Biography

Jay is a transplanted New York actor, singer & voice-over artist now living in Los Angeles. He is thrilled to have just won the Best Supporting Actor award for the new WW2 film "Endgame" at the Academy of Independent Motion Pictures Percy Award in Austin and also Best Supporting Actor Honorable Mention at the Red Movie Awards in Reims, France. His other film, "Fishers of Men", in which he has a lead role, was recently awarded a top prize in Imagine Entertainments "From Minutes to Movies" competition out of over 4,000 submissions, also winning Best Film at the Utah Arts Festival and the Port Townsend Film Festival. Jay is presently in Paramount+'s "Mafia Spies" as mob lawyer Frank Ragano. He was also in "The Countdown", which now has won 20 Best TV Pilot & Best Women's Empowerment Awards. He is thrilled to have been in the amazing feature "Ayar", (Now on demand on iTunes & Apple TV...Rotten Tomatoes...100%!), which had its world premier at South by Southwest. While still on the East Coast, Jay originated the role of Don Jose in "Rock Carmen" throughout Germany, Switzerland & France, sang with Jewel, Joel Grey & Roger Daltrey in "The Wizard of Oz Concert" at Lincoln Center (broadcast on TNT), starred alongside Rue McClanahan in "Oklahoma" at the Ovens Auditorium in Charlotte, NC, worked with Cloris Leachman on an original theatre piece about her family at the Lucille Lortel Whitebarn Theatre in Connecticut, toured throughout the United States & Canada in the National Tour of Evita & got naked in the European tour of "Hair". He is originally from LongggggIsland, but being vain, superficial & loving tofu, he moved to Los Angeles 10 years ago and is the only New Yorker he knows who loves living in LA...go figure! He was a tennis coach and an NBC News coordinator before beginning his acting career.

- IMDb mini biography by: Self