‘Johnny Cakes’ of ‘Sopranos’ Fame Commits Suicide at 47
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Allie @ Gone Hollywood | Friday, December 26, 2008 |
‘Sopranos‘ fans probably don’t know the name John Costelloe, but the character he played had a huge impact.
The 47-year-old actor gained fame in 2006 during the show’s sixth season when he was cast as short-order cook Jim “Johnny Cakes” Witowski opposite Joseph Gannascoli, who played gay mobster Vito Spatafore.
Police say the actor who portrayed the gay lover of a closeted mobster on “The Sopranos” died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in New York last week.
Police spokesman Lt. John Grimpel says Costelloe was found dead in an apparent suicide at his Brooklyn home on Dec. 18.
Police were called to his residence after family members were unable to reach him.
Costelloe’s character was a short order cook at a diner in New Hampshire who gets involved in a brief romance with Vito, on the run from the mob after he was caught in a gay nightclub. After their affair, Vito heads back home where he is murdered in a hotel room.
The nickname ‘Johnny Cakes’ came from Vito’s daily order at the diner.
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