Danny Nucci

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| name = Danny Nucci

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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1968|09|15}}

| birth_place = Klagenfurt, Carinthia, Austria

| nationality = United States

| alma_mater = Grant High School

| occupation = Actor

| years_active = 1984–present

| spouse = {{plainlist|

{{Marriage|Terre Bridgham|1995|1998|end=divorced}}
{{Marriage|Paula Marshall|2003}}

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| children = 2

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Danny Nucci (born September 15, 1968) is an American actor. He is best known for his supporting roles in blockbuster films, including his roles as Danny Rivetti in Crimson Tide (1995), Lieutenant Shepard in The Rock (1996), Deputy Monroe in Eraser (1996), and Fabrizio de Rossi in Titanic (1997),{{Cite web |date=2022-05-19 |title=Fabrizio in 'Titanic' 'Memba Him?! |url=https://www.tmz.com/2022/05/19/fabrizio-in-titanic-memba-him/ |access-date=2024-04-04 |website=TMZ |language=en}} as well as his lead role as Mike Foster in the Freeform series The Fosters (2013–2018).

Personal life

Danny Nucci was born on September 15, 1968 in Klagenfurt to a Jewish family. https://www.jewishtampa.com/jews-in-the-news/jews-in-the-news-ali-macgraw-danny-nucci-and-robert-morse His family had emigrated from Morocco to Italy and then to Austria. After Austria, his family immigrated to New York City when he was still a child.{{Cite web |url=https://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1800021918/bio |title=Danny Nucci Biography |work=Yahoo! Movies |access-date=14 January 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120114132030/http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1800021918/bio |archive-date=14 January 2012 |publisher=AEC One Stop Group, Inc. |agency=Baseline. Yahoo! Inc.}}

After temporarily living in Queens, the family settled in the San Fernando Valley, where Nucci graduated from Grant High School. He married Terre Bridgham in 1995, and they had a daughter before their divorce in 1998. He played lovers with Paula Marshall in the 1997 film That Old Feeling; they married in 2003, and have a daughter.

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){{Cite book|last=Willis|first=John|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dudIfQtcfGgC&q=danny+nucci&pg=PA14|title=Screen World 1992|date=1993-05-01|publisher=Hal Leonard Corporation|isbn=978-1-55783-135-4|language=en}} 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,{{Cite book|last=Communications|first=Emmis|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oV0EAAAAMBAJ&q=danny+nucci&pg=PA26|title=Los Angeles Magazine|date=1998|publisher=Emmis Communications|language=en}} 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. Until 2018, Nucci played Mike Foster on the Freeform (formerly ABC Family) drama The Fosters.{{cite web |url=http://beta.abcfamily.go.com/shows/the-fosters/cast |title=The Fosters Cast |access-date=17 July 2019 |work=ABC Family |publisher=ABC Family |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130414085833/http://beta.abcfamily.go.com/shows/the-fosters/cast |archive-date=14 April 2013}}

Nucci portrayed Pop, the father of main character Felix Funicello, in the 2014 Lifetime television movie Wishin' and Hopin'.

Filmography

=Film=

class="wikitable"

!Year

!Title

!Role

!Notes

rowspan="2" | 1985

| Explorers

| Steve Jackson's Gang Member

American Drive-In

| Tommy

1986

| Combat Academy

| Jai

1990

| Book of Love

| 'Spider' Bomboni

1992

| Rescue Me

| Todd

rowspan="2" | 1993

| Alive

| Hugo Díaz

Roosters

| Hector Morales

rowspan="3" | 1995

| Homage

| Gilbert Tellez

Crimson Tide

| Petty Officer First Class Danny Rivetti

In the Flesh

| Rico Sanchez

rowspan="3" | 1996

| The Rock

| Lieutenant Shepard

Eraser

| WitSec US Deputy Marshal Monroe

The Big Squeeze

| Jesse Torrejo

rowspan="3" | 1997

| Love Walked In

| Cousin Matt

That Old Feeling

| Joey Donna

Titanic

| Fabrizio

rowspan="3" | 1998

| Sugar: The Fall of the West

| Unknown

The Unknown Cyclist

| Gaetano Amador

Sublet

| Stuart Dempsey

rowspan="4" | 1999

| The Outfitters

| P.D. Mijants

The Brave Little Toaster to the Rescue

| Alberto (voice)

Friends & Lovers

| Dave

Tuesday's Letters

| Unknown

2000

| Shark in a Bottle

| Guy Normal

2002

| Do It for Uncle Manny

| Oscar

2003

| American Cousins

| Gino

2004

| One Last Ride

| Benny

| Uncredited

2005

| Break A Leg

| E.J. Inglewood

rowspan="2" | 2006

| The Way Back Home

| Paul Reeds

World Trade Center

| Officer Giraldi

rowspan="2" | 2007

| Totally Baked

| Arturo Goldman (Segment "FunOnion Boardroom")

