Tony Danza

At 73 years old, Tony Danza has this physical status:

Tony Danza (born Antonio Salvatore Iadanza, 1951) is an American actor, television presenter, tap dancer, boxer, and tutor who appeared on the television show Taxi and Who's the Boss? for which he was nominated for an Emmy Award and four Golden Globe Awards.

Danza received the People's Choice Award for Favorite Male Performer in a New Television Series in 1998 for his role on the 1997 sitcom The Tony Danza Show (not to be confused with his 2004–2006 daytime variety talk show of the same name).

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Early life

Danza was born in Brooklyn, New York, on April 21, 1951, to parents Anna Mary (née Camisa; 1925–1993) and Matthew Anthony "Matty" Iadanza (1920–1983). His mother was a bookkeeper and his father worked as a garbage collector in Brooklyn. Danza's paternal grandparents were from Pietrelcina, Benevento, Campania, Italy, and his mother, an immigrant from Campobello di Mazara, Sicily's province of Trace, is a male immigrant. Matty Jr. (born 1954), a Los Angeles restaurant owner, has a younger brother. He was a resident of East New York, Brooklyn, until he was 14 years old, and his family migrated to Malverne, New York, on Long Island. Danza attended Malverne Senior High School, graduating in 1969. Danza's first episode of his show Teach: Tony Danza describes himself as a "poor student" in high school. He earned a bachelor's degree in history from the University of Dubuque, which he attended on a wrestling scholarship. Danza's friends accepted him in the New York City Golden Gloves in 1975 as a joke. Danza was disqualified in the finals after knocking out his first six opponents all in the first round.

He had the Robert Crumb "Keep on Truckin" logo tattooed on his upper right arm during his first year of college. "I was playing pool with a guy with all these tattoos, and I wanted to be friends," Danza wrote in a 1985 interview for Us Weekly magazine. Danza has a "Keep Punching" boxing gloves tattoo on his right arm as well as "Tracy" his (former) wife's name on his chest. Danza met and married his first wife in college.

Personal life

Danza's first marriage was to Rhonda Yeoman. They married in 1970 and divorced in 1974. In two episodes as Brian Sims, their son Marc appeared on Taxi with Tony on Taxi.

Danza married Tracy Robinson in 1986. The couple divorce was finalized on February 6, 2013. They have two children.

Don't Fill Up on the Antipasto: Danza and his son Marc co-authored a book in 2008, titled Don't Fill Up on the Antipasto: Tony Danza's Father-Son Cookbook.

On Grand Street in Manhattan's Little Italy neighborhood, Danza was a partner of Alleva Dairy, promoted as America's oldest cheese store.

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Career

Danza was a professional boxer with a track record of 9 victories and 3 losses (9 knockouts, 7 in the first round), with all but one of his matches ending in a knockout, including three technical knockouts.

Danza was discovered by a producer at a boxing gymnasium in New York just shy of graduating from Dubuque's college. He earned a spot on the television show Taxi, playing a cab driver and part-time boxer Tony Banta, and later appeared on Who's the Boss, a baseball player, housekeeper, and single father. Danza was honoured on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1988 for his contributions to the television industry. 7000 Hollywood Boulevard. In the Outfield (1994), Danza played Mel Clark, a baseball player, and also played in the Angels.

Danza appeared in the short-lived sitcoms Hudson Street (1995) and The Tony Danza Show (1997), but do not get confused with his 2004–2006 talk show, The Tony Danza Show. He appeared in the television drama Family Law from 2000 to 2002.

He had been nominated for an Emmy Award for a guest-starring role in 1998's television show The Practice. His film debut came in the 1980s film The Hollywood Knights (1980), which was followed by Going Ape! (1981) Anza (2001). For his role in Eugene O'Neill's revival in 1999 Broadway, he received acclaim. Danza's debut album The House I Live In is a 1950s-style crooner.

Danza hosted his own television talk show, The Tony Danza Show, which was produced every weekday morning in his hometown of New York and syndicated throughout the United States. Danza's kart flipped on May 9, 2005, after Wallace mistakenly bumped him. Both he and Wallace were wearing helmets at the time, and both were uninjured. Danza returned to go-kart racing on October 20, 2005, to face IndyCar driver Danica Patrick, but his brakes malfunctioned and he skidded into a wall unharmed. In May 2006, his daytime talk show came to an end; the last live episode aired on May 26, 2006.

Max Bialystock in The Producers from December 19, 2006 to March 11, 2007, he revived his role in The Paris Las Vegas from August 13, 2007, to February 9, 2008.

In 2008, Danza appeared on The Contender for the 4th time.

On September 26, 2013, co-starring Danza and Tony nominee Rob McClure, directing Gary Griffin, a Broadway interpretation of the 1992 film Honeymoon in Vegas opened on a pre-Broadway run at Paper Mill Playhouse in New Jersey. Danza was inducted into the Ride of Fame in December 2014, and the double-decker sightseeing bus commemorated his appearance in the Broadway musical.

In the 2018 Netflix film The Good Cop, Danza appeared as Tony Caruso Sr. as "a disgraced former NYPD officer who never followed the rules." After one season, the show was cancelled.

Danza's A&E reality show Teach: Tony Danza, in which he co-instructed a 10th grade English class at Northeast High School in Philadelphia in 2009-2010. On October 1, 2010, the show debuted on October 1, 2010. I Would Like to Apologise to Every Teacher I Ever Had: My Year as a Rookie Teacher at Northeast High (ISBN 9780307887863), which was published in 2012, was based on his year of teaching.

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