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The American actor Armande Assante was born in 1949 in New York. Assante grew up in a household filled with the arts; his mother was a poet and music teacher and father was a painter and artist. Assante developed a talent and appreciation for acting when he was a teenager, and by the early 1970’s, he’d garnered a number of roles on television soaps, including roles on The Doctors and How to Survive a Marriage.
Assante’s major screen debut was in the film The Lords of Flatbush in 1973. Although it was a small role, it led to what would become his bigger breakthrough, a role in Private Benjamin as the love interest of Goldie Hawn. For the remainder of the 1980’s and 1990’s, Armand appeared in such films as: I, the Jury (1982), Love and Money (1982), Jack the Ripper (1988), Eternity (1989), The Marrying Man (1991), The Mambo Kings (1992), Hoffa (1992), Judge Dredd (1995), Striptease (1996), and The Odyssey (1997), to name a few.
Armande Assante is most recognized for his role in the television movie Gotti (1996), in which he portrayed the famous mafia kingpin with staggering precision, earning him an Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or Movie. Other awards and nominsations for Assante include: Emmy and Golden Globe nominations for his role in Jack the Ripper; a Golden Globe nomination for his role in The Odyssey; and a Screen Actors Guild Aaward nomination for his role in Gotti.
Armande Assante has continued to act well into the new millennium, appearing in such films as Funny Money (2006), American Gangster (2007), Breaking Point (2009), Shadows in Paradise (2010), and Human Target (2010.) His most recent appearance is in the film Dead Man Down (2013), in the role of Lon Gordon.
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