1. Nicodemo Antonio Massimo Mancuso was born on May 29,1948 and is an Italian-Canadian actor, artist, playwright, and director.
18 Facts About Nick Mancuso
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Nick Mancuso has over 155 film and television credits, including voicing Billy in the slasher film Black Christmas, starring as Ray on the NBC series Stingray, and playing antichrist Franco Macalousso in the Apocalypse film series.
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Nick Mancuso was born May 29,1948, in Mammola, Calabria, Italy.
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Nick Mancuso's family emigrated to Canada in 1956 via Naples, when he was eight years old.
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Nick Mancuso grew up in Ontario and began acting in high school.
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Nick Mancuso began his professional career by performing in theatres across Canada such as the Vancouver Playhouse, Neptune Theatre, Centaur Theatre and Halifax's Pier One experimental theatre, where he was an associate artistic director for one season.
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Nick Mancuso went on to perform in various independent theatre companies including the Toronto Free Theatre, Canadian Stage Company, Factory Theatre, and the Theatre Passe Muraille.
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Nick Mancuso had his first voice screen role debut with an uncredited role in the 1974 slasher film Black Christmas, as the voice of the stalking murderer Billy.
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Nick Mancuso spent a season in 1976 at the Stratford Festival, with leading roles in The Merchant of Venice, Antony and Cleopatra, and A Midsummer Night's Dream, and landed his first screen appearance in a supporting role in Allan Eastman's debut film, A Sweeter Song.
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Nick Mancuso is lured into spending a weekend at a camp that is actually the recruiting and indoctrination center for a religious cult.
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The success of the film and Nick Mancuso's performance put him in the running to play Indiana Jones in Raiders of the Lost Ark.
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Nick Mancuso played the titular role on the NBC series Stingray, which ran two seasons between 1985 and 1987.
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Nick Mancuso played the antichrist Franco Macalousso in Apocalypse, a series of direct-to-video films produced by Cloud Ten Pictures.
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Nick Mancuso comes across some thieves who are out to rob him and takes his anger out on them.
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Nick Mancuso has appeared in numerous independent and short films.
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Nick Mancuso later married his second wife, Canadian actress Barbara Williams before divorcing.
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Nick Mancuso has published a book of poetry titled Mediterranean Man and created a number of abstract paintings.
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Nick Mancuso is fluent in English and Italian, and speaks conversational French.