The Soprano Family Tree EXPLAINED

The Sopranos are one of the most iconic families ever presented on television Tony the patriarch of the family must balance his role in the mafia with his increasingly dysfunctional relationship with his wife Carmella his two children Meadow and AJ and worst of all his toxic mother Livia oh for you but the soprano family extends far beyond the soprano house many of the characters on the show are related to each other and understanding how they all fit together can be a difficult task so I set about making a comprehensive visual to show how all the characters are connected now this took me way more time in Photoshop than it probably should have but I wanted one clear tree for the whole Sopranos family and this is how I was able to visualize it these family trees will be available for download on my website Linked In the pinned comment but since we're here I thought I would go through and explain some of the more obscure family members and what we know about them before we get started I want to give a shout out to two sources I used when making this book one is The Sopranos family history book this book not only gives a great breakdown of the family tree it also has a lot of character backstory not found in the show itself interesting to note the book was written by Alan Rucker the same guy who did The Sopranos cookbook that I used in my cooking with Kino video however the premise of the book is that it's written by some of the people in The Sopranos universe and guess who one of those contributors is Jeffrey wernick the guy from my Sopranos lost media video I swear the more and more I dig the more I realize that there's this greater Sopranos Universe out there just waiting to be discovered the Second Source I want to shout out is Zubin Doshi he created his own Sopranos Family Tree on his website which you may have seen before though I wanted to create my own tree for this video this was a great article to make sure I was on the right path all right with that out of the way let's get into the family tree now there are four main Family Lines The Sopranos the polios the multasanti blendettos and a DeAngelis lines let's start of course with The Sopranos the tree begins here with Corrado soprano senior the family goes back even further to avellino with the ancestor that drove the mule card off the road but this is the oldest family member that we have a name for so I'll start here we don't know anything about the mother Mary Angela but Corrado senior was a master stonemason and he built the Italian church that Tony takes Meadow and AJ to Church the great grandfather helped build that almost 80 years ago there's a stonemation in the old man came over from Abilene with four dollars in his Park it's also possible that he worked with Gloria trillo's grandfather but we're never given a definitive answer or not on that he had seven daughters I can't remember we then move on to their children Corrado Jr Erica Lee and Johnny Boy soprano Junior and Johnny we know all about Eric Lee was developmentally disabled and was sent away to an institution when he was young he died there before the series began but interestingly he was named after Junior's grandfather so that's another one I could have added to the tree it was between me and your father and age his name was Eckley actually Hercules named after my grandfather Junior and Eric Lee never had children but of course Johnny Boy married Livia and had three kids Janice Tony and Barbara Janice would have one son Harpo later named Hal with a French Canadian man named Eugene now we're never told a last name for him so I left it blank she would later marry Bobby bacalieri Junior's right-hand man and have one daughter together Dominica Barbara would marry Tom giglioni and have two kids Tommy and Alyssa they intentionally live far away in Brewster so we only occasionally see them on the show The only thing that we know about Tom is that he works in the special effects industry for the movies but Tom just called from location apparently some smoke effect went awry and he inhaled noxious chemicals well go go we'll skip Tony for now and move back to Olivia's family the polio's now I don't know if polio is a common Italian name but the idea that Livia is named after a debilitating disease is very much in line with her character Olivia's parents were Faustino polio nicknamed Augie and Teresa we don't know much about Augie he was apparently abusive to Libya and the book goes into detail about how he was a socialist and their family was very poor Olivia mentions this on the show my father came to this country with 17 cents in his pocket and he never made a peep they had three other daughters besides Livia satima is the sister that Livia was talking to when she pretended how dementia in season one the only thing that we know about her is that she's dead I will never speak another word to you again satimia grandma and satini is dead it's me Meadow such a brother gamma is alive and lives in Tucson Arizona she was the aunt that Tony was sending Olivia to live with in the episode fun house day two tickets first class go to Tucson say what I Jammer take in Quinn with you little [ __ ] miserab the final aunt is quintina also known as Quinn we actually see her in fun house as she's arrested alongside Olivia for the fake airline tickets he would later marry Albert blundetto this is the Tony Uncle Al that Tony references in Rat Pack Tony Uncle Johnny that was for me and Tony Uncle Al that was for him together they would have one son Tony blandetto also known as Tony B the Two Tonys were like brothers growing up together Tony B would later marry Nancy and have three children Kelly became a drug addict and ran away while Tony B was in prison the twins Jason and Justin were fathered by smuggling Tony B's sperm out of prison to impregnate Nancy they will probably go through their entire lives not knowing that their father's sperm was smuggled out of jail to get Nancy pregnant it was the least I could do Albert also had two siblings Pat glendetto also known as Uncle Pat owns the farm that Christopher and Tony B go to dig up bodies he was allowed to retire from the mob after some sort of medical incident involving hiccups sounds funny but it wasn't he had the hiccups for like a year jeez he would have one daughter Louise with an unknown wife the other sister Joanne would marry into the multasanti family let's take a step back and look at them Hollywood dick multisanti married Lena DeAngelis the sister of hudi Angelus Carmella's father together they would have one son Dickie interestingly the book says that Dickie's father was named Joseph so either this is a retcon for the many Saints of Newark or Joseph is his middle name or something Hollywood dick also had a twin brother Salvatore multasanti however it's possible that Sally was just a hallucination for