Mark Famiglietti
Scout Calhoun in Young Americans
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, RI, and raised in Clinton, CT, 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.