Read all about it This is the third Sopranos actor to be in some serious trouble. The first was Robert Iler, the actor who plays Tony Soprano's son. He and his real-life friends decided to rob somebody in real-life like a FantasyLand Soprano. Vincent Pastore, the Sopranos ratfink Big Pussy Bumpensiero, beat his girlfriend to a pulp on the freeway then threw her out of the car. And alas, we have escalated to the final scene, murder. Lillo Brancato Jr. is the Sopranos actor who concocted a scheme to murder Tony's nephew Christopher and finds himself murdered instead. He was inovlved in a robbery which left an off-duty cop dead. He, like his TV character and the scheme that went awry, was shot during this ill-fated burglary and, while not dead, is in serious condition. It makes sense I 'spose, when looking for character actors, what better way to get the street thug character than to use, well, a street thug.