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| Born | January 31, 1959 Adelaide, South Australia, Australia |
| Spouse(s) | Gia Carides (1998-present) Cherie Michan |
Anthony LaPaglia (born 31 January 1959) (pronounced /ləˈpɑːljə/) is an Australian actor, best known for his role as FBI agent Jack Malone on the American TV series Without a Trace, a role which won him a Golden Globe Award. Events 1504 - France cedes Naples to Aragon. 1606 - Gunpowder Plot: Guy Fawkes The year 1959 ( MCMLIX) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Adelaide is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of South Australia, and is the fifth largest city in Australia with a South Australia is a state of Australia in the southern central part of the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Australia topics. Events 1504 - France cedes Naples to Aragon. 1606 - Gunpowder Plot: Guy Fawkes The year 1959 ( MCMLIX) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Australia topics. An actor, actress, player or thespian (see terminology) is a person who Acts in a Dramatic production and who works The United States of America —commonly referred to as the A television program (US television programme (UK or television show (U Without a Trace is an American television show set in New York City. The Golden Globe Awards are American awards for motion pictures and Television programs given out each year during a formal dinner LaPaglia was also heavily considered for the lead role of Tony Soprano on the HBO hit show The Sopranos. Anthony John Soprano Sr, played by James Gandolfini, is a Fictional character on the HBO TV series The Sopranos. The Sopranos is an American Television drama series created by David Chase.
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Biography
Born in Adelaide, South Australia, LaPaglia is of Italian and Dutch extraction, LaPaglia currently lives in Santa Monica, California. Adelaide is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of South Australia, and is the fifth largest city in Australia with a South Australia is a state of Australia in the southern central part of the country The' Italian people' are a Southern European Ethnic group located primarily in Italy, Switzerland, France and by virtue of a wide-ranging The Dutch people ( Dutch:) are the dominant Ethnic group of the Netherlands. LaPaglia states that he adopted an American accent to help him get acting work after moving to America, and has now lost his Australian accent completely. [1] His first marriage was to actress Cherie Michan.
Career
LaPaglia's credits include the films Innocent Blood, The Client, Looking for Alibrandi, Lantana, Summer of Sam, So I Married an Axe Murderer, and Empire Records. Innocent Blood (aka A French Vampire in America) is a 1992 film For the US version of the UK TV show The Office episode see The Client (The Office. This article is about the film See Looking For Alibrandi (novel for the book Lantana is a 2001 Australian Film, directed by Ray Lawrence. It is based on the play Speaking In Tongues by Andrew Bovell which premiered Summer of Sam is a 1999 crime - drama - romance - Thriller film based around the Son of Sam serial murders So I Married an Axe Murderer is a 1993 American film starring Mike Myers and Nancy Travis. Empire Records is a 1995 Comedy-drama about a group of Record store Employees The film was directed by Allan Moyle LaPaglia also appeared on nine episodes of the sitcom Frasier, including the series finale, as Daphne Moon's brother Simon. Frasier is an American sitcom, a Spin-off of Cheers starring Kelsey Grammer as Daphne Moon Crane (born 1961 is a Fictional character on the American television Sitcom Frasier, played by Jane Leeves. Besides the main characters Frasier Crane, his father Martin and brother Niles, Daphne Moon, Roz Doyle and a few others there are several The role won him an Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series. He also appeared uncredited in the film Analyze That playing an actor, Anthony Bella, who appeared in the TV show-within-a-film Little Caesar. Analyze That is a 2002 movie produced by Warner Brothers Studios. He also played the role of Jimmy Wyler, the lead during the second and final season of the television program Murder One. Murder One was a television series first aired on the ABC network in the United States in 1995
Currently LaPaglia is the only person bombarded by 'Mr Ten Questions' from The Chaser's War on Everything to answer all ten questions correctly. The Chaser's War on Everything is an AFI Award winning Australian Television comedy series broadcast on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation
In September 2007, it was announced that LaPaglia would be appearing in the Australian political thriller Balibo, about the killing of the five Australian journalists in the town of the same name in East Timor in 1975. The Balibo Five was a group of Journalists for Australian Television networks who were based in the town of Balibo in East Timor (then Balibo is a town in East Timor situated approximately 10 kilometres from the Indonesian border East Timor, also known as Timor-Leste (officially the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste) is a country in Southeast Asia. Year 1975 ( MCMLXXV) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. LaPaglia will play the part of Roger East, another Australian journalist, who went to investigate the deaths of the newsmen, only to be killed the day after the Indonesian invasion. Roger East ( 1924 - December 8, 1975) was an Australian Journalist who was murdered by Indonesian soldiers during the See also Indonesian occupation of East Timor Indonesia invaded East Timor in 1975 following the Carnation Revolution in Portugal, which led to Portugal's [2]
Football
In the 1980s LaPaglia was a goalkeeper in the National Soccer League, playing for Adelaide City and West Adelaide. In many team Sports a goalkeeper (termed goaltender netminder, goalie, or keeper in some sports This page is on the former Australian soccer league For the former Canadian league see Canadian National Soccer League. For the city council see City of Adelaide Adelaide City is a Football (soccer club in Adelaide, Australia. West Adelaide Soccer Club is an Australian Football (soccer club from Adelaide Australia. LaPaglia is now part owner of A-League club Sydney FC, and has been flying from California to Sydney to attend their matches since their inception in 2005. The A-League is the premier Australasian domestic Association football competition Sydney FC, founded in 2004, is an Australian Association football (soccer club based in Sydney and competes in Australia's premier competition California ( is a US state on the West Coast of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. Sydney (ˈsɪdniː is the most populous city in Australia, with a Metropolitan area population of approximately 4 He was the narrator and executive producer of The Away Game, a critically-acclaimed television documentary exploring the experiences of Australian footballers in Europe.
