Armand Assante is a popular artist. His track record includes over a hundred film roles and many years of experience in theater and television. In Russia, he became widely known thanks to the filming of the series by Andrei Konchalovsky, where he played the role of Odyssey.
Biography
Armand was born in autumn New York in 1949. The family was international: his father was an Italian-American artist, and his mother was an Irish poet.
After high school in Cornwall, he entered and successfully graduated from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts.
Assante was raised in the traditional Catholic faith. In 1982 he married Karen McArn and had daughters, Anna and Alessandra. But in 1994, the couple broke up. Now the actor lives in the state of New York on his own farm.
Career
The start to Assante's career was not stellar. At first, he played cameo roles, and after a few years he began acting in television series on NBC.
Armand got his first notable roles in the TV series "The Doctor" and "How to Get Over a Marriage." In 1974 he co-starred with Sylvester Stallone in the youth film Lords of Flatbush.
Acquaintance with the "action star" played an important role in the actor's career. In 1978, Assante starred in a film directed by Sylvester Stallone. He played one of the Carboni brothers, an Italian American living in New York in the 1940s. Despite the failure of the film at the box office, Assante's work was noticed and well appreciated. The actor increasingly began to receive offers for filming in large full-length films.
The fateful work in Assante's career was the role of Dr. Henri in the film "Private Benjamin". He starred in a duet with Oscar-winning Goldie Hawn and won fame and audience love. And to this day, this picture is in the top of the best American comedies.
Due to the specific external data, Assante was most often offered the roles of villains and bad guys. In 1982, he played a detective in the film "I Am Judgment".
His work for Sidney Lummett in the action-packed crime drama Questions and Answers earned him a long-awaited Golden Globe nomination and critical acclaim.
A year later, he played the role of gangster Bugsy Siegel in the popular love comedy "The Habit to Marry."
In 1995, Assante again co-starred with Stallone. He played the role of his brother in the successful blockbuster Judge Dredd.
The actor was also noted in the sensational film "Striptease", where Demi Moore played the main role. Critics literally smashed the picture, but the audience, on the contrary, took it "with a bang."
In 2007, he played Friedrich Nietzsche in the film adaptation of Irwin Yalom's book When Nietzsche Wept.
Assante tried himself in other genres related to cinema. In the cartoon "The Road to Eldorado" he voiced the main negative character.
Television works
In addition to working in the film industry, Assante tried his hand at television. He has appeared in many television series.
Some of his most famous serial roles are Napoleon and John Gotti.
It was for the role of the mafioso John Gotti that Assante received an Emmy award.
In the series by Konchalovsky, which was filmed based on the main work of Homer, the actor played Odyssey. He did an excellent job of the role and was nominated for a Golden Globe.
Currently, the actor continues to work and is filmed not only in America, but also in many other countries.
