Anthony LaPaglia (, ; born 31 January 1959) is an Australian actor. He is best known for his role as
Jack Malone in the television drama ''
Without a Trace
''Without a Trace'' is an American police procedural drama television series created by Hank Steinberg that aired on CBS from September 26, 2002 to May 19, 2009 with the total of seven seasons and 160 episodes. The series focuses the cases of ...
'' (2002–2009), for which he received a
Golden Globe Award
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in 2004.
LaPaglia won a
Primetime Emmy Award
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for his role as
Simon Moon in the television sitcom ''
Frasier
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'' (2000–2004). He has also appeared in films such as ''
Betsy's Wedding
''Betsy's Wedding'' is a 1990 American romantic comedy film written and directed by Alan Alda. The film stars Alda, Joey Bishop, Madeline Kahn, Catherine O'Hara, Joe Pesci, Ally Sheedy, Bibi Besch, Burt Young, and Molly Ringwald. It was theatr ...
'' (1990), ''
Empire Records
''Empire Records'' is a 1995 American coming-of-age comedy-drama film directed by Allan Moyle, starring Anthony LaPaglia, Maxwell Caulfield, Debi Mazar, Rory Cochrane, Johnny Whitworth, Robin Tunney, Renée Zellweger, and Liv Tyler. The fil ...
'' (1995), ''
Autumn in New York'' (2000), ''
Lantana
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'' (2001), ''
Balibo
Balibo is a town in East Timor situated approximately from the Indonesian border. It is located in the subdistrict of Balibo, Bobonaro District.
It was estimated by Human Rights Watch that 70 per cent of the town was destroyed during t ...
'' (2009), ''
Holding the Man'' (2015), ''
Annabelle: Creation'' (2017), and ''
Nitram
''Nitram'' is a 2021 Australian biographical film, biographical psychological drama film directed by Justin Kurzel from a screenplay by Shaun Grant. The film revolves around the life and behaviors of a mentally distressed young man called "Nitr ...
'' (2021), the lattermost of which earned him an
AACTA Award
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.
Early life
LaPaglia was born in
Adelaide
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, South Australia, the son of Maria Johannes (née Brendel), a secretary and model, and Gedio "Eddie" LaPaglia (deceased), an auto mechanic and car dealer.
[Stated on '']Inside the Actors Studio
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'', 2009 LaPaglia's mother was Dutch, and his father emigrated from
Bovalino
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,
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Italy
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, at the age of eighteen.
[ His younger brother, ]Jonathan LaPaglia
Jonathan LaPaglia (, ; born 31 August 1969) is an Australian actor and television personality. He has hosted Network 10's revival of ''Australian Survivor'' since 2016. As an actor, LaPaglia is known for his roles as Frank B. Parker in the tel ...
, is also an actor, and his other brother, Michael, is a car wholesaler in Los Angeles. LaPaglia attended Rostrevor College
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and Norwood High School.
LaPaglia was working in Adelaide as a shoe salesman for Florsheim Shoes in the early 1980s. He asked to be transferred to the US and continued working there while studying acting as he was rejected by the prestigious Sydney drama school NIDA. LaPaglia first began his venture into dramatic art in his late teens, when he enrolled in an acting course at the South Australian Castings Agency (SA Castings) in Adelaide. The two-and-half-year course was to be supplemented with a further three months, which would have included a "boot camp" and a trial listing with SA Castings. After completing one-and-a-half years of the course, LaPaglia left Adelaide for Los Angeles.
Career
LaPaglia's earliest credit was a 1985 part in an episode of the television series '' Steven Spielberg's Amazing Stories''. His first feature film was ''Cold Steel'' in 1987, followed that same year by the title role of Frank Nitti
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in the telemovie ''Nitti: The Enforcer''. LaPaglia had a supporting role as a mobster
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in the minor hit ''Betsy's Wedding
''Betsy's Wedding'' is a 1990 American romantic comedy film written and directed by Alan Alda. The film stars Alda, Joey Bishop, Madeline Kahn, Catherine O'Hara, Joe Pesci, Ally Sheedy, Bibi Besch, Burt Young, and Molly Ringwald. It was theatr ...
