Salvatore "Big Pussy" Bonpensiero (mostly just called Pussy, although in an affectionate way; his wife called him Sal), played by Vincent Pastore, was one of Tony Soprano's men on the fictional HBO TV series, The Sopranos. Vincent Pastore (born in 1946) is a film and television actor of Italian-American descent, often cast as a mobster or heavy. ... This article is about a fictional character from The Sopranos. ... A fictional character is any person who appears in a work of fiction. ... For alternate meanings of HBO, see HBO (disambiguation). ... An American family watching television in the 1950s. ... The Sopranos is a television drama produced by HBO. It first aired in 1999 and is expected to be concluded at the end of the upcoming sixth season in 2006, although several of the cast members have hinted that further seasons may occur. ...

Pussy was a very big and kind-hearted guy. He doted on his wife and kids and was a long-time friend of Tony's, helping him out in a number of areas. However, Pussy had three kids to raise and he wasn't receiving enough money through his work, so he began trafficking in heroin on the side. However, he was caught by the FBI and given the choice of either working for them as an informant against Tony Soprano and the family or facing the possibility of spending the rest of his life in prison. Heroin or diamorphine (INN) (colloquially referred to as junk, babania, horse, golden brown, smack, black tar, big H, lady H, dope, skag, juice, diesel, etc. ... The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is a Federal police force which is the principal investigative arm of the United States Department of Justice (DOJ). ...

Pussy worked for a while as an informant for the FBI (starting before the events of the first season), wearing a wire on occasion, but eventually Tony found out. On a boat ride with Tony, Sil and Paulie, they confronted him about being an informant and eventually killed him, wrapping him in chains and dumping him in the ocean. This article is about a fictional character from The Sopranos. ... This article is about a fictional character from The Sopranos. ...

See also

• List of characters from The Sopranos

The following is a partial listing of fictional characters from the HBO series, The Sopranos: Tony Soprano, played by James Gandolfini Carmela Soprano, played by Edie Falco Meadow Soprano, played by Jamie-Lynn DiScala Anthony Soprano, Jr. ...

External link

• HBO Profile: Big Pussy Bonpensiero (http://www.hbo.com/sopranos/cast/character/big_pussy.shtml)