The Sandlot: Heading Home

| Benny Rodriguez

| Direct-to-video

2010

| Sinatra Club

| John Gotti

2011

| Escapee

| Professor Jeremy Davis

2014

| Wishin' and Hopin'

| Pa

2015

| Pizza with Bullets

| Freddie 'The Cat' Pagano

=Television=

class="wikitable sortable"

!Year

!Title

!Role

!Notes

1984

| Pryor's Place

| Freddy

rowspan="4" | 1985

| Hotel

| Evan

| Episode: "Wins and Losses"

Family Ties

| Rick

| Episode: "Designated Hitter"

Mr. Belvedere

| Boy

| Episode: "Pinball"

The Twilight Zone

| Buddy

| Episode: "The Leprechaun-Artist/Dead Run"

rowspan="4" | 1986

| Our House

| Unknown

| Episode: "Choices"

Growing Pains

| 'Scooter' Krassner

| Episode: "Employee of the Month"

The Children of Times Square

| Luis Sotavento

| TV movie

The Brotherhood of Justice

| Willie

| TV movie

1987

| CBS Schoolbreak Special

| Scott Fischer

| Episode: "An Enemy Among Us"

rowspan="2" | 1988

| Magnum, P.I.

| Budge, Leader of The Biker Gang

| Episode: "The Great Hawaiian Adventure Company"

Home Free

| Dennis Ferrand

| TV movie

1988–1989

| Falcon Crest

| Gabriel Ortega

| 16 episodes

rowspan="2" | 1989

| A Brand New Life

| Dominick, The DJ

| Episode: "Private School"

A Peaceable Kingdom

| Eddie Morano

| Episode: "Symphony"

rowspan="4" | 1990

| Tour of Duty

| Private Wozniak

| Episode: "Acceptable Losses"

Equal Justice

| Ramon Escobar

| Episode: "Goodbye, Judge Green"

Quantum Leap

| Tony Pronti

| Episode: "Leap of Faith – August 19, 1963"

Ferris Bueller

| Greg Knecht

| Episode: "Baby You Can't Drive My Car"

1991

| Out of This World

| 'Moose'

| Episode: "Heck's Angels"

rowspan="2" | 1992

| Blossom

| Lou

| Episode: "Three O'Clock and All Is Hell"

Dream On

| Pizza Guy

| Episode: "Red All Over"

rowspan="2" | 1993

| For the Love of My Child: The Anissa Ayala Story

| Airon Ayala

| TV movie

A Matter of Justice

| Private Vince Grella

| TV movie

rowspan="2" | 1994

| Ray Alexander: A Taster for Justice

| Paul Garcia

| TV movie

Blind Justice

| Roberto

| TV movie

1999–2000

| Snoops

| Emmanuel 'Manny' Lott

| 13 episodes

2001

| Some of My Best Friends

| Frankie Zito

| 8 episodes

rowspan="2" | 2002

| Firestarter 2: Rekindled

| Vincent Sforza

| TV movie

Father Lefty

| Father Robert 'Lefty' Lefrack

| TV movie

2002–2003

| Just Shoot Me!

| Pete

| 2 episodes

2003

| Mafia Doctor

| Frank

| TV movie

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"

rowspan="4" | 2008

| Without a Trace

| Scott Lucas

| Episode: "4G"

The Mentalist

| Ben Machado

| Episode: "Flame Red"

Criminal Minds

| Burke Manning

| Episode: "Normal"

Backwoods

| Perry Walters

| TV movie

2009–2014

| Castle

| Gilbert Mazzara / Lance

| 3 episodes

2010

| CSI: NY

| Officer Nicholas Henderson

| Episode: "Vacation Getaway"

rowspan="2" | 2011

| CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

| Detective Daniel Sosa

| Episode: "Cello and Goodbye"

NCIS: Los Angeles

| CIA Agent Figg

| Episode: "Sacrifice"

rowspan="3" | 2012

| CSI: Miami

| Will Kingsley

| Episode: "No Good Deed"

The Booth at the End

| Henry

| 5 episodes

NCIS

| Gordon Fremont

| Episode: "Devil's Trifecta"

2013

| Arrow

| Fire Chief Raynes

| Episode: "Burned"

2013–2018

| The Fosters

| Mike Foster

| Main Cast, 87 episodes

2018

| The Rookie{{Cite web |last=Petski |first=Denise |date=2018-08-06 |title=‘The Rookie’: Danny Nucci To Recur On ABC’s Crime Drama Series |url=https://deadline.com/2018/08/the-rookie-danny-nucci-recur-abcs-crime-drama-series-1202441039/ |access-date=2024-04-04 |website=Deadline |language=en-US}}

| Detective Sanford Motta

| 2 episodes

2019-2021

| I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson

| Hal

| 1 episode

2019-2024

| 9-1-1

| Detective Rick Romero

| 8 episodes

2020

| Party of Five