Mark Famiglietti

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Mark Famiglietti
Born September 26, 1979
Providence, Rhode Island

Mark Famiglietti (born September 26, 1979) is an American actor.

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[edit] Biography

[edit] Early life

Famiglietti was born in Providence, Rhode Island, the son of a pharmaceutical executive and an office manager. He was reared in Clinton, Connecticut, where frequent family trips to the Goodspeed Opera House sparked his interest in performing. However, it wasn't until his teen years that he shifted to the other side of the footlights in Goodspeed's "An Evening with Max Showalter and Friends" and won the Goodspeed Guild Musical Theatre Award for his performance.

In high school, he was class president in his junior and senior years, captain of the baseball team, a member of the band and chorus and co-announcer of school football and basketball games. On winning a small part in his school's production of Guys & Dolls he added drama classes to his curriculum and began to exercise acting and singing muscles. Leading roles followed in local theater productions of "Bye, Bye Birdie" and "The Music Man" and school plays including "Kiss Me Kate" and "Once Upon a Mattress."

[edit] Career

Now bent on an acting career, he began attending auditions in New York while studying at New York University as a drama major, where he studied with the Atlantic Theatre Company. During his second semester, he put college on hold and headed for Hollywood after being cast as Deering High's resident heartthrob, Nick Hammer, on the Saturday morning teen show Hang Time. He also guest-starred on The WB comedy Zoe, Duncan, Jack & Jane, landed the role of Scout on the short-lived WB series Young Americans and co-starred as a friendly bartender in the February-slated TV movie A Tail of Two Bunnies starring Marilu Henner and Rhea Perlman.

In 2002 and 2003, he appeared in We Were the Mulvaneys, Fullride and he had a small role in the blockbuster movie Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines playing Claire Danes' fiancée.

After being involved in T3 he took a year off acting to finish his first screenplay (Chasing Fate) with the help of his partner Lane Garrison. The movie is a romantic comedy where a wealthy young man kicks his fiancée to the curb, only to watch her ascend to fame and fortune while his life falls apart. Actors Jordana Brewster and Kip Pardue will star in the film.

Mark and Lane also wrote another screenplay called Succubus, an action-comedy movie about a guy who decides to set out and bring a Succubus (a female demon who seduces men and steals their souls), and her entire race, down; after discovering that his nerdy best friend is dating her.

In 2005 he appeared in 9 episodes of ABC's Eyes, but only the first 5 were aired because the show was cancelled. He also played an assistant district attorney in CBS pilot Conviction. The show was set to be aired in September 2005 but it was cancelled.

Mark Famiglietti will appear in the movie Nobel Son. The story concerns a son struggling to finish his thesis when his father wins the Nobel Prize in chemistry, making life all the more difficult for him and his mother, a well-known forensic psychiatrist. The indie film, which began shooting in late October in LA, features Alan Rickman, Mary Steenburgen, Bryan Greenberg, Shawn Hatosy, Eliza Dushku, and Bill Pullman, among others.

[edit] Personal life

Famiglietti, who loves the stock market, aims to go back to school someday to study economics or marketing, but he's aiming towards show business success as an actor, writer and producer.

[edit] Filmography

... aka The Price of Beauty (UK: cable TV title)

  • 1999 - "Sagamore" (TV) .... Jason
  • 1995 - "Hang Time" TV Series .... Nick Hammer (1998-99)

He also made appearances in television shows such as ABC's Eyes, Fastlane, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and Zoe, Duncan, Jack & Jane.

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