<P> Brancato was born in Bogotá, Colombia . Adopted when he was four months old, he was raised by Italian - American parents, Lillo Sr. (a builder), and Domenica (an electrolysist), in Yonkers, New York . Brancato studied at Mount Saint Michael Academy . His adoptive brother, Vinny, briefly worked as a fashion model and now works as a Yonkers civil servant . </P> <P> Although he was born in Colombia, Brancato has said, "I consider myself Italian . I was raised to eat pasta". Brancato was discovered in 1992, while swimming at New York's Jones Beach, by a talent scout who noticed Brancato's resemblance to Robert De Niro . Brancato was a fan of De Niro and impressed the scout with an impression of Travis Bickle from Taxi Driver . This won him the role of De Niro's son in A Bronx Tale . </P> <P> Brancato acted in three films in the mid-1990s, prior to joining the cast of The Sopranos . In the 1993 film A Bronx Tale, he played the main character Calogero' C' Anello, a teenager torn between his father and a mob boss who befriended him as a kid . (According to New York Magazine, Brancato earned $25,000 ($42,400 today) for the role .) He appeared in the 1994 movie Renaissance Man, followed by a minor but climatic role as a radio operator in the 1995 film Crimson Tide . </P> <P> In the second season of The Sopranos, which HBO broadcast in 2000, Brancato starred as Matthew Bevilaqua, a young mobster associated with Tony Soprano's crime syndicate . Bevilaqua first appeared in the second - season premiere, "Guy Walks into a Psychiatrist's Office ...", and appeared in five more episodes, the last one being "Bust Out", However, his character was murdered in the previous episode, "From Where to Eternity". Brancato also played a mobster in the TV series Falcone, which debuted in 2000 . In 2001, Brancato starred in' R Xmas, appearing with fellow Sopranos cast member Drea de Matteo . </P>

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