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Jay Acovone is a versatile actor who is best known for his ability to play authoritative characters such as Mafia bosses, villains, police/military, and lawyers. He was born in NYC; his parents later moved to Mahopac, NY, where he graduated from Mahopac High School. While he was always an avid movie fan, it was a chance encounter with a friend, urging him to take part in a play, that set him on a path for a career in acting.Acovone attended the American Academy of Dramatic Arts (AADA) and the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute in New York. His break came when he was cast to play the role of Skip Lee, opposite Al Pacino, in the controversial movie Cruising (written and directed by William Friedkin). He spent the next few years working on daytime television in NYC, but moved to Los Angeles when he landed a co-starring role, opposite Jack Scalia in the TV series Hollywood Beat.Acovone went on to have several supporting roles in film and television including Hell Zone - Im Vorhof der Hölle (1986) (Susan Sarandon) and Cold Steel (Sharon Stone) before being recruited to be a series regular on Ron Koslow's TV Series: Die Schöne und das Biest (1987) (starring Linda Hamilton and Ron Pearlman) as Deputy District Attorney Joe Maxwell. After Beauty and the Beast ended, Acovone continued to have multiple supporting or lead roles in TV and film including: Deadly Revenge - Das Brooklyn Massaker (1991) (starring Steven Seagal), Clash - Showdown in L.A. (1994) (starring Matt LeBlanc), the Emmy-winning series Matlock (1986) (starring Andy Griffith), and Friends (1994) (starring Jennifer Aniston). The mid-1990s brought a role in the blockbuster hit Independence Day (1996) (Will Smith), and a major recurring role in the TV series Stargate: Kommando SG-1 (1997) (Richard Dean Anderson). He played Charles Kawalsky, a major in the Air Force, who traveled with Anderson's team on a government mission to explore other worlds. Stargate-SG1 won multiple awards, including the Saturn Award for Best Syndicated/Cable Television Series for three different years.The following decade led to a role in another blockbuster hit: Cast Away - Verschollen (2000) (Tom Hanks), Terminator 3: Rebellion der Maschinen (2003) (Arnold Schwarzenegger) and S.W.A.T. - Die Spezialeinheit (2003) (Samuel L. Jackson); recurring roles in Palm Beach-Duo (1991) (Rob Estes), Sliders - Das Tor in eine fremde Dimension (1995) (John Rhys-Davies), New York Cops: NYPD Blue (1993) (Jimmy Smits) and Akte X: Die unheimlichen Fälle des FBI (1993) (Gillian Anderson); guest-starring roles in CSI: New York (2004) (Gary Sinise), Monk (2002) (Tony Shalhoub), Criminal Minds (2005) (Thomas Gibson), and 24: Twenty Four (2001) (Kiefer Sutherland).In recent years, Acovone saw a brief return to daytime television with a recurring role on General Hospital (1963) (Maurice Benard), and then went on to guest-star on multiple hit TV dramas including: The The Mentalist (2008) (Simon Baker), Leverage (Timothy Hutton), CSI: Vegas (2000) (George Eads), Vegas (2012) (Michael Chiklis), and Navy CIS (2003) (Mark Harmon). In 2016, he acted in the motion capture video game Mafia III (2016) (2K Games), playing Mafia boss Sal Marcano.In 2017, Acovone was asked to perform the audiobook version of George R. R. Martin (Game of Thrones: Das Lied von Eis und Feuer (2011))'s novel, Wildcards-Dead Man's Hand, along with Adrian Paul.Acovone lives in Los Angeles with his wife and their cat. - IMDb Mini Biography By: Rachel Kuchar

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