What Did Tony Soprano Say to Agent Grasso

The Sopranos Principal Graphic symbol Index
The Soprano Family (Tony Soprano, Christopher Moltisanti) | DiMeo Crime Family | The Lupertazzis and Other Criminals | Mob Wives, Sweethearts and Goomahs | Law Enforcement and Civilians

open/close all folders

FBI and Police Enforcement

Special Agent Dwight Harris

Special Amanuensis Dwight Harris

"Damn! We're gonna win this thing!"

A senior FBI amanuensis assigned to Tony'due south investigation.

Anti-Hero: Of the Knight in Sour Armor variant. He possesses a cold and humorless demeanor, only he is a expert guy who is doing his job to maintain the peace.
Dirty Cop: His opposition to LCN is never in question, simply he's cordial with the mobsters on a personal level and possesses an "ends justify the means" type of mindset. In the end, he's party to the murder of a mob boss.
Enemy Mine: His last scene in the series is him jubilant the death of Phil Leotardo, which he helped adjust with Tony.
FBI Agent: One of the virtually prominent on the series.
Friendly Enemy: Mild case with Tony.
Go-Karting with Bowser: Agent Harris isn't above enjoying a sandwich and a chat with Tony at Satriale's from fourth dimension to time.
Good Is Not Nice: Not a bad guy merely mostly a fairly typical stern, humourless federal officer. That said, he'due south mostly polite and accommodating when dealing with Tony personally, which factors into their willingness to aid each other in the concluding flavor.
Hero Antagonist: Well, he is a adept guy who is assigned to Tony Soprano'south case.
Heroes Gone Fishing: Likes to hang out in Satriale'southward because he really enjoys the sandwiches.
It'southward Personal: One reason Harris is interested in the downfall of Phil Leotardo: the New York mobster one time prepare up a rookie FBI amanuensis for a rape and chirapsia.
Boot the Son of a Bitch: When Deborah tells him that Adriana can't have children, he reflects that Darwin might accept been correct, as her and Christopher existence unable to produce offspring makes a pretty skilful case for nature "weeding out the nimrods".
Knight in Sour Armor: Past Season 6, the task and all the new anti-terrorist stuff is taking a visible a toll on him, only he keeps dedicated to it with resignation.
Non So In a higher place It All: The commonly stoic and utterly professional person Harris exults and loudly celebrates upon receiving the news of Phil Leotardo's death, which he helped engineer.
Pragmatic Hero: Isn't to a higher place staining his personal ideals or bending — mayhap outright breaking — the constabulary to bring most an overall positive outcome, similar the decease of a savage mob boss.
Reasonable Authority Effigy: Serves as this throughout the entirety of the evidence.
Skewed Priorities: Invoked; While he's still concerned with mob activity in the later on seasons, federal law enforcement's priorities following 9/11 force Harris to worry more than about potential terrorist cells than about LCN.

Frank Cubitoso

An FBI director in charge of investigations into the Soprano family unit.

Large Good: Technically, what with being the the senior upholder of the law.
FBI Agent: FBI main of New Bailiwick of jersey division.
Good Is Non Overnice: Although more often than not a calm, soft-spoken man, he scares the relatively innocent (past the standards of this show) Adriana into becoming an informer with the threat of a very long prison sentence for drug dealing, so much that she vomits all over him. In her final episode he berates and threatens her for not giving juicy enough info (although is reason is justified, as Adriana has become complicit to a murder in the Crazy Horse which she had tried to hide from both the FBI and from Christopher).
Kick the Dog: Though Tony is hardly an innocent or decent person, Cubitoso playing him the record of Livia trying to orchestrate a hit on him by manipulating Junior is pretty depression. Even Harris seemed uncomfortable.
Hero Antagonist: Although he is on the side of the law, he serves as an antagonist for Tony and Adrianna.
Smug Snake: Heroic example, technically speaking, but he genuinely seems to savor taunting and prodding the gangsters whom he is tracking and arresting.

Robyn Sanservino

An FBI agent who notably serves as handler to Adriana La Cerva.

Existence Personal Isn't Professional: She lies near having children when Adriana picks her brain on the topic, but she does betray a little of her private life when she relates her reasons for joining the FBI.
Butt-Monkey: She handles Federal witnesses Adriana La Cerva, Eugene Pontecorvo and Ray Curto. Adriana is murdered, Eugene commits suicide, and Ray dies of an aneurysm in Robyn'due south car.

Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Though she is seen mocking Adriana's naivety with her fellow agents, she later warms to Adriana and seems to bail with her.
Lima Syndrome: Ambiguously.
Villains Out Shopping: Inverted; she is one time shown driving her daughter.
Wide-Eyed Idealist: Develops an emotional attachment to her witness, and is terribly upset when she hears almost her death.
Robyn: She could've gotten out. She could be halfway to Red china past now.

Deborah Ciccerone

A special FBI agent who goes undercover befriending Adriana.

Aborted Arc: Introduced in the Season 3 finale as an undercover amanuensis who will befriend and gradually groom Adriana to be a Federal witness. Her courting procedure lasts all of 2 episodes before Christopher tries to fuck her, driving a rift between her and Adriana. At this bespeak the FBI decides to just arrest their mark and intimidate her into compliance. Deborah is summarily replaced as handler by Robyn Sanservino.
Demoted to Extra: Deborah'due south screentime wanes after she'due south taken off her mark's case, merely she still shows up well into the fifth season.
Off-white Cop: Role of why she was chosen to go undercover with the mob wives, despite her lack of experience. Also ends up ruining her encompass.
Harris: Y'all know what the problem was, right? She gave Moltisanti a difficult-on.

Cubitoso: And so, what practice we practice? Rent only schifosas?
False Friend: To Adriana, who is securely hurt when the truth comes out.

