Tony Danza

Tony Danza (born Antonio Salvatore Iadanza; April 21, 1951) is an American actor known for starring on the television series Taxi and Who's the Boss?, for which he was nominated for an Emmy Award and four Golden Globe Awards. In 1998, Danza won the People's Choice Award for Favorite Male Performer in a New Television Series for his work on the 1997 sitcom The Tony Danza Show.

Danza was born in Brooklyn, New York, to parents Anne (nee Cammisa) and Matty Iadanza, a garbage man in Brooklyn. Danza's father was of Italian ancestry and Danza's mother was an immigrant from Sicily in Italy. He has a younger brother, Matty Danza Jr. (born 1954), a Los Angeles restaurant owner. When Danza was 14, he and his family relocated to Malverne, New York on Long Island. Both his parents died of cancer.