A new book on the life and career of James Gandolfini, the man best known for bringing Tony Soprano to life and helping to usher in a golden age of prestige television, contains at least one ...

By McKinley Franklin David Chase wasn’t initially sold on James Gandolfini playing Tony Soprano in The Sopranos because he thought he wasn’t “threatening enough.” In an excerpt from Jason ...

More than 25 years later, it seems impossible to imagine anyone other than James Gandolfini in the role of Tony Soprano. But The Sopranos creator David Chase was initially worried the actor wasn ...

James Gandolfini played Tony Soprano in the HBO series for six seasons, ending in 2007. And "The Sopranos" was considered an instant classic. The New Jersey mob family, headed by a boss who had to ...

“I went, ‘Oh my God, I think I have Tony Soprano,’” she said. However, while Chase, who created, wrote and executive-produced the show, agreed that Gandolfini was “brilliant”, he ...

Tony and the Life of a Legend." It details how different he was from the gangster he portrayed on "The Sopranos." KUOW is Seattle’s NPR news station. We are an independent, nonprofit news ...

James Gandolfini played Tony Soprano in the HBO series for six seasons, ending in 2007. And "The Sopranos" was considered an instant classic. The New Jersey mob family, headed by a boss who had to ...

Son of the late James Gandolfini, Michael Gandolfini is an American actor known for playing the young Tony Soprano in The Many Saints of Newark (2021), a prequel to The Sopranos. His father led The ...

The Sopranos is practically a myth in itself. We knew we were watching something that went beyond the usual mob drama when Tony Soprano walked into Dr. Melfi’s office. Beneath all the violence and ...