List of Italian-American actors

To be included in this list, the person must have a Wikipedia article showing they are Italian American actors or must have references showing they are Italian American actors and are notable. As discussed in the 2005 book Hollywood Italians by Peter E. Bondanella, as well as numerous other sources, Italian-American actors have made a significant impact.[1][2][3][4][5][6] The Guild of Italian American Actors was founded in 1937.[7]

The list is organized chronologically, listing Italian American actors by birth date periods.

2000s

1990s

1980s

1970s

1960s

1950s
  • Ray Abruzzo (born 1954) television actor (The Sopranos)
  • Sharon Angela (born 1958) television actress (The Sopranos)
  • Michael Badalucco (born 1954) film actor (O Brother, Where Art Thou?)
  • Danny Bonaduce (born 1959) Italian father – television actor (The Partridge Family)[196]
  • Elizabeth Bracco (born 1959) Italian father and mother of French descent – television actress (The Sopranos)
  • Lorraine Bracco (born 1954) Italian father and mother of French descent – Academy Award-nominated actress (The Sopranos, Goodfellas)[197]
  • Steve Buscemi (born 1957) Italian father and part Irish mother – actor (Fargo, Reservoir Dogs)[198]
  • Joseph Cali (born 1950) film actor (Saturday Night Fever)
  • Carl Capotorto (born 1959) television actor (The Sopranos)
  • David Caruso (born 1956) Italian father and Irish mother – film/television actor (CSI: Miami)[199]
  • Vincent Curatola (born 1953) television actor (The Sopranos)
  • Beverly D'Angelo (born 1951) father of Italian descent – film actress (Vacation)
  • Tony Danza (born 1951) actor/talk show host (Who's The Boss, Family Law)[200]
  • Robert Davi (born 1951) film actor (The Goonies)
  • Michael DeLorenzo (born 1959) Italian father and Puerto Rican mother – television/film actor (New York Undercover)
  • Vincent D'Onofrio (born 1959) son of Sicilian parents – film/television actor and director (Full Metal Jacket, Law and Order: Criminal Intent)[201][202]
  • Giancarlo Esposito (born 1958) Italian father and African-American mother – film actor[203]
  • Cristina Ferrare (born 1950) actress of Italian descent (The Impossible Years)[92]
  • Lou Ferrigno (born 1951) bodybuilder and actor (The Hulk)[204]
  • Robert Funaro (born 1959) television actor (The Sopranos)
  • Joseph Gannascoli (born 1959) television actor (The Sopranos)
  • Dan Grimaldi (born 1950) television actor (The Sopranos)
  • Robert Hegyes (1951–2012) television actor (Welcome Back, Kotter) Italian-American mother, Hungarian-American father[205]
  • Kathy Hilton (born 1959) Italian grandfather – actress (Happy Days)[56]
  • Hulk Hogan (Terry Gino Bollea) (born 1953) 50% Italian wrestler
  • Anjelica Huston (born 1951) mother of Italian descent and father of English, Irish, and Scottish descent – film actress (Prizzi's Honor)
  • Renée Jones (born 1958) Italian mother and African-American father – soap opera actress (Days of our Lives)
  • Matt Lattanzi (born 1959) Italian father and Polish mother – actor and dancer (My Tutor)
  • Cyndi Lauper (born 1953) Italian mother and Swiss/German father – singer and actress- (Girls Just Wanna Have Fun)[206]
  • Jay Leno (born 1950) Italian-American father and Scottish mother – comedian, former actor, known as host of The Tonight Show[207]
  • Madonna (Ciccone) (born 1958) father of Italian ancestry and mother of French-Canadian ancestry – singer, songwriter, dancer, actress, entertainer (Dick Tracy)[208]
  • Ed Marinaro (born 1950) actor and former football player[209]
  • Peter Onorati (born 1953) Italian mother and father.[210]
  • Chazz Palminteri (born 1952) film actor (A Bronx Tale)[211]
  • Joe Pantoliano (born 1951) film/television actor (The Sopranos)[212]
  • Joe Penny (born 1956) Italian mother and English father – television actor
  • Bronson Pinchot (born 1959) mother of Italian ancestry – actor (Perfect Strangers)
  • Joe Piscopo (born 1951) actor and comedian (Saturday Night Live)[213]
  • Jon Polito (1950–2016) Italian father and Anglo-American mother – actor (The Honeymooners)
  • Victoria Principal (born 1950) father of Italian descent – actress (Dallas)[214]
  • Suzi Quatro (born 1950) Italian paternal grandfather[215]
  • Ray Romano (born 1957) actor and comedian (Everybody Loves Raymond)[200]
  • Isabella Rossellini (born 1952) Italian father and Swedish mother – actress, filmmaker, author, philanthropist, model[216]
  • James Russo (born 1953) film/television actor (Donnie Brasco)
  • Rene Russo (born 1954) Italian father and Italian maternal grandfather – film actress/model (Lethal Weapon 3, The Thomas Crown Affair)[217]
  • Randy Savage (Randall Mario Poffo) (1952–2011) Italian father and Jewish mother – wrestler and actor
  • Jack Scalia (born 1950) film/television actor (The Genius Club)[218]
  • Steve Schirripa (born 1957) television actor and writer (The Sopranos) – father of Italian descent, and mother of Jewish descent[219]
  • Connie Sellecca (Sellecchia) (born 1955) actress[220]
  • Gary Sinise (born 1955) 25% Italian ancestry – actor (CSI: NY)[221]
  • Joseph Siravo (born 1955) film/television actor (The Sopranos)
  • Rocco Sisto (born 1953) Italian-born actor (The Sopranos)
  • Frank Sivero (LoGiudice) (born 1952) Italian-born actor (Goodfellas)
  • John Travolta (born 1954) Italian-American father and Irish-American mother – Academy Award-nominated actor, singer, dancer (Grease, Saturday Night Fever)[222]
  • John Turturro (born 1957) actor, cousin of Aida Turturro (The Good Shepherd, The Bronx Is Burning)
  • Steven Van Zandt (Lento) (born 1950) musician, songwriter, arranger, record producer, actor, and disc jockey (The Sopranos)[223]
  • Vinny Vella (1947–2019) actor and part time comedian[224]
  • Diane Venora (born 1952) actress (Italian-American father)
  • Pia Zadora (born 1954) Broadway actress – Italian father, Polish mother
  • Chuck Zito (born 1953) member of the New York chapter of the Hells Angels, amateur boxer, martial artist, celebrity bodyguard, stuntman and actor[225]

