Keen wine buff. On a recent episode of Jon Favreau's "Dinner for Five" (2001) on IFC, he was choosing the wine, inquiring about a '97 Ornellaia before settling on a '79 Tignanello. When the wine was presented to him for tasting, he picked up that it was corked and asked the sommelier to taste it himself, and the sommelier concurred.

Often works with Carrie-Anne Moss.

He landed his first professional role in 1972 when he played Billy Bibbit in the national touring company of One Flew Over the Cuckoo`s Nest. He worked in regional theater appearing in more than 40 Off-Broadway productions including Vision of Kerouac at the Lion Theater and The Death Star at the Theater of St. Clements.

At age seventeen he moved from his hometown of Hoboken, New Jersey, to Manhattan to study to become a barber.

Italian-American.

One of his favourite movies is Shrek (2001).

Formerly co-owner of Beverly Hills` Grand Havana Room.

Has a son and two daughters.

Parents are Dominic and Mary.

Son Marco born in 1981.

Has a younger sister named Mary Ann.

Daughter Isabella Grace born 27 August 1998

(July 2001) Working on a novel about his hometown, Hoboken, New Jersey, entitled, "Who`s Sorry Now?" He hopes to have the book completed in the next fifteen months and is working on a deal with a publisher.