List of The Sopranos characters

The following is a listing of fictional characters from the HBO series The Sopranos.

Main characters

Cast table

Main character biographies

Anthony "Tony" Soprano

Jennifer Melfi

Carmela Soprano

Christopher Moltisanti

Corrado "Junior" Soprano

Salvatore "Big Pussy" Bonpensiero
Salvatore "Big Pussy" Bonpensiero, played by Vincent Pastore, is a fictional character on the HBO TV series The Sopranos. Big Pussy was a longtime close friend and mob enforcer for Tony Soprano, and was also shown to be close friends with fellow DiMeo crime family mobsters Paulie "Paulie Walnuts" Gualtieri, Silvio Dante, and was once a close friend to Tony's uncle Corrado "Junior" Soprano.

The son of Lino Bonpensiero, Salvatore Bonpensiero started out as a cat burglar, and was affectionately known as Pussy, in reference to a pussycat. He was called "Big Pussy" to distinguish from Gennaro "Little Pussy" Malanga. Sal had a wife Angie and three children. He operated an auto body shop with his brother Edward "Duke" Bonpensiero. He was an associate of Tony's father, John Francis "Johnny Boy" Soprano until he supported Johnny during the unrest of 1983. Sal was a soldier in the Soprano crew, and he backed Johnny's wishes to have Tony Soprano become capo following Johnny's death in 1986.

In order to put his children through college, he dealt heroin on the side. He was caught by the FBI and forced to inform against the Soprano crew, in order to avoid the possibility of life in prison. He was assigned Agent Skip Lipari as his handler. He was revealed as an informant in the episode Do Not Resuscitate. In flashbacks to 1995, it is shown that Sal was instrumental in organizing a sit-down between high ranking capo Junior Soprano and acting boss Jackie Aprile Sr. He traveled to Boca Raton to persuade Junior to return to New Jersey and settle a trucking dispute with Aprile. However, he was suspiciously late for the sit-down and blamed health problems of his comare's mother.

In 1999, he was arrested at a card game run by Soprano family capo Jimmy Altieri. He tried to escape but threw his back out and was caught. He was quickly bailed out, but was confined to his house due to injury. Dirty cop Vin Makazian told Tony he had a rat in his organization and pointed the finger at Sal. Tony assigned Paulie Gualtieri to investigate, and to kill Sal, but only if he explicitly saw proof. At a bath house with Paulie, Sal refused to undress because he was wearing a wire, blaming high blood pressure, which raised the crew's suspicions further, especially after he then disappeared.  Paulie took over his collections, and the crew killed Altieri, taking the heat off Sal, as the crew figured the rat was flushed. Sal resurfaced at Tony's home in 2000, claiming to have been in Puerto Rico receiving treatment for his bad back from an acupuncturist. He started lying to Agent Lipari, showing reluctance to divulge details. He was spotted with Agent Lipari by an acquaintance Jimmy Bones, and later murdered Bones at his home, for fear of being revealed. When Sal returned, he began having marital issues, and she discussed leaving him with Carmela Soprano, who dissuaded her, so Angie settled for sleeping in separate bedrooms.

When Tony became acting boss, he made Silvio his consigliere, and Paulie a capo, with new addition Furio Giunta on equal footing with Sal despite Sal's years of service. Sal wore a wire to A.J.'s confirmation, but he spent most of the time privately counselling A.J., instead of talking business with the crew. Following Christopher Moltisanti's shooting by associates Matthew Bevilaqua and Sean Gismonte, Sal resumed his loyal soldier role despite his double life as an informant; he tracked down the escaped Bevilaqua, and shot him to death with Tony. Sal eventually gave Agent Lipari information on Soprano's stolen airline tickets scam, leading to Tony's brief arrest.

Tony eventually accepted his suspicions about Sal after a portentous dream where Sal appeared to him as a talking fish, a clear reference to the Mafia-related saying "Sleep with the fishes". To be certain, he searched for evidence in Sal's home, and found a wire in a cigar box. He then organized a hit on Sal, with Silvio and Paulie, on his boat, with one last toast to the good times, and the three shot him to death, wrapped his body in plastic bags, chains, and weights and dumped it into the ocean.

Sal would make several appearances in the show after his death in dreams and flashbacks.

Silvio Dante

Anthony "A.J." Soprano Jr.

Meadow Soprano

Paulie "Walnuts" Gualtieri

Livia Soprano

Adriana La Cerva

Richie Aprile
Richie Aprile is played by David Proval.

Richie Aprile, the older brother of acting DiMeo crime family boss Jackie Aprile Sr., was a capo in the DiMeo crime family before being sent to prison for ten years. Richie was previously married and fathered a son, Richie Aprile Jr. Richie returned from prison to a very different family, with Tony Soprano as the boss, whom Richie had known since before Tony had become a made man. Richie feels he is entitled to more control and a higher ranking position in the family for having paid his dues in prison. Tony promises to give Richie his due, an offer which Richie immediately rebuffs, saying Tony does not have the authority to do it. Richie's tensions with Tony escalate throughout Season 2. One of Richie's first actions as a free man is to confront his old partner Peter "Beansie" Gaeta and try to claim money from him out of his legitimate business investments. Later, Richie, waiting in his car, waits for Beansie to approach is car in the parking lot, Richie rams Beansie with his car, crushing Beansie between the two vehicles. Richie then drives over Beansie's legs as he leaves. Richie dislikes Tony's protégé Christopher Moltisanti because of his violent relationship with Richie's niece, Adriana La Cerva, and warns Christopher of the consequences should he ever hit her again. Christopher's two young associates, Matthew Bevilaqua and Sean Gismonte, learn of Richie's dislike for their boss, and shoot Christopher, hoping to impress Richie. The shooting goes wrong, however, and Christopher survives. Richie had nothing to do with planning the hit, and when he learns of it, he refuses to help Bevilaqua and chases him off his premises.

Richie and Janice Soprano, Tony's sister, used to date in high school. When Richie gets out of prison, he and Janice resume their old relationship and eventually get engaged. Janice frequently encourages Richie to defy Tony, because she wants to be married to the boss. In the end, Richie prepares, with the approval of Tony's Uncle Junior, to take over the family as boss. Richie approaches acting capo Albert "Ally Boy" Barese to ask for his support in his takeover bid, but he declines. After weighing his options, Junior realizes he is better off with Tony in charge and tips him off about Richie's plans. Silvio Dante advises Tony that there is nothing to gain from leaving Richie alive, so Tony instructs Silvio to have Richie killed. However, after returning home one night, Richie gets into an argument with Janice over Richie's son's possible homosexuality. Richie is enraged at the thought of his son being gay, but Janice replies that it would not matter. Furious, Richie punches her in the mouth before settling down for dinner. Janice leaves the room and returns with a gun pointed at him. Calmly, Richie says, "Get the fuck outta here. I'm in no mood for your..." before she shoots Richie twice, killing him. Distraught, she calls Tony, who has Chris and Furio Giunta meet him at Livia's (where Janice, Richie and Livia reside) to remove Richie's body. They bring him to Satriale's to dismember his corpse and Tony sends Janice off to Seattle to lay low.

Janice Soprano

Ralph Cifaretto
Ralph "Ralphie" Cifaretto, played by Joe Pantoliano, is not present in season 1 or 2, as he spends a prolonged period of time in Miami, Florida and lived in Delray Beach, Florida. Ralph first appears as a soldier in the Aprile Crew in the second episode of season 3, "Proshai, Livushka". He is characterized as an excellent earner but also unstable and prone to violence. He returned to New Jersey in 2000, following the disappearance of Richie Aprile. As a high-ranking soldier, he tried to take over the crew despite Tony's reluctance to make him captain, and often referred to it as "my crew". Tony viewed Ralph as obnoxious and insubordinate, so he passed Ralph over for promotion, and made Gigi Cestone captain of the Aprile crew. After Cestone dies of a heart attack, Tony reluctantly installs Ralph as capo.

In the episode "University", Ralph is involved with a 19-year-old stripper named Tracee, who becomes pregnant with Ralph's child. At the Bing, Tracee insults Ralph in front of his friends, and particularly, makes fun of his perceived lack of masculinity. He follows her outside, where they argue. Ralph sweet talks Tracee by telling her of a romantic future with their child which makes her happy, only for Ralph to insult her by telling her if their child is a girl, she will name her "Tracee" because she is going to become a "cocksucking slob, just like her mother." Tracee spits at him and slaps him in retaliation, and he brutally beats her to death. Tony finds out and strikes him repeatedly. Ralph defends himself by shouting, "I'm a made guy!" Tony justifies his actions by saying that Ralph "disrespected the Bing".

Johnny Sack, a high ranking member in the Lupertazzi family, once ordered a hit on Ralph Cifaretto for making an off-color joke about his wife's obesity, although he later cooled down and called it off. Although unknown to Johnny, his own hit was approved by Tony and Carmine to hit Johnny in order to protect the highly valuable Esplanade project to which Ralphie's involvement was key. Ralph purchases a prize race horse from Hesh Rabkin named Pie-O-My. While Ralph only cares about the horse as a means to make money, Tony becomes emotionally attached to the horse. When Ralph's son Justin is accidentally impaled in the chest with an arrow as part of a game, Ralph is devastated and turns to Father Intintola for guidance. After Pie-O-My dies in a stable fire under questionable circumstances, Tony confronts Ralph over the suspicious timing of the fire with the $200,000 insurance pay out, which was also his son's required medical expenses. Ralph denies the accusation, and rebukes and mocks Tony for being emotionally attached to the horse. A fight ensues in which Tony beats and strangles Ralph to death at his home. Tony calls Christopher to dispose of the body. Chris dismembers Ralph's body in his bathtub with a meat cleaver, after which he and Tony bury Ralph's severed head, toupee, and hands on a farm inside a bowling bag, and sink the rest of Ralph's remains in a flooded quarry after throwing his body off a cliff into the water below.

Eugene Pontecorvo
Eugene Pontecorvo, played by Robert Funaro, was a made man in the Soprano crew. Hesh Rabkin mentions to Soprano family members that Eugene's father committed suicide by inert gas asphyxiation in his vehicle.

Eugene Pontecorvo was introduced on the show as an associate in the Soprano crime family in the episode "Proshai, Livushka". Eugene subsequently becomes a made man in the following episode "Fortunate Son" along with Christopher Moltisanti. In season six's premiere episode "Members Only", Eugene inherited $2 million from his deceased aunt. He begins developing serious stress with his home life due to his wife pushing him to talk Tony into their retiring to Fort Myers, Florida. When Eugene discusses this with Tony, he says he would think about it, but he states Eugene took an oath indicating that it is unlikely he would approve. He attempts to bribe Tony with David Yurman watches for Tony, Carmella, Meadow and A.J. He again tries to coax Tony by handing him over a share of the inheritance. Christopher Moltisanti assigns Eugene the task of killing Teddy Spirodakis in Boston who owed Christopher money and failed to pay him. Eugene is reluctant, but must follow Christopher's order due to his rank of capo. Chris assures Eugene that he will put in a good word for him to Tony as a favor for doing the hit. Eugene drives to Boston and finds Teddy eating dinner at a fast food restaurant and shoots him repeatedly in the head. Eugene then walks out calmly.

It is revealed Eugene has been an informant and cooperating witness for the F.B.I., though it is unclear for how long. After Ray Curto dies of a massive stroke while giving potentially damaging information to Agent Robyn Sanseverino about Tony discussing a murder, the FBI informs Eugene they also refuse his notion to move to Florida, as they need him as a material witness in New Jersey to help build a case against Tony in the wake of Curto's death. Silvio informs Gene that Tony denied his request to move to Florida. With Tony and the FBI both hindering his family's chance to escape the mafia life, coupled with his stress at home, Eugene hangs himself in his basement.

Robert "Bobby Bacala" Baccalieri Jr.

Furio Giunta
Furio Giunta, played by Federico Castelluccio, is an Italian gangster working for Tony Soprano.

Furio first appears in season 2 in "Commendatori" as Tony's contact in Italy, when he visits, who speaks English. In Italy, Tony negotiates with the Neapolitan Camorra crime boss Annalisa Zucca for Furio to be transferred to New Jersey to work for him as part of an international car theft operation deal. In order to get Furio a visa, Tony initially gets him a job as a mozzarella maker in the Nuovo Vesuvio Restaurant, enticing Artie Bucco with the idea that Tony will pay Furio's salary and he does not have to be on the restaurant's payroll. Furio also became one of Tony's most feared enforcers, intimidating and beating up multiple people who owed Tony money, as well as acting as Tony's driver and bodyguard. Furio's first assignment was to extract payment from a massage parlor owner whose wife had convinced him to withhold payment. He broke the owner's arm with a baseball bat and shot him in the kneecap—all of which made a positive impression on Tony. In season 3 in "Amour Fou", Furio is shot in the leg by Jackie Aprile Jr. while Jackie and his friends Dino Zerilli and Carlo Renzi robbed Ralph Cifaretto's card game in an attempt to gain recognition amongst the crime family. In season 4 in "Everybody Hurts", a sly Frenchman named Jean Pierre Colbert cons Artie Bucco into temporarily lending him $50,000 for a business investment back in France. Artie borrows the money from Tony Soprano, but when Artie goes to Jean Pierre's apartment to collect the money, he claims he does not have it and does not know when or if he is going to get it. Artie and Jean Pierre scuffle briefly, but Artie leaves bruised and bloodied. Furio is later tasked with reclaiming Tony's assumed debt from Jean Pierre Colbert.

Furio eventually became infatuated with Tony's wife, Carmela, who also shares the same feelings. The two never truly became romantically entwined, which creates significant sexual tension between them. Carmela repeatably found excuses to visit Furio including assisting him in buying and decorating a house, and planning a house-warming party. At the house-warming they shared a sexually charged dance, Furio later claims he forgot his sunglasses at the Soprano house, just as a ploy to talk with Carmela. When Furio's father dies, he returned to Italy for the funeral. He sought the advice of his uncle, another Mafia member, telling him that Italy no longer felt like home and that he was in love with his boss's wife, feeling that they could truly communicate. His uncle made it clear he had to move on or kill his boss. In the season 4 penultimate episode "Eloise", Furio witnesses Tony's infidelity first hand on a night out at a casino. A helicopter had been arranged to take them home and while Tony was urinating on the tarmac, Furio suddenly grabs him by his jacket and contemplates pushing Tony into the rear rotor blades of the helicopter. "What the fuck you doin'?!" exclaimed Tony in a very inebriated voice. Furio then pulls him away and plays if off by telling Tony "You were standing too close..." Furio, no longer able to bear the burden that the internal conflict is causing him (that of his feelings conflicting with his honor, as well as his respect to the "family" hierarchy), sells his house and moves back to Italy. Carmela was devastated, and eventually revealed her feelings for him in an argument with Tony, to which Tony replies "If certain men see him, he's a dead man". In season 5, it is said that Tony has men looking for him in Italy. However, it is never stated whether Furio was found, as this is the last time anyone spoke of him on the show. Furio's fate ultimately remains unknown.

John "Johnny Sack" Sacrimoni
John "Johnny Sack" Sacrimoni, played by Vincent Curatola, was the longtime underboss and later the boss of the Brooklyn-based Lupertazzi crime family. He operates out of his Essany Scaffolding (until he is given a severance package) or Little Italy, Manhattan social Club, and was a major player in the New York crime family formerly led by Carmine Lupertazzi. Johnny was Carmine's Underboss for many years, handling political payoffs and bid-rigging for the organization. He ultimately became boss after Carmine's death. Johnny was also a friend of Tony Soprano. His wife Ginny was obese, and he became violently angry when any remarks were made about her weight. He once ordered a hit on Ralph Cifaretto for making one such off-color joke, although he later cooled down and called it off. Although unknown to Johnny, his own hit was approved by Tony and Carmine to hit Johnny in order to protect the highly valuable Esplanade project to which Ralphie's involvement was key.

Johnny cultivated a friendship with Paulie Gualtieri, making use of him as a source of information about Soprano family business. The relationship began when Paulie felt sidelined by Tony over the esplanade construction project and proved most fruitful when Paulie was imprisoned in 2002 — a time when he felt particularly neglected by his friends. Johnny lied to Paulie — telling him that Carmine held him in high regard and often asked about him. This encouraged Paulie to place more faith in his friendship with Johnny than in the loyalty of his friends in the Soprano crime family. Through Paulie, Johnny learned about Tony's Frelinghuysen Avenue property windfall and HUD scam — allowing the Lupertazzi crime family to demand a piece of the action because their mutual interests made both projects possible. It was also Paulie who told John about the insult that Ralphie made about his wife. However, after a chance meeting with Carmine, Paulie discovered that Carmine did not even know who he was. Angered by John's deceit, Paulie became one of his biggest detractors.

Following the natural death of Carmine in 2004, Johnny's crew engaged in a bitter war over the family leadership with Carmine's son, Little Carmine. More violence was threatened upon Tony Soprano's New Jersey family following the unauthorized murder of two of Johnny's men by Tony's cousin, Tony Blundetto, on Little Carmine's behalf. After both New York factions suffered heavy casualties, the conflict was brought to an end with Little Carmine surrendering control of the family. This was followed by a tentative reconciliation with Tony, who had personally taken the life of Blundetto to bury the hatchet. However, the moment was cut short when Johnny was promptly arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation after the family's consigliere, Jimmy Petrille, turned state's evidence. Even while in jail awaiting trial he remained in control of the Lupertazzi family. In the sixth season, Johnny entrusted Phil Leotardo with the role of acting boss while he was in jail. Johnny's brother-in-law Anthony Infante acted as a back channel for communications to reach him while he was imprisoned. His wife remained supportive, often visiting him in prison. Johnny was portrayed as becoming more selfish while imprisoned — he commonly disregards the problems of others stating that his "situation" should take precedence. He ordered Phil to maintain a good relationship with Tony and avoid starting a war over any business disputes, particularly the new office park construction project – another shared venture like the esplanade project. Johnny was granted a release from prison to attend his daughter Allegra's wedding. However, he had to cover the cost of U.S. Marshals and metal detectors for the wedding and would have 6 hours maximum. When the time came for Johnny to leave the wedding he was reluctant to go — he wanted to wait until his daughter and her new groom left. However, the marshals blocked her limousine and dragged Johnny away in handcuffs, causing him to break down in tears. Johnny used Tony to help plan a hit on Rusty Millio. Johnny again reached out to Tony for help, this time with his financial situation. Johnny elected to use his brother-in-law Anthony as a go-between instead of Phil.

Johnny's efforts to maintain control of his family ultimately proved futile. His lawyer, Ron Perse, floated the possibility of cooperating with the FBI, but John was quick to dismiss this. However, as the trial neared, Ron arranged a deal with the government on Johnny's behalf. Facing a massive asset seizure that would have left both him and beloved wife destitute and a case he could not possibly beat, Johnny pleaded guilty to 47 Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) predicates for a reduced sentence of 15 years and a fine of 4.2 million dollars — effectively ending his position as boss (but still leaving Ginny enough money to live comfortably). As part of the deal, he was also required to give an allocution admitting his involvement in organized crime (although he did not reveal the names of any associates). Members of both the Soprano and Lupertazzi families were angered by his allocution, believing that John should have stood trial before admitting anything regarding La Cosa Nostra. Johnny was now serving 15 years in federal prison, and was considered persona non grata among his former associates.

During his incarceration, Johnny developed lung cancer. He died at the United States Medical Center for Federal Prisoners in Springfield, Missouri not long after receiving a grim prognosis from an oncologist at the Cleveland Clinic. Phil subsequently took over the Lupertazzi family.

Vito Spatafore
Vito Spatafore Sr., played by Joseph R. Gannascoli, was a member of the DiMeo crime family and a subordinate of Tony Soprano. He was married to Marie Spatafore, who was a second cousin to high-ranking member of the Lupertazzi family, Phil Leotardo, with two children, Francesca and Vito Jr. In fifth season, it was revealed that Vito was a closeted homosexual. Vito's character is based on Vito Arena, a homosexual member in the Gambino crime family.

Although Vito Spatafore was not introduced on The Sopranos until the Season 2 episode "The Happy Wanderer" as a nephew to fellow mobster Richie Aprile and cousin to Adriana La Cerva and Jackie Aprile Jr., the actor who plays his role, Joseph R. Gannascoli, appeared in the Season 1 episode, "The Legend of Tennessee Moltisanti" as pastry shop patron named "Gino".

Vito is a member of the Aprile crew upon Richie's release from prison and quickly rises through the ranks to capo after the deaths of capos Richie Aprile, Gigi Cestone and Ralph Cifaretto. In the season 3 episode "Another Toothpick", Vito's brother, Bryan Spatafore, is violently beaten with a golf club by Salvatore "Mustang Sally" Intile, and put into a coma. Vito is vindictive and demands someone render Sal's comeuppance. Tony Soprano enlists in the help of Bobby Baccalieri's father, Bobby Baccalieri Sr., to perform the hit on Mustang Sally.

In 2001, in the season 3 finale episode "Army of One", after Jackie Aprile Jr. had gone into hiding after he and his friends robbed Ralph Cifaretto's card game to gain notoriety. Tony and Ralph agree that Aprile Jr. be killed. Vito performs his first on-screen murder by shooting Jackie Jr. in the back of the head. In 2002, in the season 4 episode "Whoever Did This", Tony kills Cifaretto after he figures that Ralph was responsible for the death of their prized racehorse Pie-O-My for insurance money. Vito is subsequently promoted to capo of the Aprile Crew, as he was second-in-command. In 2004, in the season 5 episode "Unidentified Black Males", Vito was caught in the car of the security guard giving him oral sex early one morning at the Esplanade construction site by Meadow's boyfriend, Finn DeTrolio. Vito intimidates Finn into silence.

By the season 6 premiere "Members Only" in 2006, Vito has lost over 160 pounds to appear for a weight loss commercial. In the episode "Mr. & Mrs. John Sacrimoni Request", during the wedding of Johnny Sack's daughter, Allegra, Vito claimed he was not feeling well, and he and his family left the wedding. Back at home, Vito informed his wife he had to "make some collections." Later, that night, while making a collection at a gay bar, two Lupertazzi family associates saw Vito in a leather chaps dancing and kissing a man. Vito attempted to play it off as a joke, but the two men were not convinced. Petrified of the consequences if his homosexuality were made public, Vito went into hiding. He stayed at a bed-and-breakfast in the fictional town of Dartford, New Hampshire, and tried to pursue a new life away from the Mafia. Under the alias "Vincent," he claimed to be writing a book. He contacted his family only once during a brief phone call. Discussing Vito with Carlo Gervasi, Tony says that Vito is a top earner for the family, and debates letting him come back to the family.

In New Hampshire, Vito develops a relationship with Jim "Johnny Cakes" Witowski who works as a volunteer fireman and as a short order cook at a diner. Vito introduces himself initially as a sportswriter named Vincent from Scottsdale, Arizona and that he's been divorced for a few years. He also had attempted to live a heterosexual lifestyle and fathered one daughter with his wife. Vito and Jim soon form an attraction, though the two got into a fistfight outside a bar when Jim tried to kiss Vito and, still in denial about his homosexuality, Vito violently rebuffed him, calling him a fag. The two soon reconcile after Vito decides to "stop living a lie" and became Jim's live-in lover. The pair enjoyed romantic dinners, motorcycle rides, and picnicking lakeside. He gets Vito a job as a contractor working for some of his friends, a job which turns out to be very slow-paced. Ultimately, Vito missed his family and fast-paced lifestyle back in New Jersey too much to stay with Jim. Vito left Jim's house early one morning to return to New Jersey while Jim was still asleep.

While driving back to New Jersey, a drunk Vito crashed his car into a parked vehicle. When he failed to convince the owner to keep the accident from the police, Vito shot and killed the man. Vito returned home and remained conflicted about whether or not to re-initiate contact with his old mafia family. Vito also later calls Jim, but Jim was still angry over the way Vito had left and wanted nothing more to do with him. Vito eventually approached Tony at a mall, while Vito's brother, Bryan, kept watch. Vito claimed that his homosexual behavior had been caused by medication. Wanting to "buy himself back" into the business, he offered Tony $200,000 and said he would run the family's Atlantic City prostitution and drug businesses. Tony was tempted by the offer, but realized this would bring him into open war with the Lupertazzis. Lupertazzi crime family boss Phil Leotardo, who disliked homosexuals, and second cousin of Vito's wife Marie, demanded Vito's death, so Tony quietly arranged for Carlo Gervasi to make a hit on Vito. Meanwhile, Vito reunited with his family. He explained his absence to his children by claiming that he was an undercover CIA agent hiding out in Afghanistan, and warned them not to tell anybody.

That night, Vito returned to his motel room, and was ambushed by Phil Leotardo and two of his soldiers, Gerry Torciano and "Fat Dom" Gamiello. Torciano and Gamiello duct-taped Vito's mouth shut and beat him to death while Phil Leotardo watched. It was later revealed that Vito was found with a pool cue in his anus, a message that he was killed because of his homosexuality. Phil's unsanctioned murder of Vito proved to be a serious point of contention in his working relationship with Tony. The relationship was further strained when Phil correctly suspected the New Jersey mob in the disappearance of Gamiello, who had been killed by Silvio and Carlo Gervasi after making repeated wisecracks, in the wake of Vito's death, about the sexual orientation of New Jersey mobsters. Phil Leotardo later told Vito's wife, Marie, that her husband was probably killed by two homosexual transients Vito had picked up at a bar. He told Marie that he loved Vito "like a brother-in-law," and suggested that Vito's death was probably for the best because a homosexual man would have made a poor role model for the children. However, a newspaper reported Vito was killed by mobsters after requesting to live an openly gay lifestyle. Vito's children read the story, destroying the illusion of their father being a CIA agent.

A year later Vito's son, Vito Jr. began to go through a rebellious phase in reaction to his father's murder and cruelty from his peers in light of his father's sexual orientation, entering the Goth subculture and performing various acts of vandalism. His mother, Marie, asked Tony Soprano for money so she could relocate her family to Maine, where no one would know them or what happened to Vito. Tony asked Phil Leotardo to also intervene, because of his involvement in Vito's death. Both paid separate visits to Vito Jr. and told him to start acting more like an adult. But Vito Jr. continued to act out, so Tony decided to pay for Vito Jr. to attend a boot camp for delinquents in Boise County, Idaho.

