Born in Brooklyn, NY and raised in Fort Lauderdale, FL, actor Daniel Franzese is best known for his interesting and daring choices in breakthrough films: from his debut role in Larry Clark's Bully, to Tina Fey's hit comedy Mean Girls, to 2010's update of the highly controversial I Spit on Your Grave. His prescient choices carry into his television...
It is not how you are raised but how you rise up to who you are.
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There are these brilliant moments in one's life or career where you get a hint from God that you are on the right track.I have been blessed to have many of these moments . My first film "Bully" shot across the street from the high school I attended. It was like God's hand was on my shoulder telling me I was doing what I was supposed to be doing with my life. Powerful stuff.
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When it comes to celebrity, anyone who would make me star struck is already dead.
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You either like me or you don't. It took me Twenty-something years to learn how to love myself, I don't have that kinda time to convince somebody else
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Received a Carbonell Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor in a Musical for his role as Harry in "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn".
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Won a High Times Stoney Award for his performance in Bully.
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Co-Wrote (with Hanna LoPatin) the book, music and lyrics to Jersey Shoresical: A Frickin' Rock Opera. An official selection of the 2011 New York International Fringe Festival.
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His favorite movie is Serial Mom.
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Attended Piper High School in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.
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Has two younger siblings, a brother Christopher and a sister Diana.
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