James Ciccone is an American actor, comedian and acting teacher. He has appeared in dozens of network television shows and a variety of popular films. For 3 seasons he appeared as mob boss Carmine Patriccia in the HBO television drama The Deuce, created by David Simon and George Pelecanos. More recently he can be seen in season 4 of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. In 2017 Ciccone appeared in the racially charged bio-pic Crown Heights which premiered in competition at the Sundance Film Festival on January 23, 2017 and won the Audience Award for U.S. Dramatic Film. In 2019, he appeared in The Kitchen, starring Melissa McCarthy and Tiffany Haddish, and the Academy Award nominated films, Joker, starring Joaquin Phoenix and Robert De Niro, and Martin Scorsese's The Irishman. In late 2021 he can be