Francesco Quinn

Franceso Quinn
Franceso Quinn.
Born	Francesco Daniele Quinn March 22, 1962 (1962-03-22) (age 47) Rome, Italy
Occupation	actor
Spouse(s)	Julie McCann (1992-2008)
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Francesco Daniele Quinn (born March 22, 1962) is an American actor. The third son of Oscar winner Anthony Quinn, Francesco is perhaps best known for his breakout role as Rhah in Oliver Stone’s Academy Award-winning Platoon (1986).

Early life

Francesco Quinn was born in Rome, Italy, the son of Anthony Quinn and second wife Iolanda Quinn, a noted costume designer to whom Anthony Quinn would remain married for 31 years.^[1] Quinn has Mexican, Irish, and Italian ancestry.

Film acting

Quinn has appeared in many feature films including the New York Independent Film Festival winner Placebo Effect. He acted with his father in several films, including A Star For Two with Lauren Bacall. The two Quinns also had the opportunity to share the role of Santiago in The Old Man and the Sea, son and father playing the character as a young and old man.

Quinn has sometimes played moody, dangerous characters, such as vampire Vlad Tepes in the direct to video alt-historical thriller Vlad (2003), and wandering warrior Thane Le Mal in the short film The Gnostic. Like his father, Quinn has also appeared in historical dramas, playing such roles as Latino Captain Salamanca in Steven Spielberg’s mini-series Into the West (2005) and a lead role in TNT's Rough Riders (1997) (TV). One of Quinn’s earliest roles was as Marcus Vinicius in the 1985 mini-series Quo Vadis?.

More recent examples of Francesco Quinn's work include Park, which won the audience award at 2007 CineVegas, and the short film Muertas, starring Golden Globe-winner America Ferrera. In 2007 he appeared as Ruben Vega in the Academy Award-nominated short film The Tonto Woman, adapted from the Elmore Leonard short story.

Television acting

From 1999 to 2001, Francesco appeared on the CBS soap opera The Young and the Restless and was nominated for an ALMA Award (an award reserved for Latino/a performers) as Outstanding Actor in a Daytime Soap Opera for his work as Tomas Del Cerro, an aloof writer from New York.

Quinn has also appeared extensively in television guest star roles in crime and thriller dramas. He was lead guest star in an episode of JAG (1995). On CBS’s The Fugitive, Quinn played Victor Gutierrez, a DEA agent with an edge, and he has played the recurring role of villain Syed Ali on Fox’s series 24. Other TV guest starring roles have occurred in Criminal Minds, ER, CSI: Miami, Navy NCIS, Alias, Crossing Jordan, In the Heat of the Night, Miami Vice, Red Shoe Diaries, The Handler, Soldier of Fortune, Good vs. Evil, Vengeance Unlimited, and The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones. Quinn also portrayed the final criminal/villain, Guillermo Beltran, in the long-running F/X series, The Shield. In 2008, Quinn joined Luke Perry and C. Thomas Howell in the western film A Gunfighter's Pledge.

Quinn was one of the earlier working actors to branch out into contributing to video games with his role as a main character in Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun (1999).

Family

Francesco Quinn has ten surviving siblings: Alex, Antonia, Catalina, Christina, Danny, Duncan, Lorenzo Quinn, Ryan, Sean and Valentina Quinn. His eldest sibling Christopher drowned in 1941 aged 2.

He has been married to Irish American Julie McCann, niece of the Belfast Snooker champion Alex Higgins, since 1992. They reside in Sherman Oaks, California with his twin children Max and Michela.^[2]

Athletic pursuits

Francesco Quinn pursues sports such as skiing, snowboarding, windsurfing, free diving, road cycling, mountain biking, and actively races motorcross and street bikes. Quinn also is an avid motorcycler, and is a spokesperson for The Motorcycle Industry Council and Honda. A world traveler, he is fluent in English, French, Spanish and Italian.

Quinn was a contestant on Ty Murray’s Celebrity Bull Riding Challenge on CMT, until he was sidelined with a broken rib after being stomped on by a Level 2 bull.

References

External links

• Francesco Quinn at the Internet Movie Database
• Francesco Quinn at TV.com
• Quicktime-viewable copy of Francesco Quinn as The Gnostic
• L.A. Times article "Quinn Begins Again" on Oscar-nominated The Tonto Woman