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Joseph Perrino

Highest Rated: 75% The Mighty (1998)

Lowest Rated: 34% Before I Disappear (2014)

Birthday: Not Available

Birthplace: Bronx, New York, USA

Joe Perrino's "discovery" is the fodder on which Hollywood legends are born. Hanging out with his brother on the Bronx street on which they live, he was spotted by a talent scout who set up for an audition for the fourteen-year-old with director Barry Levinson. The result was the key role of the young Lorenzo (a.k.a. 'Shakes') in "Sleepers" (1996), which followed the lives of four Hell's Kitchen youths from their petty criminal youth through months in a reformatory in which they were sexually abused to adulthood (where Shakes, now a reporter, was portrayed by Jason Patric). Perrino earned widespread acclaim for his work, which properly combined the street tough attitude of his environment with a naivete of the broader, meaner world. While "Sleepers" was Perrino's first leading role, due to release schedules, his motion picture debut actually came with a small part in "The Juror" (also 1996) in which he was the Mafia grandson brutally murdered during the film's first few minutes.

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Highest rated movies

75% 79% The Mighty
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73% 85% Sleepers
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73% 71% A Walk on the Moon
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34% 67% Before I Disappear
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60% The Bumblebee Flies Anyway
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Lost Nation
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36% Cigarette Soup
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23% Run
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Filmography

Movies

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No Score Yet No Score Yet Lost Nation Seth Warner (Character) - 2024
No Score Yet 36% Cigarette Soup Skinner (Character) - 2017
34% 67% Before I Disappear Ellis (Character) $2.7K 2014
No Score Yet 23% Run S.G. Owens (Character) - 2013
73% 71% A Walk on the Moon Ross Epstein (Character) $4.7M 1999
No Score Yet 60% The Bumblebee Flies Anyway Unknown (Character) - 1999
75% 79% The Mighty Blade (Character) $2.6M 1998
73% 85% Sleepers Young Lorenzo Carcaterra (Character) $53.3M 1996

TV

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No Score Yet 52% The Equalizer Dale Aldridge (Guest Star) 2021
No Score Yet 81% Blue Bloods Unknown (Guest Star) 2014
92% 96% The Sopranos Jason Gervasi (Guest Star) 2007