There are many more reasons to like New Jersey besides gay marriage and the juice-head gorillas walking around shirtless at the Jersey Shore. One of them is bodacious bohunk Bobby Cannavale. The son of an Italian-American father and a Cuban mother, Bobby puts us in the confusing position of wanting to eat his sausage and smoke his cigar at the same time.
We first noticed Bobby when he appeared alongside the equally smoldering Andy Garcia in the 1997 crime drama Night Falls on Manhattan. Then he got America breathlessly watching in Third Watch, where he played the pulse-pounding paramedic Bobby Caffey. Call the ambulance for us!
Bobby has also plied his trade on Broadway, starring in productions of The Motherfucker With the Hat and Mauritius, which won him a Tony. In the third season of HBO’s Boardwalk Empire, Bobby appeared to be stiff as a boardwalk during his full-frontal portrayal of a gangster who’s into erotic asphyxiation. We couldn’t breathe either when we saw his bare butt as he ran naked through the street chasing some men attempting to kill him. Nothing makes good crime television like assassins and ass-flashin’s.
He's gone on to star as Dr. Mike Cruz in Nurse Jackie (2012) and makes us want to go Cruzin' to find us more of Bobby's bare chest and speckled chest hair after seeing an episode of him laying shirtless in bed. He portrays Richie Finestra in Vinyl (2016) to give us a retro spin on his sex appeal. Bobby goes shirtless a lot, but we love him most for showing off his bulge in a tight pair of black briefs that hug his thick bod. People say music sounds better on vinyl, but we didn't realize Bobby looks better on Vinyl!