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Robert “Bobby” Cannavale (/?kæn??v??l?/; born May 3, 1970) is an American actor known for his leading role as Bobby Caffey in the first two seasons of the television series Third Watch. Cannavale also had a recurring role on the NBC comedy series Will & Grace as Officer Vincent “Vince” D’Angelo, Will Truman’s long-term boyfriend, and portrayed Gyp Rosetti during the third season of the HBO drama Boardwalk Empire, for which he won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series in 2013. He most recently played Chili in Woody Allen’s 2013 film Blue Jasmine. 

Full Name Bobby Cannavale
Net Worth $8 Million
Date Of Birth May 3, 1970
Place Of Birth Union City, New Jersey, U.S.
Height 6′ 2½” (1.89 m)
Profession Actor, Soundtrack
Education Coconut Creek High School, Union Hill High School
Nationality American
Spouse Jenny Lumet
Children Jake Cannavale, Rocco Cannavale
Parents Isabel Cannavale, Sal Cannavale
Partner Rose Byrne, Rose Byrne
Twitter http://www.twitter.com/bobbycannavale
Instagram http://www.instagram.com/bobby_cannavale
IMDB http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0134072
Awards Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series, Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Play, Chlotrudis Award for Best Supporting Actor
Nominations Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play, Tony Award for Best Lead Actor in a Play, Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture, Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series, Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstandi…
Movies Ant-Man, Annie, Spy, Adult Beginners, Danny Collins, Blue Jasmine, The Station Agent, Chef, Win Win, Romance & Cigarettes, Paul Blart: Mall Cop, Lovelace, Shall We Dance?, The Bone Collector, The Night Listener, Diminished Capacity, Movie 43, Snakes on a Plane, The Other Guys, The Merry Gentleman, T…
TV Shows Vinyl, Boardwalk Empire, Marry Me, Cupid, Third Watch, Kingpin, 100 Centre Street, Blue Bloods, Invincible
Trademark
1 Deep gravelly voice
Title Salary
Annie (2014) $750 000
Quote
1 I don’t come from an intellectual family. I fly [my parents] in for the opening night of whatever show I’m in, and it’s great, they love me, they’re proud of me. But we don’t ever talk about what the play is about. So I was always in search of people I could talk to. I guess you could pull apart psychologically why it’s always a guy this happens with. My father-in-law [Sidney Lumet] was like a dad to me, and we talked about this art form ad nauseam.
2 [re Sidney Lumet] Sidney was the most down-to-earth guy you could meet. He loved me because I didn’t have anything and he came from nothing. By the way, [re Lumet’s mother-in-law Lena Horne] I didn’t know who she was But I think she liked that I was a little dirty. She, like Sidney, would love to say around her friends, ‘Bobby, tell that story,’ and I’d tell some story they would all be charmed by. Nothing is more charming than poor folks. They were all great, but it was Sidney, that guy. To the end, he was like a dad to me.
3 I can also be stubborn. I’m an idealist. I used to say to Sidney [Lumet], ‘Pop, your movies are always about people fighting against something, the system or corruption,’ and he said, ‘That’s what life is about.’ I loved that. I’m fighting complacency. Most people think good enough is good enough. I go to the theater a lot, and communion doesn’t always happen, but when it does, it’s indescribable. I don’t come from anywhere, man, but I am always on the search for excellence.
4 Between the career and my partial custody [of son Jake] and the fact that I didn’t have my dad growing up, I knew I had to work extra hard to always be here for him. I’ve never had discipline for anything like I do for raising Jake. I needed to make sure this home was our home. So if you got into a relationship with me, I made that clear, and that can be frustrating. I’ve had people want to move into this apartment, and it just wasn’t going to happen. I need my son to be able to come out of that bathroom in his underwear any time he wants and not worry about who’s here.
