Patti LuPone has paid tribute to her late brother Robert as an “unparalleled” dancer. The actress, 73, spoke about her older sibling on Monday (29.
08. 22) after it was confirmed her ‘The Sopranos’ actor had died aged 76 after a three-year battle with pancreatic cancer. Broadway veteran Patti told Page Six: “My brother Bobby was a dancer unparalleled.
And it all started when he saw me in a dance recital wearing a hula skirt. I was four, he was seven. ” Patti and Robert were admitted to The Juilliard School, with Robert, who was three years ahead of his sister, studying dance, while Patti was a theatre student.
The actress added there was a “life-sized picture” of Robert dancing in Jose Limon’s modern ballet, ‘There is a Time’, hung in the photo gallery of the prestigious school.
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