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name: "Rocco Sisto"
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roles: ["Actor"]
born: "8 February 1953"
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average_fi1m_score: 83
updated: "2026-09-16T21:18:08.159351+00:00"
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# Rocco Sisto

Actor. Born 8 February 1953 in Bari, Italy.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 8 February 1953, Bari, Italy
- **Active:** 1985–1997

## Biography

Rocco Sisto is an Italian-American stage, film and television actor. He grew up in Addison, Illinois, graduated from Addison Trail High School in 1970 and earned an MFA from New York University’s Graduate Acting Program at the Tisch School of the Arts in 1977.

His film roles include the Coffee Shop Cashier in *After Hours* (1985), Panama Hatman in *Carlito’s Way* (1993), Pauley in *Eraser* (1996) and Richie Gazzo in *Donnie Brasco* (1997). On television he has appeared in *Star Trek: The Next Generation*, played Young Junior Soprano in *The Sopranos* and featured in episodes of *Law & Order: Special Victims Unit*, *CSI: Crime Scene Investigation*, *The Blacklist* and *Frequency* (2000).

Sisto has performed with the New York Shakespeare Festival. In 1996 he received a Drama Desk Award nomination for his performance in the play *Quills*.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (3)

- *Donnie Brasco* (1997), Fi1m 84, as Richard 'Richie' Gazzo — [page](https://film.one/film/donnie-brasco.md)
- *Carlito's Way* (1993), Fi1m 86, as Panama Hatman — [page](https://film.one/film/carlitos-way.md)
- *After Hours* (1985), Fi1m 80, as Coffee Shop Cashier — [page](https://film.one/film/after-hours.md)

## Also known for

- *Law & Order: Special Victims Unit* (1999), Joe Ellery
- *The Blacklist* (2013), Spiritual Director
- *Eraser* (1996), Pauley
- *Frequency* (2000), Daryl Simpson
- *CSI: Crime Scene Investigation* (2000), Riley 'Boom Boom' Renaldo
- *Far and Away* (1992), Immigrant
- *Evil* (2019), Silvio
- *Law & Order* (1990), Joseph Turner, Brendan Hall, Jamie Astangura

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