Michael Gandolfini

Biography

Michael Gandolfini (born May 10, 1999) is an American actor. Gandolfini made his major film debut in Ocean's 8 (2018) and appeared in The Many Saints of Newark (2021), in which he played the role of Tony Soprano, which was originally portrayed by his father, James Gandolfini, in the television series The Sopranos.

Gandolfini was born on May 10, 1999, in New York City to actor James Gandolfini and Marcy Wudarski. He is of Italian, Polish, and Slovak heritage and has a younger half-sister from his father's second marriage. While he was a teenager, Gandolfini enjoyed performing, but his father advised against an acting career; he wanted him to pursue sports or "be a director. They have the power," he said.

His father, James Gandolfini, died at age 51 of a heart attack in Rome on June 19, 2013.

After his father's death, Michael Gandolfini decided to pursue acting. He enrolled at New York University after graduating from high school. After early auditions, he was cast in the HBO drama series The Deuce as Joey Dwyer. In 2019, he was cast in The Many Saints of Newark to play the young version of Tony Soprano, the role played by his father in the television series The Sopranos. Gandolfini had never watched the show. He described watching it while preparing for the role as an intense process. He was later cast in the Russo brothers' crime drama Cherry. In 2024, he was cast in Warfare, a war film written and directed by Ray Mendoza and Alex Garland.

He has been sober since 2017. As of January 2024, he has been in a relationship with fellow actress Mia Healey.

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Known For

Landscape with Invisible Hand
Landscape with Invisible Hand
Warfare
Warfare
Tea
Tea
The Many Saints of Newark
The Many Saints of Newark
Youngest
Youngest
Cherry
Cherry

Filmography

2026 How to Rob a Bank
as
2025 Warfare
as Lt. MacDonald
2025 Ben's Sister
as
2025 Daredevil: Born Again
as Daniel Blake
2024 Tea
as Nicholaus Steep
2024 Bob Marley: One Love
as Howard Bloom
2023 Cat Person
as Peter
2023 Landscape with Invisible Hand
as Hunter Marsh
2023 Beau Is Afraid
as Beau’s Son
2023 Extrapolations
as Rowan Chopin
2022 The Independent
as Justin
2022 The Offer
as Andy Calhoun
2021 The Many Saints of Newark
as Teenage Tony Soprano
2021 Cherry
as Cousin Joe
2020 Youngest
as Ethan
2020 Talking Sopranos
as Self
2020 Acting for a Cause
as Benvolio
2019 The Boy, the Dog and the Clown
as Weston
2018 Ocean's Eight
as Bus Boy
2017 The Deuce
as Joey Dwyer