James Russo Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

James Russo Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

James Vincent Russo (born April 23, 1953) is an American film and

television actor. He has appeared in over 150 films in three

decades.Russo was born in New York City, New York, to an Italian

father and German mother. A graduate of the High School of Art and

Design and New York University (NYU), he wrote and starred in the

prize-winning short film The Candy Store. Before his first break in

acting, he drove for a cab company, worked as a construction worker

and a gravedigger. He was raised in Flushing, New York and spent his

formative years on 156th street.Russo's first role in his acting

career was in the 1981 made-for-television film Chicago Story. He then

went on to star in many hit films of the 1980s.His big break (but

small role) came in the 1982 classic comedy film Fast Times at

Ridgemont High, as a convenience store robber. In 1984, he appeared in

Beverly Hills Cop as Mikey Tandino, a friend of Axel Foley who is

murdered. That same year he starred in The Cotton Club and played

small-time hood Bugsy in Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in America.

Russo's other big role was as a brutal rapist in the 1986 drama

Extremities, opposite Farrah Fawcett. He starred in the 1988

drama-suspense-thriller film Freeway.
James Russo Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki


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