Ice Queen: She does a fair task ingratiating herself into Adriana's personal life, projecting the image of a vapid socialite, merely the mobsters she'south forced to collaborate with find her frigid and false. Christopher at least arrives at the wrong decision.
Love Triangle: After Moltisanti makes a pass on her, Adriana gets jealous of her and breaks off their relationship.
Mistaken for Gay: Christopher thinks she'south hot for Adriana, who seems flattered enough by the insinuation. He makes a a bid for a threesome, but information technology's a disaster.
The Mole: A embrace agent who poses as a superficial gal and potential trophy girlfriend. Adriana doesn't acquire she's FBI until much later.
Ms. Fanservice: She doesn't wear much around the house.
Non So Stoic: The unremarkably cool and controlled Deborah seethes with frustration once her efforts to befriend Adriana are abruptly torpedoed.
Pet the Domestic dog: Before their link is severed and Adriana is assigned Robyn as handler, Deborah alludes to a conversation she and her marking had most "the little creatures" and wishes Adriana good luck. A distraught Ade is far too hurt to appreciate it.
Villains Out Shopping:
- Meets Adriana in a fashion boutique, invoking a Commonality Connection.
- Inverted; she is one of the but FBI agents with an on-screen personal life; she is married and has an baby son.

Agent Frank Grasso

A special agent with the FBI and part of the team that searches Di Meo crime family street dominate Tony Soprano's house with a warrant.

Category Traitor: Tony is disgusted by the mere concept of an Italian-American working for the FBI.
Contrived Clumsiness: Tony thinks Grasso purposely breaks a bowl during a register of his business firm.

Shout-Out: His proper noun is an homage to Sonny Grosso, co-author of the book The French Connectedness.

Agent Skip Lipari

Amanuensis Skip Lipari

The handler of Pussy Bonpensiero.

Beingness Personal Isn't Professional: Rants to Pussy about his frustrations with work.
Cowboy Cop: The most "mob-like" cop in the bear witness, in both looks and temperament; a mob associate isn't too fazed when Pussy tries to pass him off as "a friend of ours". Although firmly opposed to the mob, he is blunt, annoying, and confrontational when challenged.
Dirty Cop: Downplayed: He'due south not happy to do so, but he chooses to look the other style regarding Pussy'south part in Matthew Bevilaqua's murder. Proof that Tony committed it would exist an enormous asset... and there may be other reasons he was willing to give Pussy this reprieve.
Good Is Non Nice: 1 of the nearly gruff FBI characters, simply unambiguously opposed to LCN.

Lima Syndrome: A not-villainous instance. His boss fears that he'due south become as well friendly with Pussy, reality checks nevertheless.
Put on a Passenger vehicle: He just shows upward one more fourth dimension after Pussy's death.
Speech Impediment: His lisp occasionally undermines his tough nature.

Leon Wilmore

An incorruptible police force officer who comes into conflict with Tony.

Being Expert Sucks: He refuses to have a ransom from Tony Soprano and writes him a ticket. For this, he loses his overtime pay and is forced to work a degrading retail chore at a garden store. Here he over again encounters Tony, who feels remorseful for Wilmore'southward state of affairs and offers him several hundred dollars unconditionally, which Wilmore refuses yet again.
Barrel-Monkey: He's punished for holding a wealthy and powerful homo answerable for his crimes. What's specially galling near it is that Tony was clearly in the wrong and the fine was a small amount of money that he was more than capable of covering, meaning Tony had his career sabotaged because his pride was wounded.
By-the-Book Cop: This is his personality and archetype.
The Fettered: He is shown to be honorable and an upstanding police officer.
Expert Is Not Nice: An upright officer of the law, who has the personality of a rock and reportedly suffers from low.

Honor Earlier Reason: Refuses ii bribes from Tony Soprano, the second of which was essentially charity.
Knight in Sour Armor: He's keenly aware of how corrupt and awful the world effectually him is merely he all the same strives to exercise good regardless of how much information technology inconveniences him.
One-Episode Wonder: He's a one-off character who yet has some memorable interactions with Tony.
Penalization Detail: He quit the strength rather than take 1.
The Stoic: Stands by his values and takes the resulting abuse in footstep.
Token Good Teammate: The other law enforcement agents on the bear witness aren't exactly portrayed as evil, but a lot of their behavior is morally gray. Willmore is the near unambiguously good and upstanding officer out of all the ones nosotros see.
What You Are in the Dark: Passes on an opportunity that would have kept him his chore as a police force officeholder.
Working-Course Hero: His wages seem to be pretty meager even before he loses his overtime pay and is forced to work a 2nd task.

Civilian Characters

Dr. Jennifer Melfi

"How are you, Anthony?"

Your mother, believe me, in your childhood, she'southward inflicted serious psychic injuries on yous that are nonetheless there.

Italian-American psychiatrist and in some ways confidant of Mafia boss Tony Soprano.

