Name |
Vincent Irizarry |
Height |
|
Naionality |
American |
Date of Birth |
12-November-1959 |
Place of Birth |
Queens, New York |
Famous for |
Acting |
Vincent Michael Irizarry (born November 12, 1959 in Queens, New York) is an American actor of Puerto Rican and Italian descent. He was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award in 1985 and 2002, and won in 2009.
Moving to Lake Grove, NY early on, Irizarry at the age of 11, began to study piano, becoming classically trained, then continued his studies at Berklee College of Music in Boston. It was there that he fell in love with acting while performing in numerous productions with a regional theater company. He decided to move back to New York to sow the seeds for a career as a professional actor, soon winning a full-time scholarship with Lee Strasberg at his Theater Institute.