Anthony >>> Trivia

Last name is pronounced La Pah-lia

Brother of actor Jonathan LaPaglia

Listed as one of twelve "Promising New Actors of 1991" in John Willis' Screen World, Vol. 43.

Italian on his father's side and Dutch on his mother's side.

Inspired to become an actor by a community theater performance of William Congreve's Way of the World in his native Australia.

Quote: " 'Murder One' wasn't a bad experience, but TV is hard even if you're working with the best, and there aren't many better than [Steven] Bocho. It's just that the constraints make for the antithesis of quality. You don't have time to do anything right. It was especially brutal for me because I was in every scene. If you put in 15-hour days without a break, halfway through the season you're ready to shoot yourself." - Movieline, August 1997

Claim to Fame: Played Stevie Dee, a moonstruck mobster who woos Ally Sheedy, in Alan Alda's comedy Betsy's Wedding (1990)

Filmed scenes playing as Chicago ganster Al Capone for the 2001 Tom Hanks drama, Road to Perdition (2002), but all the scenes were cut out.

Characteristically cast as New York tough guys, very few people know that he is actually a born and raised Australian. He has said that the only internationally successful Australian actor at the time he began acting was Mel Gibson, who had lost his Australian accent, so he did the same. Today, looking at all the hot young Australian actors who have kept their native accents but can use other dialects in their films, he says he regrets having dropped his accent.