Career
During the 1990s, Nucci played characters who are unceremoniously killed off in three blockbuster films— Eraser , The Rock and Titanic (as Fabrizio De Rossi, Jack Dawson's Italian friend)—which were released within 20 months of each other between 1996 and 1997. His character in Alive (also known as Alive: The Miracle of the Andes) (1993) survives.
Elsewhere in film, he starred as Spider Bomboni in Book of Love (1990) [4] and as Petty Officer Danny Rivetti in the Gene Hackman-Denzel Washington thriller Crimson Tide (1995). He played the roles of Benny Rodriguez in the straight-to-video film The Sandlot: Heading Home (2007) and a Port Authority police officer in World Trade Center (2006).
Nucci appeared as Gabriel Ortega on the CBS soap opera Falcon Crest from 1988 to 1989, [5] and as Vincent Sforza in the television miniseries Firestarter 2: Rekindled (2002). Other notable TV appearances include Growing Pains , Out of This World , Quantum Leap , Family Ties , The Twilight Zone , Tour of Duty , Snoops , Just Shoot Me , House , Without a Trace , Criminal Minds , The Mentalist , CSI: NY , three episodes of Castle and one episode of Arrow . Along with Ernie Hudson, he co-starred in the short-lived police drama series 10-8: Officers on Duty . He provided the voice of Alberto the Chihuahua in The Brave Little Toaster to the Rescue .
In 2010, he portrayed John Gotti in Sinatra Club, and Dante McDermott in the science-fiction film Nephilim. In 2011, he co-starred in the mystery thriller Escapee. Until 2018, Nucci played Mike Foster on the Freeform (formerly ABC Family) drama The Fosters . [6]
Nucci portrayed Pop, the father of main character Felix Funicello, in the 2014 Lifetime television movie Wishin' and Hopin' .
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