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Armand Assante was born in New York City, and raised in Cornwall, New York. He is an American actor. Assante was married to Karen McArn from 1982 to 1994, and has two daughters, Anya and Alesandra. His first film was The Lords of Flatbush, although the title credits misspelled his last name as Assanti. A role that brought him greater attention came in 1980's Private Benjamin as a handsome Frenchman who becomes the love interest of a U.S. soldier played by Goldie Hawn.  He portrayed the notorious Bugsy Siegel in a comedy, Neil Simon's The Marrying Man, another mobster in Hoffa starring Jack Nicholson, and crime kingpin John Gotti in the 1996 made-for-television biopic Gotti, for which he won his Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie.