Danny Nucci
| Danny Nucci | |
|---|---|
| Born |
September 15, 1968 Klagenfurt, Austria |
| Nationality |
Italian American (from 1990) |
| Alma mater | Grant High School |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1984–present |
| Home town | San Fernando Valley, California |
| Spouse(s) |
Terre Bridgham (m. 1995–98) Paula Marshall (m. 2003) |
| Children | 2 daughters |
Danny Nucci (born September 15, 1968) is an Austrian-American actor.
Personal life
Born in Klagenfurt, Austria, to a French Moroccan mother and an Italian father,[1] Nucci was raised in Italy until the age of seven, when his family relocated to the United States.[2]
After temporarily living in Queens, New York, the family settled in California's San Fernando Valley, where Nucci graduated from Grant High School. He married Paula Marshall in 2003, with whom he has one daughter. He also has a daughter from his first marriage to Terre Bridgham. Nucci and Marshall played lovers in That Old Feeling (1997).
Career
During the 1990s, Nucci played characters who are unceremoniously killed off in three blockbuster films — Eraser, The Rock and Titanic (as Fabrizio De Rossi, Jack Dawson's Italian friend) — which were released within 20 months of each other between 1996 and 1997. His character in Alive (also known as) Alive: The Miracle of the Andes (1993) survives.
Elsewhere in film, he starred as Spider Bomboni in Book of Love (1990) and as Petty Officer Danny Rivetti in the Gene Hackman-Denzel Washington thriller Crimson Tide (1995). He played the roles of Benny Rodriguez in the straight-to-video film The Sandlot: Heading Home (2007) and a Port Authority police officer in World Trade Center (2006).
Nucci appeared as Gabriel Ortega on the CBS soap opera Falcon Crest from 1988 to 1989, and as Vincent Sforza in the television miniseries Firestarter 2: Rekindled (2002). Other notable TV appearances include Growing Pains, Out of This World, Quantum Leap, Family Ties, The Twilight Zone, Tour of Duty, Snoops, Just Shoot Me, House, Without a Trace, Criminal Minds, The Mentalist, CSI: NY, three episodes of Castle and one episode of Arrow. Along with Ernie Hudson, he co-starred in the short-lived police drama series 10-8: Officers on Duty. He provided the voice of Alberto the Chihuahua in The Brave Little Toaster to the Rescue.
In 2010, he portrayed John Gotti in Sinatra Club, and Dante McDermott in the science-fiction film Nephilim. In 2011, he co-starred in the mystery thriller Escapee. Nucci currently plays Mike Foster on the Freeform (formerly ABC Family) drama The Fosters.[3]
Nucci portrayed Pop, the father of main character Felix Funicello, in the 2014 Lifetime television movie Wishin' and Hopin'.[4]
Filmography
Film
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1985 | Explorers | Nasty Kid at School | |
| 1985 | American Drive-In | Tommy | |
| 1986 | The Children of Times Square | Luis Sotavento | TV movie |
| 1986 | The Brotherhood of Justice | Willie | |
| 1986 | Combat Academy | Jai | |
| 1988 | Home Free | Dennis Ferrand | TV movie |
| 1990 | Book of Love | Spider Bomboni | |
| 1992 | Rescue Me | Todd | |
| 1993 | Alive | Hugo Díaz | |
| 1993 | For the Love of My Child: The Anissa Ayala Story | Airon Ayala | TV movie |
| 1993 | Roosters | Hector Morales | |
| 1993 | A Matter of Justice | Vince Grella | TV movie |
| 1994 | Ray Alexander: A Taster for Justice | Paul Garcia | |
| 1994 | Blind Justice | Roberto | |
| 1995 | Homage | Gilbert Tellez | |
| 1995 | Crimson Tide | Petty Officer First Class Danny Rivetti | |
| 1995 | In the Flesh | Rico Sanchez | |
| 1996 | The Rock | Lieutenant Shepard | |
| 1996 | Eraser | WitSec Deputy Monroe | |
| 1996 | The Big Squeeze | Jesse Torrejo | |
| 1997 | Love Walked In | Cousin Matt | |
| 1997 | That Old Feeling | Joey Donna | |
