Raised in the Bronx after being born in Savannah, Georgia, he attended St. Margaret’s and Fordham Preparatory schools before a brief stint at Manhattan College and took acting lessons at the HB Studio while working as a waiter and bartender. Selected from hundreds of candidates, he entered cinema as Jean d’Aulon in Luc Besson’s 1999 historical drama and soon appeared in genre pieces such as the ps…
