David Marciano (born January 7, 1960, in Newark, New Jersey) is an
American actor best known for his roles as Detective Raymond Vecchio
in the television series Due South and Detective Steve Billings in the
FX police drama The Shield.Marciano grew up in north Newark. Newark
was plagued by violent crime and Marciano was witness to a city in
crisis. He has admitted to having a troubled youth. "I was hanging
around on street corners, drinking, gambling, playing cards, going to
the racetrack, shooting pool, all those kind of things." At the age of
seventeen, Marciano was involved in a serious car crash after a night
out partying. This prompted him to sort his life out and he enrolled
at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, to study
biomedical engineering. After a disappointing start Marciano
transferred to economics and accounting for his second year before
dropping out to pursue acting. Marciano subsequently studied Acting at
Drama Studio London.In 1985, Marciano moved to California where he
studied acting at the Drama Studio London in Berkeley, earning a
living by working as a bartender. His big break came two years later
as a guest star in Wiseguy, playing a mobster impersonating Lorenzo
Steelgrave. In 1989 he played the diner owner Stanley in Pepsi's
'Diner' commercial shown in the UK.More small parts followed,
including Cop #1 in the film Lethal Weapon 2, before he played the
role of bicycle messenger/poet Jeffrey Lassick in legal drama Civil
Wars from 1991â€"1993. He was then cast as Detective Ray Vecchio in
Due South in 1994. He played the part for two seasons before his
character was written out, replaced by Detective Stanley Kowalski
(Callum Keith Rennie), due to filming commitments. He returned for the
series finale in 1999 where Vecchio and Kowalski's ex-wife got
together. He then appeared in the 1996 season 3 episode of Touched By
An Angel entitled "Into The Light" playing a dying man in need of a
heart transplant. Later he took the role of Giorgio Clericuzio in the
1997 mini-series of Mario Puzo's The Last Don.
American actor best known for his roles as Detective Raymond Vecchio
in the television series Due South and Detective Steve Billings in the
FX police drama The Shield.Marciano grew up in north Newark. Newark
was plagued by violent crime and Marciano was witness to a city in
crisis. He has admitted to having a troubled youth. "I was hanging
around on street corners, drinking, gambling, playing cards, going to
the racetrack, shooting pool, all those kind of things." At the age of
seventeen, Marciano was involved in a serious car crash after a night
out partying. This prompted him to sort his life out and he enrolled
at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, to study
biomedical engineering. After a disappointing start Marciano
transferred to economics and accounting for his second year before
dropping out to pursue acting. Marciano subsequently studied Acting at
Drama Studio London.In 1985, Marciano moved to California where he
studied acting at the Drama Studio London in Berkeley, earning a
living by working as a bartender. His big break came two years later
as a guest star in Wiseguy, playing a mobster impersonating Lorenzo
Steelgrave. In 1989 he played the diner owner Stanley in Pepsi's
'Diner' commercial shown in the UK.More small parts followed,
including Cop #1 in the film Lethal Weapon 2, before he played the
role of bicycle messenger/poet Jeffrey Lassick in legal drama Civil
Wars from 1991â€"1993. He was then cast as Detective Ray Vecchio in
Due South in 1994. He played the part for two seasons before his
character was written out, replaced by Detective Stanley Kowalski
(Callum Keith Rennie), due to filming commitments. He returned for the
series finale in 1999 where Vecchio and Kowalski's ex-wife got
together. He then appeared in the 1996 season 3 episode of Touched By
An Angel entitled "Into The Light" playing a dying man in need of a
heart transplant. Later he took the role of Giorgio Clericuzio in the
1997 mini-series of Mario Puzo's The Last Don.
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