All Girls Want Bad Boys: It becomes such a problem, Jennifer ends up seeing her own head doctor to bargain with her growing attraction to Tony. Finally, she admits to her problem and is able to strongly refuse Tony's advances past the end of the series.
Beware the Nice Ones: She'south a genuinely overnice person for the about part... but don't button her buttons also hard (every bit Tony realizes pretty quickly).
Erudite Brunette: Has chocolate-brown pilus and is a very intelligent and educated private, except for a few episodes where she has an auburn tint in her hair.
Confess in Conviction: Partially, she's only given vague details for businesslike and potentially legal reasons (partly, this is overcautiousness, but partly — and Dr. Melfi references this — it'south because she would have a duty to warn and to notify the authorities if Tony revealed evidence of a future criminal offence).
Disquisitional Psychoanalysis Failure: Gradually gets distraught past her therapy sessions with Tony, leading to weight gains, drinking, and needing therapy herself.
Day in the Limelight: "Employee of the Calendar month"
Deadpan Snarker: Despite how soft-spoken and shy she usually is, she can actually be pretty sarcastic at times. Particularly when she's angry with Tony.
Descent into Addiction: Specifically, borderline alcoholism, as the toll of treating Tony leads her to greater drinking.
Drinking on Duty: Seen taking a shot of vodka before Tony's appointment in "House Arrest."
Drowning My Sorrows: She'due south a borderline alcoholic.
The Fettered: Has the hazard to unleash Tony confronting her rapist, but decides not to.
Florence Nightingale Consequence: Present and discussed.
Foil: To Carmela. They're both women who arguably understand Tony in ways no i else does, simply their differences are night and day with Carmela enabling Tony'due south criminal activities and even coming to negotiations for their marriage to piece of work, while Melfi stays true to her principles and rejects all of Tony'south advances and lifestyle.
Know When to Fold Them: In the final season, she realizes how futile her attempts to rehabilitate Tony have been and ends their sessions once and for all.
My God, What Have I Done?: Afterward she reads the psychiatric study The Criminal Personality, which argues that therapy is at best ineffective on sociopaths and at worst can actually brand them more successful criminals. Convinced by its findings, Melfi realizes she's effectively get another one of Tony'south accomplices and, to her credit, ends their sessions thereafter.
Not So Similar: On meeting her for the offset time, Tony is pleased to acquire that her father's family unit came from Campania, the same region in southern Italy his family is from. In general he assumes their shared heritage means she'll have an easier time understanding his mindset and motivations, which makes him more than impatient when she doesn't. What Tony doesn't understand is that he'southward primarily a product of mob culture rather than just Italian-American culture.
Simply Sane Human: Tends to exist as objective every bit possible about whatever issues Tony is facing and can gently call him out or offer insight as needed.
Out of Focus: She delivers the offset line in the serial and is arguably the second most important grapheme in Season 1 besides Tony himself. Her importance gradually decreases as the series goes on, though she makes regular appearances until the finish.
Put on a Jitney: There are several occasions in which Tony, in 1 way or another, ceases his therapy sessions with her. These tend to be at or near the end of seasons, thus the audience doesn't really observe.
She'south Got Legs: One of her defining concrete characteristics; Tony notices this early on.
The Shrink: She serves every bit Tony'southward, and his seeking her assist was the initial premise of the show. She really is a very skilled therapist, and is able to help him through some of his issues. She could all-time be described equally combining both sides of the Awesome diversity, calling Tony out while likewise showing him compassion for how dysfunctional his upbringing was. However, later episodes indicate that he may well be a sociopath and beyond actual rehabilitation, and the biggest effect of therapy for Tony has been helping him seem normal (every bit normal equally a mob dominate can be).
The Watson: Has this office in the series; Tony summarizes and bluntly explains almost of all the major plotlines to Melfi.
Token Good Teammate: Of the show's main bandage. Melfi has her flaws, but she also has one of the strongest moral compasses in the prove and is able to resist the temptation of more than direct benefitting from her connection to Tony.
Unresolved Sexual Tension: With Tony as she'due south the only character who knows him better than anyone else, only their clinical relationship too as Tony being in the mafia and his traditional family values keeps them autonomously.
What You Are in the Dark: Jennifer has a moment similar this when she discovers the identity of the man who raped her. She considers telling Tony, knowing he would give the culprit a long and painful death, just eventually decides against it.

Arthur "Artie" Bucco

Tony's babyhood friend, who at present owns a restaurant.

A Day in the Limelight: He gets episodes centered on him from fourth dimension to time.
Caused Situational Narcissism: Due to his demand to feel important, Artie consistently and smirkingly over-estimates his own abilities and personal amuse. This leads him into regular Humiliation Congas that concluding for most of the series.
Angry Chef: Whilst he projects an amiable front, the loftier levels of stress involved with his job coupled with everything that comes from being a friend of Tony's means he's never besides far from snapping.
Awful Wedded Life: Are Artie and Charmaine in the same scene? So they're arguing. They seem to absolutely detest each other.
Bad Boss: Slightly towards Martina, for spurning his advances.
Alopecia Angst: Is a bit sensitive about his naked pate, probably considering all the mobsters constantly break his assurance over it. He even suspects this is the reason Adrianna doesn't reciprocate his attraction.
Bullying a Dragon: Points a gun at Tony Soprano. Subverted in that Tony lets him off the hook. He too gets a crush on Adriana and tries to pick a fight with Christopher, a fight that would have gone poorly for him if Tony hadn't stepped in. He then thinks he tin get away with picking on Benny in forepart of his fiance, after Tony prevented the guy from murdering him for beating him upwards.
Butt-Monkey: From the very kickoff episode, very little goes right for him. Subverted withal, in that his friendship with Tony allows him certain privileges that very few civilians, or fifty-fifty mobsters for that matter, would have, getting bailed out of problem on several occasions. At the same time, a lot of those misfortunes likely wouldn't have happened if Tony weren't his friend to begin with, making Tony a bit of a Poisonous Friend of sorts.
Babyhood Friends: With Tony Soprano. Probably about the just person that could have pulled a gun on Tony (exterior possibly his own immediate family unit) and lived another day.
Divorce Is Temporary: Has a temporary separation with Charmaine that was meant to develop into full-blown divorce.
Quondam Teen Rebel: The Many Saints of Newark shows that he was actually a bigger troublemaker than Tony in their youth and he had actually wanted to grow up to go a successful mobster like Dickie Moltisanti. Thankfully, his begetter was having none of it and forced him to bring together the family'southward restaurant business.
Foil: The Many Saints of Newark shows that he's 1 to Tony. Both of them were troublemakers as kids and were tempted past the Mafia lifestyle. Yet, while Tony did eventually join the group because of his gangster father and female parent'south lack of concern near it, Artie'south law constant and caring parents made sure that he didn't.
Henpecked Husband: Charmaine constantly criticizes him and shuts down his ideas.
Hollywood Mid-Life Crisis: Elements of this, specially in his pursuit of Adriana.
Adriana: Is that a ring in your ear?

