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Aliases: No known aliases

Gender: Male

Place of birth: Brooklyn, New York, USA

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Movie Involvements: 43

TV Involvements: 9


Most Famous Work

Biography

Vincent M. Spano (born October 18, 1962) is an American actor. Spano was born in Brooklyn, New York to Italian American parents. In 1976, he made his stage debut in a production of The Shadow Box at Long Wharf Theatre and Broadway. His film debut was in 1979's The Double McGuffin. He has subsequently appeared in many Hollywood films, including John Sayles's Baby, It's You and City of Hope, Francis Ford Coppola's Rumble Fish, Alive: The Miracle of the Andes, The Rats, Over the Edge-1979 and Creator. In the 1983 family favorite The Black Stallion Returns, he played a handsome, young, Arabic rider, Raj, that returns home from university to compete in a major horse race and befriends an American boy, Alec Ramsey (played by Kelly Reno) along the way. He also starred in the Italian film Good Morning Babylon written and directed by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani, and the 1984 film Alphabet City. He has co-starred with Dylan and Cole Sprouse in A Modern Twain Story: The Prince and the Pauper. He was most recently seen on ION network opposite Lou Diamond Phillips in Lone Rider. But mostly as his recurring role of FBI Agent Dean Porter on the NBC drama Law & Order: Special Victims Unit since the 8th season. He starred in the 2004 TV film "Landslide (Buried Alive)" as a fireman trapped in a collapsed building with his son.

Most Famous Work

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Average
8
The Mentalist
Average
8

The Mentalist

(2008) Don De Jorio
Castle
Average
8

Castle

(2009) Christopher Carlucci
House
Average
9

House

(2004) Tommy
Intimate Portrait
Average
5

Intimate Portrait

(1993) Self
L'onore e il rispetto
Average
8

L'onore e il rispetto

(2006) Rodolfo Di Venanzio
Alive
Average
7

Alive

(1993) Antonio Balbi
Bent
Average
5

Bent

(2018) Charlie Horvath

Acting

Year Character Movie/Tv
2023 Franco
2020 Mr. B
Joey Silva
2018 Gabriel Coronado
Charlie Horvath
2015 Mayor
2014 Special Agent Thomas
2013 Virgil (voice: English version)
Roberto Molinez
2011 Mauro Malaspina
2010 Ispettore Lai
2009 Christopher Carlucci
Devin Bayliss
Scott
2008 Trent Dodson
Don De Jorio
Stu Croaker
2007 Miles
Troy Whitlock
2006 Robert Genaro
Rodolfo Di Venanzio
2005 Tony Di Cenzo
Mark Decker
2004 Tommy
2003 Det. Steve Banks
Ryan Cawdor
2002 Jack Carver
2001 Jack
2000 Brett Becker
Zophael
1999 Steven Binder
Dean Porter
1998 Frank Cavatelli
Al Stanco
1997 Scott Nash
Marc Demetrius
N/A
1996 Jack
1995 Russell Clifton
1994 Franco Distassi
1993 Self
Matthew Berman
Antonio Balbi
1992 Ted Harduvel
1991 Nick Rinaldi
Anthony Rossano
1990 Mitchell Bryce
1989 Carlo Goldoni
1988 Peter
Billy Moran
1987 Nicola Bonnano
1986 Mark Ciuni
1985 Boris Lafkin
1984 Al Griselli
Johnny
1983 Steve
Albert 'Sheik' Capadilupo
Raj
1982 Gas Thief
1981 Dick
Angel Perez
1979 Mark Perry
N/A
Year Character Movie/Tv

Directing

Year Role Movie/Tv
1989 Director
Director
Director
Year Role Movie/Tv

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