actress, filmmaker, author, philanthropist, model James Russo (born 1953) film/television actor (Donnie Brasco) Rene Russo (born 1954) Italian father and Italian maternal grandfather – film actress/model (Lethal Weapon 3, The Thomas Crown Affair) Randy Savage (Randall Mario Poffo) (1952–2011) Italian father and Jewish mother – wrestler and actor Jack Scalia (born 1950) film/television actor (The Genius Club) Steve Schirripa (born 1957) television actor and writer (The Sopranos) – father of Italian descent, and mother of Jewish descent Connie Sellecca (Sellecchia) (born 1955) actress Ray Sharkey (1952-1993) of Italian and Irish descent - actor (Love and Money) Gary Sinise (born 1955) 25% Italian ancestry – actor (CSI: NY) Joseph Siravo (1955–2021) film/television actor (The Sopranos) Rocco Sisto (born 1953) Italian-born actor (The Sopranos) Frank Sivero (Lo Giudice) (born 1952) Italian-born actor (Goodfellas) John Travolta (born 1954) Italian-American father and Irish-American mother – Academy Award-nominated actor, singer, dancer (Grease, Saturday Night Fever) John Turturro (born 1957) actor, cousin of Aida Turturro (The Good Shepherd, The Bronx Is Burning) Steven Van Zandt (Lento) (born 1950) musician, songwriter, arranger, record producer, actor, and disc jockey (The Sopranos) Vinny Vella (1947–2019) actor and part time comedian Diane Venora (born 1952) actress (Italian-American father) Pia Zadora (born 1954) Broadway actress – Italian father, Polish mother Chuck Zito (born 1953) member of the New York chapter of the Hells Angels, amateur boxer, martial artist, celebrity bodyguard, stuntman and actor 1960s Kristian Alfonso (born 1964) soap opera actress, Days of Our Lives Jennifer Aniston (born 1969) Italian maternal grandfather (Friends) Joseph Badalucco Jr. (born 1960) television actor, brother of Michael Badalucco (The Sopranos) Scott Baio (born 1961) television actor (Happy Days, Charles In Charge) Matt Battaglia (born 1965) Italian father and Anglo-American mother – actor Maria Bello (born 1967) Italian father and Polish mother – Academy Award-nominated film actress Michael Bergin (born 1969) Italian and Irish – television and movie actor and model Valerie Bertinelli (born 1960) Italian father and British-American mother – actress (One Day At A Time) Lory Bianco (born 1963) singer and actress Traci Bingham (born 1968) 25% Italian, 25% Black-American and 50% American Indian – actress and model Jon Bon Jovi (Bongiovi) (born 1962) of Sicilian, Slovak, German, Russian ancestry – singer and film actor David Boreanaz (born 1969) Italian father and part Slovak mother – television actor (Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Angel) Nicolas Cage (Coppola) (born 1964) Italian father and part German mother