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Joseph R. Gannascoli More at IMDbPro »

Date of Birth

15 February 1959, Brooklyn, New York, USA

Nickname

Joe Soup
Joey G

Height

5' 8" (1.73 m)

Spouse

Diana Benincasa

(11 June 2005 - ?)

Trivia

Born and raised in Brooklyn, St. Johns University for two years, majoring in communications. He then taught himself to cook and opened his Soup As Art restaurant, also in Brooklyn.

Italian-American.

In Season 6 of "The Sopranos" (1999), his character, Vito Spatafore, is shown limping and repeatedly talks about how he is going to have hip surgery. In real life, Joe had double-hip replacement surgery shortly after the end of the sixth season.

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