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- Height1.70 m
- John Robert Magaro was born in 1983 in Akron, Ohio, to Wendy and James Magaro, and was raised in the local suburb Munroe Falls. He began appearing in local theatre productions in and around Cleveland and Akron.
In film, Magaro has starred in Paramount's Overlord (2018), directed by Julius Avery. He was also seen in Reginald Hudlin's "Marshall," alongside Chadwick Boseman, in Netflix's "War Machine," starring Brad Pitt, and also in Paramount's award winning "The Big Short." "The Big Short" was awarded Best Ensemble by the National Board of Review for 2015 and received the Ensemble Performance Award at the Palm Springs Film Festival, as well as being nominated for a Critics' Choice Award for Best Acting Ensemble and a SAG award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture. Additionally, Magaro earned a Hollywood Spotlight Award from the Hollywood Film Awards for his performance in 2012's Not Fade Away (2012).
No stranger to the small screen, Magaro is known for his work in "Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan," Woody Allen's "Crisis in Six Scenes," and for his memorable recurring role on Netflix's "Orange is the New Black."
A stage actor as well, Magaro starred in the Public Theatre's premiere of "Illyria," playing the Public's founder Joseph Papp. He also had a flashy supporting role in Scott Rudin's revival of "The Front Page," directed by Jack O'Brien, opposite Nathan Lane, John Slattery and John Goodman. Magaro also played the male lead in the critically acclaimed production of "Tigers Be Still," written by Kimberly Rosenstock and directed by Sam Gold for the Roundabout Theatre Company.- IMDb mini biography by: Amazon Video X-Ray
- SpouseJanice Hong(? - present)
- ParentsWendy MagaroJames Magaro
- Lost 40 lbs for his role of Tinker in Unbroken.
- Hometown is Stow, Ohio. He is of Ashkenazi Jewish (mother) and Italian (father) descent.
- He is also famous for the Walmart/Coke commercial.
- Was taught to play drums for his role in Not Fade Away by renowned drummer Andy White.
- Married to fashion designer Janice Hong, gave birth to their first child in 2020.
- Well, that's the thing. If he laughs, it's a genuine laugh. I respect that. I like that about people. I like that he's not a phony, that's just who he is.
- There's only one Steven Van Zandt.
- Yeah, it's hard, because Cookie is like an anti-Western hero, not an antihero, but an anti-Western hero in the sense that he's very gentle. He doesn't really belong in the West. He isn't quite equipped to be in the West. He's a cook, but he's not an aggressive person. He's very soft-spoken. He's meek in a lot of ways. But that's also what drew me to it. It's a type of Western hero that we haven't seen before, or I can't think off the top of my head of a Western where you see a male lead who isn't ultra-masculine and really has a feminine side to him.
- It's my pastime. Probably one of my favorites. I find it very peaceful. It helps me quiet my mind after a long day. I like to whip up a meal.
- That's the reason I do this thing. I could not never imagine playing someone that doesn't have that gray area in which they live, that's why playing Tibbet (in Overlord) was also a joy, because I honestly believe that's how we are as humans. I mean, maybe there is, but I really don't think that there are people who are totally evil and totally good. I think people live in the middle. People do things that are selfish sometimes, people do things that are altruistic sometimes, it just depends on when you catch them.
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