Federico Castelluccio

Federico Castelluccio is an Italian-born American actor who began performing in 1986. Born in Naples, he was raised in Paterson, New Jersey, where his family moved when he was three. The role that brought him the most attention was Furio Giunta, the Neapolitan enforcer on HBO's The Sopranos. His film work includes Made (2001) with Jon Favreau, the biographical El Cantante (2006), and the crime thriller Aftermath. On television he appeared in NYPD Blue and played the lead in the telefilm Dragon Dynasty (2006) on the Sci-Fi Channel. He also acted in A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints, which premiered at Sundance in 2006 and received a best dramatic ensemble award. For the 2014 short Eulogy, he and the rest of the cast took a shared Best Ensemble prize at the Queens World Film Festival. He later directed the feature The Brooklyn Banker in 2016 and the TV pilot Outcall in 2017.