JOE SPANO

JOE SPANO Emmy Award winner (for Midnight Caller) Joe Spano starred for 7 years as “Lt. Henry Goldblume” on the television series Hill Street Blues. He also starred in the series Mercy Point, Amazing Grace, Murder One and NYPD Blue. He has starred in 20 films made for television and guest-starred on 38 television shows, most recently, Crossing Jordan, The Closer and Shark. For the last 4 years he has played “FBI Agent Tobias Fornell” on NCIS. He has appeared in 30 feature films, including Hart’s War, Primal Fear, Apollo 13, American Graffiti, Hollywoodland, Fracture and, most recently, Frost/Nixon, directed by Ron Howard. A native of San Francisco, a graduate of the University of California and a classically-trained stage actor with experience in improvisational comedy, Spano made a late Broadway debut in 1992 in the Roundabout Theater revival of Arthur Miller's The Price, with Eli Wallach, which was nominated for a Tony for Best Revival. West coast stage credits include Eduardo Pavlovsky’s Potestad, and David Mamet's Speed the Plow and American Buffalo, for which he was awarded an LA Drama Critics Circle Award. At the Rubicon Theater in Ventura he has played General Burgoyne in Shaw’s Devil’s Disciple, Greg in A. R. Gurney’s Sylvia and Vladimir in Waiting for Godot. He is a member of Pacific Stages, the Antaeus Theater Company and a founding member of three other theater companies, including The Berkeley Repertory Theater. He is currently working on a one-man show based on the life and work of Buckminster Fuller. He is a past Director and current email coordinator of the Southern California chapter of Families with Children from China and a founding, past board member of the Half the Sky Foundation, which brings early childhood development training and infant nurturing programs to orphanages in China. He is the father of of 12 year old Liana Clare Xiaohe Zerrien Spano and 9 year old Meili Qing Zerrien Spano.

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