Tony Blundetto
Anthony "Tony B" Blundetto (Steve Buscemi) is Tony Soprano's cousin who is released from prison at the beginning of the show's fifth season. Upon release, Tony Blundetto begins to pursue a straight, non-criminal life. However, he is eventually overpowered by the challenges of civilian life and turns back to crime, dragging the DiMeo crime family into the Lupertazzi crime family's power struggle. Blundetto is introduced in the second episode of season 5, "Rat Pack". Born in 1958, he is a cousin of Tony Soprano and Christopher Moltisanti. To distinguish between them, they were called "Tony Uncle Johnny" (Soprano) and "Tony Uncle Al" (Blundetto) when they were kids, after their fathers' first names. Blundetto, Soprano, and Moltisanti all grew up and played on a farm owned by their uncle, Pat Blundetto.

Growing up, both Tonys were very close and Blundetto told Moltisanti that he loved Soprano like a brother. The two Tonys would often bully Moltisanti. Blundetto is the father of Kelli Blundetto, who is Meadow's contemporary and is said to have run away from home, and identical twin boys Justin and Jason Blundetto, whom he fathered by having Tony Soprano smuggle his semen out of prison nine years before, while still incarcerated. In the episode "Unidentified Black Males", it is also revealed that he has a genius level I.Q. of 158. He sports a large number of crude prison tattoos, on his forearms, biceps, chest, back, and legs including the name of his daughter Kelly and a tattoo representing the Roman god Mercury. Blundetto had a ruthless reputation in his younger years as an enforcer.

In 1986, at age 28, Blundetto was arrested, tried, and incarcerated for almost 17 years for the armed hijacking of a truck that was attached to a larger RICO racketeering trial. Soprano was supposed to go along with his cousin the night of the hijacking but was not able to make it due to a severe panic attack during which he passed out and injured his head, an attack caused by an argument with his mother. Soprano tells Blundetto he was mugged by a group of black men the night of the hijacking, and was knocked unconscious. Soprano strongly believes Blundetto holds some ill-will towards him because Blundetto's life and family fell apart during his incarceration while Soprano grows wealthy and has a family. Blundetto denies this ill will, but Tony still harbors enormous guilt.
	
In 2004, Blundetto is released from Federal Correctional Complex, Allenwood. After Blundetto's parole, he decides not to return to a life of crime and has the incentive to stay straight and clean. Instead, he initially decides to go into massage therapy. Tony is seemingly disappointed that Blundetto has decided to pursue a legitimate career after he declines Soprano's offer to get start working with the DiMeo crime family in a stolen airbag scheme, but Soprano respects his cousin's decision. Soprano gets his cousin a job working for a laundry company in Rutherford, New Jersey owned by a Korean man named Kim. He later goes into business with him in preparing to open a massage parlor. In an arbitrary fit of rage, he beats Kim. Blundetto then meets Soprano to restart work for the crime family under Carlo Gervasi's crew.
	
Little Carmine's crew simultaneously begins courting Blundetto through his old prison buddy, Angelo Garepe. Female loan shark Lorraine Calluzzo and her boyfriend/enforcer are killed by Phil Leotardo, his brother Billy and crew member Joey Peeps for siding with Little Carmine during the Lupertazzi power struggle between Carmine and Johnny Sack. In retaliation, Little Carmine loyalists Rusty Millio and Angelo Garepe offer a contract to Blundetto to murder Joey Peeps ("Marco Polo"). Although he is reluctant at first, he later accepts the contract after he decided that he is not moving up fast enough in the Soprano crime family. Blundetto shoots Joey and a prostitute he was seeing inside his car. Soprano later discovers that Blundetto committed the murder and confronts Blundetto, who claims innocence. Although Soprano knows the truth, he tells Johnny Sack that he does not know who the killer was.
	
In "The Test Dream", Phil and Billy Leotardo kill Angelo in retribution for Peeps' death. This drives Blundetto into a rage, and he tracks down the Leotardo brothers, wounding Phil and killing Billy. By the end of season 5, Soprano is under heavy pressure to deliver his cousin to Johnny Sack (who has taken over his crime family after Little Carmine's abdication), explicitly so he can be tortured and killed by Phil Leotardo. After one of Soprano's associates is badly beaten by Phil, Soprano realizes that he is putting everyone in his crime family in jeopardy by protecting his cousin. Soprano is able to track down Blundetto at their uncle Pat Blundetto's farm. At point blank range, Soprano kills him with a 12-gauge shotgun in order to prevent his torture at the hands of Phil. Soprano then gives Johnny Sack Blundetto's location. Later, Phil arrives to find Blundetto already dead, and is furious to be deprived of his vengeance. Soprano then tells Christopher Moltisanti to bury his cousin Tony secretly, and in one piece, off the premises. Tony and Johnny reach an accord over Blundetto's demise, although Phil remains unsatisfied.

Rosalie Aprile
Rosalie "Ro" Aprile, played by Sharon Angela, is the widow of Jackie Aprile Sr., who died of cancer, and the mother of Jackie Aprile Jr. and Kelli Aprile. She is good friends with mob wives Carmela Soprano and Gabriella Dante, to whom she offers characteristically frank advice.

One year after Jackie Sr.'s death, she started a relationship with mobster Ralph Cifaretto. Ralph encouraged Jackie Jr. as he became more and more involved in the family business, providing him with a gun, accepting payments from him, involving him in making collections, and offering advice. Jackie Jr. tried to make a name for himself by robbing a card game, but the heist went awry. Tony and Ralph decided that Jackie Jr. had to be killed, unbeknownst to Rosalie. The hit was carried out by Vito Spatafore, but Rosalie and the rest of the family were told that Jackie was killed by black drug dealers. Following her son's death, Rosalie sank into a prolonged period of mourning. Ralph began an affair with Janice Soprano, and Ralph soon broke up with Rosalie, claiming he was tired of her constant grief. Rosalie, angered by his selfishness, ordered him out of her home. Rosalie accompanied Carmela on a trip to Paris in the season 6 episode "Cold Stones". While there, she pursued a brief relationship with a much younger Frenchman named Michel.

Patsy Parisi
Pasquale "Patsy" Parisi, played by Dan Grimaldi, is a soldier in Tony Soprano's crew, and is often seen calculating the group's finances in the Bada Bing or Satriale's offices. He and Burt Gervasi run the North Ward Emergency Merchants Protective Cooperative: an extortion racket hitting storeowners in Broadway, Newark, Forest Hill, Newark, New Jersey, Mount Pleasant, New Jersey, Roseville, Newark, Seventh Avenue, Newark and Woodside Township, New Jersey.

Patsy had an identical twin brother, Phillip "Philly Spoons" Parisi (whom Dan Grimaldi also played), who had a hit taken out on him by Tony ,and was killed by Soprano soldier Gigi Cestone. He was born March 4, 1950, and 11 minutes before his brother Phillip in Bloomfield, New Jersey. At the time, Philly was acting capo of Junior Soprano's crew and Patsy was a member. Patsy never had concrete evidence about his brother's murder, but it occurred soon after a brief and bloody war between Junior and Tony, and Philly was known to be talking about Tony's actions. It was this killing that prompted Tony to move Patsy to keep an eye on him. Patsy took the killing very hard, which brought on a problem with alcoholism and considering killing Tony—in 2000, a drunken Patsy was observed by Federal Bureau of Investigation agents outside the Soprano family home leveling a gun at Tony through his window. He reconsidered though, and only urinated in the Sopranos' pool. Patsy also openly vented his feelings of loss to the Soprano crew in front of the men responsible for his brother's death, Gigi and Tony, at a dinner in the back of Satriale's. However, he eventually put his grief behind him. Patsy still has questionable loyalties. When Patsy's then capo Paulie Gualtieri was imprisoned in 2002, Tony promoted Christopher Moltisanti to acting captain over Patsy. Patsy did not take this well, eventually getting into a fight with Christopher. When Paulie was released and promoted to underboss, Christopher was made capo permanently.

In the penultimate episode "The Blue Comet", Patsy is nearly killed by two men sent to murder Silvio Dante. Patsy manages to hold them off, but Silvio is badly wounded and put into a coma, while Patsy ran into the woods fleeing for his life. Patsy later celebrates his son's engagement to Meadow Soprano with Tony and his family.

Gabriella Dante
Gabriella Dante is played by Maureen Van Zandt. Gabriella is married to longtime DiMeo crime family soldier and consigliere Silvio Dante. They have a daughter, Heather Dante, who played volleyball and soccer with Meadow Soprano. She is close friends with Rosalie Aprile and Carmela Soprano and can often be seen dining out with them, typically at "Nuovo Vesuvio". In 2006, when Tony was shot, Silvio became acting boss of the family. Gabriella was supportive of her husband in this role and ambitious enough to encourage him to consider the possibility of it long term.

Benny Fazio
Benito "Benny" Fazio Jr., played by Max Casella, is a soldier of Christopher Moltisanti, who began working for the DiMeo crime family with Chris under capo Paulie Gualtieri and continued to work for Chris after his elevation to caporegime.

Benny debuted in the third episode of season 3, with his release from jail and renewed association with Christopher. He has a no-show job as a United Association plumber. He began working for Christopher just after Christopher became a made man in 2001. Later, Jackie Aprile Jr. informed Fazio and Moltisanti of an opportunity to rob a Jewel concert at Rutgers University. Benny and Chris committed the robbery and made a clean escape with Jackie driving. In 2002, Benny was awarded one of the "no-work" United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America jobs at the esplanade construction site. He was assigned the task of killing two would-be assassins contracted by Tony to whack New York City boss Carmine Lupertazzi after the hit was called off. Benny and Petey LaRosa ambushed and killed the hitmen—two black heroin dealers, Credenzo Curtis and Stanley Johnson—who were set up by Christopher Moltisanti.

In late 2004, Benny was seriously beaten by Lupertazzi capo Phil Leotardo. The crisis brought on by Tony Blundetto was reaching a breaking point and Phil severely beat Benny to send a message to Tony. Tony, feeling guilty about Benny's fractured skull, offered to give Benny his button when he recover, meaning he will become a made man. Benny is married to Jen Fazio, who is pregnant. However, Benny began an affair with Martina, a new hostess at Nuovo Vesuvio, much to the irritation of owner and head chef Artie Bucco who had his eye on her. Benny was involved in Chris' credit card fraud scheme with Ahmed and Muhammad, using his relationship with Martina to get account numbers from Nuovo Vesuvio customers and selling them on through Soprano crew associate James "Murmur" Zancone. Benny gives Tony a tribute payment. American Express investigated Nuovo Vesuvio restaurant's role in the credit card fraud and pulls the restaurant's authority to accept American Express cards. Artie is able to figure out that Martina is the criminal in his staff through her relationship with Benny. Artie then angrily drives to Benny's home to confront him; the ensuing fight sent Benny to the hospital. Benny is set on killing Artie, but Tony intervenes, insisting Benny's parents have their anniversary dinner at Nuovo Vesuvio, and that the two make amends.

Artie makes a table-side visit during their meal. In front of Benny's pregnant wife, Artie makes an innuendo to Benny's extramarital affair with Martina by asking Benny if he wants a "Martina," explaining that it is an Albanian martini (Martina is Albanian) and adding "Well, apparently they go down real easy. Right, Ben?" Enraged, Benny follows Artie to the kitchen and holds his arm in a pot of boiling tomato sauce, burning him badly, and also rams his head into the counter. Benny later attended Chris' belated bachelor party, also at Nuovo Vesuvio which was hosted by Artie, but the two refrained from initiating further violence.

Benny also helped guard Tony while he was in hiding from Phil Leotardo. Benny and several of Tony's other crew members were checking gas stations to find Phil Leotardo after being tipped off by Agent Harris. In the series finale, Benny is last seen acting as the getaway driver when Walden Belfiore shot Phil Leotardo to death at a gas station in Oyster Bay, Long Island.

Little Carmine Lupertazzi
Carmine "Little Carmine" Lupertazzi Jr., played by Ray Abruzzo, is a capo and the son of Carmine Lupertazzi, the leader of one of New York's Five Families. He followed in his father's footsteps and becoming a member of the Lupertazzi family at an early age. Little Carmine also has interests in several legitimate businesses including nightclubs in South Beach, Miami and a scaffolding contractor company in New York and New Jersey in addition to receiving proceeds from illicit activities. He moved with his wife and daughter to Florida in 2000, along with his criminal operations, and splits time between Miami Beach, Florida and New York. While Little Carmine is initially viewed as a pretentious, spoiled mobster whose constant malapropisms convey poor intellect, he later assumes an elder-statesmen role, frequently mediating disputes that arise in the Lupertazzi crime family. Little Carmine is introduced in season four when Tony Soprano visits him in Miami to seek his counsel in settling a dispute between Carmine Sr. and Johnny Sack.

In the beginning of season five, Carmine Lupertazzi Sr. has a massive stroke and dies a few days later. Little Carmine immediately comes up to New York from Florida to see his father before he passes, and quickly becomes embroiled in a power struggle with Johnny Sack. Since Little Carmine is the son of the former boss, he has de facto claim to the throne, and this angers Johnny who was Carmine Sr.'s long time second in command. Even Tony has no faith in Little Carmine's capacity to run New York, jokingly referring to him as "Brainless the Second". Despite his shortcomings, Little Carmine finds backers in Carmine Sr.'s recently paroled former consigliere, Angelo Garepe, and long-time Lupertazzi Capo Rusty Millio. Angelo and Rusty, along with Rusty's right-hand man Eddie Pietro, pull most of the strings during the war between Johnny Sack and Little Carmine.

However, after a cycle of bloodshed that escalates into war, Little Carmine ultimately finds it difficult to stomach the continuing violence and abdicates. His decision was heavily influenced by the murder of Angelo Garepe. After Little Carmine's capitulation, Johnny Sack becomes the boss of the Lupertazzi crime family. After this, Litte Carmine keeps a low profile and is no longer seen as a threat. Johnny Sack was arrested soon after by the FBI who were acting on information given to them by Johnny's trusted ally and Carmine's long-time consigliere Jimmy Petrille. With Johnny in federal custody during his federal racketeering trial, Phil Leotardo became the acting boss in New York. By season six, Little Carmine is brought in as an investor on a movie project, Cleaver, that Christopher Moltisanti had been working on. Little Carmine is instrumental in organizing a meeting with Sir Ben Kingsley in Los Angeles to court his interest in the project, but Kingsley eventually passes on the lead role. Little Carmine had helped Kingsley's booking agent out of some trouble he had down in the Florida Keys.

Nevertheless, Little Carmine continues to get involved in crime family affairs. He tries to help resolve a longstanding feud between the Lupertazzi crime family and the Soprano crime family. After Leotardo becomes boss, tensions escalate between the two crime families and Little Carmine makes a last effort to resolve it. Phil is less generous in business dealings with the New Jersey family and still harbors anger over Tony's cousin killing Phil's brother in front of him. When the conflict eventually escalates into a war between the two families, Little Carmine and Tony both turn to a neutral party, George Paglieri, to broker a negotiation between Tony and Butch DeConcini, the street boss for Leotardo while he is in hiding. At a sitdown with Little Carmine, Butch, Albie Cianflone, Tony and Paulie Gualtieri, everyone agrees that the war has gone too far and that Phil's decisions have led to negative consequences on both sides. Butch agrees to back off while the Soprano family hunts down Phil.

Phil Leotardo
Phil Leotardo, played by actor Frank Vincent, is a high-ranking member of the Lupertazzi crime family and the primary antagonist of the final two seasons of the show. Originally a captain, following the death of the original boss, Carmine Lupertazzi, the imprisonment and death of his successor Johnny Sacrimoni, and a brief power struggle with would-be boss Faustino "Doc" Santoro, Phil becomes the boss of the family. His inability to forgive the death of his brother at the hands of Tony's cousin, Tony Blundetto—even after Blundetto's own murder—forms one of the central conflicts of the series, with Leotardo aiming to kill Tony and cripple his entire organization in revenge. Leotardo had an alleged 27 hits to his credit. He quickly rejoined the Lupertazzi crime family, of Brooklyn, New York, once he was released from prison. Phil was married to Patty Leotardo and was a second cousin of Marie Spatafore. Phil bears a resemblance to the last Shah of Iran, leading to Tony Soprano and the DiMeo crime family often referring to him as "The Shah". It is revealed in season six that when Leotardo's grandfather immigrated from Sicily, officials changed their last name at Ellis Island from Leonardo to Leotardo and allegedly is a descendant of Leonardo da Vinci.

Following Carmine Sr.'s death, a power struggle between two factions ensued. One side was led by Carmine's underboss, Johnny Sack, while the other was ostensibly led by Carmine's only son and Miami capo Little Carmine Lupertazzi. Phil became Johnny's right-hand man during the war, and carried out murders in order to weaken Little Carmine's resolve. Phil performed a mock execution of Lorraine Calluzzo, while she was tightly taped and gagged, shooting at her while holding a phone book in the path of the bullet, to persuade her to redirect her payments from Little Carmine to Johnny Sack. When she failed to comply Phil returned with his younger brother, Billy Leotardo, and Joey Peeps, who killed Lorraine. When Peeps was later killed by Tony's cousin Tony Blundetto, Phil and Billy murdered Angelo Garepe in response. Phil became personally involved in the war when his brother Billy was murdered by Blundetto as revenge for the hit the Leotardo brothers carried out on Angelo, who was Blundetto's close friend.

Soprano initially protected Blundetto against Phil. Phil stalked New Jersey looking for Blundetto hounding Christopher Moltisanti's mother Joanne, home and badly beating Soprano associate Benny Fazio. When it became clear that Tony's men would not allow themselves to be imperiled for no good reason, Tony was forced to act. Tony ultimately murdered his own cousin to save his family and give Blundetto a quick and painless death after Johnny Sack had made it clear that Phil would torture Blundetto if he found him. Phil was angered that his opportunity for vengeance was stolen, however, at a meeting between the two bosses, Johnny and Tony made peace, but the moment was interrupted by Johnny's arrest by the FBI, while Tony escaped. With Johnny in federal custody, Phil became acting boss of the Lupertazzi family.

Phil worked closely with Tony and Vito Spatafore, the husband of his cousin, on the two family's joint construction efforts. When Vito's homosexuality was publicly revealed in season six, Phil visited Marie to try to find out if she knew where Vito was (he had wen into hiding in New Hampshire), when she pleaded for mercy for her husband, he told her they just wanted to get Vito help. Phil also harassed Tony about his efforts to find Vito. Vito later returned to New Jersey after he could not adjust to life outside of the mob, and met Tony to offer to buy his way back into the family. Tony refused, but did not attempt to harm Vito. Tony had arranged for Carlo Gervasi to execute Vito at the mall early in the morning on the pretense that Vito was supposedly meeting up with Tony, to straighten out the situation, however when Vito returned to his motel, Phil's soldiers Gerry Torciano and Dominic "Fat Dom" Gamielleo ambushed as he walked through the door. Phil emerged from the closet, slowly walked up to Vito who was being held by Gerry and Fat Dom and sits down on the bed. He looks Vito in the eye and says, "You're a fucking disgrace." And with that, Fat Dom and Gerry Torciano proceed to beat Vito to death. Subsequently, with having made his cousin Marie a widow, Phil balks when Tony tries to reach out to him for restitution for Marie and refuses. Phil tells Marie that her husband was probably killed by two homosexual transients Vito had picked up at a bar.

Fat Dom was murdered by an enraged Carlo Gervasi during a visit to Satriale's after making repeated wisecracks, in the wake of Vito's death, about the sexual orientation of New Jersey mobsters. Leotardo, while on a date with his Ukrainian housemaid, he approached one of his Brooklyn businesses, only to be blown off of his feet by a bomb planted in the building. After an unsuccessful attempt by Little Carmine Lupertazzi to broker peace between the families, Leotardo and his crew plotted revenge. Although Phil balked at the idea of killing Tony himself, captain Butch DeConcini seemingly persuaded him to target someone important to the DiMeo family. However, their planning was cut short when Phil suffered a late-night heart attack and was hospitalized during Christmas 2006. Once he recovered, Phil decided to step down as boss to make way for his protégé Gerry Torciano in charge. Yet Phil did not strongly back Torciano as successor, and Lupertazzi underboss Doc Santoro soon made his own bid for power by having Torciano murdered.

After deciding to get back in the game, Phil waited, working under Doc Santoro until the old man's arrogance got too much to handle. As Phil sat down to dinner with Doc to acknowledge him as boss, Doc humiliated Phil by literally taking food from his plate. Knowing that he had broad support, including Tony's, Phil ordered a hit on Santoro. Driven by Butch DeConcini, Phil's crew murdered Santoro and an associate outside a massage parlor, leaving him dead on the sidewalk. After the assassination, Phil was permanently elevated to boss of the Lupertazzi family, with Cianflone cemented as consigliere and DeConcini as underboss.

After Tony viciously beats one of Phil's men, Coco, for threatening his daughter Meadow, Phil refuses to meet with Tony and then launches a war against the DiMeo family, ordering that New York is to "decapitate" New Jersey and do business with what's left, instructing that hits be made on Tony, Bobby Baccalieri, and Silvio Dante. Bobby is killed and Silvio is wounded badly and left in a coma. Tony goes into hiding with the remainder of the family.

In the Sopranos series finale, "Made in America", Butch DeConcini and Albie Cianflone arrange a sit down with Tony and Paulie, where they express their dissatisfaction with Phil's leadership and agree to a ceasefire of the war. Butchie says he will not reveal the location of Phil, but then says "You do what you got to do"—this following a recent phone conversation with Butchie and Phil, where Phil implies a threat to Butchie over his inability to find Tony Soprano. Shortly thereafter, the location of Leotardo is made known to Tony by information from Agent Harris in exchange for terrorism information on Taleb Adlah and Donnie Keshawarz. Hiding in Oyster Bay, Long Island, Leotardo is shown talking to his wife through a car window at a gas station when he is suddenly shot in the head by Walden Belfiore, a soldier in the Gervasi crew of the DiMeo family. Leaving their grandchildren in her Ford Expedition, Leotardo's wife rushes to Phil's side in a panic. Unattended and still in drive with the engine running, the car idles forward and a tire rolls over and crushes Phil's skull. Leotardo's murder was the 92nd and final murder in the series.

Recurring characters
The following is a list of characters that are, or at one time were, a recurring guest on the series; they are listed in the order that they first appeared on the show. Many characters have had storylines that have spanned multiple seasons, while the others are restricted to arcs that occurred during a single season of the show.

Cast table

Recurring character biographies

Hesh Rabkin
Herman "Hesh" Rabkin, played by Jerry Adler, is an advisor and friend to Tony Soprano. He first appeared in "The Sopranos" (AKA "Pilot").

The character Hesh Rabkin may be a composite character inspired by music mogul Morris "Mo" Levy, founder of Roulette Records, who had connections to the Mafia and owned a string of racehorses, Hy Weiss (an associate of Levy's)  and Gaetano "Corky" Vastola who was a member of the Mafia in New Jersey and worked with Roulette Records.

Hesh is a Jewish loan shark and an advisor to Tony (the same role he performed for Tony's father, mob captain Johnny Soprano). Despite Hesh's long-standing closeness to the Sopranos, as a non-Italian, he is not and never can be a made man. Nevertheless, Tony frequently seeks out Hesh's advice on a number of issues. When Tony was estranged from his therapist he sought out Hesh as a sympathetic ear but found his listening skills not quite up to his standards, and often Tony gets annoyed in several scenes because Hesh keeps talking. Hesh has the lowest profile out of anyone in the crime family. He is frequently seen in the back room of Satriale's Pork Store and the Bada Bing nightclub, playing cards with Tony's crew or eating with them.

Hesh is an intelligent and shrewd businessman, having made his fortune in the recording industry by founding "F-Note Records" during the 1950s and 1960s by bringing many young black musicians to prominence, getting royalties by having his name added as a co-writer on many songs. Apart from an unabashed greedy streak, Hesh is largely cool-headed and good-natured. He is also unique among Tony's inner circle in that he is well educated. Outside of business, Hesh's passions include his stable of horses and a penchant for statuesque black women. Hesh has a son-in-law named Eli who is also involved in his loan-shark business. Hesh has an encyclopedic knowledge of Soprano criminal activities.  The character's music business activities are at least partly modeled on those of mob-connected Roulette Records owner Morris Levy.

Hesh first appeared in the pilot working with Tony on setting up a scam to defraud HMO medical insurance companies through their debtor Alex Mahaffey. Hesh accompanied Big Pussy to a waterfall to intimidate Mahaffey into participating, although both did it in a non-threatening way, and Mahaffey knew that non-cooperation would end his life, making threats unnecessary. Later, Hesh advised Tony against getting involved with the Teitlemanns, a family of Hasidic Jews, in a dispute over ownership of their hotel. Hesh's predictions of their obstinacy proved correct. Hesh was able to help Tony end a particularly arduous "negotiation" with a novel torture threat.

In "A Hit Is a Hit" Hesh helped Tony's nephew Christopher Moltisanti to realize that his partner and girlfriend Adriana La Cerva had little aptitude for work in the music business. Chris also made contact with Hesh on behalf of Massive Genius—a rapper who claimed Hesh owed compensation to the widow of a black musician he allegedly defrauded. When Hesh refused to pay, Massive threatened litigation; Hesh shrewdly threatened a countersuit of his own, alleging that the samples used in Massive's music infringed on his copyrights. It is revealed in this episode that Johnny Soprano was a silent partner in Hesh's record company "F-Note Records".

In "Christopher" Hesh helped Silvio in his Columbus Day dispute by putting him in touch with a sympathetic Native American casino owner through his friend Marty Schwartz. Hesh also sold Ralph Cifaretto the ill-fated racehorse Pie-O-My.

In the Season Five episode "In Camelot" Tony discovered that his father, Hesh and Phil Leotardo had been co-owners of a racetrack and that his father had promised a share to his comare Fran Felstein. Tony arranged a sitdown with Phil and Hesh to secure the share which they reluctantly gave up.

In the Season Six premiere "Members Only" Hesh and his son-in-law Eli were attacked by members of Phil Leotardo's crew – they had targeted Eli because they thought he was making collections on their turf without permission. The mobsters set fire to Eli's gas tank to get him and Hesh out of the car and then set about beating Eli. Eli was seriously hurt when he was the victim of a hit-and-run trying to escape the mobsters. Hesh was punched in the face. Hesh demanded and received restitution from Phil at a sit-down mediated by Tony. Hesh visited Tony in the hospital when he was recovering from his shooting.

