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21 unusual facts about The Sopranos


A. W. Vidmer

Vidmer's film chronicled the life and death of Stu Ungar, a famously genius and self-destructive poker player, and starred The Sopranos Michael Imperioli.

Afterglow: A Last Conversation with Pauline Kael

She also favorably considers the television shows Sex and the City and the first season of The Sopranos.

Alik Sakharov

He served as Director of Photography on numerous feature films, as well as a formidable number of programs for network television and premium cable, most notably for HBO with such projects as The Sopranos (38 episodes), Rome (9 episodes), Sex and The City, Game of Thrones.

Alla Kliouka Schaffer

Alla Kliouka Schaffer (b. February 18, 1970 in Minsk, Belarus) is a Belorussian actress, and former wife of Ken Schaffer, best known for her role as Svetlana Kirilenko on the HBO TV series The Sopranos.

Brand Nubian

Jamar also furthered his acting career, recently appearing on an episode of The Sopranos, as well as episodes of Oz, Third Watch, and Law & Order.

Carlos Manzano

In the race, he received the endorsements of former New York schools chancellor Frank Macchiarola, The Sopranos star Michael Imperioli, and former New York Giants head coach Allie Sherman.

Cubanate

Apart from Oxyacetylene, three other Cubanate songs were used on Gran Turismo and the single Body Burn can be heard at length in episode eighty two of The Sopranos, from the final season of the show.

Frank Pellegrino

Notable roles of his include Johnny Dio in GoodFellas, assorted appearances on Law & Order, and FBI Chief Frank Cubitoso on The Sopranos.

Jon Schroder

In addition to writing and directing, Schroder worked in various crew positions on the televisions shows, The Sopranos, Law & Order, and Sex in the City as well as for the films Spider-man, Kissing Jessica Stein, and Spike Lee’s 3 A.M.

Latin Soul Syndicate

Over the years, their songs have been licensed in films and TV shows including The Sopranos and The Devil Wears Prada.

Michael Sergio

Sergio also wrote and directed the independent feature Under Hellgate Bridge, featuring The Sopranos regulars Dominic Chianase, Vincent Pastore, and Frank Vincent.

Oprah Winfrey Presents: Mitch Albom's For One More Day

The Sopranos makeup artist Stephen Kelley helped Imperioli age from 20 to his 50s.

Persephone's Bees

The band's songs have appeared on The Sopranos ("Home" in episode "Cold Stones"), Weeds ("Little Boxes" in Season 3), and numerous film, TV, and commercial placements including Hilton Hotels, Cingular, Nancy Drew, and more.

Phil Abraham

He worked on all six seasons of The Sopranos, initially as a camera operator, then as a cinematographer and eventually as an episodic director.

Shield of Thorns

Two songs ("Leaving California" and "Wrapped in My Memory") were featured on the "Long Term Parking" episode of The Sopranos fifth season (2004) on HBO.

Talk Is Cheap

"Make No Mistake" was later featured in an episode of The Sopranos and on the 2001 soundtrack album The Sopranos: Peppers & Eggs: Music from the HBO Original Series.

The Hungry Ghosts

Although Imperioli did not appear in the film, he recruited four castmates that he had previously worked together on, from the HBO television series, The Sopranos.

The Latin American Xchange

Team 3D won that match after the leader of the Italian mobsters (Sopranos star Steve Schirripa) interfered.

The Sopranos: Road to Respect

The main character is voiced by Christian Maelen as Joey LaRocca, who was David Chase's second choice to play Christopher Moltisanti.

Warren Furutani

On June 15, 2011, during an Assembly debate on a redevelopment bill, Assemblyman Donald Wagner remarked that the bill was like something he had "seen on The Sopranos" and likened the author of the bill to Tony Soprano.

William Anselmi

Dr. Anselmi received national attention in the mid-2000s for a series of televised lectures he gave on The Sopranos as a cultural representation of Italian heritage in North America.


Alex Rice

She has also appeared on various television series including Spin City, CSI, Strong Medicine and The Sopranos.

Amherst Central High School

Nancy Marchand, actress most famous for her portrayal of Margaret Pynchon in Lou Grant and, in later life, Livia Soprano on The Sopranos

Andy Wolk

Some of his television credits include Tales of the Crypt, The Sopranos, Arli$$, The Practice, The Division, Medium, Ugly Betty, Criminal Minds as well as a number of television films.

Anthony Brancato

The title of episode 53 of The Sopranos, "Two Tonys" (2004), refers in part to Tony Brancato and Anthony Trombino.

Arnold Squitieri

One evening, Squitieri was watching an episode of the TV series The Sopranos (All Happy Families...).

