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Ralph Macchio
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Actor Born: November 4, 1962 in Huntington, Long Island, NY Biography:With his short slender build, large brown eyes, and abundant hair, actor "Ralph Macchio" has often appeared to be the perennial adolescent -- a fact that has sometimes hindered his career. The actor is best known for his work in the phenomenally popular "Karate Kid" (1984), in which the then twenty-two year old actor played a troubled 14-year-old boy who is helped by a sage karate instructor. Macchio has been in show business most of his life; born in Long Island, he began performing in local musical productions as a young teenager. At 16, he began working in TV commercials, and before he had even graduated from high school had appeared in the adolescent comedy "Up the Academy" (1980), though he did not appear in another film until working in "Francis Ford Coppola"'s epic of teenage rivalry "The Outsiders" (1983). Following the "Karate Kid", Macchio began working in a series of minor films, such as... Full Biography
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