In the final season Hesh gives Tony a $200,000 bridge loan to help Tony cover a string of gambling losses. Tony fails to repay the loan on time and starts berating Hesh about the vig on the loan which was $3,000 a week, leading to bad blood on both sides. When Hesh's girlfriend, Renata, dies of a stroke, Tony repays the loan out of loyalty but offers only brief and impersonal condolences to his once-close friend, suggesting that the financial dispute has strained their relationship. As of the end of the series, Hesh's fate remains unknown.

Artie Bucco
Arthur "Artie" Bucco Jr., played by John Ventimiglia, is a restaurateur and childhood friend of Tony Soprano's. Artie appears throughout the series, from the first episode to the penultimate episode.

Artie is a longtime childhood friend of Tony Soprano's; they  attended elementary and high school together. He works as the co-owner and head chef of Nuovo Vesuvio, an upscale Italian restaurant in Essex County, New Jersey. He sometimes wishes he could be involved in Tony's seemingly glamorous criminal activities, but lacks the "image" and know-how. His wife, Charmaine Bucco, is the mother of his children Chiara Bucco, Melissa Bucco, and Arthur "Art" Bucco III. Charmaine is frequently concerned about his attraction to Tony's "business", and often warns Artie about his occasional attempts at involvement, even when he hints that he may wish to get involved.

Despite Artie and Tony's close friendship, their relationship sees several low points. At the end of Season 1, Artie learns from Tony's mother, Livia, that Tony was responsible for burning down his original restaurant, Vesuvio. Tony's Uncle Junior had been planning to stage a hit at Vesuvio on "Little Pussy" Malanga (not to be confused with Salvatore "Big Pussy" Bonpensiero) and, despite Tony's repeated requests, refused to move the hit to some other venue because the target felt comfortable there. Tony, knowing that the restaurant's patrons would be permanently chased away if a hit  occurred there, devised arson as the win-win solution to this problem (i.e., no hit at Vesuvio, and Artie could rebuild it with the payout from his insurance policy). Artie builds a bigger and even more prosperous restaurant, the Nuovo Vesuvio. However, Artie had a strong emotional attachment to the old restaurant (which he inherited from his father), and goes on an angry rampage when he finds out that his best friend destroyed it (confronting Tony with a hunting rifle in the parking lot of Satriale's). Eventually, Artie believes Tony's repeated denials of having been the arsonist (only partially true, since Silvio only coordinated firebombing the place on Tony's orders), and he destroys his rifle before driving off erratically. There is a brief tension between the two, but by the end of the Season 1 finale, they have made up. Artie even keeps his kitchen open to prepare a special meal for the Sopranos when they seek refuge at Nuovo Vesuvio during a fierce thunderstorm. Tensions over Tony's arson briefly resurface after the death of Tony's mother in Season 3. At a gathering at the Soprano household after Livia's funeral, Artie, who was catering the affair, turns over Tony's garbage cans and tells Tony that he guesses their "secret" died with Livia.

In Season 4, Artie approaches Ralph Cifaretto for a $50,000 loan. This money would let Artie act as a moneylender to Jean-Philippe, the brother of the new French hostess at Vesuvio, who needed $50,000 short-term to fund a business venture. Ralph denies Artie's request on the grounds that if Artie could not pay him back, he would not be able to hurt him in revenge because of Artie's close relationship with Tony. Tony finds out and is hurt that Artie did not come to him first for the loan. Tony agrees to lend Artie the money on relatively generous terms (3% interest) and Artie, in turn, lends the money to the Frenchman on more strict terms (15% interest). Jean-Philippe defaults (as he was scamming Artie), and Artie, seeking to force payment, visits him to rough him up—only to get beaten up himself. Despondent and unable to repay Tony's loan, Artie attempts suicide by overdosing on pills and alcohol, and calling Tony before he loses consciousness, sobbing, "I love you and I'm sorry I let you down." Tony had been in a fragile emotional state to begin with because he had just learned that his ex-comáre, Gloria Trillo, had committed suicide—which he blamed himself for. Tony calls 911 but, angry when he shows up at the hospital because of Artie's lack of consideration for those around him in attempting suicide, asks him, "Suppose I come over to your house and find you dead? How am I supposed to feel?" Tony tells Artie that he'll assume the Frenchman's debt (including the interest), and collect it himself, if Artie agrees to cancel Tony's $6,000 tab at the restaurant. Artie agrees but suggests that Tony knew how the whole thing would play out from the beginning (Artie would get suckered and fail; Tony would benefit twice by collecting on Jean-Philippe's debt, and getting his restaurant tab erased). Tony becomes irately indignant over this suggestion and storms out, telling Artie not to tell anyone about either their arrangement or the suicide attempt. The two do not speak to each other for the rest of Season 4 and into Season 5, although Tony still frequents Vesuvio during this timeframe.

In the third episode of Season 5, Tony learns that Artie has been living in a Motel 6 since his wife (Charmaine Bucco) got the house in their separation.  Tony offers to let Artie stay in his mother's old house, where Tony has been living since his separation from Carmela. Artie accepts, and the old friends reconcile.

By Season 6, Artie and Charmaine have reconciled. There is a growing sense of dissatisfaction amongst Nuovo Vesuvio's diners, culminating in the episode "Luxury Lounge". Artie has hired another young hostess that he lusts after—Martina, an undocumented Albanian immigrant he has been helping through the U.S. government's immigration process. Soprano crew associate Benny Fazio is a regular fixture at the restaurant's bar, flirting with Martina (to Artie's chagrin, ostensibly because Benny has a wife who is expecting their first baby soon). The restaurant is losing many customers to a new rival restaurant (Da Giovanni's). Also, Artie spends increasingly less time cooking the food, delegating his Italian family recipes to non-Italian, illegal immigrant line cooks. Charmaine worries that Artie's constant presence on the floor, chatting to customers, is also hurting business. Carmela sums up the restaurant's problems: a depressing atmosphere, stale menu, and aging decor. Tony suggests to Artie that promotional discount offers might help; Artie responds with hostility to any advice given. He accuses Tony of disloyalty for dining at Da Giovanni's and again references his involvement in the arson of the first Vesuvio.  
The restaurant's finances worsen when American Express will not let its customers use its cards there, because several account numbers have already been stolen there and fraudulently misused to run up charges elsewhere. Artie calls a staff meeting to ask the perpetrator to come forward or to at least halt his/her activities. However, his insecurities once again get the better of him, and he becomes irate and accuses one, then all, of the employees of stealing from him. The coat check girl, Sandy, tells Artie after the meeting that she has noticed the immigrant Martina wearing new, $600 shoes. Artie confronts Martina, who instantly breaks, tearfully admitting to stealing, then passing, the charge card numbers to Benny; but, she instantly accuses Artie of changing his attitude toward her (from helping, to harassing) once he realized that she was sexually attracted to Benny, not him. Artie is enraged and storms to Benny's house in the middle of the night. The undersized Benny tries to deny his involvement, but Artie is undeterred.  Artie starts a brawl, and surprisingly, beats Benny unconscious on his own front porch. He seems particularly angry that Benny saw him as an easy target, because he is not a wiseguy.

Tony invites Artie and Charmaine out on his boat, then lectures Artie about his behavior. He tells Artie that Benny is baying for blood. Artie again refuses to accept advice, bemoaning the lack of fruit of his years of labor. Tony insists that Benny dine with the Soprano family at Vesuvio to celebrate his parents' anniversary—not the ultra-popular Da Giovanni's, as Benny had planned. The occasion falls at the same time as Nuovo Vesuvio's first "twofers night": an occasion that disgusts Artie (who has always regarded his restaurant as being above such promotions). Artie makes a veiled reference to the affair between Benny and Martina while chatting up the table's occupants; this prompts a humiliated Benny to storm into Vesuvio's kitchen and plunge Artie's right hand into a scalding pot of tomato sauce. Tony visits Nuovo Vesuvio with his wife and mother-in-law, and privately suggests that Artie go see Jennifer Melfi for help, as he has been "going about his life in pity for himself". Artie insults Tony by telling him to go to Giovanni's, instead (rhetorically  questioning whether they would serve him customized food, bland enough for his damaged pancreas, as Artie did for Tony after Junior shot him). Tony responds by telling Artie a hard truth: no one likes his excessive chatter on the restaurant floor, and he should spend more time in the kitchen.

In 2007, Artie appears to have dealt with his personal issues and worked to restore his business. Nuovo Vesuvio even plays host to then-New York Jets head coach Eric Mangini (in a cameo appearance). Artie had also catered Christopher Moltisanti's belated bachelor party at Nuovo Vesuvio without coming into confrontation with Benny.

Charmaine Bucco
Charmaine Bucco, played by Kathrine Narducci, is the wife of Artie Bucco and a childhood friend of Carmela and Tony Soprano.

Charmaine is an old friend of Carmela Soprano's, and married Artie Bucco, a friend of Tony Soprano's since grade school. She also had sex with Tony Soprano in high school. Tony's continued attraction to Charmaine is touched on throughout the show's run, though he does not act on it. Artie and Charmaine co-own an upscale Italian restaurant, Vesuvio (inherited from Artie's father); Charmaine runs the front-of-the-house, and  Artie is the head chef. Charmaine's education is referenced periodically in the series: in The Test Dream it is revealed that she is a licensed notary public and in Everybody Hurts it is revealed that she went to the Wharton School of Business. Artie and Charmaine have three children together, one son, and two daughters. One of their daughters played with Meadow on the high school soccer team.

In season one, Charmaine and Carmela have drifted apart. Charmaine resents that Carmela enjoys an affluent lifestyle that is only made possible by her husband's criminal activities. She discourages Artie from associating with Tony because of those Mafia connections, and talks Artie out of accepting a suspiciously generous gift from Tony. Charmaine and Carmela's friendship reaches a crisis point when Carmela hires the Buccos to cater a silent auction fundraiser at the Soprano home. Carmela treats Charmaine like a servant, prompting Charmaine to exact revenge by revealing that she slept with and dated Tony at the same time he was beginning to date Carmela (who was spending the summer with her parents on Long Beach Island).

Charmaine often appears shrewish and irritable, and she rarely masks her growing annoyance at her husband's deepening association with members of the DiMeo crime family. However, she could also be considered one of the series's few moral anchors. She is shrewd and well-liked and also avoids Tony Soprano's influence.

Following a series of escalating arguments, Artie and Charmaine finally separate. Artie sees a business opportunity from Tony as a means of achieving fortune and notoriety. He has also grown tired of Charmaine's uptight ways and thinks she is holding him back. When Artie threatens to go into business with Tony regardless of how Charmaine feels, Charmaine infers this as Artie being unhappy with their lives and the two get separated. Artie moves out of the family home, but the two still reluctantly run the business together. Since the split, Charmaine considerably improves her personal appearance and demeanor and accepts the patronage Tony's associates provide.

Charmaine ultimately reconciles with Artie in season six. Their marriage has improved significantly since, and Charmaine is level-headed and supportive when the restaurant goes through financial difficulties. Her relationship with Carmela Soprano also improves as they are seen spending time together with their husbands on Tony's boat.

Michael "Mikey Grab Bag" Palmice
Michael "Mikey Grab Bag" Palmice is played by Al Sapienza.

Palmice starts out as a soldier in Corrado "Junior" Soprano's crew as his driver and bodyguard. After Jackie Aprile dies, Junior becomes boss. He is a very loyal, obsequious minion to Junior, and is very respectful to those whom he deems worthy. When confronted by people he dislikes or who are a threat to Junior, however, he reveals his true nature; that of a violent, depraved sociopath. Jackie Aprile Sr. confides in Tony and others that Mickey is "an okay guy, but he is depressing to listen to, wanting to tell you about everyone he knows with cancer (this is after Jackie Aprile Sr.'s own stomach cancer diagnosis)" In the episode "From Where To Eternity," Paulie Gualtieri's girlfriend (played by Judy Reyes) talks to Paulie about the "three o'clock" message that a dead Mikey tells Christopher in his dream after being shot by Sean Gismonte and Matthew Bevilaqua in "Full Leather Jacket". She reveals to Paulie that her fiancé at the time that she and her then-fiancé Kenny she was supposed to be married at the Fontainebleau Miami Beach in Miami Beach, Florida in the roman gardens at one o'clock in the afternoon on the same day as Mikey. Jo Jo and Mikey had the Bella Vista room at the Fontainebleau booked for three o'clock in the afternoon. But the Bella Vista room was said to be smaller and have no windows. A week before the wedding, Mikey saw the small size of the Bella Vista room and "flipped out," and almost killed the hotel's event manager. So Mikey and Jo Jo's wedding was held at the hotel's roman gardens and Paulie's girlfriend and her fiancé Kenny ended up in the smaller Fontainbleau's Bella Vista room at three o'clock.

Angie Bonpensiero
Angie Bonpensiero is played by Toni Kalem.

Angie Bonpensiero is married to Sal "Big Pussy" Bonpensiero whom she married in 1976. They have three children, including sons Kevin and Matt, at college age in 2000, and daughter Terri, who was married and trying to conceive with her husband in 2000. In December 1995, Angie surprised Sal by booking a cruise on the Pacific Explorer (Dawn Princess) cruise ship for $5,000-a-week non-refundable which Sal does not like. Angie was unaware of her husband's status as an FBI informant. His disappearance when he was afraid his friends were on to him and subsequent erratic behavior created problems for their relationship. When she and Pussy were having marital problems, Angie considered suicide and divorce. She discussed this with her horrified friends Gabriella Dante, Rosalie Aprile and Carmela Soprano over lunch. She also revealed that she had been unwell since Pussy's return and had been investigated for breast cancer. Pussy had remained indifferent to her health problems and seemed more concerned about spraying WD-40 on his pocket knife. At Carmela's urging to stay true to her Catholic faith, Angie decided to move into a separate bedroom rather than end their marriage. Later, when Pussy arrives home and silently presents flowers to Angie, she smiles for a moment but then swats him with them.

In 2001, after Pussy "disappeared" for good, Angie believed that he had left her and decided to move on with her life. Tony continued to compensate Angie in her husband's absence – she used the money to buy a fancy new Cadillac but still complained to Carmela about her strained finances. As punishment, Tony damaged the car and took away her allowance. Soon, Carmela finds Angie giving out free samples at the local Pathmark and they lost contact. This likely moved Tony to forgive Angie, as he has since made her the manager of Pussy's body shop. After a long period of time without talking, she and Carmela decide to end their quarrel and go out to dinner where they both show off their new cars, with Angie showing how successful she has become running Pussy's Auto Body by buying a new Chevrolet Corvette. Shortly after the reconciliation Carmela learns that Angie is putting money out on the street via Patsy Parisi and Benny Fazio for shylocking and they are using their connections to help her with the body shop.

Dwight Harris
Dwight Harris is played by Matt Servitto.

Harris is an FBI Supervisor Agent-in-Charge specializing in investigation of the DiMeo crime family with the FBI's Newark Organized Crime Division Task Force. He is often seen staking out various family members. While investigating the family, he develops a somewhat friendly rapport with several of them, particularly Tony Soprano. Like Tony, Harris is a fan of the New Jersey Nets. After September 11, Harris is reassigned to counter-terrorism duty with the Joint Terrorism Task Force in Pakistan, where he catches a bad stomach parasite. Nevertheless, when he returns to New Jersey he frequents Satriale's pork store, apparently for the familiar food and company. He also approaches Christopher, and eventually Tony, for information on terrorism-related organized crime from his criminal connections at the Port of New York and New Jersey in exchange for banking "goodwill" in possible future RICO trials. With Harris now focused on terrorism, he and Tony seem to develop a more genuine friendship.  In the Season 6 episode "Kaisha", Harris appears at Satriale's to inform Tony that someone in his crew could be in danger, although he has no specific details. While investigating the murder of Gilbert Nieves at the Crazy Horse and Matush, with the possible terrorism links he takes over the investigation from Long Branch, New Jersey police.

Later on, Agent Harris and his partner, Agent Goddard, approached Tony at his home, requesting that Tony inform them should he come across any terror-related information in his line of work. Tony initially rejects the overture, but has a change of heart after suspecting that two Muslim former patrons of the Bada Bing (Taleb Adlah and Donnie Keshawarz), who had been paying Christopher Moltisanti for stolen credit card numbers, were involved in terrorist activity. Tony provides their names and a cell phone number to Agent Harris, who is appreciative. In return, Agent Harris promises to write a letter detailing Tony's assistance that will be placed in Tony's FBI file for a judge to consider in sentencing should Tony ever be convicted of a crime.   Harris and Soprano seemed to have established a mutual respect at this point; Tony views anti-terrorism as an important issue and Harris appreciates that Tony's leadership is preferable to that of old-school mobsters like Leotardo.  He later tells Tony at Satriale's that an informer among Phil Leotardo's crew has told them that Tony is being targeted by the Lupertazzi family. When Tony asks if Dwight could help give information on Phil's location he comments, "Do you think FDR told Vito Genovese where Adolf Hitler was holed up?" Agent Harris meets with Tony, who offers him the name of the Muslim men's bank. In return, Harris tells Tony that while in hiding Leotardo has been making calls from a pay phone in Oyster Bay, Long Island, information he apparently obtains from an agent with whom he is "friends with", in the Brooklyn FBI Organized Crime Division Office and with whom he is having an affair.  When Agent Goddard later reports Leotardo's murder, Harris exults in the success of his ploy, stating "we're gonna win this thing!".

Father Phil Intintola
Father Phil Intintola is played by Paul Schulze, Michael Santoro (pilot episode only).

Father Phil is the priest at the Soprano's local Catholic church. Initially, Intintola and Carmela Soprano have a robust friendship based on a mutual love of romantic and "indie" movies and all things related to Classical European (especially Italian) culture. Tony Soprano finds their intimate friendship—and Father Phil's constant, uninvited visits to their home for Carmela's home-cooked food—threatening and irritating.  Tony strongly suspects that Father Phil is in love with Carmela, and using their friendship to seduce her. Carmela denies this, saying she sees Father Phil only as a "spiritual mentor" she utilizes "to become a better Catholic", and, the rare male friend who appreciates things that the ultra-masculine Tony finds to be unmanly. One rainy evening, with Tony and Meadow in Maine and AJ away at a friend's house, Father Phil visits Carmela (who is sick), and the two share ziti and wine together. After lots of wine and watching a movie together, the two come dangerously close to kissing—and beyond—only for the mood and potential infidelity to be shut down by Father Phil's nausea (brought on by drinking too much); he sleeps over without having sex with Carmela, resulting in an awkward feeling between the two, the morning after. Carmela seems wistful and disappointed in Father Phil's inability to act on their mutual attraction in a way that she, as "a good Catholic" will not. Tony later finds out about this, and verbally taunts Father Phil several times. Carmela gets jealous when she makes a surprise, mid-week visit to the church to bring Father Phil a home-cooked specialty—only to see him already being fed a home-cooked dish by her best friend, Rosalie Aprile, and him having the same chemistry with her, that she thought he only had with her. Soon after, Carmela confronts and ends her friendship with Father Phil, accusing him of developing para-romantic relationships with  women parishioners to gain gifts and other favors. After this, Father Phil is usually seen in the series celebrating Mass (particularly funerals), as a general attendee at Soprano family functions, and at charity functions coordinated by Carmela. Although Father Phil was mostly seen ministering to female parishioners, he also counseled men (e.g., he repeatedly invited Tony to attend church and confession more often, in order to reduce his anxiety attacks by improving his relationship with God, and turning away from the 'unrighteous path' of his 'business' activities). He counselled Artie Bucco when he was told about Tony burning down his restaurant by Livia. Father Phil was seen encouraging Artie to go to the police and to tell Charmaine about the arson. He seemed annoyed that Artie did not go to the police or tell Charmaine. Another notable scene with Father Phil was when he counseled Ralph Cifaretto when "Ralphie" came to him devastated and perplexed by his teen son's life-threatening injury (after an accident whilst playing with a friend). Father Phil encourages Ralph to view the tragedy as an opportunity to change his life's course; he also gently rejects Ralph's assertion that God allowed his son to be injured in order to punish Ralph for his criminal sins. Later in the series, Carmela confesses her adultery to Father Phil, who is disappointed and points out that although Tony is an adulterer as well, "two wrongs do not make a right". He orders Carmela to do a penance by way of doing something nice for Tony, which she later does. When Tony was comatose after being shot, Carmela was again dependent on Father Phil, as he is seen comforting her and the Soprano children who are at Tony's hospital bed.

Vin Makazian
Vin Makazian is played by John Heard.

Vin Makazian was a Newark, New Jersey police detective who worked on narcotics and vice squads who fed information to Tony Soprano. He was raised by an abusive alcoholic father who beat him as a child and his mother. He had taken the department's Sergeant police examination to help further his career but the pay scale for the police force was frozen. One of the lawyers of his first two marriages informed Vin that if he didn't start paying alimony and child support for his two failed marriages (on a $20,000 a year salary) that they would go to his union representative and have his wages garnished. His police department office in Vailsburg, Newark is an hour and a half traveling distance from the Green Grove Retirement Home in Verona, New Jersey where Livia Soprano and several other mob captain mothers reside. Tony also used Vin as a personal private investigator, engaging Vin to find information about Jennifer Melfi when Tony first started therapy in 1999. Vin was over-enthusiastic in this role, having misunderstood the relationship between Tony and Melfi as a romantic one, not a professional one. He tailed her and pulled her car over under the ruse that the vehicle was seen leaving a triple-homicide in Long Island earlier in the day. He then questions Randall, a lawyer under the suspicion that he was driving drunk, beats him unprovoked and chastises her for being out with a man he refers to as "hamburger, when you've got prime rib at home". Vin later told Tony that he had taken photographs of Melfi undressing from outside her home, if he's interested, to which Tony replies with disgust. Vin was responsible for informing Tony that Sal "Big Pussy" Bonpensiero was an FBI informant, prompting Tony's suspicions of Pussy, though this was later seemingly dismissed when Tony found out Vin owed Pussy $30,000 in Super Bowl XXXIII gambling debts with interest payments, and Vin would like to see Pussy taken out to absolve him of said debt. The best man at one of his weddings sits on the New Jersey State Police Organized Crime Task Force and gave Vin the initial hint that Bonpensiero was an informant (cooperating witness). He informs Tony about Chris Moltisanti shooting the Nutley, New Jersey bakery worker in the foot over making him wait in line and that they identified him because he was driving a Lexus SC.

Makazian frequented an illegal brothel and had a relationship with the madam there. He was arrested at the brothel along with Soprano crime family capo Raymond Curto during a police raid. Vin later committed suicide, by leaping off the Donald and Morris Goodkind Bridges into the Raritan River shortly after he was released from jail and suspended from the police force. Tony later visited the madam Debra with whom Makazian had a therapeutic relationship, and she divulges to Tony that Makazian viewed him as a friend and, like Tony, was prone to depression. This leaves Tony depressed with guilt because he had always treated Makazian with disdain and never showed him any respect or kindness. Debra tells Tony that Vin thought that Paulie was a "psychopath" but didn't have much to say about any of the Soprano crew. She also commented that he didn't have a good thing to say about anybody.

Vin appeared in the episode "The Test Dream" in Tony's titular dream as Meadow's fiancé Finn De Trolio's father.

Dick Barone
Dick Barone is played by Joe Lisi.

Richard "Dick" Barone owned and operated Barone Sanitation – container and rubbish removal service, a front business for the Soprano crew that also handled their legitimate garbage hauling routes across New Jersey including a medical waste illegal dumping site in Dayton, New Jersey and an asbestos removal project in Corning, New York that they are dumping at an abandoned middle school in Haledon, New Jersey and at "least 24 other stops", a Weigh station in Dayton, New Jersey and a landfill in Pennsauken Township, New Jersey. He is based on Gambino crime family associate James Failla who like Barone, was involved in the garbage collection industry and ran the Trade Waste Association of Greater New York, using the association to extort garbage collection firms. Dick Barone managed and oversaw the Garbage Hauler's Association. Dick is involved in price-fixing and bid rigging of waste hauling contracts in New Jersey and New York. In a discussion with Richie Aprile and Tony, Tony says that all the garbage collection routes north of Paterson, New Jersey belong to Barone Sanitation while Larry Boy Barese and the D'Allessio brothers divide up the rest. If someone wants to keep a garbage association route then they agree to pay Barone $20,000 a month. While he let Helen know about his ties to organized crime, he and his wife both kept their son Jason in the dark about their criminal activity. His son Jason works as a ski instructor at Deer Valley in Summit County, Utah and knew little about the waste management business. In 2000, Ralph Cifaretto tells a client of the association in Union City, New Jersey, that paying for the garbage routes from the association is a "practice that has been around for seventy years," meaning that the garbage association has been around since 1930. In 1999, the lucrative new office parkway, the Triborough Towers in Essex County, New Jersey along the Eisenhower Parkway in Roseland, New Jersey and Livingston, New Jersey route was subject to a bidding war between Barone and Czechoslovakian-based waste management company, Kolar Brothers Sanitation. Dick Barone was part of the crews' discussions about the problem and was at Satriale's when Christopher Moltisanti took it upon himself to deal with the issue and murder Emil Kolar. Chris' action led to the Kolar Bros. withdrawing their bid which Dick was happy to report to Tony. Tony had a no-show job at Barone Sanitation and had stopped showing up for work entirely starting in 1992. Tony tells Jason Barone that Tony, Jason's father, and Paulie had taken Jason to watch the New York Mets, Mookie Wilson and Dave Kingman, play at the Shea Stadium. He drives a Mercedes Benz convertible. Tony had a fling with Dick's born again Christian secretary Connie DiSapio. In 2000, Dick attended the Garbagemen's Ball alongside "Waste Management Consultant" Tony Soprano. At the firm, Tony Soprano is the second highest paid employee. Barone Sanitation is Tony's secondary insurance carrier. His previous secretary Diane he had to fire because she was stealing office supplies from the headquarters. He worries about Richie Aprile with Aprile's and Junior Soprano's front business, Zanone Bros. Carting dealing cocaine on his garbage association routes because he could lose his "901" saying that he can handle the Department of Sanitation and spoke of having a contact inside the Environmental Protection Agency but not the DEA. In 2006, he named his employee Paulie Gualtieri an "Honoree for Excellence in Recycling" for which Paulie was awarded a plaque and had his photo hung on a wall at Barone Sanitation.

