Steven Van Zandt Signs With Paradigm

EXCLUSIVE: Grammy nominee and two-time SAG Award winner Steven Van Zandt has inked with Paradigm for representation in all areas, excluding his live music performances.

Van Zandt is known for starring as hitman Silvio Dante to James Gandolfini’s mob boss Tony Soprano in all seven seasons of HBO’s multi-award-winning The Sopranos. He received two SAG ensemble wins for The Sopranos in 2000 and 2008.

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The lead guitarist for Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band is the center of the latest documentary Stevie Van Zandt: Disciple, which premiered on Max and received a Grammy nomination for Best Music Film. The documentary, directed by Bill Teck, traces Van Zandt’s career as a producer, musician, songwriter, activist, actor and more and features exclusive interviews with Springsteen, Paul McCartney and Bono, among others.

Van Zandt starred in the award-winning series Lilyhammer, which was the first original program for Netflix. In addition to starring, he co-wrote, executive produced and provided the music supervision and scoring for the series, which ran for three seasons.

Van Zandt appears as himself in other documentaries including Max’s Wise Guy: David Chase and the Sopranos and Hulu’s latest Road Diary: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band.

Van Zandt was inducted into the Rock and Roll Fame in 2014 and co-produced the seminal Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band albums The River and Born in the U.S.A.

In 2021, he released his memoir Unrequited Infatuations, which debuted as a New York Times bestseller.

Van Zandt continues to be repped by DSW Entertainment and Big Hassle Media.

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