'' (1990).
He starred alongside Danny Aiello
Daniel Louis Aiello Jr. () (June 20, 1933 – December 12, 2019) was an American actor. He appeared in numerous motion pictures, including ''The Godfather Part II'' (1974), ''The Front'' (1976), ''Once Upon a Time in America'' (1984), ''Hide in ...
and Lainie Kazan
Lainie Kazan (born Lainie Levine; May 15, 1940) is an American actress and singer. She was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series for '' St. Elsewhere'' and the 1993 Tony Award for Best Featured Actr ...
in '' 29th Street'', a fact-based comedy/bio-pic, as the first New York State Lottery
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Overview
Players must be ...
winner, Frank Pesce Jr. This was followed by roles in the vampire/Mafia story '' Innocent Blood'' (1992), the comedy thriller '' So I Married an Axe Murderer'' (1993), the legal thriller ''The Client
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'' (1994), and the comedy ''Empire Records
''Empire Records'' is a 1995 American coming-of-age comedy-drama film directed by Allan Moyle, starring Anthony LaPaglia, Maxwell Caulfield, Debi Mazar, Rory Cochrane, Johnny Whitworth, Robin Tunney, Renée Zellweger, and Liv Tyler. The fil ...
'' in 1995. That same year, LaPaglia appeared in the role of Jimmy Wyler, lead character in the TV series '' Murder One'', during its second and final season.
During 1997–98, LaPaglia appeared in a Broadway
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** Broadway (Manhattan), the street
**Broadway Theatre (53rd Stree ...
production of Arthur Miller
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's ''A View From the Bridge
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'' with the Roundabout Theatre Company
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History
The company was founded in 1965 by Gene Feist, Michael Fried and Elizabet ...
and later received a Tony Award
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for his portrayal of the protagonist, Eddie Carbone. LaPaglia also played Tito Merelli in Ken Ludwig
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Personal life
Ken Ludwig was born in York, Pennsylvania. His father was a doctor and his mother was a former ...
's ''Lend Me a Tenor
''Lend Me a Tenor'' is a comedy by Ken Ludwig. The play was produced on both the West End (1986) and Broadway (1989). It received nine Tony Award nominations and won for Best Actor (Philip Bosco) and Best Director (Jerry Zaks). A Broadway re ...
'' on Broadway. Before ''A View From the Bridge'' opened, LaPaglia was sent a script for the pilot of ''The Sopranos
''The Sopranos'' is an American Crime film#Crime drama, crime drama television series created by David Chase. The story revolves around Tony Soprano (James Gandolfini), a New Jersey-based American Mafia, Italian-American mobster, portraying h ...
'' and met its creator, David Chase
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, to discuss the role of protagonist Tony Soprano
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. However, various factors, including Fox
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Twelve sp ...
and his Broadway role, prevented LaPaglia from obtaining the role.
Spike Lee
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cast LaPaglia as a New York police detective in ''Summer of Sam
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'' (1999). During 2000–04, LaPaglia appeared in eight episodes of the sitcom ''Frasier
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'', including the finale, playing Daphne Moon
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's brother Simon
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* Simon (surname), including a list of people with the surname Simon
* Eugène Simon, French naturalist and the genus ...
.[ The role won him an ]Emmy Award
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for "Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series".
LaPaglia made his debut in an Australian production opposite Hugo Weaving
Hugo Wallace Weaving (born 4 April 1960) is an English actor. Born in Colonial Nigeria to English parents, he has resided in Australia for the entirety of his career. He is the recipient of six AACTA Awards, Australian Academy of Cinema and Tel ...
in ''The Custodian
''The Custodian'' is a 1993 Australian drama film, written and directed by John Dingwall, starring Anthony LaPaglia, Hugo Weaving and Barry Otto
Barry Otto (born 1941) is an Australian actor, primarily of cinema, and an amateur artist.
Earl ...
'' (1993). The following year he appeared in the romantic comedy ''Paperback Romance
''Lucky Break'' (released in the United States as ''Paperback Romance'') is a 1994 Australian romantic comedy film directed by Ben Lewin, about a woman with polio who breaks her leg and is treated normally for the first time in her life. Actress ...
