James Russo
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James Vincent Russo (born 23 April 1953) is an American film and television actor.
He has appeared in over 150 films in three decades.
Early life
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.
Career
Russo's first appearance in his acting career came in the 1981 made-for-television film Chicago Story. He went on to appear in many hit films of the 1980s.
He made his big break (but small part) in the 1982 comedy film Fast Times at Ridgemont High as a convenience store robbery. Mikey Tandino, a friend of Axel Foley who has been assassinated, appeared in Beverly Hills Cop in 1984. In Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in America, he appeared in The Cotton Club and played small-time hood Bugsy. Russo's other significant role in 1986's Extremities was as a brutal rapist, opposite Farrah Fawcett. Freeway, a 1988 drama-suspense-thriller film, starred Tom Ferreira.
State of Grace (1990), A Kiss Before Dying (1991), and My Own Private Idaho (1991) were among Russo's film appearances in the 1990s. Russo appeared in the 1994 Western Bad Girls, 1997 films The Postman, and Donnie Brasco. He was instrumental in Michael Mann's Public Enemies in 2009 as a member of John Dillinger's gang.
Russo was reunited with his co-star Kevin Costner in the Western film Open Range in 2003. He appeared in a number of television dramas and films, including The Equalizer, Miami Vice, CSI: Miami, and Las Vegas.
Russo appeared in the psychological thriller 7E with Brendan Sexton III, John Savage, and Natasha Lyonne in the summer of 2009. On December 10, 2013. Russo appeared in Quentin Tarantino's 2012 film Django Unchained.
Russo also did additional voice work for Rage in 2011 and Added voice talent for Star Wars: The Old Republic.
For "Of the Night," he appeared on Bastille's music video.