John Bianco answers the phone in his thick Brooklyn accent—”How ya doin?’”—and the Deka Lash franchisee in New Jersey sounds exactly like his memorable character in “The Sopranos,” Gerry Torciano.
“I get stereotyped in mob characters a lot. Growing up in Brooklyn, these characters are in my back pocket,” he says. “I do play a good bad guy.”
An acting career has up times and down, so when he got back together with a long-ago sweetheart, Evelyn Cuciti, they decided to open a Deka Lash franchise, which has 52 eyelash extension units open after launching in January 2016.