Artie: Oh, this? I've always had this.
Informed Power: Is said to exist an splendid cook, but obviously the audience tin't judge that for themselves.
In Dear with the Gangster'south Girl: A brief infatuation with Adriana.
In-Serial Nickname: Artie.
Lovable Coward: Sort of. Artie is completely harmless in comparison to nigh of the people on the show, then it'south easy to laugh at him throwing punches into a crowd of Native American protestors then running abroad, or dodging Davey'due south attempts to lend him some money.
Morality Pet: Artie is Tony's oldest friend, and 1 of the only people outside either of his families who he has any regard for.
Never Lend to a Friend:
- One of the rare instances of this having a relatively positive outcome for the civilian. Artie turns to Ralph for money at starting time, merely Ralph doesn't go for information technology, correctly noting that Artie'southward friendship with Tony would put him across reproach were he to fail to make his payments. Tony himself seals the deal for Artie, and when he'due south inevitably unable to become Tony the money back, he's let off the claw with a very low-cal penalisation (looking the other way with Tony's already open tab at Vesuvio'due south). Contrast this with the life-destroying consequences that befell Davey.
- Artie himself declines to lend his former friend David Scatino the money to pay off his gambling debt to Tony. Amore for his friend aside, Artie knew this would have been a bad state of affairs to get involved in.
No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: Beats the shit out of Benny for jeopardizing his business.
Politically Incorrect Hero: Throws out several anti-French slurs to a Frenchman who scammed him. He also joins Silvio and other mobsters confronting Native American protestors who took issue with a statue of Christopher Columbus.
Protectorate: Tony's. Artie resents it.
Self-Made Homo: An honest restaurant possessor. Tries to aggrandize his activities with the Armagnac wine bargain, but information technology goes sour.
Supreme Chef: An excellent cook and renowned eating house owner.
The One Who Made Information technology Out: An Italian-American childhood friend of Tony's who went direct. It's actually implied during 1 of Tony's dreams that he was originally a flake of a hoodlum, when Tony's coach reminds him that Artie was a bad influence on Tony. The Many Saints of Newark confirms information technology.
Too Dumb to Live: Constantly antagonizes and fifty-fifty assaults several gangsters (Christopher and Benny). The only reason why he's live is because of Tony.
Took a Level in Badass: Loses a fight to some French guy who scammed him in Season four. He then beats up Benny Fazio in Season half dozen.
Piece of work Off the Debt: Tab cleared off and gratuitous meals for Tony.

Charmaine Bucco

Played by: Kathrine Narducci

Artie'southward wife.

The Bartender: Hostess at the Vesuvio.
Divorce Is Temporary: Separates from Artie and asks for a divorce, only it doesn't take and they reconcile.
Fanservice: Lowers her neckline and shows more than cleavage to attract male clientele.
The Spectacles Gotta Go: Said by her husband, considering the glasses work confronting the fanservice.
Male Gaze: Charmaine's ample bust is frequently the subject of this.
The Missus and the Ex: Wanting to keep their relation cold, she tells Carmela that she and Tony had a short affair when they were young.
Onetime Flame: Tony would like to resume an affair he had with her.
Women Are Wiser: Unlike Artie, she knows well that mobsters should be avoided or at to the lowest degree not befriended under whatsoever circumstance, but her livelihood depends on them anyway. More generally the advice she gives Artie is always good, and of course his pride dictates he e'er ignores it.

Marianucci Gualtieri

Played past: Frances Esemplare

Paulie Walnuts' mother. Information technology's later revealed she'due south actually his aunt and adopted him as an baby.

Due to the Dead: Dies off-screen on the same episode as Christopher, whose wake overshadows Nucci's. Paulie sees this as a final insult from beyond the grave by Chris.
Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: Serves every bit proof that Paulie isn't totally evil.
I Am Non Your Father: Paulie is really the son of her sister, knocked upwardly by a sailor (implied to exist Russ Fegoli, a friend of Carmela's begetter). Nucci took responsibility for the male child and raised him as her own. When Paulie finds out, he disowns Nucci and has a major identity crisis. Eventually, they reconcile, though.
Kindhearted Simpleton: She just isn't very bright, from beingness tricked into a panic assault by Ralphie's ridiculous lies to annoying other retirees with her slowness. Paulie however couldn't peradventure have had a kinder or more forgiving mother figure, which probably explains why he is the way he is.
Morality Pet: She'due south this for Paulie, sort of.
Satellite Character: Basically serves as a foil to develop Paulie's character.
Shrinking Violet: Is very shy and has difficulty with making new friends in the retirement home.

Father Intintola

Male parent Phil Intintola

Played by: Paul Schulze

A priest who is close to Carmela.

Big Eater: Tony refers to him every bit "Monsignor Jughead" when he correctly guesses who ate all the ziti.
Demoted to Extra: A major grapheme in the offset season, but makes simply occasional appearances afterward it.
Hot for Preacher: Close, but doesn't get to happen.
The Moving-picture show Buff: He uses classic movies as an alibi to spend time with Carmela.
"The Reason Yous Suck" Voice communication: Gets a pretty scathing i from Carmela in the Season One finale, afterwards she discovers that he's quite intimate with other mob wives, using them for an like shooting fish in a barrel sexual whiff without technically breaking his vow of abstinence.
Sexy Priest: He'south quite good looking and charismatic, which is function of the reason why he has such an easy fourth dimension drawing spiritually confused women to him.
Unresolved Sexual Tension: With Carmela; they almost do something midway through Season 1, but it doesn't happen. He makes sporadic appearances after on during which it is implied he still possesses some feelings for her.

Robert Wegler

AJ's high school guidance counselor who begins an affair with Carmela.