Dick died a well-respected businessman in 2006 from Lou Gehrig's disease. His funeral was attended by many members of the DiMeo crime family. Dick was survived by his wife, Helen Barone, and son, Jason who Tony says reminds him a lot of AJ Soprano. Following his death, Barone Sanitation was bought out by Lupertazzi crime family firm, Cinelli Sanitation. Tony calls Jason "The Prince of Sanitation." Tony asked John Sacramoni for 25% of the sale price and a year's salary until retirement plus skim from the company that is $2,000 a week when the company went up for sale. He agreed to lower the sale settlement by staying on the payroll and lowering the skim profits.

Hugo "Hugh" DeAngelis
Hugo "Hugh" DeAngelis is played by Tom Aldredge.

He is Carmela's father who is in his mid-70s. Hugh has been married to Mary for over 40 years and is a resident of West Orange, New Jersey. He is a former sailor of the United States Navy and spent time in Halifax, Nova Scotia at CFB Halifax during the war. He has one brother named Lenny who is never seen in the show. Although now semi-retired, Hugh had worked as a contractor, and he built Tony and Carmela's house. Almost everyone in the Soprano family consider Hugh a classy, old-school gentleman for whom tradition and respect are very important values. He has an affable and kindly manner, but does not hesitate to speak his mind on points of disagreement with family, particularly his wife. Hugh enjoys hunting and playing with Hot Wheels die cast cars with his grandson Anthony Jr. He is a member of the Knights of Columbus as evidenced by the custom-designed cake presented to him at his birthday celebration. He was considered a "wild man" in his youth; one time he had a physical altercation with a motorcycle gang and another time he disrupted a meeting of the German-American Bund in Paterson, New Jersey by throwing a cherry bomb at its members.

Hugh and Mary eat Sunday dinner with Carmela and Tony when they are all on good terms. Hugh also has a brother named Lester and a sister named Lena, who is actually the mother of Christopher Moltisanti's father Dickie, thus making Hugh Chris' great uncle. During Carmela and Tony's separation, Hugh was eager to see Tony whenever possible and often took Tony's side in family discussions. This is due to Hugh's strong sense of tradition and respect for the traditional home and family. He did not want to be present at a family gathering if "the man of the house" was not there (in the episode "Marco Polo"). Hugh became involved in a real estate investment with Carmela involving a spec house. However, construction of the spec house was halted after a building inspector found that low-quality wood had been used. Carmela blamed her father for the setback and Hugh became angry that Carmela was treating him as a subordinate rather than a partner. After Tony's shooting, Hugh steals items from the house's storage garage and abandons the house. Carmela discovers this months later and scolds him about the permit – Hugh again becomes enraged at her attitude. Their feud leaves Mary meeting with Tony and Carmela alone while Hugh stays home. Carmela and Hugh reconciled enough for him to attend Christmas celebrations at the Soprano home later that year – after Carmela's spec house started to go ahead again.

Mary DeAngelis
Mary Pellegrino DeAngelis is played by Suzanne Shepherd

She is Carmela's mother who is in her mid-70s. Mary has been married to her husband Hugh De Angelis for over 40 years. Mary and Hugh have a long marriage, but she does nag her husband quite a bit and tends to treat Hugh as a subordinate rather than a husband, a theme that reappears in Hugh's relationship with both his wife and his daughter Carmela. Shortly after Carmela began dating Tony Soprano, she became extremely protective of her daughter and tried to prevent her from marrying him. After Carmela got married, the De Angelises met Tony's mother, Livia Soprano, with whom they became very angry after Livia told Carmela that "Tony would get bored of her." Mary had a brother named Febby who died of cancer. Mary and Hugh started seeing Carmela more often after Livia was put in a nursing home. Mary has tried to prevent Tony from attending Hugh's 75th birthday party in fear that he would embarrass them in front of Russ and Lena Fegoli, her "cultured Italian friends." Mary wishes to appear as a WASP and is embarrassed by Italian stereotypes. (For example, Mary, when Meadow was born, was disappointed at her granddaughter's dark skin tone.) Carmela became angered at her suggestion to ban Tony from the party but decided to put the issue aside. Mary and Hugh continue to surface during family functions and Sunday dinners at the Soprano home. Mary also has psoriasis.

Elliot Kupferberg
Elliot Kupferberg is played by Peter Bogdanovich.

Jennifer Melfi's psychotherapist who also used to be her teacher. Elliot tries to convince her numerous times to refer Tony to another colleague. Elliot calls Dr. Melfi "Jen" in their sessions. Vin Makazian reveals to Tony when he is asked to put surveillance on her that she sees her own psychiatrist, Kupferberg, which surprises Tony.

Elliot has a daughter, Saskia. Saskia, a butch lesbian, was an upperclassman at Columbia University when Meadow Soprano was a freshman, and gave a presentation that led Meadow to join the South Bronx legal clinic that eventually put Meadow on the path to law school.

In the episode "Employee of the Month," Elliot also counsels Melfi following her rape.

Elliot once unknowingly encountered Tony Soprano in the parking garage at Columbia University, while both were visiting their daughters. He followed Tony in his car in the hopes of taking Tony's parking space when he left but annoyed Tony by driving too closely, describing him later to Melfi in a therapy session as "this Bluto-type guy." He presented the encounter to Melfi as a way of saying that parking garages are not inherently dangerous places and that she should not blame herself for her rape. He thought that Tony may have been a maintenance man working in the building.

In 2007, following Tony's shooting by Junior and the rise of his media profile, Melfi accuses Elliot of directing their therapy towards discussing "Patient Soprano" because of his desire for gossip and continuous shows of interest. In the episode "The Second Coming," he tells Melfi of a study that concludes talk therapy enables sociopaths. In the episode "The Blue Comet," he further presses Melfi about Soprano at a dinner party, where he reveals to guests that Soprano is Melfi's patient, to her embarrassment, a serious breach of doctor-patient confidentiality, although he dismisses her protests casually, saying everyone at the table is a professional. Melfi is upset, but nevertheless later reads the study herself, which leads her to finally drop Tony Soprano as a patient at their next session.

Elliot seems to be interested in the Mafia on a personal level. In the episode "Stage 5", he can be seen watching the news when the Lupertazzi crime family is discussed, remarking: "This Santoro thing, I called it a year ago". He once tried to explain this interest to Melfi by saying that his father was a huge fan of The Untouchables.

Elliot frequently drinks from a very large reusable water bottle during therapy sessions, which Bogdanovich claims was his own bottle at the time.

Jackie Aprile Jr.
Jackie Aprile Jr. is played by Jason Cerbone (as Matthew Cerbone at young age)

Jackie Aprile Jr. was born 1978 into a North Jersey mafia family and raised in Lincoln Park, New Jersey. His father, Jackie Aprile Sr., was once the acting boss of the DiMeo crime family, and his uncle Richie Aprile was a long time capo in the same crime family. However Jackie Jr. himself was kept away from the family business by Jackie Sr. and his father's best friend, Tony Soprano. In 1995, his father, Jackie Sr., decided to not go on vacation for Christmas and hired a tutor for Jackie Jr. to study for his SATs. He hoped that Jackie Jr. would get into a state college and not leave New Jersey for his education. In "Army of One," Tony tells Junior at Jackie's wake that Jackie Jr.'s father tried to explain his son's limitations as having an undiagnosed learning disability. Also, Corrado Soprano recalls a story that Jackie Jr. almost drowned in three inches of water at a zoo penguin exhibit. He only began getting involved with the criminal aspects of his family in 2000—season 2 of The Sopranos—after the death of his father and the release of his uncle Richie from prison. Ralphie Cifaretto tells Tony that Jackie spoiled him and that he has a "chip on his shoulder." Richie speaks of taking Jackie Jr. out to go buy him a Chevrolet Camaro (fourth generation). He goes out on a date with Meadow Soprano, and while intoxicated, she crashes his Chevrolet Cavalier in a parking lot. Jackie Jr. falsely reports it as having been stolen and leaves the scene of the accident. Despite attempts to succeed at Rutgers, Jackie Jr. drifted towards a life of crime as he began helping his uncle Richie in the Aprile crew.

His mother Rosalie Aprile began a romantic relationship with Ralph Cifaretto. Ralph was more of a mentor in Jackie's attempt to follow in his father's footsteps and was not actively involved with his life or development as a young man. It was Ralph's bad influence, Jackie Jr.'s own faults, and finally Tony's insistence that Jackie Jr. not become involved in organized crime that were the contributing factors that propelled Jackie Jr. into a brief, humiliating and fatal career as a criminal.

Working alongside his friend and Rutgers fraternity brother Dino Zerilli, he began small by selling ecstasy to college kids. They often hung out at the Ooh Fa pizza restaurant which brought them into contact with Christopher Moltisanti. He was a linebacker for his football team at Boonton High School and was All-State by the end of his semester. Jackie planned the robbery of a Jewel-Amnesty International benefit concert at the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University and drove the getaway car for Christopher and Benny Fazio. While waiting in the car Jackie urinates in his pants. Later Jackie tried to use his 'influence' with Christopher to help a drug dealer associate from college named Matush sell ecstasy at the Crazy Horse club in West Long Branch, New Jersey, owned by Christopher and Furio Giunta and fronted by Adriana La Cerva. Matush had been thrown out of the club by Giunta once already and Jackie met with him at a "sit-down" and agreed to take his case up with Chris; Chris refused to grant any favors because estacy would bring attention of the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force but Jackie told Matush it would be alright to work outside the club anyway - resulting in a severe beating for Matush.

Jackie Jr. began dating Meadow Soprano and as a result, he copied the Mafia tradition of leading two lives. He takes Meadow on a date to Chez Josephine, the historic club at West 42nd Street, originally owned by Josephine Baker and mentioned liking the music of Harry Connick Jr. Jackie tried to maintain the appearance of a respectable college student dating Meadow while drifting further into the Mafia life. Tony's interest was further increased because he had been a close friend of Jackie's father and had promised that he would keep Jackie Jr. away from organized crime. Tony began to see through Jackie's facade when he caught him at the casino on Bloomfield Ave in Bloomfield, New Jersey and then later at the Bada Bing. Ralph Cifaretto gives Jackie Jr. a .38 revolver at his request. Jackie says the reason behind wanting the gun was that he would rather have one in case something happened than be caught unarmed in a situation. Tony was furious because he had tried so hard to keep Jackie straight, beating him up in the bathroom of the club after catching him there getting a lap dance. Tony began seeing much of himself and his treatment of Carmela in Jackie's relationship with Meadow.

Things came to a head after Jackie Jr. flunked out of Rutgers University after he was caught cheating during an exam. Meadow suggested that he enroll in the Fashion Institute of Technology because he said he has a passion for designing men's suits. Jackie was subsequently dumped by Meadow after she found him cheating on her. Resentful of Tony's hypocrisy, Jackie began working directly for Ralph, forming his own minor crew in the process.

Upon hearing Ralph tell the story of when Jackie's father and Tony robbed a card game held by Feech La Manna, Jackie became inspired to follow in his father's footsteps. Using his dim-witted crew of Carlo Renzi, Dino Zerilli and Matush, Jackie attempted to hold up a card game run by Aprile soldier Eugene Pontecorvo. The young stick-up men got high and Jackie almost decided not to go through with it. Once inside things went horribly awry - Jackie killed "Sunshine" the dealer, made man Furio Giunta was shot in the leg, Renzi was killed at the scene by Christopher and Matush fled in the getaway car upon hearing gunshots. Jackie Jr. barely escaped with his life by performing a quick carjacking. He drove straight past Dino Zerilli leaving him to perish at the hands of Christopher and Albert Barese.

He later runs away from home and does not talk to his mother Rosalie or Ralph Cifaretto. He hides out at an African-American's apartment in Boonton, New Jersey. Jackie called Tony and begged for help saying that he was imitating Tony and Jackie when they were younger. Tony rebuffs Jackie, saying they were different scenarios with different results. Largely because of his feelings toward Jackie Sr., Tony suggested to Ralph that Jackie should be given a pass for the failed robbery. At a meeting between Tony and Ralph, they talk about what to do about Jackie, Tony stated that the important thing is that action is taken "in a timely fashion." Ralph of course had to maintain stability and his stature with Tony and the crime family. He gave Aprile crew soldier (and Jackie's cousin) Vito Spatafore the order to take out Jackie. Outside the Boonton Projects, Vito shot Jackie Jr. in the back of the head, leaving Jackie's body face down in the snow.

Rosalie, Meadow and the rest of the family were told that Jackie was killed by black drug dealers. The death of Jackie Jr. had an enormous effect on Meadow Soprano and she began having mixed feelings for her father and his criminal activities. At his funeral Jackie's sister Kelli Aprile said that it was Jackie's life dream to follow in their father's footsteps and like Meadow acknowledges that Jackie was killed by the Mafia. As a result, Meadow was often depressed and told her parents that she knew Jackie was killed by members of organized crime and not by drug dealers.

While most in the DiMeo crime family discouraged Jackie's criminal aspirations they also saw his leadership potential. Christopher Moltisanti viewed Jackie as a rival as Tony's protégé and referred to Jackie as "the heir apparent", realizing Jackie's family history. Jackie was also the first person to realize Ralph Cifaretto had a secret sex life. He told his friend Dino Zerilli that he thought Ralph "was a secret fag or something". Tony would later find out from Ralph's girlfriend Valentina La Paz that Ralph had masochistic inclinations.

Murders committed:
Sunshine: - Shot during an armed robbery of a poker game.

Gloria Trillo
Gloria Trillo is played by Annabella Sciorra.

Gloria Trillo, born 1961, is a 40-year-old car saleswoman for Globe Motors, a Mercedes-Benz dealership in Fairfield, New Jersey. Tony remembers someone with the name Trillo owning a lumberyard that his grandfather Corrado Sr. worked with in construction. Tony asks his Uncle Junior, remembering back to his childhood if he knew a tradesman or building contractor with the last name Trillo, Junior vaguely remembers a stonemason or a building contractor named Trillo who had seven daughters from The Ironbound. It is never revealed if this is the same Trillo family that Gloria is related to. She is also a patient of Melfi's. She meets Tony Soprano at Melfi's office due to a scheduling mix-up; there is an immediate attraction between the two and within days they are having an affair. She tells Tony that she has "murdered" seven relationships to date. Although she presents the facade of a strong and independent woman, Gloria is in fact mentally unstable and exhibits signs of Borderline Personality Disorder, which leads to occasional violent arguments and physical altercations with Tony, bouts of severe depression and frequent suicidal thoughts. One such incident occurs after Gloria sees Tony's wife Carmela at her dealership, getting her car serviced, and offers to drive her home. She also tries to sell a 2001 Mercedes-Benz E-Class (W211) to Carmela. After another clash, Tony is disgusted to realize Gloria has recognized him as a man capable of violence and is trying to provoke him into killing her as a form of surrogate suicide. Instead, he calls it quits and cuts off all contact with her and orders Patsy Parisi to threaten Gloria into staying away from him. Patsy accomplishes this by posing as a customer at the dealership and going on a test drive with Gloria. When they are out of the city, he pulls a gun on her and tells her to never see or talk to Tony or any of his family again, or "the last face you'll see will be mine, not his. It won't be cinematic." This proves to be too much for the unbalanced Gloria, and she resorts to suicide, hanging herself in her home a year later. Unaware of the relationship, Carmela—Tony's wife—informs Tony of her suicide in bed one night and  he feels strong guilt and initially blames Melfi for Gloria's death, claiming that she did too little to save Gloria, but he also blames himself. Later, he comes to understand that Gloria was beyond salvation, and the relationship was a mistake from the beginning. An ongoing theme in their relationship was Gloria's use of the phrase, "poor you," which reminds Tony of his mother and the toxic relationship he had with her.

Little Paulie Germani
Paul "Little Paulie" Germani, played by Carl Capotorto, is thought to be the nephew (later revealed to actually be a first cousin once removed) and right-hand of Soprano family Underboss Paulie Gualtieri. Germani is an associate and later soldier in the Moltisanti crew. Germani regularly hangs out with Christopher and accompanies him on debt collections visits. Germani is known for poor attempts at humor and has also been beaten up several times in the series, notably at a Columbus Day rally and after taking a joke too far with Eugene Pontecorvo at the Esplanade construction site. When standing guard at the Soprano home he is shown with an AK-47, displaying that he has experience with assault rifles. He tells J.T. Dolan that he has not seen Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction.

In Season 4, Germani was tasked with vandalizing Carmine Lupertazzi's restaurant when Tony and Carmine got into a dispute over the HUD scam. He was also responsible for intimidating Alan Sapinsly after Tony's separation caused him to withdraw from a contract to buy property from Sapinsly. Paulie and Benny used Tony's home entertainment system speakers on his boat to blast Dean Martin recordings at the Sapinsly home at all hours. In season 5, Little Paulie holds a "no work" job at the Esplanade construction site and accompanied Chris when collecting a loan from writer J.T. Dolan.

Also, early in Season 4, Germani precipitates the crisis between Tony and Johnny Sack, when he hears Ralph Cifaretto make a joke about the obesity of Johnny Sack's wife, and repeats this joke to Paulie Gualtieri, who relays the news of this to Johnny.

In season 6, Germani has been seen enjoying the private room at the Bada Bing with Benny and Chris. Paulie also attended Chris's belated bachelor party. Germani helped his uncle organize the 2006 Feast of Saint Elzear and when his corner-cutting caused a ride to malfunction, Little Paulie was left to deal with the police. In the Season 6, part II episode "Walk like a Man", Little Paulie is badly hurt again after being pushed out of a second story window by Christopher during a feud with Paulie. He suffers six broken vertebrae. He helps in the war with the Lupertazzi crime family, disguising himself as a police officer while searching for Phil Leotardo.

Carmine Lupertazzi Sr.
Carmine Lupertazzi Sr. is played by Tony Lip.

Carmine Lupertazzi was an old-school Mustache Pete mafioso of Junior Soprano's generation. It is suggested in season 4 that Carmine's ethnic roots come from Taormina in Sicily with the opening of his upscale Italian restaurant that is later destroyed on Tony Soprano's orders. He kept a low profile for most of his criminal career while operating out of his social clubs and restaurants. He lives in Mill Basin, Brooklyn. Carmine was arrested and acquitted of labor racketeering charges in the 1980s. It was around this time that Carmine's longtime consigliere, Angelo "Angie" Garepe and longtime Lupertazzi family captain Philip "Phil" Leotardo were convicted of various racketeering charges and sent to prison, Angelo for 18 and Phil for 20 years. He is an avid golfer and is seen using Maxfli golf equipment. He is said to be "as healthy as a bull" but Carmine Jr. tells Johnny Sack that he suffers from tinea versicolor and has a prescription for Miconazole. During Carmine's tenure his family was the largest and wealthiest of the Five Families in New York City. They maintained close ties to New Jersey's DiMeo crime family.

Carmine was calm and calculating, a true opportunist and still sharp even in his old age. He is depicted as a loving father and grandfather and groomed his son and namesake "Little" Carmine Lupertazzi, by making him a capo in the crime family that bears his name. He had a sometimes contentious relationship with his underboss John "Johnny Sack" Sacrimoni: during different episodes in the fourth season Johnny and Carmine each authorized Tony Soprano to put a "hit" on the other, although they were both called off at the last minute. He goes to the Kings Plaza on Tuesdays and Thursdays in Marine Park, Brooklyn to do mall walking. 

In 2004 Carmine's health began to fail and he suffered a massive stroke while having lunch with Tony, Johnny and Angelo Garepe at a country club. After lingering for a week or so in the hospital Carmine died peacefully of natural causes. This left a large power vacuum in the Lupertazzi crime family. The "heir apparent" for his position was his son Little Carmine, a fact that became a point of consternation for Johnny Sack. Johnny did not think much of Little Carmine and felt as Carmine's underboss, he was next in line to be boss.

Carmine once told Tony Soprano that "a Don doesn't wear shorts" after Johnny Sack saw Tony wearing them at a backyard cook-out. Tony never again wore them while Carmine was alive but did wear them again after Carmine died in season five. Though he regarded the DiMeo crime family as nothing more than a "glorified crew" in private, Lupertazzi did show great respect for Tony as a man, at one time saying he would be proud to call Tony his own son (in front of his actual son, Little Carmine). This was most evident when he showed genuine concern for Tony's health after hearing rumors that he was seeing a psychiatrist and suffering panic attacks.

In the episode "Rat Pack", Tony sits with Junior and makes conversations with both Bobby Baccalieri and Feech La Manna, when they suddenly are called up with the information that Carmine has passed during the night at Saint Vincent's Catholic Medical Center in Greenwich Village, Manhattan. Bobby sees Carmine as a great man, and shares that he heard Carmine was the one who invented "point shaving", having players throw games and betting against their teams. This is confirmed by Junior, who replies that in 1951, Carmine orchestrated the CCNY Point Shaving Scandal and that Junior bought a Cadillac Fleetwood from the small fortune he won betting on the game. Johnny Sack tells Carmine Jr. at his wake that he had become concerned with the Catholic Church sexual abuse cases and was a supporter of Opus Dei, something Carmine Jr. rejects and claims that it is really an interest of Johnny Sack's wife, Ginny because of the Controversies about Opus Dei.

Rusty Millio
Rusty Millio is played by Frankie Valli.

Rusty is a 76-year-old capo in 2004 when he first appears in the series, making his character born in 1928. (Frankie Valli is born 1934) in the Lupertazzi crime family, married to Gianna Millio. He is a capo that controls territory for the family in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn, Crown Heights, Brooklyn, Flatbush, Brooklyn and Park Slope, Brooklyn and territory in Queens, New York. The name Rusty is a pet name of Ruston or is a nickname for someone with red hair or a ruddy complexion. Despite his age, he is not considered a Mustache Pete like fellow mobsters Doc Santoro or DiMeo crime family capo Feech LaManna. He is a close, personal friend of Carmine Lupertazzi Jr. 
He tells Angelo and Carmine Jr. that he had a quadruple coronary artery bypass surgery in 2003. Rusty is a close associate of Little Carmine and considered to be one of the instigators in Little Carmine's power play following boss Carmine Lupertazzi Sr.'s death. After Lupertazzi's death, Rusty turns down the position as head of the Lupertazzi crime family, letting John Sacramoni take over, but later regrets his decision. He helps Angelo Garepe orchestrate the hit on Joe Peeps (with Tony Blundetto as the hitman) after telling Little Carmine "We'll steamroll right over John, and I predict the guys in the streets in Brooklyn and Queens will welcome us as fuckin' heroes! It'll be easy..." He offers Tony Blundetto the contract on Joey Peeps which Tony hesitantly turns down having not made up his mind on his future. When Tony and Phil discuss the recent killing of Rusty at Phil's grandson's communion, Phil is surprised by Tony's secrecy in his role behind the killing and says that they should just assume that it was the Headless Horseman. Since the truce and Johnny Sack's arrest, Rusty refuses to be in the same room as, or take orders from, acting boss Phil Leotardo. Johnny Sack orders a hit on Rusty (whom he referred to as "The Mayor of Munchkinland," due to his short stature of 5'5") through Tony, because he feels Rusty is likely to wrest power away from him while he is in prison. In the episode "Luxury Lounge," Rusty and his bodyguard/driver, Edward "Eddie" Pietro are assassinated in Rusty's driveway by Italian hitmen contracted by Tony. In the episode, Rusty's address is said to be 134 Deweunter Terrace in Ditmas Park, Brooklyn.

Rusty is portrayed by singer Frankie Valli, who is also referred to in his own right in the series.  In the season 1 episode "46 Long," Tony brings his mother, Livia, some flowers which were brought from the "same florist that Frankie Valli uses when he comes to Jersey."  Christopher Moltisanti also classes Valli as one of the great Italian-American singers. There is also a scam of selling stolen Frankie Valli concert tickets with Tony Soprano. In the episode "Christopher" a Native American Chief invites Tony and some friends to his casino so that he may ask Tony to get Frankie to come to his casino for a week, a job that Tony delegates to Silvio, who mentions that he hasn't talked to Frankie for years.

Michele "Feech" La Manna
Michele "Feech" La Manna is played by Robert Loggia.

An original American Camorra gangster who was "made" in Southern Italy (his bakery makes Taralli, a pastry from the region). Feech came over to America in the 1950s and settled on 15th street in Hamilton Park, Jersey City where he became involved with the DiMeo crime family in bookmaking and loansharking, then under the leadership of boss Ercole 'Eckley' DiMeo. Paulie Walnuts calls him "The King of Breadsticks" because he owns a bakery and catering company. A contemporary of Johnny Soprano and Junior Soprano, he started as a chauffeur and bodyguard for notorious DiMeo crime family capo Tommy Pinto and was an accessory after the fact, when Tommy Pinto (making reference to real life mobster Nicky Scarfo's criminal rise) beat a longshoreman to death in front of LaManna at the Clam Broth House over a corner table. He habituated The Peppermint Lounge in Manhattan during his younger years. Feech had become one of the most respected and feared capos in the DiMeo family by the 1970s. However, his status did not prevent a young Jackie Aprile Sr. and Tony Soprano from robbing his floating high-stakes card game, and thereby solidifying their status as rising stars in the organization. Despite Feech's anger at having been robbed, Jackie's older brother, Richie Aprile, then a high-ranking earner and soldier in the family, intervened on Tony and Jackie's behalf and got Tony and Jackie a pass. Silvio reveals they were also helped because both Johnny Soprano and Junior Soprano were powerful capos under DiMeo.

There is some continuity problems with the length of time Feech was incarcerated. He states that when he was arrested that vehicles didn't even have seatbelts. Seatbelts were mandatory in all vehicles in 1966. But the news reports him as being arrested in 1984. In 1984, Feech was convicted of criminal charges and given a twenty-year sentence at Federal Correctional Complex, Allenwood, which Tony Blundetto was also sent to. LaManna was transferred two weeks earlier before his arrival. The story Feech tells Junior and Tony about attacking a black inmate actually did happen with real-life mobster Carmine Galante. This was part of the Mafia Commission Trial "mafia crackdown" in the 1980s by the federal government in New York. In 2004, his sentence was up and he returned to North Jersey to, in his own words, 'get back in the game'.