'' (1994) with Gia Carides
Gia Carides (born 7 June 1964) is an Australian actress. She portrayed Liz Holt in '' Strictly Ballroom'', Susy Connor in '' Brilliant Lies'', and Cousin Nikki in ''My Big Fat Greek Wedding.''
Early life
Carides was born in Sydney, Australia, ...
, whom he later married. He continued to live mainly in Los Angeles, returning occasionally—especially from about 2000—for roles in major Australian films such as '' Looking for Alibrandi'' (2000), ''Lantana
''Lantana'' () is a genus of about 150 species of perennial flowering plants in the verbena family, Verbenaceae. They are native to tropical regions of the Americas and Africa but exist as an introduced species in numerous areas, especially in ...
'' (2001), '' The Bank'' (2001), ''Happy Feet
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'' (2006), '' $9.99'' (2008), ''Balibo
Balibo is a town in East Timor situated approximately from the Indonesian border. It is located in the subdistrict of Balibo, Bobonaro District.
It was estimated by Human Rights Watch that 70 per cent of the town was destroyed during t ...
'' (2009) and ''Happy Feet Two
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'' (2011).
In 2002, LaPaglia co-starred as a fire captain opposite Sigourney Weaver in ''The Guys'', a film about New York firemen who died in the World Trade Center
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. He also played the role onstage, rotating with Bill Murray
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and others. "We did it as a tribute to the men," said LaPaglia. "I've been so lucky to do it, to be part of this experience. But I can't go back to that morning or watch the video. It's too painful." He also played fictional Australian actor Anthony Bella (who played Nicky Caesar in the fictitious series ''Little Caesar'') in the comedy movie ''Analyze That
''Analyze That'' is a 2002 American mafia comedy film directed by Harold Ramis and produced by Paula Weinstein and Jane Rosenthal. The film is a sequel to the 1999 film '' Analyze This''. The film starred Robert De Niro and Billy Crystal who ...
'', but was uncredited in his role.
In addition to playing the central character in ''Without a Trace
''Without a Trace'' is an American police procedural drama television series created by Hank Steinberg that aired on CBS from September 26, 2002 to May 19, 2009 with the total of seven seasons and 160 episodes. The series focuses the cases of ...
'' during 2002–09, LaPaglia co-wrote an episode entitled "Deep Water".
In 2009, LaPaglia played the part of Roger East, a real-life Australian journalist, in the political thriller ''Balibo
Balibo is a town in East Timor situated approximately from the Indonesian border. It is located in the subdistrict of Balibo, Bobonaro District.
It was estimated by Human Rights Watch that 70 per cent of the town was destroyed during t ...
'', about the killing in 1975 of five Australian journalists by the Indonesian Army
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in the town of Balibo
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It was estimated by Human Rights Watch that 70 per cent of the town was destroyed during t ...
, East Timor
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. The opening scene depicts East's own summary execution
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, during the Indonesian invasion.[
In October 2011 it was announced that LaPaglia would join the cast of ]Quentin Tarantino
Quentin Jerome Tarantino (; born March 27, 1963) is an American film director, writer, producer, and actor. His films are characterized by stylized violence, extended dialogue, profanity, Black comedy, dark humor, Nonlinear narrative, non-lin ...
's new film ''Django Unchained
''Django Unchained'' () is a 2012 American revisionist Western film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino, starring Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Leonardo DiCaprio, Kerry Washington, and Samuel L. Jackson, with Walton Goggins, Dennis Ch ...
'', in which he would portray an Australian character once again. However, he eventually left the project, calling the production "out of control."
On 18 February 2012, it was announced that LaPaglia would star in the ABC drama pilot ''Americana
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Film, radio and television
* ''Americana'' (1992 TV series), a documentary series presented by J ...
''. The show was not picked up.
It was announced in May 2013 that LaPaglia signed on in the feature adaptation of Stephen King
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's ''A Good Marriage
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Plot
Darcy Anderson has been married to Bob, an accountant from Portland, Maine, for 27 years. They have a happy yet ...
