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>John Costelloe - The Brooklyn actor who played Johnny Cakes — the gay-fireman lover of a mob capo on “The Sopranos” — killed himself in a holiday tragedy that has stunned family and friends.

John Costelloe, 47, shot himself in the head in his basement bedroom on December 16, reports New York Post.

John Costelloe, a former FDNY firefighter, played a cook on “The Sopranos” who had a brief homosexual affair with Vito Spatafore.

The front door to John Costelloe’s Sunset Park home was still sealed with police stickers yesterday, more than a week after the rugged 47-year-old actor committed suicide.

Costelloe, a former FDNY firefighter, shot himself in the head in his basement bedroom on Dec. 16, cops and pals said.

John Costelloe had a crucial four-episode arc on “The Sopranos” in 2006, playing short-order cook Jim “Johnny Cakes” Witowski.

In the hit HBO series, actor Joseph Gannascoli – a longtime friend of Costelloe’s – played mobster and closeted homosexual Vito Spatafore, who fled New Jersey after he was outed.

“I was shocked when I heard, and it still hasn’t really sunk in,” Gannascoli told the Post. “I never detected anything troubling about him. I enjoyed all the time I ever spent with him.”

Our condolences to John Costelloe’s family and friends.