Bobby Cannavale

Roberto Michael Cannavale (; born May 3, 1970) is an American actor. He is best known for various television roles, including leading roles in ''Third Watch'', ''Vinyl'', and ''Mr. Robot'', as well as recurring roles in ''Will & Grace'', which won him the 2005 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series, and ''Boardwalk Empire'', for which he won the 2013 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series. From 2018 to 2020, Cannavale portrayed Colin Belfast in the Amazon Prime Video psychological thriller series ''Homecoming'' (2018–2020). In 2021, he had a role in the Hulu miniseries, ''Nine Perfect Strangers'', based on the novel of the same name by Liane Moriarty.

Cannavale is also known for his roles in theater and film. For his roles in the plays ''Mauritius'' and ''The Motherfucker with the Hat'', Cannavale was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play and the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play, respectively. In film, he has starred in Tom McCarthy's ''The Station Agent'' (2003) and ''Win Win'' (2011), Woody Allen's ''Blue Jasmine'' (2013), ''Annie'' (2014), Paul Feig's ''Spy'' (2015), Marvel's ''Ant-Man'' (2015), ''I, Tonya'' (2017), '' Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle'' (2017), Martin Scorsese's ''The Irishman'' (2019), ''Sing 2'' (2021), and ''Blonde'' (2022).

Early life

Cannavale was born on May 3, 1970. He grew up in Union City, New Jersey descent, while his mother is Cuban and moved to the U.S. in 1960. He was raised Catholic and attended St. Michael's Catholic School, where he participated in a number of extracurricular activities, including being an altar boy and member of the chorus. When he was 8, Cannavale secured the plum role of the lisping boy, Winthrop, in his school's production of ''The Music Man'' and later played a gangster in ''Guys and Dolls'', which cemented his love for performing. Cannavale's parents divorced when he was 13 and his mother moved the family to Puerto Rico. After two years in the American territory, they settled in Margate, Florida. From 1983 to 1986, Cannavale attended Coconut Creek High School, but during his senior year, he was expelled “for being a cutup.” He then returned to New Jersey to live with his grandmother, in order to be closer to New York to launch his acting career and went to summer school to earn a diploma from Union Hill High School.

Career

Cannavale began his acting career in the theater – with no acting training – and gained early film roles in ''Night Falls on Manhattan'' (1997) and ''The Bone Collector'' (1999), Cannavale became well known when he starred as Bobby Caffey for two seasons on ''Third Watch''. Following this, in 2001, he starred with Alan Arkin in '' 100 Centre Street'' – which was written and directed by Sidney Lumet, his then-father-in-law.

In 2002, he joined the cast of '' Ally McBeal'' for the last five episodes, but the show was then cancelled. Following this, he starred with Yancey Arias and Sheryl Lee in the miniseries '' Kingpin''. In 2003, Cannavale briefly appeared on the last two episodes of '' Oz''. He also appeared in the film ''The Station Agent'' as a man who befriends a little person removed from society. From 2004 to 2006, he had a recurring guest role on ''Will & Grace'' as Vince D'Angelo, the boyfriend (and eventual husband) of Will Truman (Eric McCormack). However, in the reboot, they are revealed not to be married. For this role, he won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series in 2005. He has also appeared in the films '' The Guru'' (2002), '' Shall We Dance?'' (2004), ''Romance & Cigarettes'' (2005) and ''Snakes on a Plane'', and guest-starred in ''Sex and the City'', '' Six Feet Under'', '' Oz'', ''Law & Order'' – and its spin-off series ''Law & Order: Criminal Intent'' and '' Law & Order: Special Victims Unit''. He appeared in '' The Take'' (2007) as Agent Steve Perelli, alongside John Leguizamo and Tyrese Gibson.