5 [re Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and mentor Lanford Wilson] That’s very much in my history that I’ve attached myself to older men. Lanford was one of those people I could learn from. Years later, when I was in a play of his at the Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor, where he lived, it was also where I conceived my son, in Lanford’s garden. I reminded him of that till the day he died.
6 [reason he was expelled from Catholic school in 7th grade] For finally losing my temper with the principal who’s been on me since I was 5 years old. Sister Joanna. She was my kindergarten teacher when I was skipped to first grade, and I think she always held that against me. When she became principal, she got on me, and I finally lost it, and like pushed her in the coat closet.
7 [on his high school days] The town, Margate [Florida], was just white, what they called Florida crackers. They were the kids with the desert boots who used to chase me home and put holes in my tires and call me Dorito. High school was four years of craziness. I was disruptive in class. I got suspended all the time. They would give you the option of getting suspended for five days or getting corporal punishment. Finally, my mother was like, ‘That’s it with the suspension, now you get hit.’
8 I never thought I would get married and have kids. I thought I was going to be a gypsy actor, traveling all over the world playing the great roles. I ended up having a kid very young, and it put things in perspective. He became the most important person in my life, and everything else seemed to fall into place. I’ve made decisions that perhaps have not let me go as far in my career, but I’m totally fine with that because it’s kept me close to my son.
9 I was in Cannes a couple of years ago. Which, you know, I was like, Wow, holy s-, I’m in Cannes. I’ve never been there before. I was there with a movie. And it was the anniversary of Platoon (1986), which is another movie that if it’s on, it just brings me back to being 15 years old and memorizing every monologue from that movie. It was like a real actor movie. And Tom Berenger was freaking’ great in that movie, and I met him at this anniversary screening. We’re all black tie, and I walked up to my lawyer, who also represents him, and I had a glass of red wine in my hand. And he said, “This is Tom Berenger.” I said, “Oh, man. I gotta tell you, I memorized that whole monologue.” And I start doing the monologue, and he was so flattered. And we’re laughing, laughing, and it’s like two minutes in, and I’m drinking my wine, and this other guy made a joke and I spit my red wine, all of it, all over Tom Berenger. I mean, like, I just projectiled all of it, all over him. And as he stood there looking down at his shirt and at me, from the dais Oliver Stone said, “I want to introduce the cast. First, Tom Berenger,” and he just looked at me, like, Who the f- are you? And he went up on stage covered in wine.
10 I don’t go see big, silly movies. I like small things about regular folks, you know? I always wanted to have a career that would keep me at home in New York so I can work in the theater all the time and be involved in the creative process from the ground up. I don’t think there’s a lot of room for vanity when you’re developing things.
11 I like flawed characters very much. A lot of times I get asked to do parts that are kind of small but key — three-scene roles that are three kick-ass scenes. Growing up, watching as many movies as I did, I was always into character actors like that.
12 I think what makes really good drama is that the event that’s happening in the two hours that you’re watching is the biggest event of [the character’s] life. Even if it’s mundane, even if it’s somebody going through some sort of midlife crisis that on the page seems very mundane, to me, their inner life has to be that it’s the biggest event of their life.
