Furio Giunta
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Image:Furio giunta.jpgFurio Giunta, played by Federico Castelluccio, is a fictional character on the HBO TV series, The Sopranos, one of the mobsters working for series lead Tony Soprano.
Furio was the only member of Tony's crew born in Italy. Tony bargained with Italian mob boss Annalisa Zucca for Furio to come to New Jersey to work for him as part of an international car-theft operation. Furio then became one of Tony's most feared enforcers, intimidating and beating up multiple people owing Tony money.
Furio eventually began to fall in love with Tony's wife, Carmela, who also saw him as a dashing, sensitive man—Tony's polar opposite—but the two never truly became romantically entwined. For a time, however, there was significant tension between them. On the advice of Furio's uncle, and faced with the possibility of being killed by a vengeful Tony—and thoughts of killing Tony himself—Furio packed up, moved back to Italy and disappeared. Tony apparently still has men looking for him, but no-one has found him since.
According to a news story by the Detroit Free Press in December 2004, Furio will be returning for the sixth season of The Sopranos, likely to lock horns with Tony over Carmela.