| 1997 | Titanic | Fabrizio | |
| 1998 | Sugar: The Fall of the West | ||
| 1998 | The Unknown Cyclist | Gaetano Amador | |
| 1998 | Sublet | Stuart Dempsey | |
| 1999 | The Outfitters | P.D. Mijants | |
| 1999 | Friends & Lovers | David 'Dave' | |
| 1999 | Tuesday's Letters | ||
| 2000 | Shark in a Bottle | Guy Normal | |
| 2002 | Firestarter 2: Rekindled | Vincent Sforza | TV movie |
| 2002 | Do It for Uncle Manny | Oscar | |
| 2002 | Father Lefty | Father Robert 'Lefty' Lefrack | TV movie |
| 2003 | American Cousins | Gino | |
| 2003 | Mafia Doctor | Frank | TV movie |
| 2004 | One Last Ride | Benny | Uncredited |
| 2005 | Break A Leg | EJ Inglewood | |
| 2006 | The Way Back Home | Paul Reeds | |
| 2006 | World Trade Center | Officer Giraldi | |
| 2007 | Totally Baked | Arturo Goldman (Segment "FunOnion Boardroom") | |
| 2007 | The Sandlot: Heading Home | Benny Rodriguez | Straight-to-Video film |
| 2008 | Backwoods | Perry Walters | TV movie |
| 2010 | Sinatra Club | John Gotti | |
| 2011 | Escapee | Professor Jeremy Davis | |
| 2014 | Wishin' and Hopin' | Pa | |
| 2015 | Pizza with Bullets | Freddie 'The Cat' Pagano |
Television
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1984 | Pryor's Place | Freddy | |
| 1985 | Hotel | Evan | Episode: "Wins and Losses" |
| 1985 | Family Ties | Rick | Episode: "Designated Hitter" |
| 1985 | Mr. Belvedere | Boy | Episode: "Pinball" |
| 1985 | The Twilight Zone | Buddy (segment "The Leprechaun-Artist") | Episode: "The Leprechaun-Artist/Dead Run" |
| 1986 | Our House | Episode: "Choices" | |
| 1986 | Growing Pains | Scooter Krassner | Episode: "Employee of the Month" |
| 1987 | CBS Schoolbreak Special | Scott Fischer | Episode: "An Enemy Among Us" |
| 1988 | Magnum, P.I. | Budge, the leader of the biker gang | Episode: "The Great Hawaiian Adventure Company" |
| 1988-1989 | Falcon Crest | Gabriel Ortega | 16 episodes |
| 1989 | A Brand New Life | Dominick - DJ | Episode: "Private School" |
| 1989 | A Peaceable Kingdom | Eddie Morano | Episode: "Symphony" |
| 1990 | Tour of Duty | Pvt. Wozniak | Episode: "Acceptable Losses" |
| 1990 | Equal Justice | Ramon Escobar | Episode: "Goodbye, Judge Green" |
| 1990 | Quantum Leap | Tony Pronti | Episode: "Leap of Faith - August 19, 1963" |
| 1990 | Ferris Bueller | Greg Knecht | Episode: "Baby You Can't Drive My Car" |
| 1991 | Out of This World | Moose | Episode: "Heck's Angels" |
| 1992 | Blossom | Lou | Episode: "Three O'Clock and All Is Hell" |
| 1992 | Dream On | Pizza Guy | Episode: "Red All Over" |
| 1999-2000 | Snoops | Emmanuel 'Manny' Lott | 13 episodes |
| 2001 | Some of My Best Friends | Frankie Zito | 8 episodes |
| 2002-2003 | Just Shoot Me! | Pete | 2 episodes |
| 2003-2004 | 10-8: Officers on Duty | Deputy Rico Amonte | 15 episodes |
| 2004 | Joey | Ron | Episode: "Joey and the Dream Girl: Part 2" |
| 2005 | House | Bill Arnello | Episode: "Mob Rules" |
| 2008 | Without a Trace | Scott Lucas | Episode: "4G" |
| 2008 | The Mentalist | Ben Machado | Episode: "Flame Red" |
| 2008 | Criminal Minds | Burke Manning | Episode: "Normal" |
| 2009-2014 | Castle | Gilbert Mazzara / Lance | 3 episodes |
| 2010 | CSI: NY | Officer Nicholas Henderson | Episode: "Vacation Getaway" |
| 2011 | CSI: Crime Scene Investigation | Det. Daniel Sosa | Episode: "Cello and Goodbye" |
| 2011 | NCIS: Los Angeles | CIA Agent Figg | Episode: "Sacrifice" |
| 2012 | CSI: Miami | Will Kingsley | Episode: "No Good Deed" |
| 2012 | The Booth at the End | Henry | 5 episodes |
| 2012 | NCIS | Gordon Fremont | Episode: "Devil's Trifecta" |
| 2013 | Arrow | Fire Chief Raynes | Episode: "Burned" |
| 2013–present | The Fosters | Mike Foster | 72 episodes |
References
External links
- Danny Nucci at AllMovie
- Danny Nucci at the Internet Movie Database
- Danny Nucci at the TCM Movie Database