13 I’m not very good in a classroom sort of setting. I never was. I was kind of a clown in high school–got suspended a lot.
Fact
1 Became a father for the 2nd time at age 45 when his girlfriend Rose Byrne gave birth to their son Rocco Robin Cannavale on February 1, 2016.
2 To date, he is the only cast member of Boardwalk Empire (2010) to win an Emmy for their performance.
3 Has been in a relationship with actress Rose Byrne since December 2012.
4 In 1994, after playwright Lanford Wilson came to see him perform in “The Normal Heart”, Bobby ‘said he ‘didn’t leave his side for like the next two years.’ Later, Wilson brought him into the prominent Off-Broadway Circle Repertory Company, which he had co-founded, and which served as Bobby’s virtual home.
5 His parents married when his mother, Isabel, who had emigrated from Cuba when she was 13, was only 16 years old. She gave birth to Bobby when she was 18. When she divorced his father, she remarried and moved to Puerto Rico with Bobby when he was 13.
6 He lives in an apartment in Manhattan’s Upper West Side, where his son Jake stays with him every other week.
7 In the 1980s he asked, and was allowed, to clean the bathrooms at the New York City theater called P.S. 122 in order to earn admission to see Eric Bogosian perform his one-man show. Later he also worked at a doorman at night clubs.
8 Reached a milestone in his life when he landed the part of Ricky Roma in the Broadway revival of David Mamet’s “Glengarry Glen Ross” opposite his lifelong idol Al Pacino. Pacino had played Ricky in the film adaptation, but was now playing Shelley Levene (originally played by Jack Lemmon in the movie). [2012]
9 His son Jake Cannavale played his character’s son on Nurse Jackie (2009).
10 Member of a notable Lee Strasberg alumni: Al Pacino , Robert De Niro, James Dean, Marilyn Monroe, Steve McQueen, Paul Newman, Christopher Walken, Dennis Hopper, Matt Zemlin and others.
11 Following his divorce, he had relationships with Annabella Sciorra (2004-2007), Alison Pill, and Sutton Foster.
12 Was nominated for a Tony Award in 2008 for Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play for “Mauritius”.
13 Was nominated for a Tony Award in 2011 for Best Performance by an Actor in a Play for Stephen Adly Guirgis’s “The Motherfucker with the Hat.”.
14 Coming from a broken home, he sought teenage solace watching movies. Rebel Without a Cause (1955) and Cool Hand Luke (1967) impacted him the most.
15 Always knew that he wanted to be an actor, and as a child seeking refuge from his bad neighborhood, started performing in a church theater company.
16 Attended Coconut Creek High School, where he graduated in 1987. He was a member of the school’s drama troupe. He was slated to play “Sir,” one of the two lead roles in the school’s spring, 1987 production of the musical “The Roar of the Greasepaint, the Smell of the Crowd,” but was suspended from school days before opening night for allegedly leaving an explicit letter critical of the school staff in a library copy machine. An understudy from BCC’s theater program (himself a Coconut Creek High School graduate) agreed to step in to replace the suspended Cannavale.
17 Has played roles covering each of the New York City’s three major emergency response agencies (police officer on Will & Grace (1998), firefighter on The Guru (2002), paramedic on Third Watch (1999)).
18 Ex-brother-in-law of Amy Lumet and P.J. O’Rourke.
19 Became a father for the 1st time at age 24 when his [now ex] wife Jenny Lumet gave birth to their son Jake Cannavale on May 1, 1995.
20 He studied acting at the Lee Strasberg Theatre & Film Institute in New York.
21 He was born in Union City, New Jersey, but grew up in Coconut Creek, Florida.
22 His father is Italian and his mother is Cuban.
23 He is a member of the Circle Repertory Theatre and the Lab Theatre Company, both based in New York City.