1940s

1930s
  • F. Murray Abraham (born 1939) Oscar-winner for Best Actor – mother of Italian descent
  • Danny Aiello (1933–2019) film/television actor[245]
  • Alan Alda (born 1936) actor, writer, director and political activist – father of Italian descent[245]
  • Frankie Avalon (Avallone) (born 1939) actor and teen idol in the 1950s and early 1960s[246]
  • Anne Bancroft (Italiano) (1931–2005) Academy Award-winning actress[247]
  • Robert Blake (Gubitosi) (born 1933) film actor, perhaps most famous for starring in the U.S. television series Baretta, and for being found not guilty of the murder of wife Bonnie Lee Bakley[248]
  • Joseph Bologna (1934–2017) film/television actor[249]
  • Sonny Bono (1935–1998) son of Sicilian parents – actor and pop singer (Airplane II)
  • Victor Buono (1938–1982) Italian father and German mother – film and television actor, poet
  • Ron Carey (Cicenia) (1935–2007) film and television actor (Barney Miller)[250]
  • Carmine Caridi (1934–2019) film actor (The Godfather Part III)
  • Richard S. Castellano (1933–1988) film actor (The Godfather)
  • John Cazale (1935–1978) film actor (The Godfather) – father of Italian descent[251]
  • Dominic Chianese (born 1931) television actor (The Sopranos)[252]
  • Sam Coppola (1932–2012) film/television actor
  • Bobby Darin (Cassoto) (1936–1973) actor, singer and one of the most popular rock and roll American teen idols of the 1950s – maternal grandfather was of Italian ancestry, unclear who Darin's biological father was[253]
  • James Darren (Ercolani) (born 1936) television and film actor, television director, and singer[254]
  • Dom DeLuise (1933–2009) comic actor[255]
  • Connie Francis (Franconero) (born 1938) actress and pop singer, known for her 1957 hit "Who's Sorry Now?"[256]
  • Ben Gazzara (1930–2012) son of Sicilian parents, film/television actor[257]
  • Joan Hackett (1934–1983) American actress of stage, television and film. Nominated for an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress in 1981, Italian mother[258]
  • Morgana King (1930–2018) (Maria Grazia Morgana Messina DeBerardini) daughter of Sicilian parents – film actress (The Godfather)
  • Frank Langella (born 1938) stage, film and television actor
  • Richard Libertini (1933–2016) stage, film and television actor known for playing numerous character roles (Popeye)
  • Tony Lo Bianco (born 1936) film and television actor (The French Connection)[259]
  • Robert Loggia (1930–2015) son of Sicilian parents – film actor
  • Garry Marshall (Masciarelli) (1934–2016) Italian-American father and part Scottish mother—actor, director, and writer – brother of Penny Marshall[260]
  • Micole Mercurio (1938–2016) film and television actress
  • Sal Mineo (1939–1976) son of Sicilian parents – actor and theater director, famous for his Academy Award-nominated performance opposite James Dean in Rebel Without a Cause[261]
  • Tony Musante (1936–2013) stage, television, and film actor[262]
  • Paula Prentiss (Ragusa) (born 1938) film actress – father of Italian ancestry[263]
  • Alex Rocco (Petricone) (1936–2015) film actor (The Godfather)
  • John Saxon (Orrico) (1936–2020) film actor
  • Gia Scala (1934–1972) film actress and model
  • Tina Scala (born 1935) film actress, model and poet
  • Paul Sorvino (born 1939) actor, father of Mira Sorvino[264]
  • Joe Spinell (Spagnuolo) (1936–1989) film actor (The Godfather II)
  • Connie Stevens (Ingolia) (born 1938) Italian father and Irish mother – actress and singer[265]
  • Brenda Vaccaro (born 1939) film and television actress
  • Frankie Valli (Castelluccio) (born 1934) singer and actor (The Sopranos)
  • Frank Vincent (Gattuso) (1937–2017) film/television actor (The Sopranos)
  • Joe Viterelli (1937–2004) film actor (Shallow Hal)

