Biography
Armand Anthony Assante Jr. is an American actor. He played mobster John Gotti in the 1996 HBO television film Gotti alongside Anthony Quinn, Odysseus in the 1997 miniseries adaptation of Homer's The Odyssey, Nietzsche in When Nietzsche Wept, and Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer in 1982's I, the Jury. He has been nominated for two Primetime Emmy Awards, four Golden Globe Awards, and two Screen Actors Guild Awards. Assante also played 'Dominic Cattano', who was based on the real-life Lucchese family boss Carmine Tramunti, in the 2007 film American Gangster alongside Denzel Washington, Josh Brolin and Russell Crowe, which was nominated for two Oscars at the 80th Academy Awards in 2008.
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Awards & recognition
- Primetime Emmy Award — Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie · 1997
Filmography50+ titles
The Family Business
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
ER
Chuck
The Deuce
American Gangster
NCIS
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
The Road to El Dorado
Human Target
The Odyssey
Kojak
The Man Who Unlocked the Universe
Jack the Ripper
California Dreamin'
Little Darlings
The Mambo Kings
1492: Conquest of Paradise
Hoffa
Dead Man Down
October Road
On the Beach
The Match
When Nietzsche Wept
Two for the Money
Tough Luck
Private Benjamin
Judge Dredd
Q&A
Paradise Alley
Passion and Paradise
The Lords of Flatbush
The Return of Joe Rich
I, the Jury
Don Q
Striptease
The Marrying Man
Fatal Instinct
Sophia Loren: Her Own Story
Prophecy
Trial by Jury
Diamond Cartel
Chicago Overcoat
Consequence
A Fine Step
Funny Money
The Brave
Love & Money
Stressed to Kill
Shadows in Paradise