Al Sapienza

Al Sapienza is an American actor who has had numerous roles in television, stage and film productions. He is best known for his role as Mikey Palmice on the HBO series The Sopranos as well as for his role as Marty Spinella, a lobbyist for the teachers' union in the Netflix series House of Cards. He played the role of Jake Housman in the North American premiere of the stage version of Dirty Dancing.

Al Sapienza
Sapienza in 2016
Born	New York City, New York, U.S.
Other names	Alex Statler
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1979–present

Filmography

Film

Year	Film	Role	Notes
1979	Nocturna: Granddaughter of Dracula	Musician
1990	Pretty Woman	Night Doorman	credited as Alex Statler
1991	Frankie and Johnny	Peter's roommate
1993	Champagne and Bullets	Drug smuggler
	CIA II: Target Alexa	Raines	credited as Alex Statler
1994	Animal Instincts 2	Eric	Video
1995	Under Siege 2: Dark Territory	Captain no. 2
	Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home	Engineer
	Judge Dredd	Unnamed Judge (Uncredited)
1997	The Voyeur	James
1997	Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction	John
1998	Godzilla	Taxi driver
	Lethal Weapon 4	Detective
	Phoenix	Cop
2001	The Hollywood Sign	Rodney
2002	Al's Lads	Georgio	Alternate title - Capone's Boys
	Rabbit	Frank	Short film
	Blind Heat	Jeffrey Scott
2003	Bomb the System	Officer Bobby Cox
	Endangered Species	Medina
2004	Starkweather	Deputy Fahrnbruch
	Cellular	Ed
	Sin's Kitchen	Joe	Also associate producer
	Megalodon	Ross Elliot
	Redemption	Daniel Stanza
2005	Waterborne	Connors
	Central Booking	Marty Johnson
	Back in the Day	Detective Kline	Voiceover
	Devil's Highway	Hector
	Carlito's Way: Rise to Power	Nick	Video, uncredited
2006	Intellectual Property	Paul's father
2007	Scar	Delgado
2008	Saw V	Chief of Police
	Crazy Girls Undercover	Alex Walker
2009	Dolan's Cadillac	Fletcher
2010	Unrivaled	Sergio
2010	Vacation with Derek	Doug Dumbarton	Television film
2011	Secrets from Her Past	David
2011	Margin Call	Louis Carmelo
2012	A Dark Truth	Doug Calder
	Girls Gone Dead[1]	Sheriff Pratt
	Jersey Shore Shark Attack	Mike
2013	Please Kill Mr. Know It All	Mob Boss
	Separation	Elliot
	Seasick Sailor	Lou	Short film
2014	Late Phases	Bennett
	Million Dollar Arm	Pete the Scout
	Godzilla	Huddleston
	Omphalos	Darius Lefaux
	Taken 3	Detective Johnson
2015	The Big Short	Forum Speaker
2016	Stevie D	Nick Grimaldi
2017	XXX: Return of Xander Cage	CIA Director
	Shock and Awe	Arthur
	Gangster Land	Johnny Torrio
2018	Black Water	Edward Rhodes
	Damn You, Roland Ruby!	Big Ricky Parisi
2019	American Hangman	Detective Steptoe
	The Art of Racing in the Rain	Luca Pantoni
	From Zero to I Love You	Tracey Thayer
2020	Capone	Ralphie
	Money Plane	The Bookkeeper
2021	Dark Web: Cicada 3301	Mike Croft

