Alan Alda (1936 - ) actor, writer, director and political activist[127]
Frankie Avalon (1939 - ) actor and teen idol in the 1950s and early 1960s[128]
Anne Bancroft (1931 - 2005) Academy Award-winning actress[129]
Robert Blake (1933 - ) film actor, perhaps most famous for starring in the U.S. television series Baretta, and for being found not guilty of the murder of wife Bonnie Lee Bakley[130]
Garry Marshall (1934 - ) actor/director/writer/producer, brother of Penny Marshall[139]
Sal Mineo (1939 - 1976) actor and theater director, famous for his Academy Award-nominated performance opposite James Dean in Rebel Without a Cause[140]
Iron Eyes Cody (1907 - 1999) actor, frequently played Native Americans[155]
Russ Columbo (1908 - 1934) singer, violinist and actor, perhaps most famous for his signature tune, "You Call It Madness, But I Call It Love", and the legend surrounding his early death[156]
Lou Costello (1906 - 1959) actor and comedian known as half of the comedy team of Abbott and Costello[157]
1890s
Nita Naldi, born Anita Donna Dooley (Italian mother)
Rudolph Valentino (1895-1926), born Rodolfo Alfonso Rafaello Piero Filiberto Gugliemi di Valentina d'Antoguolla, Hollywood's first sex symbol and the first "Latin Lover" (Italian father, Giovanni Antonio Giuseppe Fidele Guglielmi)
^[1] ""Everyone thinks I'm Jewish," says actor Jason Biggs. The 23-year-old star of American Pie, Loser and American Pie 2 is actually an Italian Catholic from New Jersey."
^[2] "Born in Bogota, Colombia, Brancato was adopted by Italian-American parents in Yonkers when he was 4 months old. He still lives with them. "I consider myself Italian," he once said. "I was raised to eat pasta.""
^[3] "Oddly, the only top HBO series the Italian-American hasn't been on is The Sopranos."
^[4] "Rachael is half Italian and refers to herself as Italian."
^[5] "Although Italian-American by heritage, she said she had faked her way through the Venice festival by "speaking English with an Italian accent."
^[6] "Andrea Donna de Matteo was born in Queens, Italian and Catholic."
^[7] "He's half-German, half-Italian." Note: "Only" his paternal grandfather was of Italian descent"
^[8] "Well, I'm Italian, but my family isn't stereotypical."
^[9] "Joey ended the interview saying that he was the 'most hung' of the group because "I'm Italian.""
^[12] "I'm half-Italian, so personally, I consider that Latina . . . and in Spy Kids I also play Spanish," she said in a July interview. "What's interesting is that Karen Sisco in the book was blond-haired (and non-Hispanic) . . . and originally, Nicole Kidman was going to do the movie. My feeling about this Karen Sisco, is that her mother was Cuban and her father was not."
^[13] "Her (Real) Heritage: "I'm Greek, Italian and Jewish. In TV Guide they wrote that I was French, Greek and Jewish. I am mostly Greek. I don't know where French came from."
^[22] "Kristian is 100 percent Italian. Her grandparents hail from Sicily and the Calabria region of southern Italy."
^[23] "Secondly, Mr. Baio graciously paved the way for lesser talents such as Tony Danza. Mr. Baio, an Italian from New York, appeared on primetime in 1977"
^ "[24] "I'm half Italian, and half German/Dutch. A little trivia for you all. My birth name is Matteo Battaglia, not Matt."
^[25] "the half Polish-half Italian actress" [26] "Do you think that came from your family? MARIA BELLO: I do. You know the whole Italian-Polish Bello clan from Philly, and they're all very passionate."
^[27] "I know I'm not going to be a Chanel model. I have birthing hips. I'm Italian"
^[30] "Actor Nicolas Cage will be the first inductee into the National Italian American Foundation (NIAF) new "Hall of Fame""
^[31] "This woman has got experience, great looks (she's one-half Italian, one-half Armenian) and everything else that makes up the persona of a true, original adult star."
^[32] "The Italian-born actor, who grew up in Paterson, was besieged with calls from friends seeking advice on how to land a part on the mob show."
^[33] "Because I'm Italian, I tend to have a lot of darkness around my eyes"
^[34] "I'm half-Italian so my grandmother would say stuff like "You look awful but I don't mean that in a bad way.""
^[35] ""I get a lot of scripts now for Italian mothers," she adds. "I'm only half-Italian.""
^[36] "Favreau jokes that, being half Jewish and half Italian, he has nowhere to run if he wants to lose weight, because food is such a big part of both cultures."
^[37] "What she really is is a Philadelphia-born, blue-collar, Italian-American Catholic with a knack for flaunting the rules."
^[39] "This half-Italian, half-Irish, New Jersey transplant..."
^[40] "Italian-American scion of a Connecticut family..." [41] "Given his half-Italian father, Bart Giamatti... Irish mother, Toni, a high-school teacher"
^[44] "Working long afternoons with his loving contractor father, Artie developed a comical view of social classes, and his place in life as a barrel chested Italian boy."
^[45] "The National Italian American Foundation in Washington DC, recently honored LeBlanc for his contribution to the world of entertainment."
