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Actor
Gender
Male
Birthday
03 May
Location
New Jersey, United States
Edit pageBobby Cannavale
Biography
Bobby Cannavale (born May 3, 1970) is an American actor. His breakthrough came with the leading role as FDNY Paramedic Roberto "Bobby" Caffey in the NBC series Third Watch, which he played from 1999 to 2001.
Cannavale received the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series for Will & Grace in 2005 and received nominations for his recurring role on Nurse Jackie (2012, 2013). He won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series for portraying Gyp Rosetti in Boardwalk Empire in 2013.
Other television roles include Vinyl, Mr. Robot, Blue Bloods, and Master of None. He has also starred in the Amazon Prime series Homecoming (2018–20), the Hulu miniseries Nine Perfect Strangers (2021), and Netflix's The Watcher (2022).
Cannavale made his Broadway debut in Theresa Rebeck's 2008 play Mauritius for which he earned a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play. In 2011 he starred in Stephen Adly Guirgis comedic play The Motherfucker with the Hat earning a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play nomination. He portrayed Richard Roma in the 2012 revival of David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross.
Cannavale has acted in the dramatic films The Station Agent (2003), Win Win (2011), Blue Jasmine (2013), I, Tonya (2017), Motherless Brooklyn (2019), The Irishman (2019), and Blonde (2022). He has also been in comedic films, such as Paul Blart: Mall Cop (2009), The Other Guys (2010), Annie (2014), Spy (2015), and Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (2017).
He entered the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) portraying Jim Paxton in Ant-Man (2015) and Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018). He has voiced recurring roles for the animated Netflix series BoJack Horseman and Big Mouth.