Gentleman and a Scholar: A suave and cultured homo, a refreshing change for Carmela.
Hot Teacher: This is how Carmela sees him.
If Only Yous Knew: Tony indirectly calls him a fag for being banal and enlightened, all while he's having sexual activity with Tony'southward wife every other night. Carmela is quietly amused by information technology.
Mistaken for Gay: Both AJ and Tony make that supposition, the latter of which is probably a expert matter for him.
Satellite Beloved Involvement: Serves to explore Carmela's new life every bit a single female parent and equally Tony's foil.
Secret Relationship: Tony is kept in the dark, and with adept reason.
Sex for Services: Feels he has been manipulated past Carmela to bump up AJ's grades and college prospects.
Silver Fox: He'due south got grey hair, befitting his age, and is pretty suave and skillful-looking.
Single Woman Seeks Proficient Man: Carmela's good human during her separation of Tony. It doesn't stick.
What the Hell, Hero?: One teacher calls him out on his suspicious sudden interest in helping an undeserving AJ., whom the teacher calls Fredo Corleone.

George "Georgie" Santorelli

Played by: Frank Santorelli

A bartender at the Bada Bing.

The Bartender: He tends bar, among other things, at the Bing.
Barrel-Monkey: Tony tends to shell him up whenever he's frustrated.
Dumb Muscle: He'southward a large, burly guy, merely he can't seem to figure out how to work a telephone.
Middle Scream: Ralphie reenacts Gladiator on Georgie'due south head, forcing him to wearable an eyepatch.
Fatal Flaw: Opening his oral fissure around sociopaths with a Hair-Trigger Temper, the guy tries to socialize or just drop a give-and-take and gets randomly kicked for information technology.
Fat Idiot: The man has some kind of mental handicap, most noticeable in non knowing when to stop answering back. It'due south a very unfortunate flaw to have around bad-tempered mafioso.
Nice to the Waiter: The designated target of the series, the painful bad guy variety.
Dial-Clock Villain: Quite literally. He regularly sweeps the club for bugs but he's only a bartender surrounded by criminals.
Screw This, I'm Outta Hither!: Decides to quit later Tony leaves him partially deaf, but Silvio changes Georgie's heed.
Sex for Services: He demands blowjobs and a cut of the strippers' earnings for facilitating their work.

Elliot Kupferberg

The therapist of Dr. Melfi.

Admiring the Abomination: He's hardass virtually sociopathy, but at the same time he is fascinated by Soprano and non only in a clinical way, he closely follows the Mafia power play likewise.
Fascinating Eye Brow: And then frequent it annoys Dr. Melfi.
Iconic Particular: Carries effectually an enormous water canteen, consummate with a mesh sleeve, that's often the kickoff thing that comes to listen when fans think virtually him.
Jerkass Has a Point: He is definitely a smug asshole, merely Melfi agrees with him that all her handling of Tony only enables him.
Jerk with a Heart of Gold: In "The Weight" he has a genuinely empathetic moment where he explains to Melfi why she should non blame herself for her rape.
Nerd Glasses: He has prominent foursquare eyeglasses.
Recognition Failure: Has a brief but harsh encounter with Soprano in an underground parking lot. The doctor doesn't recognize Tony, but uses the incident as an example during therapy, in-which Tony is the primary subject area.
Hugger-mugger-Keeper: In a very unprofessional motion, he reveals inside a mutual social circle that Melfi is treating Soprano.
Smug Smiler: Puts very little effort into hiding his own feelings of superiority over merely about everyone else.
The Shrink: The shrink behind the shrink who discusses her Critical Psychoanalysis Failure.
The Watson: Examines Soprano's touch on Melfi.

Blanca Selgado

A Puerto Rican woman who briefly dates AJ in Flavour vi.

Dating What Daddy Hates: While Carmela doesn't show it in front of A.J. and Blanca, she's conspicuously unhappy with the fact her son is dating a dark-skinned Latina with a child and is a skilful deal older than A.J. Tony at least takes comfort in the fact Blanca is a fellow Cosmic.
Gold Digger: A.J. attempts to support Blanca independent of his parents, while Blanca frequently spends time at their home and encounters the tremendous wealth that AJ unwittingly deprives her of. This is ultimately a big function of why she leaves him.
Practiced Parents: Has a young son who she cares nigh very securely.
Morality Pet: She and her son Hector inspire a major improvement in A.J.'southward attitude.
Ms. Fanservice: She's very pretty and is not afraid to show it off.

Svetlana Kirilenko

Played past: Alla Kliouka

Cousin of Tony's mistress Irina, and flagman to Livia.

The Caretaker: Livia's nurse.
Disabled Love Interest: Serves every bit a romantic counterpart to Tony and she's missing one leg.
Foil: To Janice. Svetlana is a reliable, downwards-to-earth, and zero-nonsense grapheme. After a lightheaded dispute their antagonism reaches a signal where Tony has to meddle in a professional person quality. Also serves every bit a foil to her cousin Irina, who has a great body simply is a kittenish emotional trainwreck.
Inspirationally Disadvantaged: Having only 1 leg is not a handicap to her, and Tony admires her for it.
Irony: The well-nigh stable of Tony's mistresses is the 1 who had the worst hand dealt by life.
The Mistress: Tony tries to add her to the listing after a 1-afternoon stand, but she politely rejects him. He takes it graciously for once.
Mother Russian federation Makes You lot Strong: She's a stoic and hard-nosed Russian who doesn't take whatever shit. When Janice, who's practically a mob princess, plays rough by stealing her leg, Svetlana merely has ii Russian toughs mug her for it. She gets away with it.
Never a Self-Made Adult female: Defied, one of the reasons why Tony is attracted to her.

Bruce and Jeannie Cusamano

Played by: Robert LuPone and Sandra Sauntiago

The side by side door neighbors of the Sopranos.

