Texas53
12-26-2008, 12:28 PM
NEW YORK — Police said the actor who portrayed the gay lover of a closeted mobster on The Sopranos has died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in New York.
Police spokesman Lt. John Grimpel said John 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.
The 47-year-old former New York City firefighter gained fame in 2006, when he was cast as short-order cook Jim "Johnny Cakes" Witowski opposite Joseph Gannascoli, who played gay mobster Vito Spatafore on the hit HBO show.
Costelloe was performing as a hustler in a theater production of Gang of Seven at the time of his death.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ent/celebrities/6181686.html
How sad for his family. I didn't realize he used to be with the NY Fire Dept.
He was a good character actor.
Police spokesman Lt. John Grimpel said John 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.
The 47-year-old former New York City firefighter gained fame in 2006, when he was cast as short-order cook Jim "Johnny Cakes" Witowski opposite Joseph Gannascoli, who played gay mobster Vito Spatafore on the hit HBO show.
Costelloe was performing as a hustler in a theater production of Gang of Seven at the time of his death.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ent/celebrities/6181686.html
How sad for his family. I didn't realize he used to be with the NY Fire Dept.
He was a good character actor.