Feech went to see Tony Soprano, the new boss of North Jersey, and requested his card game back, as well as permission to get back in the action. Tony acquiesced, on the condition that Feech not step on anybody's toes. However, Feech soon got into trouble. After a power struggle with Paulie Walnuts over landscaping, Feech stole cars from Ira Fried's daughter's wedding, including his father-in-law's highly prized Mercedes-Benz SL-Class (R230) 55 in Ringwood, New Jersey and sold them to a dealer in Newburgh, New York. Previously, during a card game, Tony had made it clear that Fried was a friend and was not to be touched, but Feech went ahead with his plan anyway. Tony realized that Feech still thought of him as a youngster and saw Junior as the boss, paying his respects and going to Junior about complaints instead of Tony. Silvio tells Tony that Feech is well liked in the DiMeo family, which Tony sees as a threat to his status as acting boss. Tony, having learned from his experience with Richie Aprile, indicated to Silvio that things needed to be "nipped in the bud". Tony instructed Christopher Moltisanti and Benny Fazio to convince Feech to keep a truck of stolen plasma screen televisions in his garage. When a different parole officer suddenly appeared at his home and discovered the televisions, Feech was arrested, and sent back in prison. Given Feech's age, it's likely that he would spend the remainder of his life behind bars.

Kelli Lombardo Moltisanti
Kelli Lombardo Moltisanti is played by Cara Buono.

Kelli was Christopher's new girlfriend in 2006. She became pregnant and planned to terminate the pregnancy, blaming herself for the lack of contraception. When she told Chris, he was actually overjoyed that Kelli was pregnant. Christopher bemoaned that his former fiancée Adriana could not have children and immediately suggested they go to Atlantic City and get married. Soon after their marriage, Kelli and Chris bought a large new home and moved in. They ate Sunday dinner with the Sopranos and Kelli complimented Tony on his (stolen) wine. Kelli became a regular at Soprano Sunday dinners, attending even when Christopher went to an AA meeting. Christopher's interest in Kelli began to drift and he began an affair with Julianna Skiff while his wife was still pregnant. Kelli remained devoted to Christopher and did not complain about his long absences. She attended the Sopranos' Christmas celebrations in 2006.

In 2007, Kelli was now a mother, having given birth to her and Christopher's daughter Caitlin. She and Christopher later attended Caitlin's baptism when Tony and Carmela Soprano became Caitlin's godparents. In the episode "Walk Like a Man," Kelli had the idea to invite friends and family to her and Christopher's house for a barbecue and party. She was terrorized by Paulie Gualtieri when he drove his Cadillac CTS through their front yard in retaliation for Christopher throwing Paulie's nephew Little Paulie Germani out of an upstairs window. (Little Paulie had stolen merchandise from Kelli's father's hardware store at least two different times.) In the episode "Kennedy and Heidi," when Christopher died, Tony commented that Kelli's behavior at the funeral reminded him of Jackie Kennedy Onassis. She was last seen with Caitlin attending a dinner at the Soprano house with Tony and Carmela. Phil Leotardo sent Kelli a bouquet of flowers after he heard of Chris's death.

Butch DeConcini
Butch "The Little Guy" DeConcini, played by Greg Antonacci, is a high-ranking member of the Lupertazzi crime family, first appearing in the show as a capo and later being promoted to underboss.

Butch is given the moniker "The Little Guy" because the actor Antonacci stands at 5'6. He is from Flatbush, Brooklyn. Initially a capo but later becomes the underboss of the Lupertazzi crime family under Phil Leotardo. This was the same nickname of Joe Pesci's character "Nicky Santoro" based on real life mobster Anthony Spilotro in Casino. He attended Little Carmine Lupertazzi's "meeting of minds" to try to resolve a dispute with the Soprano crime family in 2006 after Tony responded to the murder of Vito Spatafore by blowing up a wire room in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn that was owned by Phil Leotardo. After the effort failed, DeConcini was vocal in his desire to move against Tony Soprano. DeConcini was critical of Albie Cianflone's assertion that the attack showed that Tony had balls, saying he felt his bombing of one of Phil's properties was similar to the 9/11 attacks and should be met with an effort to eradicate the perpetrators. When discussing courage, he replies that blowing up a building is not brave, but jamming an icepick into a guy's lung when you look him in the eye is, showing Butch's ruthless nature. When Phil refused to consider killing a boss, it was Butch who suggested they move on someone else in Tony's family. Phil soon suffered a heart attack and Butch kept watch at the hospital with others—he was confrontational when Tony visited Phil. When Phil ordered a hit on Doc Santoro to take over the Lupertazzi family once and for all, it was Butch who oversaw the assassination behind the wheel of one of the getaway cars. Upon Phil's permanent elevation to boss, Butch was made underboss of the family. Alongside Albie Cianflone, Butch is one of Phil's primary confidants and advisors. While Butch may have an old grudge against the Soprano family, he puts business first when it becomes clear that Phil's attempt to wipe out the Soprano family leadership has failed, and he notices Phil's threatening tone regarding his future due to the failure to find and murder Tony. During a sit-down with Tony Soprano and Paulie Gualtieri, he, along with Albie Cianflone and Little Carmine Lupertazzi, agree to end the war against the Soprano family. While Butch will not give up Phil's whereabouts (it is earlier established that Phil will not tell Butch where he is), he gives consent on behalf of the Lupertazzi family for Tony to hunt down and murder Phil. Butch would seem to be the likely choice to become the new boss of the Lupertazzi family. In a scene where he and other members of Phil's crew are meeting after hours in a beauty salon, Butch is seen putting away barber's scissors and utensils, suggesting that he is a barber or beautician by trade. This also suggests that his character may be somewhat based on former Bonanno family acting boss Vincent "Vinnie Gorgeous" Basciano, who was a hairdresser and owned a salon.

Albie Cianflone
Albert "Albie" Cianflone, played by John "Cha Cha" Ciarcia, is the reputed consigliere to Phil Leotardo.

Albie is a former soldier in the Leotardo crew, and has reputedly worked for Phil Leotardo since the 1980s. After Johnny Sack was arrested and indicted on various charges, Phil was promoted to Acting boss, and Albie was made new consigliere. Albie helped mediate the Barone Sanitation dispute with the Soprano crime family. He also attended Allegra Sacrimoni's wedding, and sat at Phil's left hand at the meal to celebrate Gerry Torciano getting his "button" at the Vesuvio. Albie accompanied Phil to New Jersey for the Feast of St. Elzear, and helped organize the distribution of stolen vitamins that Tony offered them from a truck hijacking. Once Johnny Sack allocuted in federal court, Albie expressed relief, saying, "Could have been worse. He could've flipped (turned cooperating witness)." Phil expressed outrage at this statement, feeling that Johnny should have stood trial instead of admitting the existence of "this thing of ours." Alongside newly made Underboss Butch DeConcini, Albie was one of Phil's most trusted advisors and confidants, often seen talking either only to Butch or Phil himself. Albie comments that while Tony says Phil resembles the Shah of Iran, he says that he does not see the physical resemblance between Phil and the Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. After Phil hatches the plot to kill the entire regime of the Soprano crime family, Albie first protests in shock that taking out an entire family is impossible, however, he later agrees with Phil's decision. Along with Butch, Albie plans the executions of Tony Soprano, Silvio Dante and Bobby Baccalieri. In the final episode, "Made in America", Albie meets with Tony, Paulie Gualtieri, Little Carmine, Butch DeConcini, and George Paglieri, in New York, where the Lupertazzis agree to end their war with the Sopranos.

Murders ordered:
 Faustino "Doc" Santoro: Killed during the New York power struggle.

Raymond "Buffalo Ray" Curto
Raymond "Buffalo Ray" Curto, played by George Loros, is a capo in the DiMeo crime family.

A capo in the DiMeo/Soprano crime family before Season 1, Curto is approached by fellow capo Tony Soprano and asked to replace Jackie Aprile, Sr. as Boss of the DiMeo Crime Family, due to his age and experience (Jackie is then in and out of the hospital and close to death). Curto declines, and insists, along with the other capos, that Tony should take over instead, fearing Tony's uncle and fellow capo Corrado "Junior" Soprano would step up as the new Boss.

However, Curto is also an FBI informant, as revealed in the episode, "Proshai, Livushka". It has never been disclosed when or why he became an informant, although he is briefly seen in the episode "Nobody Knows Anything" being busted at a brothel along with Detective Vin Makazian. Curto also mentions having a son with multiple sclerosis and the high cost of the Management of multiple sclerosis, so perhaps Curto's motivation to be an informant is to stay out of jail and have the ability to pay for his son's hospitalization. He puts his mother in Green Grove along with Jimmy Altieri, Tony Soprano and Larry Barese.

Around Christmas of 2000, Curto is present in the back room of Satriale's before the annual holiday celebration held there and openly discusses the murder of informant Pussy Bonpensiero, stating that he'd wished he had been along to kill "the rat". It is unknown whether Curto is wearing a wire during this conversation, in an attempt to link Tony Soprano, Silvio, and Paulie to the murder. In 2004, many members of the DiMeo Crime Family attend a birthday party for Curto at "Nuovo Vesuvio Ristorante." Tony presents Ray with a bottle of 1958 "Acuto di Soprano" from his ancestor's house in Avellino, Italy produced from his ancestors.

In 2006, Curto unexpectedly dies of a stroke in his FBI handler's car from the stress of taking care of his son and his age while giving potentially damaging information to Agent Sanseverino about Tony—Curto indicates he had a poor sound quality tape of Tony discussing a murder. He died not long after sanitation waste company CEO and mob front Dick Barone died. Curto was handled by both Agent Sanseverino and Agent Grasso. Curto has the distinction of being the longest-tenured "rat" in the series, and for never being caught or suspected as such. In fact, at Curto's funeral (in "Members Only"), the other mobsters laud him for being a model "stand up guy". At the wake, Tony complains that Ray's corpse smells bad of formaldehyde. The one exception is Eugene Pontecorvo, who, when Agent Sanseverino tells him that the FBI had lost a major asset, asks if Curto had been an informant. How much damage, if any, Curto caused the Soprano crime family is never determined during the run of the show.

Brendan Filone
Brendan Filone, played by Anthony DeSando, was Christopher Moltisanti's friend and partner in crime and a low-level associate of Tony Soprano. Brendan was addicted to crystal meth, and often used it with Christopher. In the episode "46 Long", Brendan and Christopher hijacked a Harrison, New Jersey Comley Trucking truck and stole a number of DVD players. Comley Trucking was under the protection of Junior Soprano, who demanded restitution. At a sit-down, Junior tells Tony to keep Brendan and Christopher's "loose cannon" behavior under control.  In a nightclub, Brendan tries his best to convince Chris to defy Tony and Uncle Junior since both Chris and Brendan were getting nowhere following the rules. Early the next morning, Brendan urges Chris to get ready for the next heist, a truckload of high-end Italian suits. Christopher tells him that he has decided to go along with the rules instead.

Always high on crystal meth and unable to comply with orders, Brendan, this time without Christopher, hijacks another Comley truck with two cohorts. In the process, the driver of the truck is accidentally shot and killed by a ricochet bullet when one of Brendan's cohorts drops his gun. Tony is angry when he learns about the hijacking and orders Christopher and Brendan to return the truck to Comley. However, Uncle Junior is not satisfied. Mikey Palmice and Livia Soprano both give Uncle Junior advice on the matter, and Junior orders that Christopher undergo a mock execution and that Brendan be killed. Brendan is shot clean through the eye while in his bathtub by Uncle Junior's trigger man, Mikey Palmice, while Junior stands by outside in the hall. This scene is inter-cut with Meadow's rendition of the lullaby "All Through the Night" during a school recital.

In the aftermath, Christopher and Adriana find Brendan's body in his bathtub and Christopher calls for harsh retaliation against Palmice. Tony decides to confront his uncle and Mikey over their severe punishment by beating Mikey to the ground and stapling his jacket to his torso. He then goes to have a sit-down with Uncle Junior for his orders.

Anthony DeSando's last onscreen appearance as Brendan Filone was in the first-season episode "The Legend of Tennessee Moltisanti." His name is mentioned in a television news story when Jeffrey Wernick, the author of a book about the mob, is interviewed about possible grand-jury indictments arising from Brendan's unsolved murder. Wernick characterizes Filone as a loyal soldier and associate. The amount of attention and coverage Brendan receives after his demise makes Christopher annoyed and jealous. Even Georgie (a bartender/bouncer at the Bing) says that he is amazed to have known Brendan.

Later, when Jimmy Altieri attends a funeral, he notifies Uncle Junior of how sad Brendan Filone's mother was at his funeral. Junior reciprocates by telling Mikey and Chuckie about Jimmy's remark, noting that this is the kind of things they are talking about behind his back, namely the "Brendan Filone hit."

Later, in retaliation for the attempted hit on Tony, Mikey Palmice is killed after Chris and Paulie Gualtieri chase him down while he is jogging. Mikey tries to blame all the recent events on Junior, even Brendan's death, but Chris replies, "My friend Brendan, you shot him in his bathtub naked, no chance to run." Paulie and Chris then execute Mikey and leave him dead in the woods.

In season two, after Christopher is shot by Sean Gismonte and Matthew Bevilaqua, he has a near-death experience in the hospital where he goes to "hell" and explains that he saw Brendan Filone and Mikey Palmice playing cards with a bunch of Roman soldiers and Irishmen. Chris also mentions that Brendan and Mikey are friends in hell although they were enemies when alive. Paulie assumes that Chris went to purgatory and tries to reassure him that it is not as bad as hell, although Paulie becomes obsessed with his own fears of ghosts. With the exception of Paulie's concern, most of the other Soprano crew chalk up Christopher's experience as a hallucination.

Carlo Gervasi
Carlo Gervasi, played by Arthur J. Nascarella, was a capo in the DiMeo crime family, before turning FBI informant.

Gervasi was promoted to caporegime of Jimmy Altieri's crew after Jimmy was murdered on suspicion of being an FBI informant. He was in charge of obtaining grey-market goods from container ships docking at the Newark ports. These procurements included everything from Vespa scooters to provolone cheese. Carlo also accompanied Tony, Ralph, and Hesh to the stables to purchase the racing horse Pie-O-My. In Season 6, Carlo attended two celebration dinners at Nuovo Vesuvio, first when his cousin Burt Gervasi became a made man and a second for Christopher Moltisanti's belated bachelor party. When Bobby Baccalieri was injured, Gervasi visited him in the hospital and passed his collections up to an indifferent Tony Soprano. He shares the same last name as reputed Montreal, Quebec, Canada mobsters Paolo Gervasi, and his son Salvatore Gervasi. The Italian surname Gervasi, along with the French name Gervais, is in honor of the Catholic martyr Saint Gervasius. Carlo's surname is somewhat ironic, in that Saint Gervasius is said to have been beheaded, and Carlo himself beheads the body of Dominic "Fat Dom" Gamiello after stabbing him to death. It is unknown whether or not this was an intentional reference by the show's creators.

Very little is known about Carlo's character. For all of his time on the screen, the audience knows virtually nothing about him. He shares this distinction with Patsy Parisi, another member of the group who has very little backstory and few lines relative to his frequent visual presence. He first appears in a meeting of Tony's crew in the first episode of Season 4, but there was no explanation as to where he came from and how he became part of the gang's inner circle. Carlo is not even directly referenced by name until the sixth season.

His personal life is also shrouded in mystery. Though Carlo has two sons, Jason (who is seen on the show) and James (who is not), Carlo's wife (if he has one) is never seen by the audience, or even mentioned, nor is Carlo ever seen with a comare or mistress. When Bobby Baccala is robbed and he is wounded, forced to wear an eyepatch, Carlo refers to Bobby looking like Captain Haddock from The Adventures of Tintin, mistaking Haddock for the eye-patch wearing character, Piotr Skut which leads people to believe he read the comic books. This is in stark contrast to the rest of Tony's crew, all of whom but Paulie have significant others or families who are regularly shown. Carlo rarely speaks, compared to the rest of the crew. The most detail of his life outside of his mob activities that the audience ever sees is shown in the episode "Kaisha", where his house and garage are shown for the only time in the series as he retrieves Dominic "Fat Dom" Gamiello's head from his refrigerator in order to dispose of it. A Jet Ski is seen in his garage; outside of this, nothing is known of his hobbies or interests.

It is only in Season Six that Carlo begins to emerge from the background and become a more important character. Gervasi was given all of Vito Spatafore's construction business in addition to the ports, after the revelation of Vito's sexual orientation and his subsequent downfall, but has suffered recent work stoppages. Gervasi was also outspoken about his disapproval of Spatafore's homosexuality, suggesting to Soprano that his cousin, Tommy, knew a detective who might be useful in tracking down Spatafore. His notorious hatred of homosexuals surprised even the other mobsters, wishing that Spatafore be "dragged behind his car." When Soprano decided that Spatafore had to be killed to appease acting New York boss Phil Leotardo, and Silvio Dante asked if the hit should be assigned to anyone in particular, Soprano suggested Gervasi for the job because of his strong views. Tony compares him to Roy Bean. However, Spatafore was beaten to death by Phil Leotardo's men Gerry Torciano and Dominic "Fat Dom" Gamiello before Gervasi could act. Gervasi expressed admiration for Leotardo's commitment to his views, despite the killing of a made man being performed without Tony's permission. Silvio comments that he is as talkative about the subject as Jimmy Olsen. Carlo later avenged his family's honor by stabbing Fat Dom four times with a gigantic chef's knife for making jokes about Spatafore's murder and implying that Gervasi was also homosexual. The killing occurred in the back room of Satriale's pork store and Silvio also took part; Tony Soprano later discovered them waiting to dispose of the body and was angry because of the murder's possible repercussions. Gervasi took charge of disposing of Gamiello's body and drove to Connecticut to deposit his head in a storm drain, phoning Silvio to confirm that the last part was safely away and to ask about Tony's plans to blow up Leotardo's wire room.

Soprano later placed Gervasi in charge of Spatafore's construction business, but he was disappointed with Gervasi's earning capacity in this new role. Gervasi's son Jason attends Rutgers University and is involved in gambling and loansharking there.

Gervasi is later seen participating in the production of Cleaver with Christopher Moltisanti and Little Carmine. He appears to be acting as a consultant, suggesting that more graphic violence may bolster the film's success.

Gervasi's cousin, Burt switched sides during the Lupertazzi/Soprano war and was killed for his disloyalty by Silvio Dante. Carlo was not seen to react to the murder of his cousin, but it may have influenced his decision to cooperate with law enforcement. Gervasi accompanied Tony to a safe house to help protect him from Phil Leotardo's hitmen.

In the series finale, Gervasi's son was picked up by the FBI for drug dealing. Gervasi failed to show up for a meeting with Paulie Gualtieri, which worried Tony Soprano that he may have been cutting a deal. Soprano's attorney confirmed that someone was, in fact testifying before a grand jury and that indictments were forthcoming. In the final scene, Tony told Carmela that Carlo was testifying, thus confirming that he turned informant, likely to keep his son out of jail.

Murders committed:
 Dominic "Fat Dom" Gamiello: Stabbed in the stomach multiple times after deriding Vito's murder and also implying Gervasi was a homosexual.

Larry Barese
Lorenzo "Larry Boy" Barese, played by Tony Darrow. He is the only one of the five original captains of the DiMeo crime family who remains in that position throughout the show. In the episodes "Pax Soprana" and "I Dream of Jeannie Cusamano" his first name is given as "Lawrence," but in the episodes "The Legend of Tennessee Moltisanti" and "Stage 5" he is called "Lorenzo". Richie Aprile mentions that he had a dermabrasion procedure. He is typically polite, relatively soft-spoken and loyal to the Soprano crime family.

Barese is the caporegime of his own crew which is the biggest in the crime family. His crew's activities include drug trafficking, gambling, loan sharking, waste management and stock and credit card scams. His cousin, Albert "Ally Boy" Barese, is his second in command and he is also the godfather of Soprano associate Benny Fazio. Over the years Barese managed to become an influential member of the DiMeo crime family during the 1990s. Following the death of acting boss Jackie Aprile, Sr. in 1999, Larry supported Tony Soprano becoming the new boss over Tony's uncle Corrado "Junior" Soprano. However, Larry supported Tony's plan to use Junior as the official boss and agreed to follow Tony's orders as he was running the family behind Junior's back.

In the season 1 episode "Pax Soprana," Larry, along with Jimmy Altieri and Raymond Curto, congressed in a meeting with Tony after Junior had Mikey Palmice murder Larry's top earner Rusty Irish for selling ecstasy to one of Junior's friend's grandson who committed suicide while high. Larry and the other capos reported this as a sign of Junior abusing his power as boss. Barese later moved his mother to the Green Grove retirement community (where Tony kept his mother) so that he could conduct clandestine meetings with Tony, capo Jimmy Altieri and even New York Lupertazzi crime family underboss John "Johnny Sack" Sacramoni.

Larry found out from an FBI secretary that an indictment was going to be unsealed against the crime family. Soon after, along with Junior and underboss Joe Sasso, he was arrested and charged with violations of racketeering and fraud and sent to Green Haven Correctional Facility in Beekman, New York. Larry could often be seen as a second defendant in the courtroom during Junior's RICO trial. While being held without bail in prison, Larry promotes his cousin Albert Barese to acting caporegime of his crew.

Three years after the indictments, Larry was released following a mistrial and put under house arrest. However, he took control of his crew back from his cousin. At this point, Larry remained the only one of the original five DiMeo family captains in control of his crew (Tony was promoted to boss, Junior was removed from  power by the family, Raymond Curto died of a stroke and Jimmy Altieri was executed under suspicion of being an informant).

Larry was also a regular fixture at Tony's ICU waiting room following his shooting in 2006. Fellow captain and the family's biggest earner at the time, Vito Spatafore, approached Larry to suggest himself as a candidate to take over as boss if Tony should not recover from his coma after his uncle had shot him. Although Tony recovered, Larry stayed loyal to him and Tony's nephew Christopher Moltisanti, with whom he began producing the upcoming fictional slasher film Cleaver. At this time, Larry had routinely broken the terms of his bail since his release in order to run business and socialize, including giving a toast at Christopher Moltisanti's belated bachelor party. In 2007, Larry was finally arrested at the premiere after-party for Cleaver by federal marshals for violating house arrest. He was in jail awaiting a retrial at the end of the series, and isn't seen after the episode, Stage 5.

He is mentioned in the season 6 episode "Remember When," when the FBI begins digging up a body from a murder that occurred 25 years ago. This was Tony's first murder, which Paulie Gualtieri also played a part in. There is a minor discussion about Larry which indicates that he gave the FBI the location of the body. However, in order to save Tony and Paulie, after the body is recovered, he goes on to tell the FBI (falsely) that the murder was committed solely by the late Jackie Aprile.

