Bobby Cannavale Net Worth

Bobby Cannavale's Quotes

• I'm not very good in a classroom sort of setting. I never was. I was kind of a clown in high school--got suspended a lot.
• I think what makes really good drama is that the event that's happening in the two hours that you're watching is the biggest event of [the character's] life. Even if it's mundane, even if it's somebody going through some sort of midlife crisis that on the page seems very mundane, to me, their inner life has to be that it's the biggest event of their life.
• I like flawed characters very much. A lot of times I get asked to do parts that are kind of small but key -- three-scene roles that are three kick-ass scenes. Growing up, watching as many movies as I did, I was always into character actors like that.
• I don't go see big, silly movies. I like small things about regular folks, you know? I always wanted to have a career that would keep me at home in New York so I can work in the theater all the time and be involved in the creative process from the ground up. I don't think there's a lot of room for vanity when you're developing things.
• I was in Cannes a couple of years ago. Which, you know, I was like, Wow, holy shit, I'm in Cannes. I've never been there before. I was there with a movie. And it was the anniversary of Platoon (1986), which is another movie that if it's on, it just brings me back to being 15 years old and memorizing every monologue from that movie. It was like a real actor movie. And Tom Berenger was freakin' great in that movie, and I met him at this anniversary screening. We're all black tie, and I walked up to my lawyer, who also represents him, and I had a glass of red wine in my hand. And he said, "This is Tom Berenger." I said, "Oh, man. I gotta tell you, I memorized that whole monologue." And I start doing the monologue, and he was so flattered. And we're laughing, laughing, and it's like two minutes in, and I'm drinking my wine, and this other guy made a joke and I spit my red wine, all of it, all over Tom Berenger. I mean, like, I just projectiled all of it, all over him. And as he stood there looking down at his shirt and at me, from the dais Oliver Stone said, "I want to introduce the cast. First, Tom Berenger," and he just looked at me, like, "Who the fuck are you?" And he went up on stage covered in wine.

Interesting Facts about Bobby Cannavale

1. He is a member of the Circle Repertory Theatre and the Lab Theatre Company, both based in New York City.
2. His father is Italian-American and his mother is Cuban.
3. He was born in Union City, New Jersey, but grew up in Coconut Creek, Florida.
4. He studied acting at the Lee Strasberg Theatre & Film Institute in New York.
5. Became a father for the 1st time at age 24 when his [now ex] wife Jenny Lumet gave birth to their son Jake Cannavale on May 1, 1995.
6. Ex-brother-in-law of Amy Lumet and P.J. O'Rourke.
7. Has played roles covering each of the New York City's three major emergency response agencies (police officer on Will & Grace (1998), firefighter on The Guru (2002), paramedic on Third Watch (1999)).
8. Attended Coconut Creek High School, where he graduated in 1987. He was a member of the school's drama troupe. He was slated to play "Sir," one of the two lead roles in the school's spring, 1987 production of the musical "The Roar of the Greasepaint, the Smell of the Crowd," but was suspended from school days before opening night for allegedly leaving an explicit letter critical of the school staff in a library copy machine. An understudy from BCC's theater program (himself a Coconut Creek High School graduate) agreed to step in to replace the suspended Cannavale.
9. 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.
10. Coming from a broken home, he sought teenage solace watching movies. Rebel Without a Cause (1955) and Cool Hand Luke (1967) impacted him the most.
11. Was nominated for a Tony Award in 2011 for Best Performance by an Actor in a Play for Stephen Adly Guirgis's "The Motherfucker with the Hat.".
12. Was nominated for a Tony Award in 2008 for Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play for "Mauritius".
13. Following his divorce, he had relationships with Annabella Sciorra (2004-2007), Alison Pill, and Sutton Foster.
14. Member of a notable Lee Strasberg alumni: Al Pacino , Robert De Niro, James Dean, Marilyn Monroe, Steve McQueen, Paul Newman, Christopher Walken, Dennis Hopper, Matt Zemlin and others.
15. His son Jake Cannavale played his character's son on Nurse Jackie (2009).
16. Reached a milestone in his life when he landed the part of Ricky Roma in the Broadway revival of David Mamet's "Glengarry Glen Ross" opposite his lifelong idol Al Pacino. Pacino had played Ricky in the film adaptation, but was now playing Shelley Levene (originally played by Jack Lemmon in the movie). [2012]
17. In the 1980s he asked, and was allowed, to clean the bathrooms at the New York City theater called P.S. 122 in order to earn admission to see Eric Bogosian perform his one-man show. Later he also worked as a doorman at night clubs.
18. He lives in an apartment on Manhattan's Upper West Side, where his son Jake stays with him every other week.
19. His parents married when his mother, Isabel, who had emigrated from Cuba when she was thirteen, was only sixteen years old. She gave birth to Bobby when she was eighteen. After she divorced his father, she remarried and moved to Puerto Rico with Bobby when he was thirteen.
20. In 1994, after playwright Lanford Wilson came to see him perform in "The Normal Heart", Bobby 'said he 'didn't leave his side for like the next two years.' Later, Wilson brought him into the prominent Off-Broadway Circle Repertory Company, which he had co-founded, and which served as Bobby's virtual home.