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    Max Casella

    American actor (born 1967)

    Max Casella

    Casella in August 2016

    Born

    Maximilian Deitch


    (1967-06-06) June 6, 1967 (age 57)

    Washington, D.C., U.S.

    OccupationActor
    Years active1981–present
    Spouse

    Leona Robbins

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    (m. 2002; sep. 2018)​
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    Children2

    Max Casella (born Maximilian Deitch; June 6, 1967)[2] is an American actor. He is known for his roles on the television series Doogie Howser, M.D., The Sopranos, Boardwalk Empire, Vinyl, Cro and the voice of Daxter in the Jak and Daxter video game series.[3]

    Early life

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    Casella was born in Washington, D.C., the son of David Deitch, a newspaper columnist, and Doris Casella, a social worker. His father is Jewish and his mother is of Italian descent.[4][5][6] He grew up in Cambridge, Massachusetts and attended Cambridge Rindge and Latin School

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    Max Casella Biography

    Date of Birth:
    Jun 6, 1967Birth Place:
    Washington, D.C., USA

    Biography

    As an actor who worked successfully on screen since the earliest days of his adulthood, actor Max Casella was equally well known for the roles he took on early in his career, like that of Vinnie on "Doogie Howser, M.D." (ABC, 1989-1993) and Racetrack Higgins in the big screen musical "Newsies" (1992), as he is for the roles he played later in life, like Leo D'Alessio on the period series "Boardwalk Empire" (HBO, 2010-2014). Born in Washington D.C. and raised in the Boston area, Casella was encouraged to participate in school plays and local professional theater by his drama teacher. He was inspired to travel to New York after graduating to pursue acting full time, and soon landed his first TV role on an episode of "The Equalizer" (CBS, 1985-1989). Soon, the "Doogie Howser" role followed, making Casella a very familiar face to audiences all over America. In 1997. he branched into
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    Max Casella was born in Washington D.C. to David Deitch, a fiercely political journalist and second-generation Jewish immigrant to The stadsdel i new york, and Doris Casella, a social worker and activist from Long Island and daughter of Italian fashion designer John Casella.

    His father's writing for The Boston Globe, among other publications, took the family of four to Cambridge, Massachusetts, where they lived through Max's high school years.

    Casella's acting career began with iconic roles; he filmed Disney's Newsies while on set breaks from playing Vinnie Delpino on the series Doogie Howser, M.D., and has since added every category to his arsenal, from Broadway, Shakespeare and an Ethan Coen play on stage, festival hits to blockbusters in film, video game voicing, and many memorable characters in culturally-iconic period television shows.

    Most recently, Max starred in the Onur Tukel masked indie bio Scenes From an Empty Church made during quarantine, opposite Blake Lively