Frank John Hughes

Frank John Hughes
Born	Frank John Hughes November 11, 1967 (1967-11-11) (age 42) The Bronx, New York, U.S.

Frank John Hughes (born November 11, 1967) is an American film and television actor best known for his portrayal of "Wild Bill" Guarnere in the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers, Tom Fox in Catch Me If You Can, Tim Woods in 24 and Walden Belfiore in The Sopranos.

Early Life and Career

A native of the South Bronx, Hughes studied Jazz composition at the Berklee College of Music in Boston before making his feature film debut in Robert Celestino's True Convictions (1991).

Since then he has starred in such films as: Bad Boys (1995) opposite Will Smith, Lonely in America (1991), The Funeral (1996) opposite Benicio del Toro and Christopher Walken, Layin' Low (1996), Mr. Vincent (1997) (for which he won mass critical acclaim at the Sundance Film Festival for his role as John Vincent), Urban Jungle (1999), Robbers (2000), Anacardium (2001) (for which he won BEST ACTOR at the New York Independent Film Festival) and Steven Spielberg's Catch Me If You Can (2002) opposite Tom Hanks and Leonardo DiCaprio.

He is also in Robert Celestino's Yonkers Joe opposite Chazz Palminteri and Christine Lahti and in Jon Avnet's Righteous Kill opposite Robert De Niro and Al Pacino.

Television and Video Game Work

A veteran of numerous television appearances Hughes was most recently seen on HBO's The Sopranos as Walden Belfiore, a soldier the Soprano crime family, who committed the historic 'last murder' in the landmark series when he killed Lupertazzi crime family Boss, Phil Leotardo.

Hughes also received wide international acclaim for his portrayal of "Wild Bill" Guarnere in the HBO mini series event, Band of Brothers (2001) which won both the Golden Globe and Emmy awards for Best Mini Series.

Hughes also starred in the Dick Wolf series Players (1997) and LAX for NBC. Other appearances include: Cover Me (series regular), Law & Order, Homicide: Life on the Street, Feds, Without a Trace, Monk, Boomtown, Kings of South Beach, Curb Your Enthusiasm, JAG, The Path to 9/11, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, the video game Call of Duty 2: Big Red One NCIS, and many others.

Latest Works

In 2009, Hughes joined the cast of the hit series 24 as Secretary of Homeland Security, Tim Woods.

Hughes will next star in the thriller "Leave" opposite Rick Gomez. Hughes wrote the screenplay and will also produce along with Gomez, the film's director Robert Celestino, Bettina O'Mara of Visualeyes Productions and Mike Hagerty. Production begins in Los Angeles in May of 2009.

External links

• Frank John Hughes at the Internet Movie Database
• Frank John Hughes at Yahoo! Movies