James Ciccone

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James Ciccone
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James Ciccone in 2015
Born
Park Slope, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
OccupationActor
Years active2006–present
Children2

James Ciccone is an American actor. He appeared in three seasons as mob boss Carmine Patriccia in the HBO television drama The Deuce . [1] [2] In 2017 Ciccone appeared in the racially charged bio-pic Crown Heights , written and directed by Matt Ruskin, which premiered in competition as a Grand Jury Nomination at the Sundance Film Festival on January 23, 2017 and won the Audience Award for U.S. Dramatic Film. [3] [4] In 2023 he teamed-up with Ruskin again in Boston Strangler (film) starring Keira Knightley. [5] In 2019, he appeared in The Kitchen , starring Melissa McCarthy and Tiffany Haddish, and the Academy Award nominated films, Joker , starring Joaquin Phoenix and Robert De Niro, and Martin Scorsese's The Irishman . [6] In late 2021 he can be seen opposite Michael Keaton in Worth , a drama about the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund. [7] He has also appeared in The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (2022), [8] Law & Order: Organized Crime (2023), American Horror Story (2023).

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Early life

Ciccone was born in Park Slope, Brooklyn as the tenth child to Anthony Ciccone and Theresa (Merrit) Ciccone; he is of Italian and Irish descent. [9] The family owned a local luncheonette until 1965 when Ciccone's father died. [9] After his father's death Ciccone's mother sold the luncheonette and moved the family to the Gravesend/Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn where she worked full-time as a waitress. [10] [note 1] As a result, Ciccone was raised largely by his nine older siblings, two of whom had artistic influence on him. [11] [12] Early on in elementary school Ciccone participated in several school plays and by age 11 began playing trumpet in the music program at Public School 153, Brooklyn. [9] For the next five years he continued studying music with Academy Award-winning composer Elliot Goldenthal. [note 2] In 1977 Ciccone was accepted into the High School of Performing Arts on 46th Street, New York City. The school gained world recognition with the release of the 1980 multiple Academy Award-winning film Fame . [note 3] Ciccone studied music at Performing Arts while studying acting with Uta Hagen at HB Studio. [9] [13] [note 4] He later earned a bachelor's degree at Marist College, Poughkeepsie, NY and graduated magna cum laude . [14] In 2000 and 2003 respectively he earned master of divinity and doctor of ministry degrees [note 5] from New York Theological Seminary. [15] Ciccone taught briefly for St. John's University, City University of New York (CUNY), and in the graduate program at Metropolitan College of New York, before beginning a professional acting career. [note 6]

Acting career

In 2006, Ciccone became a member of the small Primary Talent community theatre group housed at the 200-seat Players Theatre in Manhattan. [16] During this time he appeared in several productions including the lead role in Paddy Chayefsky’s Marty. [16] Over the next few years he was cast in a variety of unknown low-budget independent films and several student films at NYU Tish before writing and appearing in his own three short films Nothing for Nothing, Plenty of It, and Neighborhood Nonsense, [17] the latter of which appeared in the 2010 New Filmmakers Film Festival [18] and was featured on Funny or Die. [19] While studying with acting coach Harold Guskin [9] [20] he secured his television debut in an Under-five role as Price, a card-player in the final season of the 54 year running soap, As the World Turns . [21] [22] The following year in 2011 Ciccone landed a multiple day guest star role in an episode of White Collar playing the referee in an underground after-hours boxing club. [23] In 2012 he appeared opposite Donnie Wahlberg and Jennifer Esposito in Blue Bloods [24] and landed a recurring role as Joe Masseria's thug on HBO's Boardwalk Empire . [25] In 2013 he worked opposite Jake McLaughlin [26] and Erik LaRay Harvey [27] in several scenes in an episode of NBC's Believe , directed by Academy Award-winning director Alfonso Cuaron. [28] Ciccone also appeared on network television opposite Debra Messing on The Mysteries of Laura [29] and made guest star appearances as Peter O'Neil on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit . [30] In 2015, Ciccone was cast in the guest star role of Ronald in Master of None [31] where he worked opposite comedian Aziz Ansari (playing Dev) who employs a citizen’s arrest only to "weirdly kind of sympathize with [him]". [32] Other 2015 Netflix roles include Cabbie opposite Charlie Cox on Daredevil and Vito in Italian Pinata on Difficult People . [33] Also in 2016 Ciccone appeared in the guest star role of truck-rental mobster Frank Capello on Person of Interest . [34] In late 2016 Ciccone was cast as a guest star (Anthony) in the new CBS episodic Bull starring Michael Weatherly. [35] In the 2017 Sundance Film Festival Ciccone appeared in the World Premiere of the racially charged bio-pic Crown Heights , which took home the Festival Audience Award for the US Dramatic competition. [36] In 2017 Ciccone appeared in recurring roles on two major episodics: NBC's Shades of Blue , and HBO’s hit television drama The Deuce [1] starring James Franco and Maggie Gyllenhaal. Also in 2018 Ciccone has made guest star appearances in Fox's primetime network hit, Gotham scene partnering with Robin Lord Taylor, NBC's Blacklist alongside James Spader, and a co-star appearance on ABC's Quantico where he is paired again with Jake McLaughlin. [37] [38] In 2019, he also starred in Martin Scorsese's The Irishman , opposite Joe Pesci and Robert De Niro.