LaPaglia underwent a hip replacement in the summer of 2004, a result of his days playing football. Hip replacement, also hip Arthroplasty, is a surgical procedure in which the Hip joint is replaced by a prosthetic implant. "MMIV" redirects here For the Modest Mouse album see " Baron von Bullshit Rides Again " Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a Team sport played between two teams of eleven players and is widely considered He has fully recovered and has even played for a couple of amateur clubs in California. [3] He plays occasionally with Hollywood United, an amateur organisation of which he is club president, with other luminaries such as Frank Leboeuf, Vinnie Jones, Steve Jones (of the Sex Pistols) and others. Hollywood United Football Club is an American amateur soccer club founded in the late-1980s by a group of British expatriates who frequented the Cat & Fiddle an English-style pub Frank Leboeuf (sometimes Franck, or Lebœuf, born January 22, 1968 near Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône) is a former Vincent Peter "Vinnie" Jones (born 5 January 1965) is an English -born Film actor and ex- footballer, having represented Stephen Phillip Jones (born 3 September, 1955 in Shepherds Bush, London) is an English rock Guitarist The Sex Pistols are an English Punk rock band that formed in London in 1975
LaPaglia has a minority shareholding in the International Goalkeepers Academy. The Academy was founded and is operated by James Fraser, who represented the Australian national team leading up to the 1974 FIFA World Cup. The Australian national football team represents Australia in international association football competitions The 1974 FIFA World Cup, the tenth staging of the World Cup was held in West Germany from June 13 to July 7. The FIFA World Cup, occasionally called the Football World Cup, but usually referred to simply as the World Cup, is an international Association football
LaPaglia has volunteered as an actor with the Young Storytellers Program. History Young Storytellers Foundation was founded in 2003 in Los Angeles by Pamela Colburn and Jay Gibson He played in a charity football match in 2007 to raise funds for Southern California wildfire relief.
Personal life
He is currently married to Australian actress Gia Carides, whom he met whilst jointly starring in the 1994 (Ben Lewin) Australian movie Lucky Break. For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Australia topics. Gia Carides (born June 7, 1964, pronounced kah-ree-dees is an Australian Actress. They have one daughter Bridget. LaPaglia is the brother to actor Jonathan LaPaglia, who starred in The District and Seven Days, and to Michael LaPaglia, both of whom are also currently based in the United States. Jonathan LaPaglia, MBBS (born August 31, 1969 in Adelaide Australia) is an Australian Actor best known for his role The District was a Television police drama which aired on CBS from October 7, 2000 to May 1, 2004 Seven Days (also written as 7 Days) is a Science fiction television series based around the premise of Time travel. Anthony LaPaglia attended Rostrevor College. Rostrevor College is a private, Roman Catholic, day and Boarding school for boys' located in Woodforde a suburb 20 minutes from the
Filmography
- Cold Steel (1987)
- Slaves of New York (1989)
- Betsy's Wedding (1990)
- 29th St. See Alfred Hutton for the 1899 treatise For the film see Cold Steel (film. Slaves of New York is a 1989 Comedy-drama Merchant Ivory Productions film (For the novel see Betsy's Wedding (book. Betsy's Wedding is a 1990 comedy film written and directed by Alan Alda. (1991)
- He Said, She Said (1991)
- Whispers in the Dark (1992)
- Innocent Blood (1992)
- So I Married an Axe Murderer (1993)
- Past Tense (1994)
- Lucky Break (1994)
- The Client (1994)
- Empire Records (1995)
- Trees Lounge (1996)
- Brilliant Lies (1996)
- Phoenix (1998)
- Summer of Sam (1999)
- Sweet and Lowdown (1999)
- The House of Mirth (2000)
- Autumn in New York (2000)
- Looking For Alibrandi (2000)
- Lantana (2001)
- Jack the Dog (2001)
- The Bank (2001)
- Analyze That (2002)
- The Salton Sea (2002)
- I'm With Lucy (2002)
- Dead Heat (2002)
- Road to Perdition (2002) (deleted scene)
- Happy Hour (2003)
- Spinning Boris (2003)
- Winter Solstice (2005)
- Happy Feet (2006) (voice)
- The Architect (2006)
- A View From The Bridge (2007)
| Awards | ||
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| Preceded by David Morse for How I Learned to Drive and Christopher Plummer for Barrymore |
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Play 1997-1998 for A View from the Bridge |
Succeeded by Brian Dennehy for Death of a Salesman |
References
External links
- Anthony LaPaglia at the Internet Movie Database
- Anthony LaPaglia at the TCM Movie Database
- Anthony LaPaglia Online - The Most Comprehensive Source For Everything Anthony LaPaglia
- Anthony LaPaglia Bio at CBS - Without a Trace
- ABC TV Enough Rope Interview with Andrew Denton
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