Minor characters

Soprano crime family
Ercole "Eckley" DiMeo:  a.k.a. "Old Man" and "Eckley", is the founder and the longtime boss of the DiMeo crime family. He is an unseen character. By the events of season one, he is boss in name only and never demonstrates any influence over the family.
Richard "Dickie" Moltisanti:  Former soldier in the Soprano crew who lived in Paramus, New Jersey next to the Westfield Garden State Plaza, "the largest mall in New Jersey" with his family. He is an unseen character in The Sopranos. Born before 1959 (when Tony was born) and died in the mid-1970s, Married to Joanne Moltisanti née Blundetto, father of Christopher and cousin to Carmella Soprano. Hugh DeAngelis, the father of Carmella has a sister Lena who is the mother of Christopher Moltisanti's father Dickie, thus making Hugh DeAngelis, a great uncle to Christopher. Dickie was in the U.S. Navy (as was Hugh) stationed at Naval Weapons Station Earle and saw action in the naval battles of the Vietnam War and later served time in prison, making it unlikely that he spent much time with his family when he was alive. It is suggested from his Navy photograph that he was in the Fleet Marine Force. Dickie was killed during Christopher's infancy, right outside the house while bringing TV trays home. In 2002, Tony Soprano told Christopher that Dickie's killer was Clifton, New Jersey Detective Lt. Barry Haydu, who had just retired from the force. Tony delivered Haydu to Christopher Moltisanti as a part of his process of bonding Chris to him and slowly easing him up the family hierarchy. However, when confronted by Christopher, Haydu denied ever having heard of Dickie Moltisanti and claimed that someone was "obviously" setting him up; however, he inadvertently admitted knowing Dickie Moltisanti by stating "Look, whoever told you I had anything to do with his death is lying!", before Christopher ever mentioned Dickie's death, whom Haydu supposedly didn't even know. Haydu's last words before he is killed by Christopher are "I'm sorry!" indicating that he was likely indeed responsible. He is played by Alessandro Nivola in The Many Saints of Newark.
Joseph Siravo (The Sopranos), Jon Bernthal (The Many Saints of Newark) as Giovanni "Johnny Boy" Soprano: he is Tony Soprano's deceased father, the former captain of the  Soprano crew. He was the son of Corrado Soprano Sr. and Mariangela D'Agostino from Ariano in the Province of Avellino who immigrated to the United States in 1911; he was a master stonemason who helped to build a church in Newark, New Jersey. Johnny was married to Livia Pollio and they had three children: Janice, Tony, and Barbara. Johnny worked closely with his older brother Junior during Tony's childhood. Johnny was sent away to prison, for a short while when Tony was young, and the family members said Johnny Boy was in Montana working as a cowboy. Johnny and Junior both went on to become capos in the DiMeo crime family. Johnny was well liked in the organization – before his death, boss Ercoli "Eckley" DiMeo was thought to have been considering having Johnny take over. Sal "Big Pussy" Bonpensiero and Paulie Gualtieri were both in Johnny's crew. Bonpensiero stood up for Johnny in the unrest of '83, and Johnny's leadership led to Sal's becoming a made man shortly afterward. Both Sal and Paulie followed Johnny's wishes and supported Tony's becoming capo after Johnny's death of emphysema. Johnny took Tony and his friend Silvio Dante under his wing, and brought them up in the organization as part of his crew. Johnny was only seen in flashbacks to Tony's childhood or in Tony's dream sequences. In 1969, Tony witnessed Johnny cut off Francis Satriale's pinky finger while Junior held him in place; Satriale owed gambling debts and was avoiding giving Johnny payment. This event contributed to Tony's first panic attack at the kitchen table that evening. Tony also saw his father and Junior attack Rocco Alatore over a debt, then recalled his father's discussing a possible move to Reno, Nevada in 1967 to manage a supper club for Alatore (who was restored to good terms with Johnny since the debt was repaid) and his mother's refusing, which move Livia would later sweep under the rug when Mr. Alatore later became a billionaire with his investments. It is revealed in the episode "A Hit Is a Hit" that Johnny was a silent partner in Hesh Rabkin's record company "F-Note Records". Tony also witnessed Johnny plotting a scheme in 1967 at a children's carnival by bringing Janice along. Tony had originally thought his father favored Janice over him but later learned the truth: that mobsters brought their daughters to their meetings as a ruse. When Janice recalled the time Johnny shot through Livia's beehive hairdo while they were driving home, Tony thought the anecdote was shameful and made their family look "dysfunctional". Tony described his mother's relationship with his father as wearing Johnny down to "a little nub"; for her part, Livia tearfully remembers Johnny as "a saint" several times. Johnny kept a mistress named Fran Felstein, whom he had met during Tony's childhood. In 1976, when Tony was 16, Johnny stayed all night at her home when his pregnant wife was in the hospital. The next morning Johnny and Tony went to the hospital, and Tony lied to his mother saying they went to a New York Yankees baseball game and stayed in New York. Livia saw through Johnny's lie and lost the baby due to bleeding. In September 1982, when his son Tony was 22 years old, and just two weeks before the birth of his granddaughter Meadow, Johnny ordered his son to murder a local bookie: Willie Overall. This was Tony's first murder, and it helped hasten his climb toward becoming a made man. Johnny died of emphysema in late 1986, aged 62. Not long before his death, he saw the incarceration of many of his fellow mobsters due to Fabian "Febby" Petrulio's becoming a government witness. Johnny never recovered from the news of Febby's betrayal, and it may have hastened his demise.
Ercole "Eckley" Soprano was an unseen character. Ercole was Tony Soprano's late uncle, the middle son of Corrado Sr. and Mariangela D'Agostino, and brother of Junior and Johnny. He was born between 1924–1928 in East Orange, New Jersey. Tony never met him and finds about his existence from Junior in "The Happy Wanderer". Junior Soprano tells Tony that he and Johnny Soprano started the high-stakes $5,000-buy in "executive" Five-card stud poker card game over 30 years before 1999 to help financially support Ercole that brought in big-time players like David Lee Roth and Frank Sinatra Jr.. Ercole was not mentally challenged but had an intellectual disability and developmental disability and was institutionalized in a state-run assisted living institution early in his life by his mother and his existence concealed because of the stigma of having a mentally challenged child at the time. In "Do Not Resuscitate" while Junior is trying to feign mental incompetence during his RICO trial he remembers how people in the neighborhood used to mock and make fun of Ercole. He was "strong as a bull" and looked like George Raft. In the episode house arrest after Livia finds out about Tony seeing a psychiatrist, she mentions to Junior that Tony might be on his way to be institutionalized at Essex County Hospital Center "(Cedar Grove Mental Hospital)" in Cedar Grove, New Jersey. Junior explains that society did not understand these things back then and nowadays they would have enrolled him in a trade school, but praises his mother for making sure Ercole was taken care of at a home in North Jersey.  Junior also boasts to Tony that Johnny paid for his care with their criminal proceeds.  Tony recalls listening to Johnny Boy and Livia argue and she would mention a "feeble-minded brother" who at that time Tony always assumed she was referring to Junior Soprano.
Michael Rispoli as Giacomo "Jackie" Aprile Sr.:  was born in 1955, and rose through the ranks of the DiMeo Crime Family with his older brother Richie and close friend Tony Soprano. Jackie was also the brother of Liz La Cerva, and thus the uncle of Adriana La Cerva. Jackie and Tony, along with Silvio Dante and Ralph Cifaretto, belonged to a small crew moving weed and stolen goods. Around this time, Jackie had the idea to rob a card game held by capo Feech La Manna in order to make a name for themselves. Jackie's star rose considerably in the intervening years, during which he started a family. He married Rosalie Aprile, and they had three children together. Jackie never wanted his son Jackie Aprile Jr. to get involved in the mob despite his success. He and Richie appointed Aprile crew associate Peter "Beansie" Gaeta to peddle heroin for them, taking the largest cut for themselves.
Val Bisoglio as Murf Lupo:  Elderly soldier and former capo of Junior Soprano's crew, who is starting to mumble and show signs of Dysarthria when talking and is starting to show the early signs of dementia that worries Junior. Junior also notices that he is starting to look unkempt, with food on the front of his shirt when he goes out and he goes to bed early.
Dan Grimaldi as Phillip "Philly Spoons" Parisi:  Phillip is a soldier and Patsy Parisi's identical twin brother born March 4, 1950, who was born eleven minutes after him in Bloomfield, New Jersey and lives in Fairfield Township, Essex County, New Jersey. He is a third-generation Italian-American whose grandparents were from Ariano Irpino. Junior Soprano mentions that Phillip wears a hairpiece, although his baldness is never shown.
Louis Gross as Perry Annunziata:  also known as "Muscles Marinara," is from Bloomfield, New Jersey He serves as a bodyguard and chauffeur for Tony Soprano during his recovery from a gunshot in 2006. Tony calls him "Penne Arrabiata" (as in the pasta dish penne all'arrabbiata), on account of his road rage (Italian: arrabbiato) towards a rude driver while driving Tony.
Vitali Baganov as Valery: Valery was a "Bratok" in the Russian mob, acquainted with Tony Soprano through his business association with the organization. Valery's friend and boss Slava Malevsky revealed to Tony that they served together in the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation where he worked with the Russian Airborne Troops at one point during the First Chechen War in Chechnya and Valery personally killed 16 Chechen Republic of Ichkeria rebels saving Slava's life in the process. In the "Pine Barrens", Paulie Walnuts and Christopher Moltisanti visit him at his apartment to collect payment, where Valery readily handed over the envelope of money, however Paulie responded to a perceived slight by being intentionally careless with Valery's entertainment system, causing a brawl in which the two believed they had killed Valery. They drove out to the Pine Barrens to dispose of him, but when they arrive, find him alive. They marched him into the snow to dig his own grave, but attacked a Paulie and Christopher with the shovel and ran. Christopher and Paulie gave chase, firing as they ran, Paulie seemingly hit Valery in the head, leaving a trail of blood. The two men continue looking for him but eventually give up, and realize they are lost in the wilderness. Chris and Paulie then spend a miserable night in an abandoned van in the Pine Barrens. On rescuing the pair, Tony makes it clear that if Valery makes it back to North Jersey alive, it is Paulie who will have to deal with Slava, not him. Valery's fate after this point is unclear; Valery's body was never found, and Paulie's car was stolen from the remote location where it was parked in the wilderness. An HBO promo shows notable characters who have been murdered over the course of the series and does show Valery as having died in this episode, but with a question mark, indicating some doubt. David Chase said in an interview at the Writers' Guild:
Maria Grazia Cucinotta as Isabella: Appears in "Isabella" as a figment of Tony Soprano's imagination. Soprano sees a beautiful Italian woman in the Cusamanos' garden next door. Isabella tells him that she is a foreign exchange student, staying there while the Cusamanos are away. He takes her out to lunch. As she describes the beauty of Avellino, where Tony's grandfather came from, he has a daydream. Isabella is in a village house, in a rocking-chair, nursing a baby named Antonio. Then Isabella is no longer there. When the Cusamanos return and he asks about her, Tony realizes she never existed: it was a delusion. Dr. Melfi instructs him to cease taking lithium, and theorizes that Isabella was an idealized maternal figure.
Sofia Milos as Annalisa Zucca: Daughter of Zi Vittorio, head of a Neapolitan Camorra family in Italy. She is also the wife of the acting Camorra boss, Mauro Zucca, who is currently serving a life sentence, and a distant cousin of Tony Soprano. When Tony took over Junior's luxury car hijacking business, he went to visit "Zi" (Uncle) Vittorio in Naples to discuss the parameters of their arrangement. When he finally meets Zi Vittorio, Tony finds that he is a wheelchair-bound old man, and it is, in fact, Annalisa who runs the organization now. Tony finds this hard to accept at first, but eventually works out a deal with Annalisa—he would cut the price of the cars he supplies to Naples, in exchange for her to supply him with members of her organization. This resulted in Furio Giunta being sent to the United States, and later, in season six, with Tony being supplied with the hitmen to take care of the hit on Rusty Millio, and Philip "Phil" Leotardo.
Matthew Bevilacqua as Lillo Brancato Jr., was Sean Gismonte's partner-in-crime from West Orange, New Jersey and an associate working under Christopher Moltisanti in the Gualtieri crew. Born in 1977, he was 23 years old when he was killed, in "Bust Out." In "Mr. Ruggiero's Neighborhood", Bonpensiero is overheard on an FBI wiretap that Bevilaqua's family is involved in the construction business and that the family saw him as a scion. Matthew also mentions that he and Sean attended the Lubin School of Business at Pace University and are licensed stock brokers. He bought marijuana from a drug dealer at The Bada Bing. Matt worked with Christopher in various aspects of organized crime, including the Massarone construction site; a pump and dump stockbroking scheme at an over-the-counter brokerage house in Bayonne, New Jersey involving an internet company called Webistics; assisting with Junior Soprano's executive card game; and some burglary jobs with Chris and Sean. When Chris leaves work early to go to the Jersey Shore with Adrianna, he leaves Matt in charge of the brokerage. They stole a Porsche Carrera from the office building that they were running the pump and dump stock scam from and beat up a stockbroker for suggesting a different stock. Matt threatened to stab the office manager of the brokerage in the throat with a letter opener if he told Chris Moltisanti about their actions. The office manager reported them anyways. Silvio referred to Matt and Sean as, "Chip n' Dale" after the cartoon because of their ineptness. Matt tells Christopher that he sees no point in getting married because he can get all the women he wants and always hire someone to wash his dishes and iron his shirts. He drives a Buick Regal that he abandons after Sean is shot and killed in the passenger seat during the failed mob hit on Christopher Moltisanti. Despite their general lack of talent, the duo desperately wanted to move up in the ranks of the family. They tried to impress Tony whenever possible, but eventually angered him by attempting to directly discuss criminal activity with him at the toilets in a men's room, unaware of the threat of wiretapping. Then, hoping to gain favor with Richie Aprile, Matt and Sean decided to make an assassination attempt on Christopher, who they knew Aprile disliked. Attempting a drive-by ambush in the parking lot outside the stock brokerage firm, they hit Christopher twice but were unable to kill him. Before collapsing from blood loss, Christopher was able to return fire, killing Sean while Matthew fled to seek protection from Richie Aprile, who reacted angrily and chased him away. When Tony Soprano and Big Pussy Bonpensiero found him hiding in Hacklebarney State Park, they interrogated him before they emptied their guns into him in one of the park's concession stands. Before he is killed, Bevilacqua pleas to Tony that it was all Sean's idea to shoot Moltisanti. There was an witness in the park that connected the murder to Tony, although the witness retracted his statement upon learning that one of the shooters may have been Tony Soprano. The newspaper identified Matthew as a Soprano crime family "associate."
Chris Tardio as Sean Gismonte, an associate of the DiMeo crime family from West Orange, New Jersey in Essex County, New Jersey. He was Matthew Bevilaqua's partner in crime and an associate in the Gualtieri crew in 2000. He was born and raised in Hoboken, New Jersey. Sean was convicted of an undisclosed crime and had spent time in county jail and is implied that unlike Matt, Sean has worked pump and dump stock broker scheme before. It is suggested that he attended Lubin School of Business at Pace University with Matt but wanted to pursue a life in crime, considering themselves more intelligent but underappreciated considering their skill set by Chris. Sean and Matt worked with Christopher at various aspects of organized crime including the Massarone Construction site, an over-the-counter (finance) brokerage house in Bayonne, New Jersey that was responsible for a Pump and Dump on the website Webistics, Junior Soprano's executive card game held in a hotel by Newark Liberty International Airport, and some burglary jobs with Matthew and Chris. He was reprimanded for beating a stockbroker and stealing a Porsche Carrera from the parking lot of where the stock brokerage is. Looking to move up in the ranks, Sean and Matt attempted a hit on Christopher as an attempt to win favor from Richie Aprile. The hit was botched and Sean was killed by Christopher in the ensuing gun battle.
Frank Albanese as Patrizio "Uncle Pat" Blundetto: a former soldier in the Soprano crew worked alongside Johnny Boy Soprano. Chris compares the ruthlessness of Pat to Jake LaMotta. Unlike many of his contemporaries, he was able to retire from "the business". Pat is the uncle of Tony Blundetto and Chris Moltisanti, and father of Louise Blundetto. Tony Soprano calls him Uncle Pat but they are not blood relatives. Pat's brother Al Blundetto married Quintina Pollio, Livia Soprano's sister. Pat owns a farm at New York State Route 146, Route 9a, Kinderhook, Upstate New York that his nephews used to visit in the summers of their youth. In the episode "All Due Respect," Tony Blundetto hides out at Pat's now empty farmhouse from the Lupertazzis after shooting Phil Leotardo's brother Billy Leotardo.
Edoardo Ballerini as Corky Caporale: an associate of Christopher Moltisanti and a heroin addict. Christopher enlisted him to accommodate the Italian hitmen provided to Tony for the hit on Rusty Millio. Corky was chosen primarily because he speaks Italian and would therefore be able to communicate effectively with the hitmen. Christopher paid him for the job with heroin. Corky performed well, delivering weapons and instructions at a remote spot without revealing much about himself, and the hit went smoothly. Christopher delivered the second half of Corky's payment at the Feast of St. Elzear and included more heroin as a substitute for some of the money. Corky injected the drug in Christopher' car, which initially prompted Christopher to encourage him to get into rehab. However, Christopher was eventually tempted into joining him. In 2007, in the episode "The Blue Comet," now after Christopher's death, the Soprano Family used Corky again through Patsy Parisi. The target this time was Phil Leotardo. Fluent in Italian, Corky assigned Neapolitan hitmen, Italo and Salvatore to the Leotardo hit, but was botched when they mistake the father of Leotardo's Ukrainian mistress for Leotardo, and are both killed instead. When Corky heard from the hitmen that the man spoke Ukrainian to his daughter, he mumbled "whatever." However, he did ask Patsy Parisi if Phil spoke Ukrainian.
Tony Siragusa as Frankie Cortese: he served as a driver and bodyguard for Tony as a soldier of the Soprano crime family in 2004.
Jeffrey M. Marchetti as Peter "Bissell" LaRosa. Bissell, also known as Petey, was part of the group Little Paulie took to vandalize Carmine Lupertazzi's restaurant in the HUD dispute. Petey made his bones (along with Benny Fazio) by killing Stanley Johnson and Credenzo Curtis, on orders from Christopher Moltisanti.
Frank Santorelli as George "Georgie" Santorelli: a bartender at the Bada Bing.
Lenny Venito as James "Murmur" Zancone: a friend and AA sponsor of Christopher Moltisanti. Murmur made Christopher's rounds while Christopher was in Los Angeles, California – buying credit card numbers from Beansie Gaeta's pizzeria and from Hillel at the Teittleman's Fly Away Motel, then selling the numbers to Mohammed and Ahmed at the Bada Bing. Murmur also went out to LA to meet Christopher because Christopher was "chipping" (relapsing). While there, Murmur and Christopher tried to intimidate Ben Kingsley and robbed Lauren Bacall of a gift basket she received at an awards ceremony. Murmur later attended Christopher' belated bachelor party at Nuovo Vesuvio and continued to hang out with the crew at Satriale's. Murmur was skeptical of the benefits of Christopher's relationship with fellow addict Julianna Skiff, warning Christopher that it could be enabling as codependency (to relapse into substance abuse), and of the possibility of Tony finding out about his recent slip at the Feast of St. Elzear. He was also responsible for informing Tony that Phil Leotardo had a heart attack – Tony had warmed to him a little by this point and rewarded him with a club soda. In 2007, in the episode "The Blue Comet," Murmur (unknowingly) informed Paulie and Silvio, by showing them a newspaper article on the murders of two civilians, that Phil Leotardo is still alive and the job to kill him failed because the hitmen had misidentified their target.
John Cenatiempo as Anthony "Tony Black" Maffei: a soldier in Bobby Baccalieri's crew. Alongside his captain, he collected proceeds from John Stefano's (Joey Perillo) illegal asbestos-dumping asbestos abatement operation in Steuben County, New York, Corning, New York, and delivered them to Tony Soprano.
Joe Pucillo as Giuseppe "Beppy" Scerbo: Beppy is an elderly soldier in the Junior Soprano crew, full name Giuseppe Scerbo.
Sal Ruffino as Charles "Chucky" Signore: Chucky is a soldier in Junior Soprano's crew and a friend of Mikey Palmice. He was taken by surprise at a marina, while in his small runabout Villain III, and killed by Tony when he reveals a hidden gun in a fish he was carrying and shoots Chucky several times in the chest. Tony and Silvio Dante take Signore's corpse out on his runabout and dispose of it.
John Fiore as Gigi Cestone: he is involved in the garbage waste business to some capacity and at the time of his death was involved in a very large freon disposal and refrigerant reclamation deal. Former made man in the Junior Soprano crew, defected to Tony Soprano's crew in 2000 after he murdered Philly Parisi (the acting capo of Junior's crew while Junior was incarcerated). The hit was ordered by Tony as revenge for Philly spreading rumors about Tony's mother with regard to Tony and Junior's feud. Gigi was quickly made part of the inner circle of Tony's crew unlike fellow new member Patsy Parisi. Gigi made a final transition in the fall of 2000 when he was promoted to the position of capo over the Aprile crew, following Richie Aprile's "disappearance" making him the only made man in the DiMeo crime family to serve in three different crews. Ralph Cifaretto was angered as he had hoped to receive the promotion himself. Gigi died in the episode "He Is Risen", after he had a fatal heart attack while constipated on the toilet in his social club. Ralph was subsequently made the captain of the Aprile crew.
Paul Herman as Peter "Beansie" Gaeta: a former associate of Richie Aprile from Elizabethtown, New Jersey, supervising a drug operation in New Jersey for him. Upon Richie's release from prison, he tracked down Gaeta at his pizza parlor, and demanded payment that he allegedly still owed to him. His pizzerias are used by the DiMeo crime family for money laundering. After Gaeta denied the validity of the debt, Richie first broke a pot over Beansie's head and a beating, and later ran him over with his car, rendering Beansie hospitalized and paraplegic from his injuries (in "Toodle Fucking-Oo"). Wheelchair-bound, Beansie moved to Miami Beach, Florida.
Anthony J. Ribustello as Dante "Buddha" Greco: a soldier in the Aprile crew, first seen taking delivery of cigarettes from Christopher Moltisanti on his return from Raleigh, North Carolina. Dante accompanied Benny Fazio and Terry Doria to look for Vito Spatafore at his goomah's beach house following the revelation that Vito was possibly homosexual. In the final season, Dante had been acting as Tony's personal driver and bodyguard. He was last seen driving Tony and guarding the safe-house door in the final episode, "Made in America".
Kevin Interdonato as Kevin "Dogsy" Interdonato: an associate/soldier in the Aprile crew. Dogsy helped Vito Spatafore beat up the Soprano family's appraiser on the HUD scam restoring his loyalties to them.
Raymond Franza as Donald "Donny K." Kafranza: a soldier of the Aprile crew from West Orange, New Jersey. He was first was seen in 2000 introducing Matthew Bevilaqua and Sean Gismonte to Richie Aprile.
William DeMeo as Jason Molinaro: a member of the Gualtieri crew.
Vincent J. Orofino as Bryan Spatafore: he is the younger brother of Vito Spatafore, and partner in Spatafore Bros Construction. Bryan was put into a coma by Mustang Sally, in "Another Toothpick," when Sally's girlfriend had turned to him for help after she and Sally had fought, he was beaten mercilessly with a golf club.
Andrew Davoli as Dino Zerilli: a childhood friend of Jackie Aprile Jr. and partner in crime and an associate in Ralph Cifaretto's crew. He was a classmate of Jackie Jr. at Rutgers University. It was his idea to extort protection money from a coffee house at Rutgers and rob the Jewel concert being held at the university but is arrested for drug possession and in jail when the robbery was actually pulled. Jackie Jr. and Carlo Renzi he feels that Ralph Cifaretto is holding them back from their full potential. He looks up in admiration to Christopher Moltisanti who was at that point in time a rising figure in the DiMeo crime family. He was involved in Jackie Jr.'s scheme to rob Eugene Pontecorvo's low-stakes card game to gain the respect of the higher level mobsters. They team up with Carlo Renzi, who wields a heavy shotgun. Things do not go their way when Sunshine gets whacked during the robbery, triggering a barrage of gunshots from both sides. This scuffle leaves Carlo dead and Furio wounded. Dino and Jackie Jr. run for the street, but their getaway wheelman, Matush, had fled out of fear after hearing the gunshots. Jackie boosts an oncoming car and quickly speeds out of the area, leaving Dino to face an angry Christopher Moltisanti and Albert Barese. Dino tries to level with them by mentioning he's with Ralph, but that does not help. Chris and Albert promptly shoot Dino in the face, killing him.
Richard Maldone as Albert "Ally Boy" Barese: a paternal cousin of Larry Boy Barese; acting capo of the Barese crew when Larry Boy was in jail; soldier in the Barese crew. Larry is involved in price-fixing and bid rigging of waste hauling contracts in New Jersey and New York. In a discussion with Richie Richie Aprile and Tony, Tony says that all the garbage collection routes north of Paterson, New Jersey belong to Barone Sanitation while Larry Boy Barese and his firm Sani-Cruiser and the D'Allessio brothers divide up the rest. The crew's contest for the routes continued as Albert was briefly involved in a "garbage war" with Ralph Cifaretto who claimed to be a "capo" of his own crew. Larry burned two of Ralph Cifaretto's dumpsters and Ralph torched one of Larry's garbage trucks in West Side, Newark, New Jersey.
Joe Badalucco as James "Little Jimmy" Altieri: a former capo in the DiMeo/Soprano crime family. In the episode "Nobody Knows Anything", Jimmy was arrested for gun charges while running an illegal card game. The FBI found pool tables full of guns. Big Pussy Bonpensiero was also present and arrested but was already working for the feds at this point (Agent Skip Lipari stated he had been with them since 1998, although Tony thinks Pussy "flipped" in 1995). Vin Makazian, Tony's inside detective (who works clandestinely for Tony), informs Tony that Big Pussy Bonpensiero is "wired for sound" (that is, he is an informant). Tony finds this very difficult to believe. Shortly after Jimmy's arrest, he is released. He shows up one night at Tony's home during dinner. He and Tony walk into the basement where Jimmy begins asking Tony a lot of questions, making Tony very suspicious. Tony finds Jimmy's behavior very peculiar and also believes he was released too promptly after his arrest. Tony then begins to suspect that Makazian mistook Jimmy for Pussy as they are similar in appearance. Pussy abruptly disappears after being confronted by Paulie Gualtieri. Earlier in the episode, Vin Makazian, who had chronic depression, had committed suicide by jumping off a bridge, so Tony was not able to confirm whether Vin had confused Jimmy and Pussy. Tony decides to go with his instincts and decides that Jimmy is an informant. At a meeting with other administrators and capos, it is apparent to everyone else Jimmy is acting somewhat odd. As such, Uncle Junior sanctioned a hit on Jimmy and said he wanted a message to be sent. Christopher lured Jimmy to a hotel room in stripper as bait. Once Jimmy was seated in the room, Silvio entered and put a gun to the back of his head. Jimmy realized what was about to happen and went for a gun in his ankle holster, at which point Silvio shot him in the back of his head. Jimmy's body was found in an alley with a rat stuffed in his mouth. Christopher even went so far as to call in a bomb threat to Jimmy's wake, to which Dante replied, "See now, that's over the top." Carlo Gervasi subsequently takes over Jimmy's abandoned crew after Jimmy's death.
Frank John Hughes as Walden Belfiore: a soldier in the Gervasi crew of the DiMeo Crime Family. He reveals he was named after singer Bobby Darin (born Walden Robert Cassotto). Walden was a bodyguard at the safe-house when Tony goes into hiding after the death of Bobby Bacala and the incapacitation of Silvio Dante. In the final episode, Benny Fazio and Belfiore locate Phil Leotardo and Belfiore shoots Phil in the head and chest before making a getaway with Fazio.
Ron Castellano as Terrence "Terry" Doria: a soldier of Carlo Gervasi's crew.
Artie Pasquale as Burt Gervasi: a younger paternal cousin to Carlo Gervasi and uncle to Carlo's sons Jason and Justin Gervasi. Burt was made a formal member of the Soprano crime family in 2006, at the same time as Phil Leotardo's soldier Gerry Torciano was made a capo in the Lupertazzi family. He lives with his wife Lorraine and toy terrier Spencer. He and Patsy Parisi run the North Ward Emergency Merchants Protective Cooperative: an extortion racket hitting storeowners in New Jersey. As revealed in the episode "The Blue Comet," according to Silvio Dante, Burt was eventually swayed to take the side of the Lupertazzi Family and went to Silvio to convince him to go along in a coup d'état, but Silvio instead responded by garroting him to death in his home the next day.
Robert Desiderio as "Black" Jack Massarone: he is the owner of Massarone Brothers Construction in Fairfield, New Jersey. In 2004, Jack had become a federal informant and wore a wire concealed in a baseball cap to several meetings with Tony. In a discussion between Frank Cubitoso and the District Attorney at FBI headquarters, it is said that Massarone is offering information on the stolen airline tickets case involving Livia Soprano in 2002, the jury tampering investigation of Junior Soprano's RICO trial and the Matthew Bevilaqua murder in 2000. But the D.A. tells Cubitoso that even if Massarone and a hundred other snitches were called to testify against Tony Soprano it would not be enough to convict him in trial. Tony realized something off when he was tipped off by Patsy Parisi that one of his meetings with Massarone was staked-out at the "Neapolitan Diner" in Fairfield, New Jersey by the FBI. Raising Tony's suspicions further was the fact that Massarone gave him a framed picture of the Rat Pack at that meeting, and later asked him if he had lost weight. Jack was murdered and found in the trunk of his car with a golf club cover stuffed in his mouth.
Sig Libowitz as Hillel Teittleman: a Hasidic Jew and co-owner of a motel with his brother-in-law Ariel who worked there with his father-in-law. In 1999, his brother-in-law Ariel used his ending marriage to negotiate a share in the Teitlemann's motel. However, Hillel's father Shlomo contracted the Soprano family to intimidate Ariel against Hillel's advice. In 2006 Hillel was involved in Benny Fazio's credit card number scheme – selling card information to Soprano crew associate Murmur.
Taleb Adlah and Donnie Keshawarz as Ahmed and Muhammad: Muslim associates of Christopher Moltisanti from Brooklyn, New York. They are frequent customers at the Bada Bing!. They steal money via the Internet with acquired credit card information from customers of various businesses, as per the scam of Christopher and "Murmur". They later seek help from Christopher in purchasing TEC-9 semi-automatic pistols, which they claim they need "for a family matter". In the episode "Walk Like a Man," Tony passed their names and Ahmed's cell phone number to the FBI. The FBI agents do not recognize them at first, but later tell Tony they may be involved in Terrorism financing. In the series finale "Made in America," Tony passes details of their Mitner First Merchants' Bank to Agent Harris hoping to gain information on Phil Leotardo's location in return.
Nick Tarabay as Matush Giamona: an ecstasy dealer who has had some association with the Soprano/DiMeo business over the years. He was often found in and around the West Long Branch, New Jersey alternative rock Crazy Horse nightclub owned by Adriana LaCerva, and initially, Furio and Chris were hostile to him and threw him off the premises. With the reassurance of Jackie Jr., he returned to dealing outside the club and was put in the hospital by Furio, in traction with his jaw wired shut. Chris did not want Matush dealing inside The Crazy Horse because ecstasy was a class A narcotic and would bring attention of drug task forces and police scrutiny. Matush was later recruited as a driver in Jackie Junior's failed robbery of a card game in 2001. He bolted with the car as soon as the robbery went awry leaving Dino Zerilli to be caught and killed and forcing Jackie Jr. to improvise his own escape. In 2004, Matush had returned to dealing at the Crazy Horse – Adriana's drug habit and Furio's disappearance made the club more welcoming. He murdered an upset customer, named Gilbert Nieves, in Adriana's office, and forced her to help him dispose of the body. Another dealer, Kamal, was also involved. This was recorded by FBI surveillance outside and was instrumental in Adriana's attempt to flip Christopher that resulted in her death.
Gregory Alan Williams as Reverend Herman James Jr.: he is from Newark, New Jersey and his heritage can be traced back to Confederation, when his grandfather was a slave on a plantation. His father was WWII veteran and a United Association plumber and belonged to the same union as the one they were extorting. Herman arranged a secret deal with Tony, assisting in a shakedown of a Massarone Brothers construction and real estate development company: James organized a group of African-American union plumbers to argue about being paid low wages because of perceived racial employment discrimination by Black Jack Massarone at a job site. The Soprano associates Sean Gismonte, Matt Bevilaqua and Bobby Baccalieri Jr. then attacked with baseball bats, adding drama to the protest and causing a riot. James and Soprano then split the earnings. He is a friend of Assemblyman Ronald Zellman.
Richard Portnow as Harold Melvoin: he is Junior Soprano's lawyer from 1999 to 2004. Following Junior's arrest on Federal Racketeering charges, Mel allows him to use his office to conduct business as it is one of the few places he is allowed to visit while under house arrest. He allows Junior and Tony to use his office to meet with Angelo Garepe and Lorraine Calluzzo. It is also one of the places that the FBI is not allowed to wiretap. He conducts Junior's defense throughout his first RICO trial and helps Junior with such schemes as hiring an audio engineer expert witness and sound engineer minimization expert to dispute what is recorded on the tapes from Green Grove Retirement Home, getting him released from house arrest so he can attend several funerals including Jackie Aprile Sr., Jackie Aprile Jr., Bobby Baccalieri Sr., Karen Baccalieri and Febby DeAngelis, exaggerating about a benign malignant growth on Junior's body to get him a compassionate release and pretending that a (presumably) minor head injury from being hit by a boom microphone and falling on the Mitchell H. Cohen United States Courthouse steps in Camden, New Jersey has affected his cognitive ability to stand trial. Hal charges Junior $1,000,000 for his RICO trial. Following his stroke, it is predicted that it will be nine months to a year before he will be able to work a full schedule again and that they will have to postpone Junior's trial. After having a stroke which affects his ability to speak, Melvoin is fired by Junior, who considers his attorney's weakened condition a reminder of his own mortality.
David Margulies as Neil Mink: he is Tony Soprano's lawyer. He advises Tony to stay off the street and distance himself from the day-to-day work of his crew – this contributes to Tony's insulating himself by communicating through closely trusted friends whenever possible. He also advises Tony to spend more time in the legitimate businesses, such Barone Sanitation, instead of Bada Bing. When Janice Soprano attacks another soccer mom at Sophia Baccalieri's soccer game in Essex County, New Jersey at Summit Avenue Park in The Palisades, Janice wants to sue the Essex County Sheriff's Office for wrongful arrest. But Tony demands that Janice see Neil and plea the charges down as to not increase media attention and not make it a cause célèbre. In the final episode, "Made in America", Mink informs Tony that the government most likely will indict him on federal weapons charges stemming from the arrest made in "Soprano Home Movies" at the beginning of the season, and it is strongly implied that he could consequently be facing a prison sentence for Criminal possession of a weapon. He also says that the Essex County Prosecutor's Office has a witness testifying for a grand jury, but whose identity is unknown, although it is believed to be Carlo Gervasi.
Peter Riegert as Ronald Zellman: an Assemblyman (member of the lower house of the state legislature) for the East Ward consisting of Four Corners (Newark), Five Corners, Newark, Gateway Center (Newark) and The Ironbound and acted as a political operative on behalf of the Soprano crime family. He aided them in securing the Esplanade construction contract. Zellman was a friend of the Reverend Herman James Jr. Zellman also helped Tony set up the HUD scam by introducing him to Maurice Tiffen, a friend of Zellman's from his days at the University of Michigan. His influence later allowed A.J. to be released from police custody, with no charges filed, following his failed attempt to kill his great-uncle Junior, in the Wycoff Rehabilitation Clinic in Wyckoff, New Jersey.