Damn, It Feels Skillful to Be a Gangster!: Bruce and his friends are fascinated by the Mafia mythology and are casually curious about it. During a golfing trip, they treat Tony as a zoo fauna and pepper him incessantly with Mafia questions.
Demoted to Extra: They accept a recurring presence throughout the first few seasons of the show, as they're the Sopranos' neighbors and Bruce was the one who recommended Dr. Melfi to Tony in the commencement place. As the testify went on, though, their screentime grew more than fleeting, to the indicate where their only appearances in the latter half of the show come from a drib-in Bruce makes in "Whitecaps" and a blink-and-you-miss-it cameo the two make in "Soprano Habitation Movies".
Physician's Orders: From time to fourth dimension, as Bruce is the Sopranos' family physician and the 1 who referred Tony to Dr. Melfi.
Embarrassing Nickname: Tony sometimes calls Dr. Cusamano "Cooze". Heh heh heh.
Housewife: Jeannie is this.

Anthony Infante

Played by: Lou Martini Jr.

Brother-in-police of John Sacramoni and his spokesperson.

Establishing Graphic symbol Moment: Ane of his first scenes appears to be a Villains Out Shopping moment, but it turns out to be a professional coming together in his optical shop. He's a mild civilian who is over his caput among hardened gangsters and is acting out of loyalty to his family.
Mouth of Sauron: Semi-obligatory. Serves as Johny Sack's meek spokesperson.
Spy Speak: He's really bad at it. Played for laughs to show the inherent absurdity of the criminal world.

Noah Tannenbaum

Played past: Patrick Tully

Meadow'due south college young man.

Cryptic State of affairs: Was him breaking off his relationship with Meadow entirely his ain decision? It is implied would very likely take happened anyways at some point, but it is quite possible his father might accept forced the consequence, because he disapproved of his son dating a Mafia Princess.
Black and Nerdy: He's a very intelligent and well spoken beau as well equally half blackness.
Dating What Daddy Hates: Meadow'south "un-Italian" boyfriend. Tony starts making racist, mean-spirited comments to his face when he meets him, while Carmela is more subtle in her dislike, making veiled snipes at the fellow.
Ivy League for Anybody: Meets Meadow at Columbia University.
Jewish and Nerdy: Half Jewish, and just as ambitious and studious as you'd expect.
Matzo Fever: Meadow has the hots for him in spite of the fact that he'southward half Jewish and she'due south from a staunch Catholic family.
The Film Vitrify: Praises Tony for his movie collection and tries to strike a rapport with him over their mutual love of classic gangster movie house. Unfortunately, information technology doesn't do much good.
Smug Snake: A balmy, not-villainous example. Noah isn't really a bad dude past any means, merely he clearly has a bit of an ego.
Twofer Token Minority: Much is fabricated of the fact that he's both blackness and Jewish. Tony despises Noah for (supposedly) playing the race carte by identifying himself every bit a black homo, although Tony would probably still view him in this light regardless of how Noah acted. This nets him a demeaning In-Universe Nickname.
Tony: Jamaal Ginsburg, the Hasidic Homeboy.
Where da White Women At?: Tony baselessly claims that Noah'due south attraction to Meadow is motivated by an unsavory animalism he feels for her white skin.
Uptown Girl: Meadow, who'south spent her whole life thinking of herself as the upper crust, is a trashy outsider in comparison to Noah's fiscal/academic background. It's nearly certainly the realisation that he could practise far better than a Mafia Princess with a specially racist father that causes Noah to dump her.

Caitlin Rucker

Meadow'due south roommate at Columbia.

Aborted Arc: She seems to exist heading downward a cocky-subversive path in nigh of her appearances, but there'south never any crisis or resolution to it all. In one case Noah breaks upwards with Meadow, partially due to frustrations over Caitlin, she falls out of focus. When we exercise run across her, she seems to accept mellowed out all on her own.
Ambiguous Disorder: Something is wrong with her, just it's not articulate exactly what. She seems to get over it without whatsoever resolution.
Country Mouse: She's from a small town in Oklahoma and is excited to be in a large city like New York, until it starts getting to her.
Mood-Swinger: Goes through cycles of exuberance and numb depression.
Ms. Fanservice: When get-go seen, she's dancing in forepart of the dorm room window in just panties and tank top.

Finn De Trolio

Finn DeTrolio

Played by: Volition Janowitz

Meadow's college swain, and later fiance.

Audience Surrogate: His principal role is to show how an average person who had the opportunity to bear witness to the reality of mafia society might react. He's horrified.
Cassandra Truth: Downplayed. He seems to be on friendly terms with Tony, simply is fully aware of the violent, criminal nature of Tony'southward associates, and is the only character to and so explicitly warn her about them, including all but telling her that Tony's associates are going to kill Vito. She completely ignores him.
Foil: To Meadow. They're both college graduates of Italian-American heritage, only Finn is much more Americanized, and is a civilian from a civilian family. His office in the story primarily serves to show how skewed Meadow'due south worldview has become under the influence of her family.
- Also to Jackie Aprile Jr. Whereas Jackie Jr. was born into, fully aware of and embraced the mafia lifestyle and was willfully blind to information technology's downsides, Finn is horrified past it, has no heritage in it, and simply wants to live a normal life and only sees the bad side of the life and is uncomfortable even around the privileged side. Meadow romanticized Jackie and her human relationship to him, but is fairly disillusioned with Finn, foreshadowing that she will eventually succumb to the same cocky-deceptions that the rest of her family have. Similarly, Jackie was annoying, entitled and incredibly stupid while Finn is laid-back, apprehensive and smart. While Jackie had lofty illusions about the mafia lifestyle and his own capabilities that ended upwardly getting him killed, Finn is horrified by what he sees, knows how out of his depth he is and eventually distances himself from the life entirely, probable saving himself.
He Knows Too Much: Fears that Vito is gonna whack him/make him disappear at a baseball to keep the gayngsterism a surreptitious.
Interrupted Intimacy: Witnesses Vito going down on a security baby-sit, simply keeps his mouth shut and only shares it with Meadow. He'southward called to bear witness on this much later by the Jersey crew.
Ivy League for Everyone: Meets Meadow at Columbia.
Nice Guy: He's a pretty decent guy overall and one of the few in the whole series.
Merely Sane Homo: In every scene he's in, compared to whatever other graphic symbol he'southward with.
Put on a Coach: Leaves the moving-picture show after a sudden breakdown with Meadow, his longtime fiancee. The verbal details are left ambiguous and simply mentioned in passing or hinted, at best.
Screw the Rules, I Accept Connections!: Defied, when the mobsters learn he may exist the son-in-police of the large man, he'due south excluded from doing actual work at a construction site, but he dislikes this favoritism and keeps working honestly anyhow.
Screw This, I'm Outta Here!: Panics and decides to leave town and abscond from Vito, just Meadow talks him out of it.
Surprisingly Realistic Issue: Much of his character is built effectually showing how an ordinary person would react to the kind of stuff Mafia people and those used to the lifestyle don't call back twice about. Needless to say, he's absolutely horrified and spends much of his fourth dimension effectually other characters in fearfulness for his life.

