Ian Then Some...The WB Press Kit
The WB Biography for
Mark Famiglietti,
"Scout Calhoun"
Promising
new talent Mark Famiglietti makes his primetime series debut with "Young
Americans."
The son of a pharmaceutical executive and an office manager, Famiglietti was
born in Providence, R.I., and raised in Clinton, Conn., where frequent family
trips to the Goodspeed Opera House sparked his interest in performing. However,
it wasn't until his teen years that he shifted to the other side of the
footlights in Goodspeed's "An Evening with Max Showalter and Friends" and won
the Goodspeed Guild Musical Theatre Award for his performance.
In high school, he was class president in his junior and senior years, captain
of the baseball team, a member of the band and chorus and co-announcer of school
football and basketball games. On winning a small part in his school's
production of "Guys & Dolls," he added drama classes to his curriculum and began
to exercise acting and singing muscles. Leading roles followed in local theater
productions of "Bye, Bye Birdie" and "The Music Man" and school plays including
"Kiss Me Kate" and "Once Upon a Mattress."
Now bent on an acting career, he began attending auditions in New York while
studying at New York University as a drama major, where he studied with the
Atlantic Theatre Company. During his second semester, he put college on hold
and headed for Hollywood after being cast as Deering High's resident heartthrob,
Nick Hammer, on the Saturday morning teen show "Hangtime." He also
guest-starred on The WB comedy "Zoe, Duncan, Jack & Jane" and co-stars as a
friendly bartender in the February-slated TV movie "Bunny Girls" starring Marilu
Henner and Rhea Perlman.
Famiglietti, who loves the stock market, aims to go back to school someday to
study economics or marketing, but he's aiming towards show business success as
an actor, writer and producer. Offstage, he devotes considerable time to
writing and has completed two screenplays and stays fit by working out daily and
running 35-40 miles a week.
January 2000