Louis Fasanaro

Chosen to play Al Capone in Giovanni Tartaglia's Capone, Louis was born in the Italian Hospital in New York City, and raised in the largest and first Little Italy in America, Italian East Harlem. Louis was baptized in the Basilica of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, where he also attended grammar school. Italian East Harlem was home to 100,000 Italian Americans in it's hay day, and cultivated notables Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, Congressman Vito Marcantonio, and Dr. Leonardo Covello, it's greatest teacher and scholar, who founded Benjamin Franklin High School on Pleasant Avenue. The neighborhood was also home to the Morello crime family of 116 Street, the actual Corleone family from Sicily, that the Godfather movie was modeled after, that later became the Genovese Family.