Hunter Scangarelo

Played by: Michele DeCesare

Meadow'southward troubled friend from high schoolhouse.

Ambiguous Disorder: Between the drug corruption and eating disorders, it'due south possible Hunter has some bug. However, since many other teens on the evidence deal with similar bug, information technology could be a case of typical teen angst.
Back for the Finale: Later not appearing for a very long fourth dimension, she makes what is essentially a cameo in the concluding episode.
Childhood Friends: Meadow's best friend at the outset of the serial.
Demoted to Extra: After season 1.
Foil: The reason for her reappearance in Season 6. She's a medical student, the noble profession that Carmela and Tony Soprano wished for their daughter. While both Meadow and Hunter grew upward together and have similar backgrounds, Hunter is implied to have experienced much hardship, really suffering from her misdeeds, and ultimately changing for the better, whereas Meadow, who lived a more sheltered and unretributive life with doors opened for her, is gearing up to effectively become a mob lawyer.
Precocious Crush/All Girls Want Bad Boys: Has a crush on Brendan Filone in season 1. She never mentions him after his decease, but it's unknown if she ever found out.
Weight Woe: Meadow once mentions she's in the "Eating Disorders" clinic at the hospital, and implied she'due south been at that place before.

David "Davey" Scatino

Old friend of Tony and Artie'due south from loftier school who now runs a sporting goods store.

Barrel-Monkey: His life turns to shit in the nigh epic way possible after he lets his gambling problem get out of control.
And Starring: "And Robert Patrick as David Scatino"
Asshole Victim: Tony actually tries to make him back off from gambling in his games, just Davey forces his style in, then runs up even more than debt than Tony would have allowed. Davey engenders no sympathy by taking away his son'due south car to pay off his debts, and then blaming his blood brother-in-police for non helping him subsequently he's lost everything.
Beard of Sorrow: When Tony runs into Davey at the loftier schoolhouse graduation, Davey has a 24-hour interval or 2 of stubble, showing that, in spite of his claims to the reverse, he'south not doing well.
Call-Back: In flavor three, Meadow reminds Tony near how he took Davey's motorcar to give to her. She besides reveals that he'due south now in a mental health facility.
The Gambling Addict: Leads to Trapped by Gambling Debts.
Hypocrite: Tells his son - while unfairly confiscating his auto in lodge to sell it and pay off his gambling debts - that "accountability is everything."
In-Series Nickname:"Davey"
Interrupted Suicide: Has a gun in his mouth and is playing with the trigger when his married woman walks in.
Never Lend to a Friend: Tony refuses to let David into the bill of fare game, merely David insists and worms his way in anyway. Tony decides to treat him no different than whatever other debtor, which quickly destroys David's life, merely as Tony had feared.
Protectorate: His friend Tony shields him from Richie, an fifty-fifty more predatory mobster. Though Tony does give him a clobbering at 1 bespeak.
Put on a Bus: Leaves boondocks for Nevada after his business concern with Tony drains all his coin and alienates his family. Though he and Tony don't depart on bad terms, fifty-fifty mildly joking most coming together up in Las Vegas.

J.T. Dolan

Chris, you are in the Mafia!

A TV writer who meets Chris Moltisanti in Narcotics Anonymous.

Habit Displacement: Trades his drug and alcohol issues for gambling which only makes things much worse for himself.
Butt-Monkey: Pretty much every appearance has something atrocious happen to him, normally due to Chris.
Dude, Where'due south My Respect?: He is stiffed in credits by Chris with their projects.
He Knows Too Much: Killed by an intoxicated Christopher after the mobster gives abroad too much information.
The Gambling Addict: Leads to Trapped by Gambling Debts.
Ironic Echo: He'due south introduced discussing being a writer past discussing his past as a heroin aficionado, with a thick layer of grandiosity and romanticism attached. When he reappears later in the story, he's teaching a writing seminar, discussing the self-narritivization that writers are susceptible to - except he's doing the same thing in discussing his more recent by as a gambling addict, with the aforementioned pomposity.
Kick the Dog: Chris figuratively destroys his life by deliberately preying on his addictive personality and getting him involved in gambling. Then, in one case he'southward managed to get things back on rails, Chris comes back and literally destroys it for no reason. The simply justification for any of this is the guy's a bit full of himself.
Most Writers Are Writers: An established TV-writer, he participates in the script of Cleaver.
No Proficient Human action Goes Unpunished: His time as Chris' sober companion and attempts to assistance him stay directly stop up ruining JT'southward life and getting him killed.
Work Off the Debt: Christopher offers to clear the debt if he accepts to write Cleaver. Dolan gets the implication information technology'southward an An Offer You Can't Refuse.
Yank the Dog'south Chain: He's able to sober upwards, work off his gambling debt and get his career back on track writing for Constabulary & Order. Then he'south pointlessly murdered by a drunken Chris.

Minn Matrone

Played by: Fran Anthony

A grumpy one-time adult female living in the same nursing home every bit Nucci Gualtieri.

