Daniel Nucci (born September 15, 1968) is an American actor. He is best known for his supporting roles in

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films, including his roles as Danny Rivetti in ''Crimson Tide'' (1995), Lieutenant Shepard in ''The Rock'' (1996), Deputy Monroe in ''

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'' (1996), and Fabrizio de Rossi in ''

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'' (1997), as well as his lead role as Mike Foster in the Freeform series '' The Fosters'' (2013–2018).

Personal life

Born in

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, Austria, to a French Moroccan mother and an Italian father, Nucci was raised in Italy until the age of seven, when his family relocated to the United States. After temporarily living in

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, New York, the family settled in the

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, where Nucci graduated from Grant High School. He married Terre Bridgham in 1995, and they had a daughter before their divorce in 1998. He played lovers with

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in the 1997 film '' That Old Feeling''; they married in 2003, and have a daughter.

Career

During the 1990s, Nucci played characters who are unceremoniously killed off in three

films — ''

'', '' The Rock'' and ''

'' (as Fabrizio De Rossi, Jack Dawson's Italian friend) — which were released within 20 months of each other between 1996 and 1997. His character in ''Alive'' (also known as ''Alive: The Miracle of the Andes'') (1993) survives. Elsewhere in film, he starred as Spider Bomboni in '' Book of Love'' (1990) and as Petty Officer Danny Rivetti in the Gene Hackman- Denzel Washington thriller '' Crimson Tide'' (1995). He played the roles of Benny Rodriguez in the straight-to-video film '' The Sandlot: Heading Home'' (2007) and a Port Authority police officer in ''

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'' (2006). Nucci appeared as Gabriel Ortega on the

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'' from 1988 to 1989, and as Vincent Sforza in the television miniseries '' Firestarter 2: Rekindled'' (2002). Other notable TV appearances include ''

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'', '' Out of This World'', ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'', '' Snoops'', '' Just Shoot Me'', ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'', three episodes of ''

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'' and one episode of ''

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''. Along with

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, he co-starred in the short-lived police drama series '' 10-8: Officers on Duty''. He provided the voice of Alberto the Chihuahua in ''

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''. In 2010, he portrayed John Gotti in ''Sinatra Club'', and Dante McDermott in the science-fiction film ''Nephilim''. In 2011, he co-starred in the mystery thriller ''Escapee''. Until 2018, Nucci played Mike Foster on the Freeform (formerly ABC Family) drama '' The Fosters''. Nucci portrayed Pop, the father of main character Felix Funicello, in the 2014 Lifetime television movie ''

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''.

Filmography

Film

Television

References

External links

* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Nucci, Danny 1968 births Living people 20th-century American male actors 21st-century American male actors American male film actors American male soap opera actors American male television actors American male voice actors American people of Italian descent American people of Moroccan descent Italian emigrants to the United States Male actors from California People from the San Fernando Valley Grant High School (Los Angeles) alumni