# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richard-romanus
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:42:16.334Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/richard-romanus"
name: "Richard Romanus"
slug: "richard-romanus"
description: "Richard Romanus was an American actor. He appeared in Martin Scorsese's Mean Streets and provided voices for Ralph Bakshi's animated films Wizards and Hey Good Lookin'. He played Richard La Penna, Jennifer Melfi's ex-husband, later husband again, in four episodes of The Sopranos from 1999 to 2002. In 1999, he co-wrote the Christmas film If You Believe along with his wife Anthea Sylbert, which was nominated by the Writers Guild of America TV Award for Original Long Form."
tagline: "American actor (1943–2023)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/2b/Publicity_Photo_of_Richard_Romanus.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1943-02-08"
deathDate: "2023-12-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             3.812790550071468
  historical:           10.76675733333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0739087/"
    handle:    "nm0739087"
sources:
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Riçard Romanus"
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    title: "ڕیچارد ڕۆمانۆس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Richard Romanus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Romanus"
    title: "Richard Romanus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Romanus"
    title: "Richard Romanus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Romanus"
    title: "Richard Romanus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Romanus"
    title: "Richard Romanus"
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  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Romanus"
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  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%A6%AC%EC%B2%98%EB%93%9C_%EB%A1%9C%EB%A7%88%EB%84%88%EC%8A%A4"
    title: "리처드 로마너스"
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    title: "Richard Romanus"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q139765"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
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    title: "Richard Romanus"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump