| Toqa Hesham |
An American actor and producer, born on September 18, 1961, in U Jersey. He debuted in 1987 with the movie Shock! Shock! Shock!. He became famous in the 1990s for the famous crime drama series The Sopranos, as Tony Soprano. For the same series, he received three Emmy Awards in 2000, 2001 and 2003 and a Golden Globe Award in 2000. Among his notable roles are in The Mexican, Killing Them Softly, and Enough Said. He died on June 19, 2013 in Rome, Italy, as a result of a heart attack.
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| Ines Farag |
James Gandolfini was born in 1961 in New Jersey, and is best known for playing Mafia patriarch Tony Soprano in the beloved TV series "The Sopranos." During his college years at Rutgers University, Gandolfini began acting in New York City. He made his Broadway debut acting alongside Jessica Lange and Alec Baldwin in the 1992 revival of "A Streetcar Named Desire." His performance earned him considerable attention. He got his big film break portraying the hitman Virgil in Tony Scott's "True Romance" (1993). He truly became a household name playing Tony Soprano in "The Sopranos," HBO's groundbreaking TV series that garnered a massive following during its runtime from 1999 to 2007. He won both a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series three times. He produced the HBO documentary "Alive Day Memories: Home From Iraq" (2007), in which he interviewed ten Iraq War veterans about their near-death experiences in the war and their difficult homecomings. Gandolfini divorced his first wife Marcy Wudarski in 2002. He married girlfriend, former model Deborah Lin, in 2008. At age 51, Gandolfini passed away suddenly while on vacation in Rome, Italy, on June 19, 2013. He is survived by one son, Michael, with ex-wife Wudarski.
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