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Joseph Tudisco has landed his biggest role yet as Mike Santini on HBO's The Chair Company

The 76-year-old actor, who has been in the business for four decades with various gigs on projects, like The Sopranos and Law & Order , tells PEOPLE that the experience of becoming a series regular on the comedy has been a "whirlwind"

"You kind of just accept the fact that you have what you have and that's it — but no, it happens," he says, acknowledging that hard work pays off

Joseph Tudisco is "living proof" that hard work pays off after landing his big break on The Chair Company , which debuted this fall. Just ask the woman at his doctor's office.

While waiting for an appointment with his eye doctor sometime after the series premiered in October, the longtime actor and fi

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