Lupertazzi crime family
Patti D'Arbanville as Lorraine Calluzzo: an associate of the Lupertazzi crime family, known as "the lady shylock." During the infighting following boss Carmine Lupertazzi's death in 2004, Lorraine kicked up to Little Carmine, who was also reportedly her lover as well as her second cousin. Phil Leotardo roughed her up and even shot at her (using a telephone directory to stop the bullet) during a shakedown, warning her to stop cutting in Little Carmine. Lorraine sought a sit down with Tony Soprano through Angelo Garepe to ask him to intercede in the Lupertazzi infighting. During a sit down Christopher suggests that John ask for a share of Little Carmine's night club businesses in South Beach, Miami and let him keep Lorraine under his crew, something John turns down saying if he wanted Little Carmine's businesses he'd move to Miami. Tony suggests to keep the peace that John Sacrimoni, Angelo Garepe and Phil Leotardo operate the family under a triumvirate to help keep the peace with Lorraine, because Carmine Sr. did not name a successor. Lorraine and her lover are eventually murdered at her home by Phil, his brother William "Billy" Leotardo and associate Joseph Joseph "Joey Peeps" Peparelli.
Michael DeNigris as Charles "Chucky" Cinelli: he is the owner of Cinelli Sanitation – the Lupertazzi crime family's waste management front in Jamaica, Queens where John Sacramoni works. He was involved in a dispute with Jason Barone over Newark, New Jersey-based Barone Sanitation following the death of Dick Barone in 2006 which ended with his buying the company and merging. While going over the payroll he finds discrepancies with consultant Tony Soprano, Paulie Gualtieri and Johnny Sack, but is told to mind his own business by a savvy employee who is in the know. Cinelli agrees (as dictated to by John Sacrimoni) to keep Tony Soprano employed until 2009 (this is later extended to 2015) as a waste management consultant and to keep his health insurance package and Form W-2, plus 5% (later increased to 12%) of Barone Sanitation sale price, in exchange to give up his share of skimming profits ($2,000 a month), and that Cinelli leases him a new car. A Barone Sanitation employee is badly beaten by mob-associated Cinelli Sanitation workers over the dispute. John Sacrimoni is on the payroll as a waste management consultant at Cinelli Sanitation, even after his incarceration. Jason tries to convince Charles to compensate Tony Soprano and Paulie Gualtieri in the sale of Barone Sanitation, something that Cinelli is adamant against, telling Jason it could come out of his end. Jason tells Chuckie that he wants to redefine the deal and open up the sale to other potential buyers.
Armen Garo as Salvatore "Coco" Cogliano: he is a soldier in the Lupertazzi crime family. While inebriated from drinking Sambuca with Albie Cianflone, he makes aggressively lewd remarks to Meadow Soprano while she is on a date with Patrick Parisi (son of Patsy Parisi) in Little Italy, Manhattan discussing them getting tickets to go see a showing of the 1975 film Grey Gardens. Shortly after the dinner date, Meadow tells Tony of the incident but he brushes it off as public intoxication, Tony Soprano severely pistol-whips and curb-stomps him in his restaurant, knocking his teeth out in the presence of Butch DeConcini. This leads Phil Leotardo to shut down a Hackensack, New Jersey shopping mall construction site with a United Association plumber's strike, of which Carmine Lupertazzi Jr. has the scaffolding contract for. Carmine Jr. says that in attacking Coco he was being prudent. Carmine Jr. brokers a meeting with Butch DeConcini and Phil and offers Phil a palette of Mikita drills as a peace offering over the attack on Coco. Phil mentions the attack on Salvatore, the forced disappearance and murder of Dominick Gamiello in "Cold Stones" and the murder of his brother Billy Leotardo in "Long Term Parking" as a reason to murder the entire upper management of the DiMeo crime family. Butchie says that "Coco" is an okay guy which suggests that he has good standing in the Lupertazzi crime family, but Tony suggests that, possibly, he is a borderline alcoholic. His name could have been taken from former Lucchese crime family underboss and acting boss, Ettore ("Eddie") Coco, who served under Carmine Tramunti.
Dominic Chianese Jr. as Dominic: he is a member of the Lupertazzi crime family.
Frank Fortunato as Jason Evanina: he is a partner of Lorraine Calluzzo. During the infighting following boss Carmine Lupertazzi's death, Lorraine kicked up to Little Carmine. When Lorraine does not comply with Phil Leotardo's orders, Phil returns with Billy Leotardo and Joe Peeps. Jason is killed off-screen, as Lorraine tries to escape, she is killed by Billy not far from where she discovers Jason's dead body.
Tony Cucci as Dominic "Fat Dom" Gamiello: he is a made man of the Lupertazzi crime family under Phil Leotardo. Gamiello joined with Gerry Torciano in murdering Vito in a hotel in Fort Lee, New Jersey because of Vito's homosexuality, while Leotardo watched. He commented to Phil Leotardo that Vito was "a disgrace" to organized crime. He runs a high-stakes card game in Canarsie, Brooklyn. Later, Dom visited Satriale's to deliver money to Silvio Dante and Carlo Gervasi. Although Fat Dom starts passive-aggressively insulting Vito and crudely implies that Gervasi is homosexual, Silvio silenced him with a blow to the back of the head with a dustbuster. Silvio told Carlo to just "hit him" but Carlo repeatedly and fatally stabbed Dominic in the stomach with a butcher knife. Dominic's murder infuriated Tony Soprano and Silvio and Carlo closed Satriale's to dispose of the body. Carlo and Silvio first planned to dismember his body but finally decided to bury it at a construction site and ditch the car somewhere along the U.S. Route 1 in New Jersey. They decapitate Dom's head off screen when dismembering his corpse. Carlo was seen disposing of Dom's severed head (which he was keeping in a deep freezer at his house on the Jersey Shore) at the beginning of the next episode, by shoving it down a storm drain along Connecticut Route 3.
Joe Santos as Angelo Garepe: he is consigliere to Carmine Lupertazzi for 30 years (1956 to 1986) before his incarceration at United States Penitentiary, Leavenworth where he served 18 years. Infighting occurred amongst the members of the Lupertazzi crime family following Carmine's death. Angelo chose Little Carmine's side along with capo Rusty Millio. During the infighting, Angelo recruited his old friend, Tony Blundetto, to murder Joseph "Joey Peeps" Peparelli—an associate of Johnny Sack and member of Phil Leotardo's crew. Following this, Phil and his brother, Billy Leotardo, killed Angelo. Angelo's murder had two major repercussions—it caused Little Carmine to forfeit, making Johnny Sack the undisputed successor to Carmine, Sr. It also provoked Tony Blundetto to pursue the Leotardos, shooting and killing Billy Leotardo while wounding Phil. This nearly started a war between the New York and New Jersey crews, and anger from this conflict remained until the conclusion of The Sopranos.
Lou Martini, Jr. as Anthony Infante: he is Ginny Sacrimoni's brother and Johnny Sack's brother-in-law. Infante is an optometrist, but also serves as a reluctant back-channel through which Tony Soprano and Johnny Sack communicates while Johnny is in federal detention.
Greg D'Agostino as Jimmy Lauria: he is an associate of the Little Italy, Manhattan Leotardo crew. Takes part in the beat down on Hesh's son-in-law Eli in Mill Basin, Brooklyn with Gerry Torciano. Phil thought that Eli was an independent loanshark who was lending out money without making payments to Gerry. Later attends the meeting with Tony, Hesh, Phil Leotardo and Gerry Torciano to make restitution for Hesh's son-in-law's injuries from a hit and run that happened when Eli tried to run from Jimmy and Gerry. They agree to pay $50,000 for pain and suffering.
Chris Caldovino as William "Billy" Leotardo: he was a soldier in Phil Leotardo's Little Italy, Manhattan crew and Phil's younger brother. Billy killed Lorraine Calluzzo and Jason Evanina with his friend Joe Peeps. Following Carmine Lupertazzi's death, a power struggle between Johnny Sack and Little Carmine ensued. One side was led by Carmine's underboss, Johnny Sack, while the other was ostensibly led by Carmine's son and Miami capo, "Little Carmine" Lupertazzi. Joe Peeps was killed soon after and Billy took part in the response – a hit on Angelo Garepe in "The Test Dream". Billy himself was killed in "All Due Respect," by Tony Blundetto in revenge for the death of his friend Angelo, causing lasting distress to his brother Phil, who was wounded in the attack. He is cremated and his urn is kept on a shelf behind the bar of Phil Leotardo's Little Italy social club. 
Joe Maruzzo as Joseph "Joey Peeps" Peparelli: he is an associate in Phil Leotardo's crew and an aide-de-camp to Johnny Sack, often going to high-level sit-downs with him. Joey had contacted an Asian hitman "Jerry from Fort Lauderdale, Florida" that Johnny ordered to kill Ralph in Delray Beach, Florida, and subsequently tells the hitman to call off the murder when Johnny decides against it, agreeing to pay him extra for his trouble. During the infighting amongst the Lupertazzi crime family, Joey and Billy Leotardo kill lady shylock Lorraine Calluzzo, and her partner Jason Evanina, for kicking payments up to Little Carmine instead of to Johnny Sack. In retaliation, Soprano family member Tony Blundetto is hired for a hit on Joey, who is shot to death along with a prostitute in the front seat of his Lincoln Town Car when leaving a Manhattan brothel that he collects protection money from. At Joey's funeral, Tony Soprano is aghast that his crew had a formal headstone carved with the name "Peeps," instead of his proper surname "Peparelli."
Vinny Vella as James "Jimmy" Petrille: he is a friend of Johnny Sack's from Brooklyn who became his consigliere once Johnny took over as boss of the family. When Billy Leotardo is shot dead by Tony Blundetto, Jimmy is the one that calls Tony Soprano and tells him. Later, he sits in on one of the discussions with Tony and Phil over the Tony Blundetto situation and tells Phil that he gets emotional when he drinks wine. He is also the one that notifies Tony Soprano by telephone from a deli in Little Italy, Manhattan in code that John Sacrimoni took over the reign of the family from Carmine Lupertazzi Jr. in a bloodless coup. However, it is revealed in "All Due Respect" that Petrille had been a cooperating witness with the FBI and gave up information on transport truck hijacking and drug dealing going back to Sacrimoni's criminal activities in 1981, which was instrumental in Johnny's arrest by the Brooklyn District Attorney and the FBI.
Nick Annunziata as Eddie Pietro: he is a soldier in Rusty Millio's crew and his right-hand man. Eddie was shot in the head multiple times alongside Rusty by Italo and Salvatore while backing out of Rusty's driveway.
Daniel P. Conte as Faustino "Doc" Santoro: he is an aging Mustache Pete in the Lupertazzi crime family. Santoro ordered a hit on Gerry Torciano. Torciano was the perceived successor to Phil Leotardo. Doc had him brazenly murdered while he ate dinner with Silvio Dante. Phil avenges his long-felt humiliations and has Doc murdered, along with his bodyguard, outside a massage parlour and brothel in Chinatown, Manhattan, cementing his own claim to be the boss. One of the gunmen shoots out Santoro's right eye. Butch DeConcini is one of the getaway drivers. Tony Soprano and the crew learn of Santoro's murder from watching a televised news report at the Bada Bing.
John Bianco as Gerardo "Gerry" Torciano: he was a protégé of Phil Leotardo. Torciano and Jimmy Lauria got into an altercation with Hesh Rabkin and his son-in-law Eli over extortion money collections being done on the crew's territory in Mill Basin, Brooklyn. Torciano's men burned them out of his car, beat up Eli, and slugged Rabkin. As Eli fled he was hit by a taxi cab in a hit and run and hospitalized. Later, Torciano apologized to Tony, claiming that he thought Eli was a civilian and paid Eli $50,000 in restitution for his injuries. He was made official captain in 2006. Dominick "Fat Dom" Gamiello and Torciano murdered Vito Spatafore in his motel room while Leotardo watched. When Santoro took over from Sacrimoni, Gerry told Silvio Dante that he was surprised that Phil Leotardo seemed to have lost his drive to become boss of the Lupertazzi family. On April 15, 2007, Gerry died at the hands of a hitman (on orders from Faustino "Doc" Santoro) in a Brooklyn, New York restaurant while dining with Soprano family consigliere Silvio Dante who was used as a diversion and their respective dates. John Sacrimoni hears about Gerry's death from an orderly in the prison hospital.

FBI agents
Frank Pellegrino as Frank Cubitoso: FBI chief of Newark FBI Organized Crime Division Task Force with offices in 11 Center Place Newark, New Jersey who is constantly looking for new insight on the ongoing Soprano/DiMeo case. It was his idea to bug Green Grove Retirement Community when Tony Soprano, Jimmy Altieri and Larry Boy Barese move in their mothers, despite other agents' skepticism. He successfully coordinates a mission to put the Soprano residence under surveillance by the use of an old lamp in their basement. The operation ends when Meadow takes the old lamp to college. He later pressures Adriana La Cerva into wearing a wire, which leads to her confession and eventual death. When Agent Sanseverino worries after Adriana disappears, Cubitoso decides it is time to move on.
Michael Kelly as Ron Goddard: he is Agent Harris' new partner in 2006 in the Joint Terrorism Task Force and was stationed in Islamabad, Pakistan. Along with Harris, he approached Tony at his home, requesting that Tony inform them should he come across any terror-related information in his line of work with his connections at the Port of New York and New Jersey.
Frank Pando as Frank Grasso: he is an FBI agent who was with the Newark FBI Organized Crime Division Task Force with an office in 11 Center Place Newark, New Jersey. He handled mob capo and informant Raymond Curto who was planning to have him testify as a cooperating witness against Tony Soprano and Ralph Cifaretto among others. During a raid on the North Caldwell, New Jersey Soprano residence, Grasso broke a bowl from the kitchen refrigerator. Immediately after, he and Tony developed a grudge when Tony noted his last name and insulted him in Italian. He is an homage to famous New York City Detective Sonny Grosso who helped reveal the French Connection. Tony says that if it weren't for Grasso's last name they'd have him sweeping up at the office, and implies that the other FBI agents probably search him before he leaves work to go home every day. Tony thinks that Grasso is arresting "his own people", fellow Italian-Americans, to get promoted.
Louis Lombardi as Skip Lipari: he is an FBI agent who handled Salvatore Big Pussy Bonpensiero. When Sal begins to confide more and more to Skip as a friend, Skip tries to tell him that he is not his friend and he is there to help the federal government. Pussy tells Skip that he lost all respect in Tony when Tony sent him out to look for AJ's science teacher Mr. Miller's Saturn that had been stolen. During a meeting at a party store, Sal coincidentally is seen by mob associate Jimmy Bones and introduces Skip as "Joe from Dover, Delaware" without much success in holding up the story. This later leads to Bonpensiero murdering Jimmy to cover up his connection with the FBI. Sal tries to trap Christopher in a RICO predicate with Tony by offering to get his girlfriend a BMW M3 convertible and give the information to the FBI. Sal fails to follow Moltisanti to a hijacking job Sal when he hits a bicyclist.
Karen Young as Robyn Sanseverino: she is an FBI agent who handled Adriana La Cerva after she became very resentful against Agent Ciccerone. She also handled capo Raymond Curto just before his death from natural causes. Adriana blames her ulcerative colitis on the pressure being placed on her to be a cooperating witness by Robyn and the FBI. She hints to Adriana that Richie Aprile and Pussy Bonpensiero are dead and not in the Witness Protection Program, despite what Tony Soprano and the others say.
Lola Glaudini as Deborah Ciccerone-Waldrup: she is a special agent who went undercover as "Danielle Ciccolella from Whippany, New Jersey" to befriend Adriana and to find out information about Christopher Moltisanti's relationship with Tony Soprano. She is married to FBI Special Agent Mike Waldrup and has a child with him. She poses as a wealthy woman interested in the gangster world and initially makes contact with Adriana in a Nutley, New Jersey shopping mall. Her usefulness as an undercover agent ended after Christopher tried to seduce her, causing Adriana to break off their friendship. However, Deborah continued to work on the Soprano task force. She meets Adriana at a bakery in East Hanover Township, New Jersey after her Danielle identity is dropped. Tony later asked Adriana about her friend Danielle, and she awkwardly tells him that she drowned, hence her disappearance. In the episode "Long Term Parking," Adriana finally tells Christopher about Danielle's true identity, after revealing her own involvement with the FBI to him.

