Dominic Chianese (purnounced Kee-on-eh-see) (born February 24, 1931 in Bronx, New York) is an American actor and performer. He is perhaps best known as Soprano family patriarch Corrado Soprano otherwise known as "Uncle Junior" on the HBO TV series, The Sopranos, a role that netted him two Emmy Award nominations. Chianese worked as a bricklayer with his father and attended night school during the 1950s, graduating with a bachelor's degree in Speech and Theater from Brooklyn College in 1961.

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