Cannavale serves as the voice of Corado R. Ciarlo, known as "Babe", in the Ken Burns PBS film series '' The War'' (the story of World War II) from the perspective of the men who fought in combat and their loved ones at home. He also read the audiobook versions of Richard Price's 2008 novel '' Lush Life'' and Ed Falco's 2012 novel ''The Family Corleone''. On August 25, 2008, ABC ordered his pilot '' Cupid'', a remake of the 1998 program which had starred Jeremy Piven and Paula Marshall, to series. In the new version of the series, Cannavale starred opposite Sarah Paulson with script development overseen by original series creator Rob Thomas. ABC debuted ''Cupid'' on March 31, 2009, but cancelled the series after less than two months, on May 19, 2009.

In 2008, he received a Tony Award nomination for his role as Dennis in the Broadway play, ''Mauritius''. In 2009, CBS announced Cannavale would reprise his role of Det. Eddie Saccardo on the television show, ''Cold Case'', for three episodes, starting with the third episode of Season 7. Cannavale was in the film ''The Other Guys'' (2010), and played the role of Terry Delfino in the film ''Win Win'' (2011). He later starred in the Broadway play ''The Motherfucker with the Hat'' alongside Chris Rock and Annabella Sciorra. On May 3, 2011 (his 41st birthday), he was nominated for a Tony Award for his leading role in that production.

In 2012 and 2013, he guest-starred in the fourth and fifth season of Showtime's ''Nurse Jackie'', for which he was nominated twice again for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series in 2012 and 2013, as well as joining the cast of HBO's ''Boardwalk Empire'', portraying the psychopathic Sicilian gangster Gyp Rosetti in the third season. His performance on ''Boardwalk Empire'' won critical acclaim, earning him the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series in 2013. That same year he also played Lewis, a vengeful clown on ''Modern Family'' during the third season, for which he was nominated for Best Guest Performer in a Comedy Series at the 2nd Critics' Choice Television Awards in 2012. ''TV Guide'', in its "Cheers & Jeers 2012" issue, praised Cannavale for this "trifecta of great performances", commenting, "This guy is so good at playing bad, it's scary." He played what Matt Zoller Seitz of RogerEbert.com called a "heroically moving" lead role in ''Danny Collins'' in 2015.

Since 2015, Cannavale has been involved with voice-over work for Playing On Air, a non-profit organization that "records short plays or public radio and podcastwritten by top playwrights and performed by outstanding actors." He has starred in three short plays, including ''Crazy Eights'' by David Lindsay-Abaire, co-starring Rosie Perez and John Leguizamo; ''Mere Mortals'' by David Ives; and ''2 Dads'' by David Auburn.

In January 2020, Cannavale appeared with his real-life partner Rose Byrne in the play ''Medea'', written and directed by Simon Stone.

In 2021, Cannavale played Tony Hogburn in the Nicole Kidman led Hulu miniseries, ''Nine Perfect Strangers'', based on the novel of the same name by Liane Moriarty, of which also featured Melissa McCarthy, Michael Shannon, Luke Evans, Samara Weaving, and Asher Keddie.

In 2022, Cannavale can be seen portraying Dean Braddock in the 2022 Netflix series, '' The Watcher''.

Personal life

From 1994 to 2003, Cannavale was married to actress/screenwriter Jenny Lumet – director Sidney Lumet's daughter and performer Lena Horne's granddaughter – with whom he has a son, actor Jake Cannavale. Cannavale and Jake were cast as father and son in season four of ''Nurse Jackie''.

Cannavale has been in a relationship with Australian actress Rose Byrne since 2012. Their first child was born in 2016, and a second child in 2017.Cannavale in

Filmography

Film

Television

Stage

Awards and nominations

Primetime Emmy Awards

Tony Awards

Other awards

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1970 births
Living people
20th-century American male actors
21st-century American male actors
American entertainers of Cuban descent
American male film actors
American male stage actors
American male television actors
American male voice actors
American people of Cuban descent
American people of Italian descent
Audiobook narrators
Drama Desk Award winners
Hispanic and Latino American male actors
Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute alumni
Lumet family
Male actors from New Jersey
Outstanding Performance by a Supporting Actor in a Drama Series Primetime Emmy Award winners
People from Margate, Florida
People from Union City, New Jersey
Union Hill High School alumni