Lillo Brancato is an actor who is best remembered for playing Calogero Anello in Robert De Niro’s 1993 film debut, A Bronx Tale.
On The Sopranos, Brancato also portrayed a teenage mobster named Matthew Bevilaqua. Before joining The Sopranos’s cast, he appeared in three movies in the middle of the 1990s.
Is Lillo Brancato Still In Jail? Where Is The Sopranos Actor Today?
Lillo Brancato is no longer incarcerated. He was sent from the Oneida Correctional Facility in Rome, New York, where he was a state prisoner #09A0227, to the Hudson Correctional Facility. Furthermore, he was held on Rikers Island after being found guilty of second-degree murder.
Lillo kept using drugs while he was inside and at least once overdosed on heroin. He received his parole on December 31, 2013. He claimed to have been sober for thirteen years as of 2020 and has since resumed acting.
The actor and Jamal Hall collaborated once more on the action-thriller movie “The Fearless Two” in 2019. He then portrayed Sonny Finici in the 2020 crime movie “5th Borough,” following which he narrated Young Thug Chris Brown’s music video for “City Girls.”
In the 2021 short comedy-thriller film “The Phone Call,” Brancato most recently played Johnny.
Sopranos Actor Lillo Brancato Was Allegedly Charged With Murder Of Officer Daniel Enchautegui
Daniel Enchautegui, a police officer who was off-duty and living at home, was killed on December 10, 2005. Lillo Brancato was apprehended by the New York City Police Department (NYPD) in the Bronx for the crime.
Assigned to the Bronx’s 40th Precinct, Daniel has been a member of the NYPD for three years. Hearing glass crack outside a vacant home at 3119 Arnow Place, close to his own, he confronted Lillo and his accomplice, Steven Armento.
A shootout broke out as the police officer was waiting for assistance, and he was shot. After being transported, the officer passed away at Jacobi Medical Center.
Steven was found guilty of first-degree murder on October 30, 2008, and given a life sentence without the possibility of parole when it was determined that he had fired the shot that killed the officer.
Beginning on November 17, 2008, Lillo’s trial for second-degree murder commenced. He was convicted guilty of first-degree attempted burglary but not of murder by a jury on December 22, 2008. He was given a 10-year prison term on January 9, 2009, by a judge.
Bronx Tale Cast Lillo Brancato Net Worth In 2022
Celebritynetworth assesses Lillo Brancato’s net worth to be in the neighborhood of $10,000.
Since he began his career in acting in 1993, he has appeared in more than 40 television and film productions, earning the majority of his income in this capacity. When he was detained for murder while committing a burglary, his riches, however, dramatically dropped.
The 2007 movie Saturday Morning was Brancato’s last one before he was accused in 2005 of first-degree burglary. The filmmaker, whose brother-in-law is a police officer, condensed all of Lillo’s sequences during post-production.
The actor also portrayed a mobster in the 2000 television series Falcone. He later went on to star in “R Xmas” (2001), sharing the screen with Drea de Matteo, a fellow Sopranos cast member, and playing Larry opposite Eddie Murphy in “The Adventures of Pluto Nash.”