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  • NAME: Tony Danza
  • OCCUPATION: Film Actor, Theater Actor, Television Actor
  • BIRTH DATE: April 21, 1951 (Age: 62)
  • EDUCATION: University of Dubuque
  • PLACE OF BIRTH: Brooklyn, New York
  • Originally: Anthony Iadanza
  • ZODIAC SIGN: Taurus

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Tony Danza is a TV, film and stage actor best known for his sitcom Who's the Boss?

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The show ended in 2003. The next year, Danza appeared on the daytime circuit in his own talk show also called The Tony Danza Show, which aired for two years. In 2010, he he developed his own reality show with A&E Networks about his attempt to enter the classroom as a full-time teacher . The show, Teach: Tony Danza, followed Danza in his first year as a 10th grade English instructor at Northeast High School in Philadelphia,

Pennsylvania.

Danza has proven his range as an actor by also trying his hand at the stage. He made his theatrical debut in the 1993 production of Wrong Turn at Lungfish, for which he earned an Outer Critics Circle Award nomination. Additional stage credits include the Broadway revival of Arthur Miller's Tony Award-winning A View From the Bridge; Danza's solo cabaret show, which still continues to tour around the country; and a starring role as Max Bialystock in a 2006 Broadway production of The Producers, which continued until 2007.

Meanwhile, the actor has amassed a hefty film resume with starring roles in She's Out of Control (1988), Angels in the Outfield (1994), Illtown (1996), A Brooklyn State of Mind (1997), and Glam (1997). In addition, Danza stepped behind the camera to write, direct and star in the short film Mama Mia (1998), released his debut album The House I Live In (2003), and published a cookbook with his son called Don't Fill Up on the Antipasto: Tony Danza's Father-Son Cookbook (2008).

Danza was married to his college sweetheart, Rhonda Yeomen, in 1970. During their four-year marriage, the couple welcomed two sons. He remarried in 1986 to Tracy Robinson the couple had two daughters before their divorce in 2007.

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