Danny Nucci (born September 15, 1968) is an American film and television actor.
Nucci was born in Klagenfurt, Austria, to a Moroccan mother and an Italian father, and was raised in Italy until the age of seven, when his family relocated to the United States. He has two sisters, Natalie and Elle. After temporarily living in Queens, New York, the family settled in California's San Fernando Valley, where Nucci graduated from Grant High School. He is...
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Danny Nucci (born September 15, 1968) is an American film and television actor.
Nucci was born in Klagenfurt, Austria, to a Moroccan mother and an Italian father, and was raised in Italy until the age of seven, when his family relocated to the United States. He has two sisters, Natalie and Elle. After temporarily living in Queens, New York, the family settled in California's San Fernando Valley, where Nucci graduated from Grant High School. He is married to Paula Marshall and has two daughters. Marshall and Nucci played lovers in the 1997 Bette Midler film That Old Feeling.
Nucci is known for playing characters who were unceremoniously killed off in short succession during four different 1990s blockbuster action films -- Eraser, The Rock, Alive: The Miracle of the Andes (1993), and Titanic -- three of which were released within twenty months of one another in 1996 and 1997. Nucci is also known for his roles as Gabriel Ortega on the CBS soap opera Falcon Crest from 1988 to 1989; as...
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