Actor

Title Year Status Character
The Irishman 2018 pre-production Joe Gallo
Martha the Monster 2017 Short post-production Kevin the Monster / Doormat
The Nut Job 2 2017 filming Frankie (voice)
Boundaries 2017 post-production Leonard
Going Places filming
Vinyl 2016 TV Series Richie Finestra
The Fundamentals of Caring 2016 Cash (uncredited)
Daddy’s Home 2015 Dr. Francisco
Ant-Man 2015 Paxton
The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore 2015 TV Series Brock Federico
Danny Collins 2015 Tom Donnelly
Spy 2015 Sergio De Luca
Annie 2014 Guy
Adult Beginners 2014 Danny
Robot Chicken 2014 TV Series
Chef 2014 Tony
Blue Jasmine 2013 Chili
Nurse Jackie 2012-2013 TV Series Dr. Mike Cruz
Lovelace 2013 Butchie Peraino
Parker 2013 Jake Fernandez
Movie 43 2013 Superman (segment “Super Hero Speed Dating”)
Boardwalk Empire 2012 TV Series Gyp Rosetti
My America 2012 TV Series
Modern Family 2012 TV Series Lewis
Nick the Doorman 2012 TV Movie Mr. Pomerantz
Ball Two 2011 Short The Mort
Roadie 2011 Randy Stevens
Blue Bloods 2010-2011 TV Series Charles Rosselini
Win Win 2011 Terry Delfino
Marry Me 2010 TV Mini-Series Adam
Weakness 2010 Joshua
Apples 2010/I Short Nino
Louie 2010 TV Series Chris
The Other Guys 2010 Jimmy
American Dad! 2010 TV Series Detective Chaz Miglachio
F–K 2010 Short Bobby
Louis C.K.’s Last Chance 2009 Video short Porn Producer
Cold Case 2008-2009 TV Series Eddie Saccardo
Cupid 2009 TV Series Trevor Pierce
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men 2009 Subject #40
Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2009 Cmdr. James Kent
100 Feet 2008 Shanks
Lipstick Jungle 2008 TV Series Chris ‘Parks’ Parker
The Promotion 2008 Dr. Timms
Diminished Capacity 2008 Lee Vivyan
The Merry Gentleman 2008 Michael
The Take 2007 Agent Steve Perelli
Law & Order 2002-2007 TV Series J.P. Lange / Randy Porter
The Knights of Prosperity 2007 TV Series Enrico Cortez
Dedication 2007 Don Meyers
The Ten 2007 Marty McBride
M.O.N.Y. 2007 TV Movie Joe Capanelli
10 Items or Less 2006 Bobby
Snakes on a Plane 2006 Hank Harris
Fast Food Nation 2006 Mike
Will & Grace 2004-2006 TV Series Vince D’Angelo
The Night Listener 2006 Jess
Untitled Paul Reiser Project 2006 TV Movie Danny
Recipe for a Perfect Christmas 2005 TV Movie Alex Stermadapolous
Romance & Cigarettes 2005 Fryburg
The Exonerated 2005 TV Movie Jesse Tafero
Happy Endings 2005 Javier
N.Y.-70 2005 TV Movie Det. Niko Corso
The Breakup Artist 2004 Neighbor
Shall We Dance 2004 Chic
Haven 2004/I Lieutenant
Fresh Cut Grass 2004 Billy Pecchio
Six Feet Under 2004 TV Series Javier
Shortcut to Happiness 2003 Cop
Law & Order: Criminal Intent 2003 TV Series Julian Bello
Oz 2003 TV Series Alonzo Torquemada
Kingpin 2003 TV Mini-Series Chato Cadena
The Station Agent 2003 Joe Oramas
The Guru 2002 Randy
Ally McBeal 2002 TV Series Wilson Jade
Washington Heights 2002 Angel
100 Centre Street 2001-2002 TV Series Jeremiah “J.J.” Jellinek
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit 2002 TV Series Kyle Novacek
Third Watch 1999-2001 TV Series Roberto Caffey
3 A.M. 2001 Jose
Sex and the City 2000 TV Series Adam Ball
The Bone Collector 1999 Amelia’s Boyfriend
Trinity 1998-1999 TV Series Joe
Gloria 1999 Jack
When Trumpets Fade 1998 TV Movie Captain Zenek
I’m Not Rappaport 1996 Parking Lot Customer
Night Falls on Manhattan 1996 Vigoda Assistant #1

Soundtrack

Title Year Status Character
Annie 2014 performer: “Easy Street 2014 Film Version”
Romance & Cigarettes 2005 performer: “Hot Pants”

