Former SOPRANOS star James Gandolfini booted an audience member from a recent performance of his Broadway play GOD OF CARNAGE, after the fan sneaked onstage during the intermission.

Gandolfini was stunned when he returned to the stage for the second half of the show and found a man sat in his seat.

The male revealed he was a fan and wanted to meet his idol, but Gandolfini showed no mercy and tossed the man into the wings, where a security guard ejected him from New York's Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre, reports the National Enquirer.

The star, famous for his role as tough mob boss Tony Soprano, regained his composure before the curtain came up - as his co-stars Jeff Daniels, Marcia Gay Harden and Hope Davis looked on stunned.