1920s

1910s
  • Robert Alda (Alfonso Roberto D'Abruzzo) (1914–1986) actor, father of Alan Alda[248]
  • Miriam Battista (1912–1980) daughter of Italian immigrants – child actress of the silent film era[278]
  • John Beradino (1917–1996) Dr. Steve Hardy on the soap opera General Hospital from 1963 to 1996, star on Hollywood walk-of-fame
  • Ernest Borgnine (Borgnino) (1917–2012) Academy Award-winning actor[248]
  • Frank Campanella (1919–2006) son of Sicilian parents – actor
  • Anthony Caruso (1916–2003) film/television actor
  • Adriana Caselotti (1916–1997) actress known for providing the voice behind the lead character in Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs[279]
  • Richard Conte (1910–1975) film actor[248]
  • Ann Corio (1914–1999) burlesque ecdysiast and actress[280]
  • Dean Martin (Crocetti) (1917–1995) actor/singer, member of the Rat Pack[248]
  • Victor Mature (1913–1999) was an American film actor. Mature was born in Louisville, Kentucky to a Tyrolean father, Marcellus George Mature, a cutler, and a Swiss-American mother, Clara Mature
  • Al Molinaro (1919–2015) son of Italian parents – actor (The Odd Couple, Happy Days)[281]
  • Frank Sinatra (1915–1998) his parents' Italian heritage included a Sicilian father and a mother from Liguria in northern Italy- actor and singer who many consider to be one of the finest male popular song vocalists of all time[274]

1900s
  • Don Ameche (Amici) (1908–1993) 50% Italian, actor and director[282]
  • Argentina Brunetti (1907–2005) actress (It's a Wonderful Life)
  • Iron Eyes Cody (Espera Decorti) (1907–1999) son of Sicilian parents – actor, frequently played Native Americans[283]
  • Jerry Colonna (1904–1986) actor, entertainer, musician[284]
  • Russ Columbo (1908–1934) singer, violinist and actor, perhaps most famous for his signature tune, "You Call It Madness, But I Call It Love", and the legend surrounding his early death[285]
  • Lou Costello (Cristillo) (1906–1959) 62.5% Italian, 25% Irish, and 12.5% French blood – actor and comedian known as half of the comedy team of Abbott and Costello[286]
  • Angelo Rossitto (1908–1991), actor and voice artist
  • Renata Vanni (1909–2004) Italian-born American film actress[287]

1890s
  • Frank Capra (1897–1991) a Sicilian born actor and director (It's a Wonderful Life)
  • Gino Corrado (1893–1982), actor
  • Jimmy Durante (1893–1980) actor and singer
  • Rudolph Valentino (1895–1926) born Rodolfo Alfonso Rafaello Piero Filiberto Gugliemi di Valentina, Hollywood's first sex symbol and the first "Latin lover" (Italian father, Giovanni Antonio Giuseppe Fedele Guglielmi di Valentina D'Antonguolla, and French mother, Marie Berta Gabrielle Barbin; Valentino was born in Italy)

1880s

1870s

Non-Italian American actors
  • Laura Benanti (born 1979) American actress, stepfather is of Italian descent. She is of Yugoslavian-German-Irish-Native American heritage.
  • Lillo Brancato (born 1976) Colombian-born American actor, adopted son of Italian-American parents.
  • Marlon Brando (1924–2004) film actor. Brando's family was of German, Dutch, Irish, and English ancestry.
  • Ray Liotta (born 1954) film actor, adopted son of Italian-American father. Has stated that he is not of Italian descent.
  • Roma Maffia (born 1958) American actress, stepfather is of Italian descent. She is of West Indian, English and German descent.
  • Heather Matarazzo (born 1982) American actress, adopted daughter of Italian-American parents.
  • Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi (born 1987) Chilean-born American reality star actress, adopted daughter of Italian-American parents.

Voice actors

See also

References
  • Peter Bogdanella, Hollywood Italians: Dagos, Palookas, Romeos, Wise Guys, and Sopranos, New York: The Continuum IPG, 2004 – ISBN 0-8264-1544-X
  • Victoria Thomas, Hollywood's Latin Lovers: Latino, Italian, and French Men Who Make the Screen Smolder, Santa Monica: Angel City Press, 1998 – ISBN 1-8833-1841-6

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