'' with Joan Allen
Joan Allen (born August 20, 1956) is an American actress. She began her career with the Steppenwolf Theatre Company in 1977, won the 1984 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Play for '' And a Nightingale Sang'', and won the 1988 Tony Aw ...
.
In March 2014, LaPaglia joined a new CBS terrorism drama pilot titled ''Red Zone'' starring as a retired CIA
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operative and current high school football coach who returns to active duty after a terrorist attack in Washington, D.C. It was renamed ''Field of Play'' and not picked up for the 2014 season.
From about 2012, LaPaglia began accepting work in Australia more frequently. Following major roles in ''Underground'' (2012) (a biopic about Julian Assange
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and the comedy '' Mental'' (2012), LaPaglia had a supporting role in the Neil Armfield
Neil Geoffrey Armfield (born 22 April 1955) is an Australian director of theatre, film and opera.
Biography
Born in Sydney, Armfield is the third and youngest son of Len, a factory worker at the nearby Arnott's Biscuits factory and Nita Armf ...
's Australian romantic-drama film '' Holding the Man'', as Bob Caleo. The 2015 film stars Ryan Corr and Craig Stott
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, with supporting performances from LaPaglia, Guy Pearce
Guy Edward Pearce (born 5 October 1967) is an Australian actor. Born in Ely, Cambridgeshire in England, and raised in Geelong, Victoria (Australia), Victoria in Australia, he started his career portraying Mike Young (Neighbours), Mike Young in ...
and Geoffrey Rush
Geoffrey Roy Rush (born 6 July 1951) is an Australian actor. He is known for his Eccentricity (behavior), eccentric leading man roles on stage and screen. He is among 24 people who have won the Triple Crown of Acting, having received an Academy ...
. ''Holding the Man'' was adapted from Timothy Conigrave
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Education and career
Conigrave was born in Melbourne, and attended the Jesuit-run X ...
's 1995 memoir of the same name. For his role within the film, LaPaglia was nominated for an AACTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role The Australian Film Institute Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role is an award in the annual Australian Film Institute Awards. It has been awarded annually since 1974.
Previous winners
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at the 5th AACTA Awards
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in 2015. In that year LaPaglia returned to his home city, Adelaide, to star in '' A Month of Sundays'' as Frank, a miserable real estate agent who finds solace and redemption in a chance friendship with an elderly woman (played by Julia Blake
Julia Blake (born 1936) is an English–born Australian actress. She is known for her small screen role as Nancy McCormack on the Australian drama series ''Prisoner'' (''Prisoner: Cell Block H''), for which she appeared during the final season ...
) who reminds him of his mother. In 2016 he appeared in his first Australian TV series: '' The Code'', a political thriller set against rising geopolitical tensions between the US and China. The following year he starred in the four-part miniseries ''Sunshine'', set in the western Melbourne
Melbourne ( ; Boonwurrung/Woiwurrung: ''Narrm'' or ''Naarm'') is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Its name generally refers to a met ...
suburb of the same name, playing the role of mentor to a promising young Sudanese-Australian soccer player. And in 2018, LaPaglia appeared in the fifth season of the comedy '' Rake'', based loosely on the life and misadventures of Charles Waterstreet
Charles Christian Waterstreet (born 17 July 1950) is an Australian former barrister, author, and theatre and film producer. He has written two memoirs and produced two films, and he is now a columnist for ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' after the ...
.
In 2017, LaPaglia played Vito Rizzuto
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in the Simon Barry
Simon Barry (born 25 September 1966, in London, UK) is a Canadian screenwriter, film producer, director and television producer.
Career
Barry is best known for his work on the Canadian sci-fi series '' Continuum'' (2012–2015). In 2013, bui ...
Canadian TV series '' Bad Blood'', which aired on Citytv
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, in French on ICI Radio-Canada.
In 2017 starred in ''Sunshine'', an Australian crime drama series screened on SBS from Wednesday 18 October 2017. The four-part miniseries is an Essential Media production, directed by Daina Reid and written by Matt Cameron and Elise McCredie.
