegel (1987), in a biographical drama about the life of union leader Jimmy Hoffa (1992, with Jack Nicholson in the title role), he was Carol "Dolly" D'Alessandro and, finally - The role of John Gotti in the biography of the boss of The Gambino Family (1996) brought Assante a Daytime Emmy Award for Best Actor in a Miniseries or Movie .
For all that, in 1987 he played the beloved Jacqueline Bisset - Josephine Beauharnais - in "Napoleon and Josephine", and Andrei Konchalovsky entrusted him with the role of the main character in his stellar fantasy series based on the works of Homer (1997).
Assante's other notable big-screen roles have been in The Mambo Kings (1992), Judge Dredd (1995), The Gangster (2007), and the TV series NCIS: Special Department .
In addition to working in the United States, Assante also collaborated with European directors from Macedonia, Turkey, Serbia, Romania, Bulgaria.
In 2007, he became Friedrich Nietzsche in the adaptation of Pinchas Perry's novel When Nietzsche Cried by Yalom Irwin .
From 1982 to 1994, he was married to actress Karen Macarn, who became the mother of his two daughters Ani and Alessandra.
