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Chris Caldovino portrayed Tonino Sandrelli, a gangster who traded loyalties a couple of times throughout HBO's "Boardwalk Empire." The character is first introduced as the right hand of Giuseppe Rosetti (Bobby Cannavale), but he goes on to survive his boss. Caldovino appeared in 15 episodes of "Boardwalk Empire" in three of the show's five seasons.

The show marked a reunion for him with creator Terence Winter, a writer on "The Sopranos." Caldovino joined "Boardwalk Empire" in 2012, too, only a year before he popped up in Martin Scorsese's "The Wolf of Wall Street." Scorsese directed the feature-length pilot of "Boardwalk Empire," and he served as an executive producer. According to Terence Winter, he actually originally convinced Caldovino to come out to Hollywood to give it a shot as an actor.

"I'm single-handedly responsible for eighteen more people moving out here. Some of whom are still doing and did it and working. One of my best friends in the world was an actor named Chris Caldovino, who has been on 'Sopranos,' 'Boardwalk Empire,' and a bunch of different TV shows. He's done it," Winter told the Reinvented podcast in 2022.

Caldovino joked in a 2022 interview with MovieJunk that he and Steve Buscemi shook and agreed Buscemi wouldn't kill him like he did in "The Sopranos," which, of course, didn't happen, another character falling victim to Nucky Thompson.