^[47] "No more than anybody else, but yes, I have a little bit of a temper. I'm from Louisiana. So -- and I'm Irish and Italian... My mother's on the Italian -- I got a little Irish and Italian from my mother's side and of course, like I was telling you before, Scotch Irish. So, there's a little bit of temper in there." [48] "Country star TIM McGRAW was as surprised as his fans when he was feted by the ITALIAN AMERICAN FOUNDATION recently... which was handed to him after the organisation learned his mother is Italian. He says, "With a name like McGraw, you don't think about (getting such an honour) very often. But I do have strong Italian heritage, from my great-grandfather DONATO AUGUSTO D'AGOSTINO, my grandpop GIOVANNI GIUSEPPI D'AGOSTINO - and my mom teaching me to make pasta and spaghetti sauce, which is one of my specialities. I grew up in the South. In a lot of ways the Italian culture and the southern culture go hand in hand, because it's all about family, neighbours and community.""
^[49] "I'm third-generation Italian, but I still have a strong sense of my heritage. There are certain Italianisms that ring very true in this play - the place of the man in the household, the idea of respect . . . of omerta."
^[52] "I lived on the edge of a forest. We had a very big Italian family with lots of love." Perhaps his Italian great-grandfather's interest in commedia dell'arte had a genetic influence on Ruffalo's choice of careers, but not at first."
^[61] "I'm Italian. I make big points" [62] "I’m Italian—I’m too selfish to ever kill myself"
^[63] "And also, as an Italian-American woman - which I'm very proud to be - I like that in The Sopranos you come from one side of the block, I come from the other."
^[69] "LR: How can you be Italian with a name like Lauper? CL: Lauper's my father's name. He's German and Swiss and my mom's Italian. So I'm German, Swiss and Sicilian. Kinda like cold cuts. [laughs] The German and the Italian in me are always fighting and the Swiss guy in the middle is goin', "OK, let's talk here. Everybody calm down." [both laugh]"
^Leno - [70] "he's Italian and Scottish" [71] "KING: Who had the chin, mom or dad? J. LENO: I guess that's from the Scotch side of the family. Yeah, that would probably be more of the Scotch side, my mom. My mom was Scottish. My father was Italian. Which is a wonderful area for comedy as a kid..."
^[72] "From Connie Francis to Madonna: Italian American Female Singers Come of Age"
^[81] "“Steve Schirripa is the best Italian writer since Maya Angelou and I’m not just saying that because he has a gun to my head . . . okay, yes I am.” -- Chris Rock"
^[82] "Although the Italian side of his lineage is what he is most recognised for, Travolta himself sees it differently. He told Plus Magazine recently, "The emotional, romantic, whimsical part of me is Irish. Spiritually, I probably feel more like an Irishman - that's where my heart is." He went on, "The feelings I have for food and dance is probably the Italian side of me. I have the sexuality of an Italian but I think the Irish are very sexy too. I grew up in an all-Irish neighbourhood and it was as sexual as anything.""
^Van Zandt - [84] "I am Italian. Springsteen's mostly Italian, too. We're both Italians with Dutch names, one of the many things we have in common. My mother remarried when I was young, and my stepfather adopted me."
^Vella - [85] "Vinny Vella has also appeared on episodes of top-rated TV shows like The Sopranos and Law & Order`as well as 25 TV commercials for ESPN alongside fellow Italian-American actor Joe Rigano..."
^[88] "Behar opts for thin but entertaining enough anecdotes about her Italian-American family..." [89] "Behar describes herself as an "Italian Catholic."
^[90] "The part-Italian actor defended the parts, saying: "The characters I play are real. So they have as much right to be portrayed as any other characters." His citizenship ceremony was postponed after objections from US-based group the Order of Sons of Italy. Speaking at the Venice Film Festival, he said: "I'm part Italian, part Dutch, part French, part German and part Irish, but I probably identify more with my Italian side than any other parts. "Italy is such a great and wonderful country, I'm very proud and honoured to be asked to be a citizen.""
^[91] "Yes, but I am an Italian man and that never will pass my lips. We still see each other every once in a while."
^[95] "She was even voted the Italian-American Welfare League's Woman of the Year" [96] "My father's Italian, my mother was of Swedish descent. They're both first-generation Americans."
^[97]"I'm totally Italian, but I'm not a diva. If you could see the way I'm dressed in daily life, that's not a diva. Appearances are so not important to me." [98]
^[105] "Susan Sarandon, Bruce Springsteen, and Ann Bancroft are Italian American"
^[106] "The youngest member of an Italian family teeming with artistic gifts, she was born Talia Rose Coppola on April 25, 1946 - plunging her into an environment dominated by masculinity, especially a masculine struggle for achievement. Both of her parents were first-generation Italian-Americans, the children of immigrants who left Italy for the United States around the turn of the century."
^[107] "Hazlewood recognised that there was too much Doris Day in Nancy and not enough Janis Joplin. Here was a girl, after all, who left college in the Sixties "to marry and have sex because I was raised Catholic and Italian"."
^[108]"Susan Sarandon, Bruce Springsteen, and Ann Bancroft are Italian American."
