Fred Mancuso

About Fred Mancuso

Veteran actor Fred Mancuso was born in Massena NY and grew up in Pittsburgh PA, one of four from a model-dancer mother and football playing-engineer father. Coming from a creative family, he began singing, playing the guitar, and acting at age seven. His father passed from brain cancer when he was 12. Fred took his younger brother Kirk under his wing. His mother, a dancer from Richmond VA worked and raised the four retiring from the Federal Bureau of Investigation in (2013). Fred served in the US Air Force from (1986-1990) being stationed in North Carolina until transferring to Los Angeles CA to live with his brother Joe in (1989). Joe graduated from Carnegie Mellon University in music and drama in (1988) as did sister Lauri Mancuso in (1991) in fine arts. Fred went to an open call for the Miami Vice Stunt Show at Universal Studios Tour in (1990) to practice a monologue. Alex Plasschaert and Nicholas Plasschaert cast him as a smuggler for the live action show. He worked bouncing at the Comedy Store and Roxbury night clubs in Hollywood, the latter of which he met Joe Pecoraro who became his manager and Mara Santino then an assistant with the JHR Agency. Mara invited him to wait in the lobby at the acting agency, as he had no formal training or credits, and Cynthia Kazarian signed him commercially. The agency submitted him for a few theatrical roles, one of which came in (1990) when he was cast by John Frank Levey in "Cain," a TV pilot with Maura Tierney and William Morgan Sheppard who became his acting mentor and coach ushering him into the depths of the craft of acting in addition to getting his SAG card. Morgan, a Royal Shakespearean company graduate, spent countless hours giving him and the other actors at the Vincent Chase workshop in Hollywood the tools and method, while being a working actor himself. This priceless education, apprenticeship if you will, was enhanced with Patrick Gorman coming on scene in (1993) when they worked together in the film Gettysburg (1993). Mr. Gorman, a veteran himself of both the Navy and the US Army, is a working actor himself with a black belt in Aikido and roughly 18,000 performances under his belt to date from the time he was age five. With brilliance, honesty, eloquence, and class they helped guide Fred the actor and the man. Fred said of Pat in acting terms, "Patrick brought stillness to the group and that stillness dropped our centers low, which became the inner weight that Morgan talked about as a necessity in transcendent acting. Having a low center refines and adds a foundation and sturdiness to the role." Fred met Robert Blake in Brett Dunham (Meisner) workshop in (1990). These men impacted his life as to the stick-to-it-ness necessary in persevering through life challenges and obstacle that occur in the life of an actor. Fred played Randy Carter, a series regular on the soap opera Dangerous Women (1991), played Rollins in the film The Divine Enforcer (1992), filmed Made in America (1993) opposite Jennifer Tilly playing Bruce, and as Pratt in Sudden Death (1995) with Powers Boothe. The muse led him in July (1996) to the Live Action "Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show" playing a Cowboy and rodeo clown. He returned to the theatre in (1998) playing Lee in "True West" by Sam Shepard in Carson and Virginia Cities NV, followed by Shakespeare's "Cymbeline" with A Noise Within theater group where he interned in (1999) in Los Angeles. Joel Swetow directed him in Shakespeare's "As you Like it" in (2000) at ...

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