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John Ventimiglia is an American actor. He portrayed Artie Bucco in the HBO television series The Sopranos and had a recurring role as Dino Arbogast, an Organized Crime Control Bureau Chief for the NYPD, on the American police procedural/drama series Blue Bloods on CBS. Ventimiglia was born in Ridgewood, Queens to Sicilian immigrants and grew up in Teaneck, New Jersey. He graduated from Teaneck High School in 1981 where he played on the football team.

The name of his <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/title/tt0141842/?ref_=nmtrv_trv">The Sopranos (1999)</a> character, Artie Bucco, a chef and
restaurateur, is being used to sell a line of Italian food products in
an HBO promotion (2002).

No relation to actor <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/name/nm0893257/?ref_=nmtrv_trv">Milo Ventimiglia</a>.

John&#39;s parents immigrated from Castellammare del Golfo, Sicily, and he grew up speaking Sicilian, (in formal linguistics, considered a language distinct from Italian, not merely a dialect). His surname traces back to the town of Ventimiglia di Sicilia.

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