Personal life

Ciccone has two daughters, born in 2013 and 2021. [9]

Filmography

YearTitleRoleNotes
2024FBI:Most Wanted (TV Series)Mike MerulloSeason 5 Episode 12: Derby Day [39]
2024 Alto Knights Carlo GambinoSupporting [40] [41]
2023 Boston Strangler Det. LinskiSupportings [42]
2023 City on Fire DoormanRecurring, 6 of 8 eps [43] [44]
2023 American Horror Story Angelo DeMarcoGuest star
2023 Law & Order: Organized Crime Tomasso VinzinniGuest star
2023 Power Book III: Raising Kanan Catholic PriestGuest star
2023 Somewhere in Queens LouieSupporting, 2022 release
2022 The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel Monsignor RicciGuest star (season 4)
2021-2024 Saturday Night Live Older John Higgins / Chef Boyardee / Limo Driver3 episodes (season 46, 49)
2021 Hit & Run CPB OfficerGuest star
2020 Worth JamesSupporting
2019 Joker TrumpetsSupporting, 2019 release
2019 The Irishman Anastasia CapoSupporting, 2019 release
2019 The Kitchen Joe GoonSupporting, 2019 release
2018 FBI William DeanGuest star
2018 Manifest James CarlucciGuest star
2018 The Deuce Carmine PatricciaRecurring seasons 1, 2 & 3
2018 Blacklist GabinelliGuest star
2018 Quantico DealerCo-guest star
2017 Shades of Blue Officer LewisRecurring
2017 Bull AnthonyGuest star
2017 Gotham GiovanniCo-guest star
2017 Crown Heights Desk OfficerSundance Audience Award 2017
2016 Master of None RonaldGuest star
2016 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Peter O'NeilGuest star
2016 Person of Interest Frank CapelloGuest star
2016 Difficult People VitoCo-guest star
2015 Daredevil CabbieCo-guest star
2014 The Mysteries of Laura Line GuyCo-guest star
2013 Believe Craps DealerGuest star
2012 Boardwalk Empire Masseria ThugRecurring
2012 Blue Bloods SuperintendentCo-guest star
2011 White Collar RefereeGuest star
2010RoommateAngeloSupporting
2010 Lipstick Jungle Bar PatronCo-guest star
2010 As the World Turns PriceRecurimg U5
2010LottoCarmineSupporting
2010Neighborhood NonsenseLittle AlShort
2009Exit 0JackLead
2009Plenty of ItLittle AlShort
2009Rotten LuckThe BossSupporting
2008 Shine a Light Detective EscortFeatured Opp Marty Scorsese
2008Neighborhood StoryAlSupporting lead
2008Samson is the FutureAgent DoyleShort
2007Nothing for NothingLittle AlShort

Notes

  1. ↑ As mentioned in the referenced Interview Value of a Tough Upbringing Ciccone was only two years old at the time of his father's death and had no recollection of him.
  2. ↑ According to Ciccone’s biography he maintained a close relationship with Goldenthal during his formative years due to their families’ relationship (Goldenthal’s half-brother was married to Ciccone’s aunt; his mother’s sister).
  3. ↑ The 46th Street location closed shortly thereafter (1984) and merged with the High School of Music & Art (MA), (formerly located in Harlem) to form the Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts at a new location across from Lincoln Center.
  4. ↑ The HB Studio (Herbert Berghof Studio) is a school offering professional training in the performing arts. Founded in 1945 by Herbert Berghof and located in Greenwich Village, New York City. its curriculum includes classes in a variety of areas, including acting, directing, playwrighting, screenwriting, musical theatre, movement and dance, puppetry, dialect study, and scene analysis. Select classes require an audition for admission. In 1948, Uta Hagen joined the Studio as Berghof's artistic partner, and the two wed ten years later. Her master classes led to the writing of her books Respect for Acting and A Challenge for the Actor.
  5. ↑ Noted in the Doctor of Ministry 40th Anniversary publication Ciccone's DMin dissertation is a prison ministry demonstration project titled Release: An Approach to Freedom for the X-Offender, p30. Said dissertation is available in the New York Theological Seminary library 475 Riverside Drive, New York, NY.
  6. ↑ The Metropolitan College of New York was formerly known as the Audrey Cohen College.

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