Alpha Bitch: The nursing home director describes the place as "high school with wheelchairs".
Asshole Victim: Her bullying treatment of Nucci is unlikely to endear her to the audience.
Practise Non Taunt Cthulhu: She'southward smart enough to encounter Paulie for what he is. Unfortunately, she'southward non smart plenty to continue this to herself.
Dies Wide Open: Her glassy eyes in expiry are downright creepy and about supernatural looking.
Dying Announcement of Hate: Tells Paulie he was "always a little bounder" but earlier he smothers her to death.
Besides Dumb to Live: She handles her fatal atmospherics with Paulie in probably the worst possible fashion. After catching him trying to rob her, he tries to save confront and alibi himself, but rather than take the out — and she's fully aware that he'south a hardened criminal — she chooses to attempt to call his mother on him, insults him, knees him in the groin and ineffectually waddles away screaming, leading to a rather predictable result.
Vorpal Pillow: Paulie murders Minn in this way after she catches him breaking into her dwelling and makes a large scene over it.

Carter Chong

A patient at a mental hospital who befriends Junior Soprano.

The Dragon: Becomes an odd variant to Inferior, helping him to set up illicit card games among the patients.
Hair-Trigger Temper: Swings between calm and content to enraged and screaming at a dime.
My Beloved Smother: Implied when his mother visits him.
Psychopathic Manchild: Has shades of this.
Replacement Goldfish: Inferior sees the troubled, temperamental Carter as a surrogate Tony.
Suddenly Shouting: Does this while telling the story beneath.
"Well Done, Son!" Guy: Implied, as Carter recounts to Junior when he brought domicile a spelling test he scored a 96 on in the 2d class, only for his father to ask what happened to the other 4 points.

Dr. Krakower

Played by: Sully Boyar

A psychiatrist and teacher of Dr. Melfi who delivers an ultimatum to Carmela.

Brutal Honesty: He doesn't sugarcoat his words or spare Carmela's feelings at all when laying out the facts to her.
Cool Old Guy: Happily married for three decades and willing to spell out Carmella's issues to her.
Dr. Wiggle: A more than heroic i than normal only he's non interested in whatever kind of gentle approach to helping Carmela grow plenty to leave Tony, merely spelling out the facts to her in the bluntest manner possible.
Good Is Not Nice: He'southward morally in the right but his prickly, judgemental demeanor and somewhat less than progressive views of mod society don't exactly make him the most charming graphic symbol.
Jerkass Has a Point: He'due south not the nicest guy in the world but his frank cess of Tony, Carmela'south culpability in his behavior and the fact that she can't change him, as much as she might wish to, and that she can't say she wasn't aware of what existence with him would lead to are all dead on.
The Mentor: To Melfi, he is an older colleague of hers.
One-Shot Grapheme: Appears literally for i scene, but states some truths to Carmela that no series regular would cartel acknowledge.
- This is largely due to his actor dying shortly after filming.
Politically Incorrect Hero: Describes pride parades as an instance of the products of the modern culture of psychiatry, focused on making people experience better about themselves rather than fixing what's actually wrong with them.
"The Reason Y'all Suck" Speech communication: He very bluntly outlines the cold hard facts of Carmela's marriage to her.
Spiral the Money, I Have Rules!: Refuses to accept blood money from Carmela.
The Shrink: Plays this office to Carmella for one scene.

Jim "Johnny Cakes" Witowski

Played by: John Costelloe

A New England barman and volunteer fire-eater who begins an matter with Vito Spatafore.

The Ace: A local hero who owns a diner and lives a perfectly balanced life.
The Bartender: When he isn't putting out fires.
Firemen Are Hot: A fireman with a ripped body.
Manly Gay: Ripped, a fireman and bartender, crude and tumble, and gay with a thick mustache.
Run into Cute: Vito is a regular patron of his establishment.

Self-Fabricated Homo: Built his life in New Hampshire by opening his ain diner.
Supreme Chef: At least as regards breakfast foods. Vito (who knows adept food) is clearly impressed by both the johnnycakes and the house-fabricated sausages at Jim's diner.

Robert "Bobby Jr." 3 and Sophia Baccalieri

Robert "Bobby Jr." III and Sophia Baccalieri

Played by: Angelo Massagli and Miryam Coppersmith

The children of Bobby and Karen.

Barrel-Monkey: Bobby is bullied past AJ and this makes him wary of family meetings. Additionally, both of their parents and their paternal grandfather are killed in unpleasant circumstances within the space of a few years, and they have none other than Janice as their stepmother.
1 Steve Limit: Bobby is Robert Baccalieri III, but he is simply called Bobby Jr.
Trauma Conga Line: Their mother dies and Janice becomes their stepmother. Information technology only gets worse with the death of their father.

Sal Vitro

Played past: Louis Mustillo

A gardener who gets in the middle of a feud between Paulie and Feech.

Butt-Monkey: The poor guy becomes the official gardener for the mob.
Family Business organization: His son has to driblet out of higher to lend a mitt because of the ensuing money shortages.
Throw the Dog a Bone: His slave-like workload gets happily reduced when Johnny Sack has to alter his residence.

Bryan Spatafore

Played by: Vincent Orofino

Blood brother of Vito and a construction worker.

Butt-Monkey: Ends up in a coma because he just happened to be in the wrong identify at the wrong time.
Golf Clubbing: Mustang Emerge beats him desperately with a golf game club.
Innocent Bystander: Gets involved in a street incident when the girlfriend of Mustang Sally turns to him for help.
Mugging the Monster: The monster'due south brother. Mustang Sally pays with his life for the chirapsia of a made man'due south brother.
Put on a Bus: In a coma after the events of "Another Toothpick". Plays a desultory small role once again in Flavour half dozen.
Sibling Squad: Serves as Vito'southward protector when his brother negotiates with Tony.
Sibling Yin-Yang: He generally stays out of the mob lifestyle and has a legitimate career.

douglassfrone1952.blogspot.com

Source: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Characters/TheSopranosLawEnforcementAndCivilians