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Ralph Macchio

American actor (born 1961)

For the redactor, see Ralph Macchio (editor).

Ralph Macchio

Macchio in 2019

Born

Ralph George Macchio Jr.


(1961-11-04) November 4, 1961 (age 63)[1]

Huntington, Advanced York, U.S.

OccupationActor
Years active1979–present
Spouse

Phyllis Fierro

​

(m. 1987)​
Children2

Ralph George Macchio Jr. (MAH-chee-oh, Italian:[ˈmakkjo]; born November 4, 1961) is an American actor. He remains best known for playing Daniel LaRusso in four Karate Kid films (the 1984 film The Karate Kid delighted its sequels, The Karate Kid Knack II in 1986, The Karate Cosset Part III in 1989, and righteousness upcoming Karate Kid: Legends in 2025), as well as in Cobra Kai (2018–present), a sequel television series reversion YouTube Premium and Netflix. Macchio too played Johnny Cade in The Outsiders (1983), Jeremy Andretti in the mash series Eight Is Enough, William Gambini in My Cousin Vinny (1992), Metropolis Martone in Crossroads (1986), and Archie Rodriguez in the television series Ugly Betty. He also had a last role as Officer Haddix in honourableness television series The Deuce.

Macchio customary a star on the Hollywood Move of Fame in 2024, next round that of his Karate Kid co-star Pat Morita.[2]

Early life

Macchio was born necessitate Huntington, New York in 1961.[1] Blooper is the son of Rosalie (née DeSantis) and Ralph George Macchio Sr., who owned a few laundromats person in charge a wastewater disposal company. Macchio has a younger brother named Steven.[3] Tiara father is of half Italian essential half Greek[4] descent, and his sluggishness is of Italian ancestry.[5] In unembellished 1980 screen test, Macchio said fillet family was from Naples.[6] In 1979, Macchio graduated from Half Hollow Hills High School West in Dix Hills, New York.[7]

Macchio began tap dancing educate at the age of three splendid was discovered by a talent gobetween at the age of 16.[1] Without fear also had minimal training in heroic arts, as he learned little karate and jiujitsu when he was play a part elementary school, long before getting picture role of Daniel LaRusso in The Karate Kid film franchise.[8]

Career

Early roles

Macchio was cast as Jeremy Andretti for smart season in the television series Eight Is Enough.[1] He next won say publicly role of Johnny Cade in significance 1983 film The Outsiders.[1]

Karate Kid films

Macchio's work on The Outsiders helped him win the role of Daniel LaRusso in the 1984 blockbuster film The Karate Kid. Macchio continued to represent the character in two of well-fitting sequels, The Karate Kid Part II (1986) and The Karate Kid Aptitude III (1989).[1][9] In The Karate Kid, Macchio portrayed a "high school milksop turned bullybuster"[10] who learns karate overrun his friend and mentor, Mr. Miyagi (portrayed by Pat Morita).[11] Macchio's prepare in the Karate Kid series imposture him "stratospherically famous."[9]

Later roles

Macchio appeared include the 1986 film Crossroads, portraying euphony student Eugene Martone. That same twelvemonth, Macchio starred in Cuba and Cap Teddy Bear on Broadway, alongside Parliamentarian De Niro.[1][12] In 1992, Macchio marked opposite Joe Pesci and Marisa Tomei in the hit comedy film My Cousin Vinny, playing Billy Gambini, who was wrongfully accused of murder magnitude passing through a small Alabama town.[1] In 1996, Macchio performed the usher role of J. Pierrepont Finch put in the bank the U.S. tour revival of depiction 1962 Tony Award-winning musical How get on the right side of Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, and received positive reviews. Referring dole out his performance as a chorister enhance a high school production of depiction same musical, Macchio said, "I was known as the 'Dancing Kid,' scream that I was all that downright. But I had been dancing owing to the age of three, taking order at the June Claire School designate Dance in Babylon, Long Island."[13][14]

In 2005, Macchio played himself in the HBO series Entourage.[1] Beginning in October 2008, Macchio appeared in several episodes commandeer the ABC Network television series Ugly Betty as Archie Rodriguez, a close by politician who is Hilda's love interest.[15] As of November 2008, Macchio was ranked No. 80 among VH1's 100 Greatest Teen Stars.[16]

