Mario Opinato

Mario Opinato is an actor from Catania, Italy, who first worked as a dancer, training in Martha Graham technique with a contemporary dance theater company in Sicily. He spent a year in Rio de Janeiro learning Latin styles such as salsa, merengue and samba, then moved to Los Angeles in July 1990 and studied at the Lee Strasberg Actor's Studio. On American stages he has taken leading and supporting parts in more than 15 productions, among them Brecht's The three penny Opera, Pirandello's Cecè, Tennessee Williams's Camino Real, his 27 wagons full of cotton, and two Maupassant adaptations, The necklance and The forbidden fruit. He made his first movie appearance in The Dangerous (1995), with Joel Grey and Elliott Gould. His screen credits also include Double Team (1997), where he played James, a Greek terrorist; The Muse, as the European Man; Texas 46 (2001), as Lieutenant Carlo Ticinà; and My Brother Jack (1997).