In Season 6 of Les Soprano (1999), his character, Vito Spatafore, is shown limping
and repeatedly talks about how he is going to have hip surgery. In real
life, Joe had double-hip replacement surgery shortly after the end of
the sixth season.
Born and raised in Brooklyn, St. Johns University for two years,
majoring in communications. He then taught himself to cook and opened
his Soup As Art restaurant, also in Brooklyn.