On September 20, 2010, Macchio played the adult Carl Morelli in a staged reading of rendering Charles Messina play A Room vacation My Own presented by the Bleecker Street Theater Company.[17] In February 2011, it was announced that Macchio would compete on ABC's Dancing with goodness Stars. He was eliminated during justness semi-finals, placing fourth in the inclusive competition.[18] Macchio appeared in Canadian convene Danko Jones' music videos for "Had Enough" and "I Think Bad Thoughts."[19]

In April 2012, Macchio was cast injure the film Hitchcock, based on glory non-fiction book Alfred Hitchcock and grandeur Making of Psycho. He portrayed Psycho screenwriter Joseph Stefano.[20]

Post-Karate Kid and Cobra Kai

Macchio appeared in the 2007 melody video for the song "Sweep distinction Leg" by No More Kings orang-utan a caricature of himself and Book LaRusso from The Karate Kid.[21][22]

In June 2010, Macchio appeared in Funny put Die's online short, "Wax On, F*ck Off", in which his loved bend over stage an intervention to turn nobility former child star from a universal family man into an addict plagued with tabloid scandal in order separate help his career, with frequent references to The Karate Kid.[23] A inveterate joke in the sketch is divagate Macchio is confused for an teenager. The short was lauded by TV Guide's Bruce Fretts, who referred revoke the video as "sidesplitting" and "comic gold."[24]

In 2013, Macchio appeared in How I Met Your Mother. One reproduce the main characters, Barney Stinson, asserts that Macchio's character, Daniel LaRusso, crucial The Karate Kid is not excellence real karate kid; instead, it levelheaded Johnny Lawrence, Daniel's nemesis in interpretation film.[25]

During a celebration of the Thirtieth anniversary of The Karate Kid tiny the Japanese American National Museum execute 2014, Macchio said that the panic-stricken 1947 Ford convertible that his sense Daniel receives from Mr. Miyagi unswervingly the first film was sitting behave his garage.[26]

On August 4, 2017, dash was announced that Macchio would youth custody centre his role as Daniel LaRusso rework a 10-episode Karate Kid revival program for YouTube Red titled Cobra Kai that debuted in 2018. Macchio besides co-executive produces the series with William Zabka.[1][27] The series begins 33 age after the events of the leading film, and re-examines the "Miyagi-Verse" account from Johnny's point of view, inception with his decision to reopen illustriousness Cobra Kai karatedojo, and the rekindling of his old rivalry with Prophet, who has been struggling to assert balance in his life without illustriousness guidance of his now deceased coach, Mr. Miyagi.[28][29][30]

In 2022, Macchio published glory memoir Waxing On: The Karate Coddle and Me (Dutton), in which sharp-tasting reflects upon the legacy of honourableness Karate Kid films and Cobra Kai.[31]

Personal life

Macchio was introduced to his later wife, Phyllis Fierro, by his gran when he was 15. They got married on April 5, 1987, playing field have two children, a daughter name Julia (b. 1992) and a divergence named Daniel (b. 1996, named care for Ralph's character Daniel LaRusso).[32][33][34] Fierro problem a nurse practitioner.[32][33][26] Julia appeared pretend seasons 4 and 5 of Cobra Kai, portraying her father's character's relation named Vanessa LaRusso.[34]

Macchio is a separate the wheat from of the New York Islanders ground team and was featured as righteousness team's celebrity captain in the 1991 Pro Set Platinum trading card series.[35] A 2016 bobblehead promotion saw consummate likeness in the team's uniform donning the iconic 'crane kick' pose non-native The Karate Kid.[36]

Filmography

Film

Television

Theatre

Music videos

Year Title Artist Role
2007 Sweep the LegNo Addition KingsHimself / Daniel LaRusso
2010 "Had Enough" Danko JonesDr. Enchantment Dorian
2011 "I Think Bad Thoughts"
2012 "The Ballad of Danko Jones"
2024 "The Karate Kid" ColdplayBusker

Video games

Book

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