Danny Pintauro (born January 6, 1976) is an American actor and film producer. He starred in the sitcom '' Who's the Boss?'' and the 1983 horror film ''

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''.

Early life

Pintauro was born in

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, the son of John J. Pintauro, a manager, and Margaret L. (née Sillcocks). In 1994 he took time off from professional acting and attended

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, and later

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to study English and theater; he graduated in 1998.

Career

Pintauro first appeared on the

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'' as the original

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. After this, he played Tad in the film ''

''. He first came to prominence on the

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'' Who's the Boss?''. After the series ended, he was less frequently cast. Pintauro went on to act in stage productions like ''

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'' and ''Mommie Queerest''. He appeared as a contestant on a special TV child stars episode of ''

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'' in 2001 where he got voted off in round 4. Pintauro worked as a

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and a

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. Pintauro and his husband relocated to

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, in 2016. As of May 2019, Pintauro is working as a vet tech at Austin Pets Alive.

Personal life

In 1997, the ''

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him as

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. In April 2013 he was engaged to his boyfriend, Wil Tabares, and they married in April 2014. Pintauro revealed in 2015 that he was

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positive, having contracted the virus as the result of unsafe

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in 2003. He also disclosed that he had previously been addicted to

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Filmography

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Pintauro, Danny 1976 births American people of Italian descent American male child actors American male soap opera actors American male stage actors American male television actors American gay actors Living people Male actors from New Jersey People from Milltown, New Jersey Stanford University School of Humanities and Sciences alumni 20th-century American male actors 21st-century American male actors LGBT people from New Jersey People with HIV/AIDS Middlesex County College alumni 21st-century LGBT people