Thanks

Title Year Status Character
The Visitor 2007/I special thanks

Self

Title Year Status Character
Close Up with the Hollywood Reporter 2016 TV Series Himself
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors 2016 TV Series Himself
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon 2016 TV Series Himself – Guest
CBS This Morning 2016 TV Series Himself
Late Night with Seth Meyers 2016 TV Series Himself – Guest
Extra 2016 TV Series Himself
Live with Kelly and Michael 2016 TV Series Himself – Guest
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert 2016 TV Series Himself – Guest
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver 2015 TV Series Himself – Guest
The 69th Annual Tony Awards 2015 TV Movie Himself – Presenter: Best Featured Actor in a Musical
Reel Junkie 2015 TV Series Himself
Made in Hollywood 2014-2015 TV Series Himself
Today 2015 TV Series Himself – Guest
Late Show with David Letterman 2015 TV Series Himself – Guest
Misery Loves Comedy 2015 Documentary Himself
Entertainment Tonight 2014 TV Series Himself – Annie
Good Morning America 2014 TV Series Himself – Guest
Park Bench with Steve Buscemi 2014 TV Series Himself
The 65th Primetime Emmy Awards 2013 TV Special Himself – Nominee: Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series & Winner: Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series
2013 Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards 2013 TV Special Himself – Nominated: Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series
The Broadway.com Show 2013 TV Series Himself
19th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards 2013 TV Special Himself – Nominee (uncredited)
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon 2012 TV Series Himself – Guest
Prayer for a Perfect Season 2011 Documentary Narrator
The 65th Annual Tony Awards 2011 TV Special Himself – Presenter: The Motherfucker with the Hat & Nominee: Best Leading Actor in a Play
The 77th Annual Drama League Awards 2011 TV Special Himself
The Oprah Winfrey Show 2011 TV Series Himself – Guest
Working in the Theatre 2011 TV Series documentary Himself
Jimmy Kimmel Live! 2004-2009 TV Series Himself – Guest
Séries express 2009 TV Series Himself
The 62nd Annual Tony Awards 2008 TV Special Himself – Nominee: Best Featured Actor in a Play
The War 2007 TV Mini-Series documentary Babe Ciarlo / Reader
The Manufacturing of ‘Fast Food Nation’ 2007 Video documentary Himself
Meet the Reptiles 2006 Video documentary short Himself / Hank Harris
Will & Grace: The Final Bow (Curtain Call) 2006 Video short Himself
Snakes on a Set: Behind the Scenes 2006 Video documentary short Himself
The 57th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards 2005 TV Special Himself – Winner: Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series and Presenter: Outstanding Directing & Writing for a Variety, Music or Comedy Program
Sex and the City: A Farewell 2004 TV Movie documentary Himself / Adam Ball
Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde 2004 TV Movie documentary Himself
Celebrity Poker Showdown 2004 TV Series Himself
The Tony Danza Show 2004 TV Series Himself – Guest
The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn 2004 TV Series Himself – Guest
The Wayne Brady Show 2003 TV Series Himself – Guest
The Rosie O’Donnell Show 2000-2001 TV Series Himself – Guest
2000 ALMA Awards 2000 TV Special Himself – Presenter
2000 Hispanic Heritage Awards 2000 TV Special Himself – Co-Host

Archive Footage

Title Year Status Character
Boardwalk Empire 2012 TV Series Gyp Rosetti

Won Awards

Year Award Ceremony Nomination Movie
2013 Primetime Emmy Primetime Emmy Awards Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series Boardwalk Empire (2010)
2012 IGN Award IGN Summer Movie Awards Best TV Villain Boardwalk Empire (2010)
2005 Primetime Emmy Primetime Emmy Awards Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series Will & Grace (1998)
2005 OFTA Television Award Online Film & Television Association Best Guest Actor in a Comedy Series Will & Grace (1998)
2004 Chlotrudis Award Chlotrudis Awards Best Supporting Actor The Station Agent (2003)

Nominated Awards

Year Award Ceremony Nomination Movie
2014 Gold Derby Award Gold Derby Awards Ensemble Cast Blue Jasmine (2013)
2013 Primetime Emmy Primetime Emmy Awards Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series Nurse Jackie (2009)
2013 EDA Award Alliance of Women Film Journalists Best Supporting Actor Blue Jasmine (2013)
2013 OFTA Television Award Online Film & Television Association Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series Boardwalk Empire (2010)
2013 Actor Screen Actors Guild Awards Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series Boardwalk Empire (2010)
2013 Actor Screen Actors Guild Awards Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series Nurse Jackie (2009)
2012 Primetime Emmy Primetime Emmy Awards Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series Nurse Jackie (2009)
2012 Critics’ Choice TV Award Critics Choice Television Awards Best Guest Performer in a Comedy Series Modern Family (2009)
2011 ALMA Award ALMA Awards Favorite Movie Actor Win Win (2011)
2006 Gold Derby TV Award Gold Derby Awards Comedy Guest Actor Will & Grace (1998)
2006 OFTA Television Award Online Film & Television Association Best Guest Actor in a Comedy Series Will & Grace (1998)
2004 PFCS Award Phoenix Film Critics Society Awards Best Ensemble Acting The Station Agent (2003)
2004 Actor Screen Actors Guild Awards Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture The Station Agent (2003)
2003 Breakthrough Award Gotham Awards The Station Agent (2003)
2001 ALMA Award ALMA Awards Outstanding Host of a Variety or Awards Special 2000 Hispanic Heritage Awards (2000)
2000 ALMA Award ALMA Awards Emerging Actor in a Drama Series Third Watch (1999)

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