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Tarantino Frankie

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Frank A.Tarantino was born in East Orange,N.J and raised in the city of the Northern district of Newark,N.J. Comes from an Italian American family as the son of Frank Tarantino Sr. and Paula Tarantino and has one sibling.Frank Sr's family migrated from Palermo,Italy which is a Southern city in Sicily. Franky went to an all Catholic school in Newark by the name of St,Lucy's where he was an altar boy,then Our Lady Of Good Counsel,Essex Catholic, then the public schools of Barringer High School in which he later dropped out in 1999 but graduated in 2003 with a high school diploma through Harrison High's night program where he received an award in health.He later went on to take a six month program that was run out of a small class in the Rutgers building receiving a diploma in Entrepreneurship. Franky was a one of the original twenty-five pilot students for a program known as the READY Foundation which was formed by Raymond Chambers.Not only did he attend this program for mentoring in academics but he was also featured in a newspaper article giving then VP George Bush a set of golf clubs in the Newark's Boys And Girls Club in 1988.He accomplished many things with the foundation and learned to become a successful entrepreneur. At the age of thirteen he learned to become creative not only with writing horror stories for class projects but also developed a skill in performing freestyles in hip hop and writing music,although he never found much success in the music,Franky was part of an underground hip hop group known as M2S,where he provided leg work as a public relations consultant.He also joined another group who is unknown and did the same work as well. Franky Tarantino has learned to develop many skill sets not only in music,but has been acting since he was a child in school plays,and has a niche for cooking.In 2011 he brought into his first business which was a small pizzeria called Fatcakes Pizza & Subs,and he also provided help as a volunteer for St.Josephs School for the Blind in Jersey City,N.J to work along side Paula Tarantino his mother to cook Thanksgiving dinner for over two hundred plus students and staff every year up until 2012. He began professional acting in the summer of 2006 and has been doing so ever since.
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    Adam Sandler in Happy Gilmore 2 (2025)
    Happy Gilmore 2
    6.3
    • Jail Cell Inmate(as Franky Tarantino)
    • 2025
    Ice-T, Mariska Hargitay, Kelli Giddish, and Peter Scanavino in New York - Unité spéciale (1999)
    New York - Unité spéciale
    8.1
    TV Series
    • Pedestrian(as Franky Tarantino)
    Destiny
    Destiny
    • Transport Driver(as Franky Tarantino)
      Marcelo Durand Castro, Adriano Durand Castro, and Tara Thaller in The Saint of the Impossible (2020)
      The Saint of the Impossible
      7.0
      • Cuban Restaurant Patron(as Franky Tarantino)
      • 2020

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      • Destiny
        • Transport Driver (as Franky Tarantino)
        • Post-production
      • Mary Anne & Frank
        • Bouncer (as Franky Tarantino)
        • Completed
        • Short



      • Adam Sandler in Happy Gilmore 2 (2025)
        Happy Gilmore 2
        6.3
        • Jail Cell Inmate (as Franky Tarantino)
        • 2025
      • Matthew Silva and James Arcuri in Deviant in Blue (2025)
        Deviant in Blue
        TV Series
        • Cop in Uniform (as Franky Tarantino)
        • 2025
      • Marcelo Durand Castro, Adriano Durand Castro, and Tara Thaller in The Saint of the Impossible (2020)
        The Saint of the Impossible
        7.0
        • Cuban Restaurant Patron (as Franky Tarantino)
        • 2020
      • You're Invited (2019)
        You're Invited
        Short
        • Foreman (as Franky Tarantino)
        • 2019
      • Son of Blackbeard (2019)
        Son of Blackbeard
        Short
        • Brooks (as Franky Tarantino)
        • 2019
      • Shamil Malkondu in Like Father, Like Son (2018)
        Like Father, Like Son
        Short
        • Mr. Smith (voice, as Franky Tarantino)
        • 2018
      • Grave Secrets (2016)
        Grave Secrets
        7.3
        TV Series
        • Lee (as Franky Tarantino)
        • 2017
      • Godfrey Gao and Likun Wang in Qing yu Man Ha Dun (2017)
        Qing yu Man Ha Dun
        5.2
        • Bar Patron (as Franky Tarantino)
        • 2017
      • James Franco, Lawrence Gilliard Jr., and Maggie Gyllenhaal in The Deuce (2017)
        The Deuce
        8.1
        TV Series
        • Driver (uncredited)
        • 2017
      • TIME: The Kalief Browder Story (2017)
        TIME: The Kalief Browder Story
        8.4
        TV Mini Series
        • Arresting Officer #2 (as Franky Tarantino)
        • 2017
      • Tom Selleck, Bridget Moynahan, Donnie Wahlberg, and Will Estes in Blue Bloods (2010)
        Blue Bloods
        7.7
        TV Series
        • Bashed Face Victim (uncredited)
        • 2017
      • Home Cooked News (2016)
        Home Cooked News
        • Defendant #1 (as Franky Tarantino)
        • 2016
      • I Love New York (2016)
        I Love New York
        6.6
        Short
        • Fats (as Franky Tarantino)
        • 2016
      • Home Cooked News (2016)
        Home Cooked News
        TV Series
        • (as Franky Tarantino)
        • 2016
      • Street Rats
        Short
        • Mobster (as Franky Tarantino)
        • 2016

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      • Alternative name
        • Franky Tarantino
      • Height
        • 1.80 m

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