Bobby Cannavale
Bobby Cannavale is an American actor. Born May 3, 1970, in Union City. Educated at Coconut Creek High School and Union Hill High School. Awards include Lunt-Fontanne Award for Ensemble Excellence, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series and Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series.
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What’s different
- Born: we show May 3, 1970 (Confirmed). Wikidata also lists March 3, 1970
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What Wikidata says · copied November 13, 2026 · revision 2567830169
- Described as
- American actor (born 1970)
- Other names
- Robert Michael Cannavale
- Born
- May 3, 1970 · 2 references; March 3, 1970 · 1 reference
- Born in
- Union City · 1 reference
- Citizen of
- United States
- Occupation
- actor · 2 references; television actor; stage actor; film actor; voice actor · 1 reference; animator · 1 reference
- Education
- Coconut Creek High School · 1 reference; Union Hill High School
- Awards
- Lunt-Fontanne Award for Ensemble Excellence (2011) · 1 reference; Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series (2013); Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series (2005); Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Play
- Field
- acting · 1 reference
- Spouse
- Jenny Lumet (1994–2003) · 1 reference
- Children
- Jake Cannavale · 1 reference
- Lived in
- New York
- Wikipedias with a page
- 45
Wikidata item Q428819 (wikidata.org/wiki/Q428819), public domain (CC0). Copied November 13, 2026.
What Wikipedia says · copied November 13, 2026 · revision 1384617623
Robert Michael Cannavale ( kan-uh-VAH-lee; 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, a role he played from 1999 to 2001.
Cannavale then had roles on Will & Grace in 2005 and a recurring role on Nurse Jackie (2012, 2013). He also starred as a main antagonist while portraying Gyp Rosetti in season 3 of 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 series Nine Perfect Strangers (2021), and Netflix's The Watcher (2022).
Cannavale made his Broadway debut in the 2008 Theresa Rebeck play Mauritius. In 2011, he starred in the Stephen Adly Guirgis comedic play The Motherfucker with the Hat. He portrayed Richard Roma in the 2012 revival of David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross.
Cannavale has acted in the drama films The Station Agent (2003), Win Win (2011), Blue Jasmine (2013), I, Tonya (2017), Motherless Brooklyn (2019), The Irishman (2019), and Blonde (2022) as well as the comedy films 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, and provided voice acting work for The Nut Job 2: Nutty by Nature, Ferdinand (both 2017), Tom & Jerry, Sing 2 (both 2021) and Under the Boardwalk (2023).
- Born, in its opening lines
- May 3, 1970
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