From 2017, stars in veteran filmmaker Neil Jordan's sumptuous series ''Riviera''. Set in the French Riviera
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, the series follows Georgina Clios, a midwestern
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art curator
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whose life is turned upside down after the death of her billionaire husband Constantine Clios (LaPaglia) in a yacht accident. Georgina becomes immersed in a world of lies, double-dealing and crime, as she seeks to uncover the truth about her husband's death.
Personal life
LaPaglia currently lives in Santa Monica, California
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. He has said that he adopted an American accent to help him get acting work after moving to the US. His current accent is neither distinctly American nor is it Australian, but, rather, a combination of both. According to an offhand remark by LaPaglia, he has employed an American accent since 1982. LaPaglia is the godfather of Poppy Montgomery
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and Adam Kaufman's son, Jackson. LaPaglia's first marriage was to actress Cherie Michan. His second marriage was to actress Gia Carides
Gia Carides (born 7 June 1964) is an Australian actress. She portrayed Liz Holt in '' Strictly Ballroom'', Susy Connor in '' Brilliant Lies'', and Cousin Nikki in ''My Big Fat Greek Wedding.''
Early life
Carides was born in Sydney, Australia, ...
, whom he met at a party;[ the two starred in the 1994 Australian movie ''Paperback Romance'' (a.k.a. ''Lucky Break'') and married in 1998. Their daughter Bridget was born in January 2003. In April 2015, newspapers reported that LaPaglia and Carides had split after 17 years. He married Alexandra Henkel (his third marriage), who is 18 years younger, on 28 April 2018.
]
Life in soccer
In the 1980s, LaPaglia was a goalkeeper
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in the National Soccer League
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, playing for Adelaide City
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Adelaide City is one of Aust ...
and West Adelaide.[ LaPaglia was part owner of ]A-League
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club Sydney FC
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until 2008; flying from California to Sydney to attend their matches since their inception in 2005. He was the narrator and executive producer
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of ''The Away Game'', a critically acclaimed television documentary exploring the experiences of Australian soccer players in Europe.
He plays occasionally with Hollywood United
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, an amateur organisation of which he is club president, with others in the entertainment industry including Frank Leboeuf, Vinnie Jones
Vincent Peter Jones (born 5 January 1965) is a British actor, presenter, and former professional footballer.
Jones played professionally as a defensive midfielder from 1984 to 1999, notably for Wimbledon, Leeds United, Sheffield United, Chelse ...
, Steve Jones (of the Sex Pistols
The Sex Pistols were an English punk rock band formed in London in 1975. Although their initial career lasted just two and a half years, they were one of the most groundbreaking acts in the history of popular music. They were responsible for ...
) and others.
LaPaglia has a minority shareholding in the International Goalkeepers Academy. The Academy was founded and is operated by James Fraser, who represented the Australian national team leading up to the 1974 FIFA World Cup
The 1974 FIFA World Cup was the tenth FIFA World Cup, a quadrennial football tournament for men's senior national teams, and was played in West Germany (and West Berlin) between 13 June and 7 July. The tournament marked the first time that the ...
.
LaPaglia has volunteered as an actor with the Young Storytellers Program. He played in a charity soccer match in 2007 to raise funds for Southern California wildfire relief
Relief is a sculptural method in which the sculpted pieces are bonded to a solid background of the same material. The term ''relief'' is from the Latin verb ''relevo'', to raise. To create a sculpture in relief is to give the impression that the ...
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Filmography
Awards and nominations
References
External links
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Anthony LaPaglia Bio at CBS – Without a Trace
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1959 births
People educated at Rostrevor College
Adelaide City FC players
Australian expatriate male actors in the United States
Australian male film actors
Australian male voice actors
Australian soccer players
Australian people of Dutch descent
Australian people of Italian descent
Australian male television actors
Best Actor AACTA Award winners
Best Drama Actor Golden Globe (television) winners
Drama Desk Award winners
Australian people of Calabrian descent
Primetime Emmy Award winners
Hollywood United players
Living people
Male actors from Adelaide
Male actors from Santa Monica, California
Tony Award winners
West Adelaide SC players
20th-century Australian male actors
21st-century Australian male actors
Soccer players from Santa Monica, California
Association football goalkeepers