Fred Mancuso

Veteran actor Fred Mancuso was born in Massena NY and grew up in Pittsburgh PA, one of four from a model-dancer mother and football playing-engineer father. Coming from a creative family, he began singing, playing the guitar, and acting at age seven. His father passed from brain cancer when he was 12. Fred took his younger brother Kirk under his wing. His mother, a dancer from Richmond VA worked and raised the four retiring from the Federal Bureau of Investigation in (2013). Fred served in the US Air Force from (1986-1990) being stationed in North Carolina until transferring to Los Angeles CA to live with his brother Joe in (1989). Joe graduated from Carnegie Mellon University in music and drama in (1988) as did sister Lauri Mancuso in (1991) in fine arts. Fred went to an open call for the Miami Vice Stunt Show at Universal Studios Tour in (1990) to practice a monologue. Alex Plasschaert and Nicholas Plasschaert cast him as a smuggler for the live action show. He worked bouncing at the