Ricco Ross (born April 16, 1958) is an American actor.Born at Cook
County Hospital in Chicago, Illinois, he is the fifth of eight
children, and in addition has three step sisters and another brother
from his father's first marriage. He first acted in a high school
production, majored in theater at a local community college, and
entered Florida Atlantic University (FAU), where he was awarded a BA
in Theater. He earned a scholarship to UCLA, where his career started
to develop.Ross' first television role was as an extra on The Young
and the Restless, which was followed by a small part in Hill Street
Blues and the male lead in the music video for Whitney Houston's 1985
hit song "Saving All My Love for You". He later played Private Ricco
Frost in the film Aliens (1986), and also appeared in the films Death
Wish 3 (1985), Spies Like Us (1985), The Dirty Dozen: Next Mission
(1985 TV film), "Displaced Person" (1985 episode of American
Playhouse), Gulliver's Travels (1996), Mission Impossible (1996),
Fierce Creatures (1997), Nate and the Colonel (2003) and Hydra
(2009).From the late 1980s to the early 1990s, he lived and worked in
the United Kingdom, where he had guest appearances in Doctor Who (in
the 1988 serial The Greatest Show in the Galaxy) and Jeeves and
Wooster.
County Hospital in Chicago, Illinois, he is the fifth of eight
children, and in addition has three step sisters and another brother
from his father's first marriage. He first acted in a high school
production, majored in theater at a local community college, and
entered Florida Atlantic University (FAU), where he was awarded a BA
in Theater. He earned a scholarship to UCLA, where his career started
to develop.Ross' first television role was as an extra on The Young
and the Restless, which was followed by a small part in Hill Street
Blues and the male lead in the music video for Whitney Houston's 1985
hit song "Saving All My Love for You". He later played Private Ricco
Frost in the film Aliens (1986), and also appeared in the films Death
Wish 3 (1985), Spies Like Us (1985), The Dirty Dozen: Next Mission
(1985 TV film), "Displaced Person" (1985 episode of American
Playhouse), Gulliver's Travels (1996), Mission Impossible (1996),
Fierce Creatures (1997), Nate and the Colonel (2003) and Hydra
(2009).From the late 1980s to the early 1990s, he lived and worked in
the United Kingdom, where he had guest appearances in Doctor Who (in
the 1988 serial The Greatest Show in the Galaxy) and Jeeves and
Wooster.
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