Jude Ciccolella
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Richard Jude Ciccolella (born November 30, 1947) is a well-recognized American character actor who attended and graduated from Temple University with a Master of Fine Arts degree in theatre.
His film roles include parts in The Shawshank Redemption as Mert, Boys on the Side as Jerry, Night Falls on Manhattan as Lieutenant Wilson, Star Trek: Nemesis as Romulan Commander Suran, Down With Love as the private eye, The Terminal as Karl Iverson, the 2004 Director's Cut DVD of Daredevil, the 2004 remake of The Manchurian Candidate as David Donovan, and the 2005 Sin City movie adaptation as Liebowitz.
After guest starring roles in Law & Order, NYPD Blue, CSI:_NY and ER, Ciccolella took a recurring guest role on 24. During the show's first and second seasons (2001 - 2003), he played Mike Novick, Chief of Staff to David Palmer (Dennis Haysbert), an African-American Senator who became President. He has also guest starred as Principal Raymond on Everybody Hates Chris; however, he was replaced upon reprising his role as Mike Novick in Season 5 of 24.
He appeared on a 1992 James Foley and David Mamet film Glengarry Glen Ross as the Detective. He appeared in the scene where Al Pacino was having an argument with Kevin Spacey about the "six-thousand dollars" owed to him.
In 24's fourth season (2005), Ciccolella returned for the last 8 episodes. Mike had become an advisor to Acting President Charles Logan (Gregory Itzin), who had taken over after the downing of Air Force One critically injured President John Keeler (Geoff Pierson). He had continued this role in the show's fifth season (2006). He has not yet appeared in the sixth season.
He has also appeared as a guest character in the early '90s Nickelodeon cult favorite "The Adventures of Pete and Pete".
[edit] Trivia
- His last name is pronounced "Chick-o-lella". Chick is a Brown University graduate who played on their football team.
[edit] External links
- Jude Ciccolella at the Internet Movie Database
- Jude Ciccolella article at Memory Alpha, a Star Trek wiki.
Richard Jude Ciccolella Current projects include the main role in his new Movie Les Reed My Life in pictures for which mike has been given the lead role as Les Reed.