Cure for Pain

The track "Buena" also appears in the first season of The Sopranos and in the Daria episode "The Teachings of Don Jake".

Danny Leiner

He has also directed a wide range of television including Arrested Development, Everwood, Gilmore Girls, Freaks and Geeks, Sports Night, Felicity, Action, The Tick, MTV's Austin Stories and HBO's Mind of the Married Man, The Sopranos and How to Make It in America.

Donald and Morris Goodkind Bridges

In The Sopranos episode "Nobody Knows Anything," Detective Vin Makazian leaps to his death from the Donald Goodkind Bridge.

Exile on Coldharbour Lane

"Woke Up This Morning" is well known as the opening theme music for the HBO drama series The Sopranos, although the mix used for the show is different from the one on this album.

Frank Deal

Deal's television credits include Boardwalk Empire, "The Knick", "Elementary", Person of Interest, Blue Bloods, Nurse Jackie, Unforgettable, "Royal Pains", Fringe, The Onion News Network, The Sopranos, Law & Order and Law & Order: SVU (as ADA Don Newvine).

I Saved the World Today

The song was briefly played as background music for a wedding party scene in season two, episode 12 of The Sopranos, "The Knight in White Satin Armor", and then meaningfully used as background for the closing scene and credits of that same episode.

King Nothing

"King Nothing" was featured as background music in the ninth episode of the second season of The Sopranos, "From Where to Eternity", in a scene in which Tony Soprano is speaking with Paulie Gualtieri in the Bada Bing strip club.

Laurie Rosenwald

She appeared as “Woman” in Season Five, Episode 1 of The Sopranos: "Two Tonys".

Louis Buchalter

Buchalter was also mentioned in The Legend of Tennessee Moltisanti, episode eight of the first season of the popular HBO television series The Sopranos.

Lucchese crime family New Jersey faction

According to the Crime Library website, the Jersey Crew is the main inspiration of the DiMeo crime family in the HBO TV-show The Sopranos.

Matthew Penn

Penn has directed and/or produced over one hundred and fifty prime time TV dramas Some of his credits as a television director include NYPD Blue, Law & Order, New York Undercover, Brooklyn South, The Sopranos, House, Damages, The Closer, and Royal Pains.

No soap radio

Over the years the joke has become widely known and entered popular culture in other forms, including a shower radio labeled "No Soap-Radio!" on a The Simpsons episode ("Homer the Heretic"), a popular podcast named after the joke, and a band with the name appearing at the Crazy Horse on a The Sopranos episode ("Pie-O-My").

Old Days

The Sopranos star Vincent Curatola has been known to guest vocal with the band on the song as well.

Rao's

Rao's was the basis for "Raimondo's," a fictional restaurant featured as the site of a murder in the Law & Order episode "Everybody Loves Raimondo's." The owner of the fictional restaurant was played by actor Ray Abruzzo, who later co-starred with Pellegrino on The Sopranos.

Robert Cicchini

Other television appearances include episodes of Law & Order, ER, Chicago Hope, The Sopranos, NYPD Blue, Gilmore Girls, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Everybody Hates Chris and others.

Robert Funaro

His last episode on The Sopranos, "Members Only," in which he played a major role, won an Emmy award for Best Writing in a Drama Series in 2006 for producer/writer Terence Winter, which Funaro discussed on Alycia Kaback's radio show on CBS, The "It" Factor.

The Valachi Papers

In season 5, episode 11 of the HBO series The Sopranos, titled "The Test Dream", Tony Soprano holds a copy of the novel the movie is based upon during a complicated dream sequence.

Todd A. Kessler

Kessler wrote and produced the second and third seasons of HBO's The Sopranos, Michael Mann's Robbery Homicide Division and the first season of NBC's Providence.

Tony Darrow

The following year, he appeared in Mickey Blue Eyes with Hugh Grant, and got another big role as mobster Larry Barese in the HBO hit series The Sopranos, which he was on for the entire series run (1999–2007).

Trees Lounge

The film's black humor, based on examination of characters' self-destructive behavior, has been cited as an influence by The Sopranos creator David Chase, who later hired Buscemi to direct the "Pine Barrens" episode of the show and to star as Tony Soprano's cousin Tony Blundetto during the show's fifth season.

Vittorio Duse

Duse mostly starred in Italian films, although he also appeared in The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, The Sopranos, and in When in Rome.

Willie Moretti

In the Sopranos episode D-Girl, the character Christopher Moltisanti tells Jon Favreau the story of Moretti intimidating Tommy Dorsey, which Favreu cites as the inspiration for the Corleone family's efforts to intimidate studio head Jack Woltz into casting Johnny Fontane in one of his movies (by killing one of his prized race horses and putting the head in Woltz's bed) in The Godfather.