Silvio Dante

Silvio Manford Dante, often referred to as "Sil", played by Steven Van Zandt, is a fictional character on the HBO TV series The Sopranos. He is the consigliere to Tony Soprano in the Soprano crime family. Silvio has one of the lowest profiles on the show. He is usually a behind the scenes figure and tries not to draw much attention to himself. He does very well at maintaining a legitimate business image as the manager and owner of the Bada Bing strip club. Silvio usually keeps his cool in even the worst situations but has been known to unleash his terrible fury and excessive anger when necessary (or when playing poker), revealing a temper comparable to his peers'. Silvio is a movie and film connoisseur and has an encyclopedic mind for movie lines. Throughout the series, he entertains the other members of the crew by getting into character and mimicking Michael Corleone's remark in the The Godfather Part III: "Just when I thought I was out...they pulled me back in." Silvio is one of the most loyal mobsters in the Soprano crime family. He is notorious on the show for executing FBI informants and traitors.