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1990	Who's the Boss?	Tomato Man	Season 7 Episode 11: "Inherit the Wine"
1995	NYPD Blue	Tommy	Season 2 Episode 12: "Large Mouth Bass"
1999	Law & Order	Scott Shea	Season 9 Episode 16: "Harm"
1999–2004	The Sopranos	Mikey Palmice	10 episodes
2000	NYPD Blue	Pete Mangrini	Season 7 Episode 17: "Roll Out the Barrel"
	Judging Amy	Greg Christofaro	Season 1 Episode 19: "The Out-of-Towners"
2002–2003	24	Paul Koplin	(1) Season 2 Episode 7: "Day 2: 2:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m." (2002) (2) Season 2 Episode 8: "Day 2: 3:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m." (2002) (3) Season 2 Episode 9: "Day 2: 4:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m." (2003)
2003	CSI: Miami	James Fukes	Season 1 Episode 19: "Double Cap"
	Living Straight	Adam Parks	TV movie
2004	Charmed	Johnny the Gent	Season 7 Episode 8: "Charmed Noir"
	NCIS	Commander Foley	Season 1 Episode 18: "UnSEALed"
	Alias	Tom	Season 3 Episode 2: "Succession"
	The O.C.	Luna Chicks Club Owner	Season 1 Episode 22: "The L.A."
2004-2024	NCIS	(1) Commander William Foley (2) De Leon's Lawyer (3) Maurice Riva	(1) Season 1 Episode 18: "UnSEALed" (2004) (2) Season 20 Episode 22: "Black Sky" (2023) (3) Season 21 Episode 1: "Algùn Día" (2024)
2005	Prison Break	Philly Falzone	(1) Season 1 Episode 2: "Allen" (2) Season 1 Episode 3: "Cell Test" (3) Season 1 Episode 9: "Tweener" (4) Season 1 Episode 10: "Sleight of Hand"
2006	Law & Order: Criminal Intent	Seamus Flaherty's Attorney	Season 6 Episode 7: "Country Crossover"
	The Path to 9/11	Donald Sadowy	(1) Season 1 Episode 1 (2) Season 1 Episode 2
2006–2008	Brotherhood	Mayor Frank Panzerelli	11 episodes
2007	Til Lies Do Us Part	Ethan	TV movie
2008	In Plain Sight	Frank Santoro Sr. / Francis Amato	Season 1 Episode 1: "Pilot"
2009	Fringe	Conrad Moreau	Season 1 Episode 13: "The Transformation"
	Dark Blue		Season 1 Episode 3: "Purity"
	Warehouse 13	Captain Powell	Season 1 Episode 6: "Burnout"
2010	Burn Notice	Special Agent Callahan	Season 3 Episode 16: "Devil You Know"
2011	White Collar	Frank DeLuca, Jr.	Season 3 Episode 4: "Dentist of Detroit"
	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit	ATF Supervisor	Season 12 Episode 24: "Smoked"
2011–2012	Blue Bloods	Phil Sanfino	(1) Season 2 Episode 5: "A Night on the Town" (2011) (2) Season 2 Episode 16: "Women with Guns" (2012) (3) Season 2 Episode 21: Collateral Damage" (2012)
2011–2015	Person of Interest	Detective Raymond Terney	14 episodes
2013	House of Cards	Marty Spinella	(1) Season 1 Episode 3: "Chapter 3" (2) Season 1 Episode 5: "Chapter 5" (3) Season 1 Episode 6: "Chapter 6"
	Arrow	Edward Rasmus	Season 1 Episode 20: "Home Invasion"
2014	The Flash	Detective Fred Chyre	Season 1 Episode 1: "Pilot"
	Gotham	Dick Lovecraft	(1) Season 1 Episode 9: "Harvey Dent" (2) Season 1 Episode 10: "Lovecraft"
	Ascension	Councilman Rose	(1) Season 1 Episode 1: "Chapter One" (2) Season 1 Episode 2: "Chapter Two" (3) Season 1 Episode 3: "Chapter Three"
2015	Jesse Stone: Lost in Paradise	Mr. Davies
	Public Morals	Harry Hardware	Season 1 Episode 2: "Family Is Family"
2016	Game of Silence	Wallace Tuttle	(1) Season 1 Episode 3: "Hurricane Gil" (2) Season 1 Episode 4: "The Uninvited" (3) Season 1 Episode 5: "Ghosts of Quitman" (4) Season 1 Episode 6: "Into the Black" (5) Season 1 Episode 9: "The Truth" (6) Season 1 Episode 10: "She Sang Hymns Out of Tune"
	Shoot the Messenger	Erik Lawson	8 episodes
	Elementary	Sergeant Black	Season 4 Episode 17: "You've Got Me, Who's Got You?"
2016–2017	The Peter Austin Noto Show	Self at Sid's pants/sids pants Himself	(1) Season 3 Episode 25: "Al Sapienza" (2016) (2) Season 5 Episode 3 (2016) (3) Season 5 Episode 4 (2016) (4) Season 5 Episode 9 (2017)
2017	Shades of Blue	Kirschner	(1) Season 2 Episode 11: "The Quality of Mercy" (2) Season 2 Episode 12: "Behind the Mask"
	Rogue	SAC Mullen	(1) Season 4 Episode 9: "The Third Man" (2) Season 4 Episode 10: "A Good Leaving Alone"
2017–2019	Suits	Thomas Bratton	(1) Season 7 Episode 4: "Divide and Conquer" (2017) (2) Season 7 Episode 7: "Full Disclosure" (2017) (3) Season 7 Episode 8: "100" (2017) (4) Season 8 Episode 9: "Motion to Delay" (2018) (5) Season 9 Episode 4: "Cairo" (2019)
2018	No Easy Days	Andrew Whitmore	8 episodes
	Insomnia	Eric Ford	8 episodes
	Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan	Lieutenant General Marcus Trent	(1) Season 1 Episode 5: "End of Honor" (2) Season 1 Episode 7: "The Boy" (3) Season 1 Episode 8: "Inshallah"
	Supernatural	Santino Scarpatti	Season 15 Episode 13: "A Most Holy Man"
2019	God Friended Me	Sonny	Season 1 Episode 16: "Scenes from an Italian Restaurant"
	The Blacklist	Carlo Androssani	Season 6 Episode 16: "Lady Luck (Number 69)"
	Designated Survivor	General Nathan Kellogg	Season 3 Episode 7: "#identity/crisis"
	Pure	Sterling Mackay	(1) Season 2 Episode 1: "Excommunication" (2) Season 2 Episode 2: "Faspa" (3) Season 2 Episode 5: "Penance"
	Hudson & Rex	Edward Bullock	(1) Season 1 Episode 8: "Fast Eddie's, Slow Food" (2) Season 1 Episode 11: "Bad Water Rising"
2021	Queen of the South	Mr. Shaker	Season 5 Episode 6: "Plata o Plomo"
	Dopesick	Paul Hanly[2]	Season 1 Episode 5: "The Whistleblower"
2023–2024	Reacher	Drew Marsh	(1) Season 2 Episode 4: "A Night at the Symphony" (2023) (2) Season 2 Episode 6: "New York's Finest" (2024) (3) Season 2 Episode 7: "The Man Goes Through" (2024)
2024	The Umbrella Academy	Richard/Dick	Season 4 Episode 4: "The Cleanse"

Video games

Year	Title	Role
1996	Soviet Strike	Nick Arnold
2005	Law & Order: Criminal Intent	E.G. Halliwell
2008	Grand Theft Auto IV	The Crowd of Liberty City