Frank John Hughes Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
A native of the South Bronx, Frank John Hughes studied Jazz composition at the Berklee College of Music in Boston before moving back to New York to begin studying with legendary Russian method acting teacher Sonia Moore at her Studio of the Theatre. At the age of nineteen he became one of the youngest members ever to be given lifetime membership ...
Has been a practicing Buddhist since 1990 and took precepts into the Kwan Um School (a Korean Buddhist lineage) in 2003.
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Is of Irish and Italian descent.
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A member of Teamsters local 814 in New York as a furniture mover, which he did on and off for ten years, to support his wife and child.
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Lived two blocks from the Actors Studio in Hell's Kitchen.
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In 1999, his intense dedication to his craft caused him to gain 58 pounds to prepare to play a man with Down's Syndrome. The film was postponed and in the interim, he was cast in Band of Brothers (2001) where he had two months to lose the weight in order to play a 17-year-old Wild Bill Guarnere. He went through a brutal routine of fasting and running 6-8 miles a day. Just before filming, a doctor told him that he had done serious damage to his adrenal system.
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Studied with famed New York acting teacher Sonia Moore, who taught him the Stanislavski Method. He went on to become one of the youngest lifetime members of the Actor's Studio in New York after he was accepted at the age of 19.
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Worked with Al Pacino and J.J. Johnston in the play American Buffalo in a staged reading at the Tiffany Theater.
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Is a published poet and was in the same issue of the New York Quarterly as his favorite writer Charles Bukowski.
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Plays the drums and studied jazz at the renowned Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachussetts
$17 Million