Friends and family
Kimberly and Brianna Laughlin, Avery Elaine and Emily Ruth Pulcher as Domenica "Nica" Baccalieri: she is the daughter of Janice and Bobby Baccalieri.
Barbara Andres and Rae Allen as Quintina Pollio Blundetto: she is Livia's younger sister and had been married to Al Blundetto, a widow, and the mother of Tony Blundetto.
Matthew Del Negro as Brian Cammarata: he is Carmela's cousin and a financial advisor.
Nicole Burdette, Danielle Di Vecchio as Barbara Soprano Giglione: she is the youngest child of Johnny and Livia Soprano, and sister of Tony and Janice.
Ed Vassallo as Thomas "Tom" Giglione Sr.: he is Barbara's husband and Tony and Janice's brother-in-law.
Harpo "Hal" is an unseen character: he is the estranged Italian American-French Canadian, Quebec French speaking son of Janice Soprano born in Seattle, Washington. Janice said he was named after the song "Harpo's Blues" by Phoebe Snow (as opposed to Harpo Marx). His father, a French-Canadian from Quebec named Eugene, took him back to Montreal and Janice states that she tried to petition the State Department to have him returned to her. He did not see much of his mother Janice. While married to Eugene and living in Seattle, one of their neighbors killed themselves over depression. Janice tried to send Harpo to military school in New Brunswick, New Jersey, the same one that Tony tries to send AJ to, but Tony says that "Janice was too late for him." Janice never told Bobby the Third or Sophia Baccalieri about their step-brother until Tony brought it up during a family dinner. In the episode "Proshai, Livushka," Janice mentions that Harpo had become homeless when Tony proposes flying him in for Livia's funeral. In season 5, she says she mentioned Harpo to Bobby once, but that the topic of him is never brought up in the family again. She tells Tony that he now goes by "Hal" instead of "Harpo."
Nancy Cassaro (one episode, 2000) and Marianne Leone Cooper (2002–2007) as Joanne Blundetto Moltisanti: she is the widow of Richard "Dickie" Moltisanti and the mother of Christopher Moltisanti.
Ariel Kiley as Tracee: she is a 19-year-old stripper who worked at the Bada Bing. She had a son Daniel, who was taken by Child Protective Services after she burnt him with cigarettes. She later began a relationship with Ralph Cifaretto and got pregnant with his child. She contemplated having an abortion. Tracee later met Ralph at the Bada Bing lounge, where she insulted him in front of the other associates and capos. Ralph followed her out to the deserted parking lot, where he teased her into thinking he would actually marry and support her. He then abruptly changed his tone and gleefully made snide remarks that her daughter would end up as a "cocksucking slob" just like her. Outraged, Tracee slapped him and insulted his masculinity, which led to Ralph brutally beating her to death. An enraged Tony assaulted Ralph due to his "disrespect of the Bing".
Oksana Lada and Siberia Federico (Pilot only) as Irina Peltsin: she is Tony's 24-year-old Russian mistress during the first two seasons. Tony broke up with Irina in season 2 because she wanted him to commit to a relationship. Irina then attempted suicide but was found by her cousin, Svetlana. As a sign of friendship and apologies, Tony sent Silvio to tell her to move on with her life and present her with a one-time payoff of $75,000. In Season 4, when Assemblyman Ronald Zellman tells Tony that he has been dating Irina for quite some time, and Tony does not seem to care. However, Tony later gets jealous and humiliates Zellman in front of Irina by whipping him with a belt. Svetlana later tells Tony the couple had broken up because after the emasculating attack, Zellman "could not perform." When Uncle Junior's nurse Branca, who works for Svetlana, walks in on Tony and Svetlana just after they had sex, she later tells Irina. Irina calls Tony's house, and then tells Carmela that she is Tony's ex-mistress and informs Carmela of Tony's tryst with Svetlana. Carmela warns Irina never to call the house again, but the call prompts Carmela's violent confrontation of Tony and their marital separation.
Alla Kliouka Schaffer as Svetlana Kirilenko: she is a cousin of Tony's ex-mistress, Irina, and is manager of a home health/nursing business. During her childhood, Svetlana developed an osteosarcoma in her leg, which had to be amputated soon afterward. Svetlana first appearance is after Tony's breakup with Irina; Svetlana contacts Tony after Irina's suicide attempt. Shortly thereafter she appears as the last in a series of home health nurses the Sopranos hire to care for Livia Soprano, after her primary caregiver and daughter, Janice, suddenly flees town in the aftermath of Richie Aprile's death. After Livia dies, Tony allows Svetlana to continue living in Livia's house, until she can find her own place to live. She later works as a temporary replacement for Uncle Junior's nurse, Branca (who works for her), after he falls at the courthouse. One afternoon while Uncle Junior is asleep, Tony has sex with Svetlana on Junior's sofa. Irina soon finds out about this and informs Carmela about the affair, prompting Carmela's violent confrontation of Tony and their ultimate separation.
Leslie Bega as Valentina La Paz: she was Tony's mistress during seasons 4 and 5. She is of Cuban and Italian descent. She was originally Ralph Cifaretto's girlfriend but was drawn to Tony after they met at Hesh's horse stable. The following day, Tony and Valentina have sex in a hotel room. Subsequently, after not being able to bear any more of Ralph's masochistic inclinations, she breaks up with Ralph and begins dating Tony exclusively, which Tony later reveals to Ralph. As Ralph is rather preoccupied at that time with his son Justin's severe medical condition, he shrugs it off and is seemingly indifferent about it. In the Season Five episode "The Test Dream", after she pushes Tony to make a decision about staying with his wife or being committed to her, her robe catches fire while trying to cook for Tony. Tony quickly extinguishes the fire, but Valentina sustains second degree burns on her scalp. Although it is soon discovered that Valentina will fully heal from the wounds without the need for skin grafts or any scarring, Tony breaks the news to her that he is going back to Carmela. He tells her that he will pay for the doctor's bills and also pay for a wig for her to wear until her hair grows back.
Julianna Margulies as Julianna Skiff: she was a realtor working for Century 21 and trying to purchase a building owned by Tony, Caputo's Poultry, around the corner from Satriale's, for $330,000. It is a poultry hatchery that the prospective buyers want to turn into a Jamba Juice. She was persistent in pursuing the deal, contacting Tony at Satriale's and the Bada Bing and over the phone. At the Bada Bing, Tony seduced Julianna but she told him she was going to exercise self-control and decline because she was engaged. Despite Tony's initial misgivings, her third offer was high enough for him to accept the deal. Tony met her at her home to sign the papers, and they started kissing and began to undress one another, but Tony abruptly ends the encounter and walks out. Following her rejection by Tony, Julianna went to an AA meeting. There she met Christopher Moltisanti who was also in attendance and who remembered her from when she first approached Tony at Satriale's. He introduced himself after the meeting and invited her for coffee, which prompted the beginning of an extramarital affair. Tony reinitiated his pursuit of Julianna when they met to close the Caputo's Poultry real estate deal and she was initially polite in declining any further contact with him. Ignoring warnings from both of their sponsors that Christopher and Julianna's relationship would be enabling for the two recovering addicts, they began smoking heroin together.
David Strathairn as Robert Wegler: he is AJ's guidance counselor who had a sexual relationship with Carmela Soprano while she was separated from her husband Tony. Carmela discussed AJ's ADHD with Robert. Wegler later ends the relationship after he feels that Carmela was sexually manipulating him to improve AJ's college prospects by getting his English teacher to give him a higher grade.
Turk Pipkin as Aaron Arkaway: is a singer, songwriter and keyboardist boyfriend of Janice Soprano in 2001. Aaron was devout evangelical Christian.
Robert LuPone as Dr. Bruce Cusamano: he is Tony Soprano's neighbor and family physician in North Caldwell, New Jersey. He once invited Tony to play golf with him and some friends but Tony was annoyed that they only seemed interested in his mafia stories and if he ever met John Gotti, head of the Gambino crime family. Tony later pranked Bruce by asking him to hold onto a package filled with sand for him, for an unspecified length of time, without telling Bruce what was in it. Bruce and his wife were tempted to open the package but terrified to know what it held. Heroin or a gun were their guesses.
Saundra Santiago as Jeannie Cusamano: she is Dr. Cusamano's wife who is a stay-at-home mom in North Caldwell, New Jersey. She is a neighbor of Carmela, but embarrassed and intimidated by the Soprano family's mafia connections. In "I Dream of Jeannie Cusamano", Tony told Dr. Melfi he had fantasized about Jeannie during a dream. She helps get Carmela's daughter Meadow a recommendation letter for her Georgetown application through her identical twin sister, Joan, who works at the institution. Joan is also played by Saundra Santiago.
Robert Patrick as David Scatino: he is a childhood friend of Tony Soprano and Artie Bucco. He owns the local sporting goods store (Ramsey Sports and Outdoors) that is a registered business under his wife's name and his son, Eric, was a good friend of Meadow. Reluctantly, Tony allowed David to participate in a high-stakes poker game with full knowledge that he did not have the financial assets or poker savvy to win or break even. David quickly became heavily indebted to Tony. Tony took over his business and took David's son's car as a down payment. The car was given to Meadow, but she quickly rejected it when she realized it once belonged to her friend. Having lost his life savings, his business (a lien is put on it and he is later believed to be charged with fraud), his son's college fund to Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., the respect of his family, and his wife (who divorced him), he decided to move out west to work on a ranch grazing livestock near Las Vegas.
Angelo Massagli as Robert "Bobby" Baccalieri III: he is the son of Bobby Bacala and Karen Baccalieri, brother of Sophia Baccalieri.
Lexie Sperduto (2002) and Miryam Coppersmith (2004–2007) as Sophia Baccalieri: she is the daughter of Bobby and Karen Baccalieri, sister of Bobby Baccalieri III.
Dennis Aloia (Justin) Kevin Aloia (Jason) as Jason & Justin Blundetto: are Tony Blundetto's identical twin sons he had with Nancy.
Dane Curley as Justin Cifaretto: he is the son of Ralph Cifaretto. He is impaled with a bow and arrow while playing with a friend. Ralph became very distraught over his son's serious injury. It is implied that Ralph had arranged to have the stables which held his and Tony's prized racehorse Pie-O-My, set ablaze to receive insurance money to pay for his son's hospital bills, although Ralph denies this when Tony confronts him. Justin does not fully recover from the hospital before his father's murder and subsequent disappearance. When Tony visits Ralph after the stable fire though, Ralph mentions that only Justin's speech will be affected and that he will have to learn how to talk again.
Joseph Perrino as Jason Gervasi: he is the son of Soprano capo Carlo Gervasi. He is in a fraternity and is seen in the second half of season 6 participating in a sports gambling ring at Rutgers University, along with Patsy Parisi's youngest son, also named Jason. In the series finale, Jason is arrested for selling ecstasy, forcing his father to turn against Tony Soprano and cut a deal with the FBI.
Frances Ensemplare as Marianucci "Nucci" Gualtieri: she is introduced as Paulie Gualtieri's elderly mother who is very nervous and protective of her son. She has two sisters, Dorothy (Dottie) and Mary. When Paulie was younger, Nucci was always there to bail him out of jail. Paulie put Nucci in the Green Grove retirement home in Verona, New Jersey. Unlike Tony's mother though, Nucci was grateful for Paulie for doing this for her. However, her old friends, Cookie Cirillo and Minn Matrone were far from friendly and tried to exclude her from social activities. To avenge his mother's honor, Paulie sent Benny and her grandson Little Paulie to badly beat Cookie's son, after which the two were forced to include her. Paulie later murdered Minn Matrone for her money. Paulie learns from his aunt Dottie's deathbed, who is a nun, that she is his biological mother and that Nucci adopted him to hide the scandal. When Paulie hears this, he cuts off all contact with both of them, refusing to attend Dottie's funeral or pay for Nucci's accommodation at Green Grove. Later, Paulie visited her at Green Grove (now paid for by her biological son) and they had a silent reconciliation. In episode "Kennedy and Heidi," she died on a chartered bus of a stroke while returning from a production of The Jersey Boys, however her funeral was poorly attended, as a majority of the people went to Christopher Moltisanti's concurrent funeral, much to Paulie's ire as he felt Christopher always out-shined him in life, and even manages it in death.
Michele Santopietro as JoJo Palmice: she was the wife of Mikey Palmice.
Anna Mancini (and Donna Pescow in "Made in America") as Donna Parisi: she is married to longtime Soprano soldier Pasquale "Patsy" Parisi and sister-in-law to Phillip Parisi.
Michael Drayer as Jason Parisi: he is the younger son of Donna and Patsy Parisi and nephew of Phillip "Philly Spoons" Parisi. He is seen in the second half of Season 6, participating in an elusive professional sportsbook gambling ring and extorting an on-campus coffee house for protection money at Rutgers University, along with Carlo Gervasi's son, also named Jason. In "Made in America" it is said that Jason is arrested for selling ecstasy.
Suzanne DiDonna as Deanna Pontecorvo: she is the wife of Eugene Pontecorvo who pushes for a move to Florida, but when the move is not granted by Tony Soprano, Eugene kills himself.
Elizabeth Bracco as Marie Spatafore: she is married to Vito Spatafore and mother of their two children, Vito Jr. and Francesca, who live in Belleville, New Jersey. Marie is loyal to her husband even after his homosexuality is discovered. When Vito was killed, Marie, now widowed, was distraught again, insisting to Phil that Vito was a good father and a good man. After the murder of his father for his homosexuality, Vito became increasingly isolated and hostile, and started to dress and hang around with kids in the Gothic subculture. Both Tony and Phil sat down with Vito trying to set him straight, but he continued to act out. He is forced into a boot camp for delinquents in Boise County, Idaho by his mother at a suggestion from Tony Soprano.
Paulina Gerzon as Francesca Spatafore: she is the daughter of Vito Spatafore and Marie Spatafore and the younger sister of Vito Spatafore Jr.
Frank Borrelli, Brandan Hannan as Vito Spatafore Jr.: he is the son of Vito Spatafore and Marie Spatafore and the older brother of Francesca Spatafore. After the murder of his father for his homosexuality, Vito became increasingly isolated and hostile, and started to dress and hang around with kids in the Gothic subculture. Both Tony and Phil sat down with Vito trying to set him straight, but he continued to act out. He is forced into a boot camp for delinquents in Boise County, Idaho by his mother at a suggestion from Tony Soprano.
John Costelloe as Jim "Johnny Cakes" Witowski: he was Vito Spatafore's gay lover, who works as a volunteer fireman and as a short order cook at a diner in New Hampshire. Vito met Jim at the diner he worked at in New Hampshire while on the run after his crew discovered his homosexuality. Vito introduces himself initially as a sportswriter named Vincent from Scottsdale, Arizona and that he's been divorced for a few years. He also had attempted to live a heterosexual lifestyle and fathered one daughter with his wife. Vito and Jim soon form an attraction, though the two got into a fistfight outside a bar when Jim tried to kiss Vito and, still in denial about his homosexuality, Vito violently rebuffed him. The two soon reconcile after Vito decides to "stop living a lie" and became Jim's live-in lover. The pair enjoyed romantic dinners, motorcycle rides, and picnicking lakeside. He gets Vito a job as a contractor working for some of his friends, a job which turns out to be very slow-paced. Ultimately, Vito missed his family and fast-paced lifestyle back in New Jersey too much to stay with Jim. Vito left Jim's house early one morning to return to New Jersey while Jim was still asleep. Vito would later call Jim, but Jim was still angry over the way Vito had left and wanted nothing more to do with him. Vito was violently murdered soon thereafter.
Geraldine LiBrandi as Patty Leotardo: she is married to Lupertazzi crime family acting boss Phil Leotardo. Patty was a factor in Phil's decision to kill Vito Spatafore after they discovered he was homosexual, telling Phil that Vito had to be made to face his "sin." While on the run, Patty was in the driver's seat when Phil was shot dead outside their car at a gas station in the series finale. After he's shot, she rushes out the door with car still in drive, and the doors locked, resulting in Phil's head being run over by the car.
Denise Borino as Ginny "Ginny Sack" Sacrimoni: she is married to John "Johnny Sack" Sacrimoni and the mother of Catherine and Allegra Marie Sacrimoni. She is obese, but John loves her as she is, describing her as "Rubenesque". Johnny Sack mentions that Ginny has worked very hard on trying to lose her weight. Ginny's figure is the subject of numerous jokes by members of the DiMeo crime family, and this leads to a dispute between her husband and Ralph Cifaretto. Johnny is willing to kill to defend her honor and viciously attacks a member of Ralph's crew, who Johnny mistakenly believes was telling jokes at Ginny's expense. Ginny attended her daughter Allegra's wedding and was ecstatic when Johnny was allowed to attend, despite being in prison awaiting trial. Her day ended on a low note when US Marshals blocked her daughter's departure and dragged her sobbing husband off in handcuffs causing Ginny to faint. Ginny was in court when Johnny admitted his involvement with the Mafia and received a 15-year sentence for racketeering. John and his lawyer make a plea agreement for his vintage Wurlitzer juke box, $180,000 in a safety deposit box under her father-in-law's name in Boca Raton, Florida, cash and investment portfolios with The Vanguard Group and Fidelity Investments, his 401(k) and severance package from Essany Scaffolding, $450,000 condominium in Deal, New Jersey, his Maserati Coupe, Ginny's GMC Yukon, John's net worth totaling $5 million and his house and contents valued at $1.2 million and fifteen-years in exchange for John's allocution. This is later reduced to their North Caldwell, New Jersey home, $45,000 in equity from his daughters' variable universal life insurance policies, and Ginny's individual retirement account that she started when she worked the tie sales counter at Wanamaker's worth close to $110,000 to which Ron encourages John to take. She was forced to move when John arranged the sale of their home to Janice Soprano as part of an agreement with Tony to try to secure capital, for his family, following the asset seizures by the US Marshals and Treasury Department that came with his conviction. Ginny visited her husband John in prison when he was diagnosed with cancer, and was at his side with their two daughters when he died. Denise Borino, who portrayed Sacrimoni, received the part in a 2000 open casting call.
Caitlin Van Zandt as Allegra Marie Sacrimoni: she is the daughter of Johnny and Ginny Sack and sister to Catherine Sacrimoni. Johnny paid for her lavish wedding to Eric DeBenedetto while Johnny was in prison awaiting trial. Johnny was released to attend the wedding and Allegra was ecstatic that her father would be in attendance, but the judge's conditions meant that Allegra had to put up with metal detectors and US Marshals at the ceremony and reception. Her reception ended on a low-note with her departing limousine being blocked in by the Marshals' SUV's, her father breaking down in tears as he was forcibly led away in handcuffs, and her mother fainting in the crowd. Allegra was at her father's side, along with her mother and older sister, when he died of lung cancer in a prison hospital.
Cristin Milioti as Catherine Sacrimoni: she is the daughter of Johnny and Ginny Sack and sister to Allegra Sacrimoni.
Will Janowitz as Finn DeTrolio: he is Meadow Soprano's boyfriend and later fiancé. The two met at Columbia University and began sharing an apartment together in her sophomore year. He is originally from Mission Viejo, California and is of half-Italian descent. Upon finishing college, Finn enrolled in dental school. For a brief period, Finn worked at a construction site run by the Aprile crew, a job with the Laborers' International Union of North America that Tony Soprano got for him. One morning, he arrived very early to work, and saw Vito Spatafore fellating a security guard in a parked vehicle. Finn talked to Meadow about what he saw but she promised to keep his confidence. After Vito tried to intimidate Finn into attending a San Diego Padres and New York Yankees game with him, Finn panicked and decided to leave town before Vito came after him. Meadow was saddened and angered when Finn packed a suitcase without telling her or inviting her to accompany him and they argued. During the argument and when Meadow talked about a commitment, they decided to get engaged. When Vito was spotted in a gay bar by two New York crew members making a collection, Meadow revealed Finn's secret to her mother and Rosalie Aprile. A visibly frightened Finn was brought to Satriale's to give his account of what he saw and his subsequent encounter with Vito to the senior members of the Soprano crime family. Meadow and Finn later broke up.
Ari Graynor as Caitlin Rucker: she is Meadow Soprano's roommate at Columbia University. Caitlin hails from Bartlesville, Oklahoma, but left home for New York City to attend university. She has manic-depressive disorder and frequently annoyed Meadow and the dormitory Resident Assistant and Meadow's boyfriend, Noah Tannenbaum, with her troubles. In "Mr. Ruggiero's Neighborhood" she tells Meadow that she's stopped drinking and that the school doctor gave her a prescription for Buspirone, which Hunter comments is given to treat generalized anxiety disorder.
Michele DeCesare (daughter of series creator, David Chase) as Hunter Scangarelo: she is a friend of Meadow Soprano. She sang with Meadow in the school choir and the two hounded Chris to buy the crystal meth to help them study, instead of going to Jefferson Avenue in Jersey City, New Jersey. She had a crush on Brendan Filone shortly before his death. In the final episode of the series, Carmela finds her talking to Meadow in Meadow's bedroom and casually mentions Hunter's expulsion from college years earlier. Carmela is then quietly dismayed to learn that Hunter sorted her life out, went back to college at SUNY Purchase, and is now in medical school.
Patrick Tully as Noah Tannenbaum: he is Meadow Soprano's first boyfriend at Columbia University; they met during a film course. Noah is from West Los Angeles. His father, an entertainment attorney for various celebrities and Hollywood notables, is Ashkenazic Jewish and his mother is African American. Noah first appears visiting the Soprano home with Meadow to view a movie for a class project. Being a film buff, Noah thought he had common ground with Tony when he observed video equipment at the Soprano residence. Noticing that Noah was pursuing Meadow, Tony asked Noah some questions about his ethnic background. Upon confirmation of Noah's African American heritage, Tony attempted to intimidate Noah into staying away from Meadow, hurling racial slurs. Following this heated discussion Noah leaves the house in a huff. This started a lengthy feud between Tony and Meadow which ultimately drove Noah and Meadow closer together. After a visit from his father, Noah broke up with Meadow, saying she is "too negative."
Emily Wickersham as Rhiannon Flammer: she met A.J. in a Psychiatric hospital while recovering from his suicide attempt. They hang out together and, when they begin to have intercourse in the woods in A.J.'s Nissan Xterra, the vehicle's catalytic converter overheats causing a vehicle fire and sets fire to the dry leaves below it and A.J. and Rhiannon scramble out safely; the truck explodes soon afterward.
Mark Karafin as Egon Kosma: he is a friend of A.J.
Vincent Piazza as Hernan O'Brien: he is a friend of A.J.
Jessica Dunphy as Devin Pillsbury: she is A.J.'s girlfriend in seasons four and five. Devin is from an even wealthier family than A.J. and this causes a little friction between them when he first learns this.
Dania Ramirez as Blanca Selgado: she is A.J. Soprano's Dominican 30-year-old girlfriend, whom he met while working at the construction site. Blanca has a 3-year-old son named Hector from a previous marriage and lives in an apartment building in South Passaic. Blanca lives in a neighborhood that had been disturbed by a youth gang, which A.J. steps up to deal with. He convinces the gang members to move on by bribing them with a bicycle. A.J. eventually proposes marriage to Blanca and she accepts, but later changes her mind and ends the relationship, sending A.J. into an emotional downward spiral that lasts for several episodes.
Cameron Boyd as Matt Testa: he is a friend of A.J.
Tim Daly as J.T. Dolan: he is a screenwriter and an acquaintance of Christopher Moltisanti from rehab in Hazlet, New Jersey. He became addicted to heroin, cocaine and alcohol and later lost his job after not completing a script for Nash Bridges. He later went to a rehabilitation clinic in Pennsylvania (where he first met Christopher) and was successful in turning his life around. J.T. dabbles in gambling and places horse bets with Christopher and finds a fondness for high-price poker games. J.T. borrows money from Christopher to play high-stakes poker and their friendship is effectively ended when he fails to pay it back on time. Little Paulie Germani and Chris beat J.T. up in his home and confiscate his BMW as a partial payment for his debts. Despite the beating, Chris later resumes their "friendship" when the debt has caused J.T. to relapse. As J.T. Dolan is enrolling in rehab again, Chris freezes the debt and assures J.T. that he will return to prosperous screenwriting. Later, as J.T was working in Los Angeles, California as a full-time professor of a writer's class "The Writer's Block", Chris has J.T. forcibly abducted by "Murmur" and Benny Fazio and offers to clear the gambling debt if J.T. writes a screenplay for his feature movie project. He also gets a meeting with René Balcer. J.T. agrees and writes the script for Cleaver, a slasher horror film, from a story by Christopher, working on the film closely with Moltisanti and Carmine Lupertazzi Jr. who is its co-executive producer. However, when the film gets made in 2007, at its premiere, Christopher does not acknowledge Dolan's contributions to it when talking to the audience, leaving him embarrassed in front of his female companions. When Christopher relapsed again in 2007, after his latest feud with Paulie Gualtieri and assumed ridicule and disrespect by the crime family, he attempted to find comfort by talking to J.T. one night. J.T. was cold and unreceptive, angry at his unannounced intrusion and under pressure to finish a script deadline for Law & Order SVU. Heavily drunk, Christopher said that he had seen and done terrible things and started hinting his knowledge of mob crimes. J.T. angrily tried to get Christopher to stop talking about them, suggesting that he did not want to know. J.T. exclaimed "Chris, you're in the Mafia!", Christopher walked away, then turned and shot him in the head, killing him instantly.
Patty McCormack as Liz La Cerva: she is the mother of Adriana La Cerva and the sister of Jackie Aprile Sr. and Richie Aprile and sister-in-law to Rosalie Aprile. Liz did not support Adriana's relationship with Christopher Moltisanti and Adriana often stayed with her. Following arguments or domestic violence. When Chris proposes to Ade in front of Liz, she explains Chris' behavior as abusive power and control. Following her disappearance in 2004, Liz was visited by the FBI who informed her that her daughter was believed to be dead and that they suspected Chris' involvement. When Carmela Soprano encountered her at the 2006 Feast of St. Elzear, Liz, having become convinced of her daughter's murder, showed evident signs of depression. She later attempted suicide. Carmela visited her in the hospital, but Liz appeared to be unconscious at the time.
Lewis J. Stadlen and John Pleshette as Dr. Ira Fried: he is a player in the Soprano family's executive game – a high-stakes poker tournament. He is a urologist who specializes in treating erectile dysfunction with penile implants. In 2002 Dr. Fried acted as the initial property buyer in Tony's HUD scam buying $500,000 worth of property with Soprano family money to buy several homes on Garside Street in Mount Pleasant, Newark, New Jersey and on Frelinghuysen Ave in Weequahic, Newark for $25,000 each which would then be falsely appraised at $200,000. He would then sell the properties on to Maurice Tiffen who would claim the project a financial failure and the loan would be approved through Maurice's organization. In 2004, Fried and numerous others were the victims of a large-scale car robbery at his daughter's wedding in Ringwood, New Jersey and sold them to a chop shop in Newburg, New York that worked with Johnny Sack instead of using Tony's connections in Brookdale, New Jersey. He reached out to Tony about the theft. It turned out that Feech La Manna had organized the car theft scheme.
Peter Bogdanovich as Dr. Elliot Kupferberg: he is Dr. Jennifer Melfi's psychiatrist who also used to be her teacher. Elliot tries to convince her numerous times to refer Tony to another colleague. Vin Makazian reveals to Tony when he is asked to put surveillance on her that she sees her own psychiatrist, Kupferberg, which surprises Tony. In the episode "Employee of the Month," Elliot also counsels Melfi following her rape, while she inadvertently reveals to Kupferberg that the patient she is treating is Tony Soprano. Elliot once unknowingly encountered Tony Soprano in the parking garage at Columbia University, while both were visiting their daughters. In 2007, following Tony's shooting by Junior and the rise of his media profile, Melfi accuses Elliot of directing their therapy towards discussing "Patient Soprano" because of his desire for gossip and continuous shows of interest. In the episode "The Second Coming," he tells Melfi of a study that concludes talk therapy enables sociopaths. In the episode "The Blue Comet," he further presses Melfi about Soprano at a dinner party, where he reveals to guests that Soprano is Melfi's patient, to her embarrassment, a serious breach of doctor-patient confidentiality, although he dismisses her protests casually, saying everyone at the table is a professional. Melfi is upset, but nevertheless later reads the study herself, which leads her to finally drop Tony Soprano as a patient at their next session.
Matthew Sussman as Dr. Douglas Schreck: he is Junior Soprano's cardiologist at Saint Barnabas Medical Center in Livingston, New Jersey, who allowed Junior to use his office to conduct meetings while under the pretense of coming in for medical appointments due to the physician-patient privilege clause that denies the FBI and authorities to listening in on their conversations, meeting with associates including Tony and Richie Aprile.
Michael Countryman as Dr. Richard Vogel: he is a psychotherapist whom A.J.'s pediatrician recommends to Carmela for therapy concerning A.J.'s depression. In the episode "The Second Coming," Dr. Vogel also enters A.J. into a mental hospital and arranges a group therapy session with him and his parents after A.J. tries to commit suicide.
Will McCormack as Jason LaPenna: he is Jennifer Melfi and Richard LaPenna's son.
Richard Romanus as Richard LaPenna: he is the estranged Calabrese husband of Jennifer Melfi and father of Jason LaPenna. When Dr. Melfi's family learn that she is treating a major mob figure, they urge her to end the association. Richard is a member of an organization that aims to combat the negative portrayal of Italian Americans as Mafia figures in the media. Richard and Jennifer had reconciled in 2001 and he was living with her at the time of her rape. He originally thinks Jennifer's rapist is Puerto-Rican based on her description, but later finds out that he bears an Italian surname (Rossi) and is personally offended. He was very angry when mishandling of the chain of custody allowed the man to go free.

See also
List of The Sopranos episodes
Soprano family
Lupertazzi family

References

Notes

External links
 The Sopranos Cast and Crew from HBO.com