Jake Cannavale Net Worth

Jake Cannavale's Quotes

• [re dad Bobby Cannavale] He and my mom [Jenny Lumet] call him my wife. When at my mom's, he calls me two or three times a day. Sometimes he'll say, 'We need to have a talk, we've been distant lately.' And I'm like, 'Dad, it's finals week.'

Interesting Facts about Jake Cannavale

1. Bobby Cannavale, who plays his father on Nurse Jackie (2009), is Jake's real-life father (with ex-wife/actress Jenny Lumet).
2. Jake's great-grandmother was Lena Horne and his grandfather was Sidney Lumet.
3. As of spring 2013, Jake was a high school junior who also sang in a heavy-metal band.
4. Two days before his first acting audition, for a role in Nurse Jackie (2009), he dyed his hair green. The gimmick worked and he got the part.
5. With his blood ties to Bobby Cannavale, Lena Horne and the Sidney Lumet family, Jake is that rare fourth-generation member of an American show-business clan. And his polyglot ethnicity includes Cuban, northern European, Italian, Ashkenazi Jewish, Senegalese and Native American roots. Also from his great-grandmother Lena Horne's side, he is very likely a descendant of South Carolina political scion John C. Calhoun.
6. Older half-brother of Rocco Cannavale and Rafa Cannavale.
7. After his father Bobby Cannavale, his maternal grandfather Sidney Lumet and two of his maternal great-grandparents Baruch Lumet and Lena Horne, he is the fourth generation of his family to perform in a Broadway play.