Bobby Cannavale

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Recent Role:
Charles Rossellini on Blue Bloods
Gender:
Male
Born:
5-3-1971
Birthplace:
Union City, New Jersey, USA
Birth Name:
Roberto Cannavale
A native of Union City, New Jersey, Bobby Cannavale has had varied film and stage experiences.

Bobby lived in New Jersey until he was thirteen. After his parents divorced, Bobby and his mother moved for two years to Puerto Rico. Later on he moved to Coconut Creek, Florida, where he graduated from high school before returning to New Jersey to live with his grandmother.

Cannavale says he always knew that he wanted to be an actor, and as a child seeking refuge from his bad neighborhood started performing in a church theater company.







… More "When I grew up in Union City, NJ, there weren't many role models around," Bobby said. "I guess the biggest influences in my life were my parents who kept me off the streets and out of trouble. Now, we're celebrating Latin role models on national television."

Bobby was married to writer and former actress Jenny Lumet, daughter of Sidney Lumet and granddaughter of Lena Horne. He met Jenny when he was acting on stage: "I was doing a theater show and when I bowed for the curtain call, I spotted [her] in the audience. I was playing a character who had AIDS, and when the play was over, I ran out to find her but I forgot to take the lesions off my face," he remembers. He introduced himself to her and recommended that she "stick around. There's a party afterwards and ... I want to talk to you.' We got married six months later."

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    1 Abysmal
    No formal training is no surprise. hide show

    I remember Bobby Cannavale back to the Ally McBeal days, though very few of those there were. Then I caught up with him on Third Watch, then Will & Grace, and caught him in really awful feature The Station Agent. Even the brilliance of Patricia Clarkson could make that movie rise above a yawn.
    In each role I have seen Bobby in, he has basically played the very same character, just with a different name and different writing. I guess he should be grateful by any means, as I am usually laughing at his performance, no matter how dramatic it is supposed to be.
    It is known he never took any formal acting training, big suprise...NOT.
    The biggest trouble, besides looking like a Brad Garrett knock-off without the talent, he just can not act. He can remember his lines, but he always ALWAYS looks like he is acting. Maybe he is just trying to hard, but if it does not come naturally after all these years, he should just thank his lucky stars that he still has a career in the business as there are a million others who rate well above his abilities, they are just yet to win celebrity lotto or come into vogue.
    His inabilities fit right in as one of the many love interests of Will on the series Will and Grace, because they both use the same no method acting, so no one is upstaged.
    This is one celeb whose career is based on luck and good management as opposed to any acting talent or ability.

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