James Gandolfini

Before becoming an actor, worked as a bartender, nightclub bouncer and truck driver. Touted alma mater Rutgers University's football program in a 2001 commercial directed by Michael Imperioli. In 2003, engaged in a bitter salary dispute with HBO that ended when he agreed to drop his lawsuit and resume work on The Sopranos . Returned to the Broadway stage in 2009, giving a Tony-nominated performance in Yasmina Reza's God of Carnage . Plays the trumpet and saxophone. ~ Rovi