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''Antone Pagán"

Antone Pagán is a film, stage and TV actor born in the Bronx, New York City. He is a founding member of The Family Life Improvisational Theater as one of its first teen actors. He is also a lifetime member of The Actors Studio since the late 1980s.

Contents 1 Life 2 Career 3 Theater 4 References 5 External Links

Life [edit]

As a youth in the Bronx and Harlem he grew up amongst gang activity. This inspired him to look towards the arts at Chelsea Vocational High School. His first play was West Side Story, which had gangs in it, so it was a natural transition. During high school he was elected student body President as well as the Manhattan Borough President and began exploring creative writing. Soon after he made his first film appearance in "The Warriors" leading his gang to the big gang meeting. After graduating high school he attended New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts to pursue theater and movement techniques such as Mime and Dance.

Career [edit]

During his second year at New York University he was asked to audition for Bernardo in “West Side Story” with the original Jerome Robbins choreography. This led to being cast in a South American tour where he received favorable reviews for this production in Spanish. Upon his return to New York he would be cast again as Bernardo in several other productions during the next decade. In 1981 he was cast opposite Bill Murray in Columbia Pictures box office hit movie, “Stripes” as Pvt. Hector Barrios. He continued to do theater at La Mama Theater as well as other off-broadway theaters. He was also featured in the TV movie “We’re Fighting Back” with guest star appearances on “Miami Vice”, “New York Undercover”, “The Sopranos“ and all of the “Law and Order” TV shows. Other film appearances include “Dirty Dancing” and “El Cantante” as Jennifer Lopez’s brother Papo in 2006. Some independent film appearances include “30 Beats” in 2012 with Jennifer Tilly and “Here and There” with Cyndi Lauper in 2009. He co-starred with Ahmad Rashad in the classic horror TV show “Monsters” in the highly rated “The Hole” Vietnam episode. He has also appeared in other horror movies such as Lucio Fulci’s horror classic “The New York Ripper” in 1984, “Mulberry Street” in 2007 and “George Romero presents Deadtime Stories” in 2009.