Dickie so he might not be real either way Dickie would marry Joanne blendetto and have one son Christopher Christopher was engaged to Adriana La cerva a member of the April family who we'll be talking about after this but ultimately Chris ended up marrying Kelly Lombardo and having one daughter Caitlyn moltasanti finally for this family we had the DeAngelis line the first generation is horazio and Concetta they would have at least two children that we know about Lena and Hugh Hugh married Mary Pellegrino and had two daughters Carmella and an unnamed sister this sister is referenced a few times in the early Seasons but were never given a name and she's never brought up again so her status is unknown you don't want to talk about it fine no I gotta go pick up Comal anyway she's at her sisters all right so you can be [ __ ] up with the emptiness syndrome and going well-butrin like your sister if you don't want to accompany me fine your sister can come up from Florida come on she's not gonna do that Carmella of course would then marry Tony Soprano and have two children Meadow and AJ now that's all for the family members that we know how they are related however there are a few relatives mentioned here that we aren't given an exact relationship for example Brian camerata Carmella brings up the fact that he is her cousin but we don't know if that's on her mother or her father's side also in the episode Another Toothpick they attend the funeral of Carmella's uncle febby again unknown where he fits in uh I'm sorry about your uncle well actually uh February was Carmelo's uncle finally for Carmela's side there's her Uncle Eddie Tony brings him up during their fight in the episode White Caps the only thing we know about him is that he was involved with the mob in some way you know my father you grew up around Dickie molta Santi and your Uncle Eddie where do you get off after no surprised and miffed when there are women on the side on the multisanti line we have Christopher's cousin Gregory he lives in LA and is engaged to Amy Safir in the episode D girl it's unclear who he is related to so presumably either Hollywood Dick had more siblings or the connection goes back even further next we move on to the soprano relatives Olivia mentions a cousin keiki but we're given no context into how they're related my cousin keiki after he had his lobotomy looked exactly like my son there is also a cousin Josephine Olivia says she's going to give all of her jewelry to her as she doesn't have much money I gave it all to your cousin Josephine what the [ __ ] the good jewelry she always admired it they don't have much money later this saint Josephine calls Tony and lets him know that their aunt conchetta died they attend her funeral and later the funeral for her husband Uncle Zio presumably Josephine is the daughter of Concetta and Zeo since she was the one who called the book gives her last name polio meaning she's on Olivia's side of the family interestingly Hugh's parents are named Zio and Concetta but this is likely not the same people the d'angelices aren't at the funeral which they would have been if this was his parents likely Zeo is related to Olivia's father Augie instead there are also the girl cousins that Tony references when he complains about Junior's Varsity athlete comments when I was young he told my girl cousins I would never be a varsity athlete and frankly that was a tremendous plot of my self-esteem when I was a kid you told the girl because it's the same thing it was very hurtful we actually see this scene in the many Saints of Newark however we aren't given names for the cousins it's possible that one of these cousins is cousin Josephine from before but we just don't know and finally there's an unexpected member of the greater Sopranos family Patrick Parisi in a deleted scene in season 2 it stated that Philly and by extension his twin brother Patsy are cousins with Tony on his mother's side not only that Philly also happened to be Tony's cousin on his mother's side again no context into where they fit into the tree but that does mean that Patrick Parisi and Meadow are distantly related this is Godfather Part three all over again by the way that does it for the soprano tree however there is another big family connected to the Jersey mob the April family they play a big role in the early Seasons but over the course of the show the family is slowly destroyed by The Sopranos in an almost Shakespearean way so let's take a look and see how they all fit together the eldest of priel is Richard also known as Richie who returns in season 2 after being away in prison he has one son Little Ricky who's a dancer much to his father's dismay he almost married Into The Sopranos family through Janice until she shot him for hitting her next up is Giacomo April known as Jackie April senior he was acting boss of the demaio family until his untimely death from stomach cancer he married Rosalie and had two children Jackie Jr and Kelly April Jackie Jr dated Meadow soprano for a while until she discovered he was cheating on her he was later killed for shooting a maid Guy funny enough by Vito who's actually his cousin what are you doing here I can't visit my cousin next up we have Liz laserva the mother of Adriana we don't know anything about Adriana's father but she's the niece of Richie and Jackie meaning Liz is their sister I don't know what I would do Uncle Rich I love him so much Adriana was engaged to Christopher for a long time before ultimately being killed for being an informant finally we have an unnamed April who married an unnamed spat of four they would have two children Vito and Brian who would later get brain damage from Mustang Sally Bobby bakala seniors godson Vito is a nephew to Richie April call that nephew were yours veto and the other one they're the Building Trades aren't they funny enough this makes him cousins to Adriana laserva which makes his statements about her flirting with him very strange again I know he was faking interest in her to hide the fact that he was gay but is incest really that much better finally Vito married Marie and had two children Vito Jr and Francesca philiotardo is actually a second cousin to Marie meaning he and his family are connected to this line as well so he talked to his uncle who Phil Phil's not his uncle him and I's second cousins anyway that's The Sopranos family tree I hope this video helped you understand the relationship between all the characters and let me know if I forgot anyone or left them off the list and as always stay tuned for more Sopranos content coming soon the cousins dangerous obscrazing media Dash Jake hit Sam cedarland Celery Man Jenner Marie Johnson Brad Smith Studios Uncle Mike Shane Boyce Matt Joyce and Countess Von zerovich [Music]

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Length: 16min 15sec (975 seconds)

Published: Mon Feb 27 2023