Johnny Palermo
| Johnny Palermo | |
|---|---|
 Palermo (right) on Everybody Hates Chris | |
| Born |
John Joseph Palermo March 1, 1982 Rochester, New York |
| Died |
June 8, 2009 (aged 27) North Hollywood, California |
| Occupation | actor |
John Joseph "Johnny" Palermo (March 1, 1982 — June 8, 2009) was an American television actor.
A native of Rochester, New York, Palermo graduated from Webster High School in 2000. He is the son of John M. Palermo and Patricia A. Crawford and brother to Jennifer M. Alma and Rick F. Palermo. While there, he played football and was a member of the school's state championship team in 1999. Johnny also loved to make movies as a kid using his father's camera and anyone and anything he could find to star in his feature films. Palermo later attended the Art Institute of Pittsburgh, where he studied special-effects movie makeup.
In 2002, Palermo moved to Los Angeles to pursue his acting career. He subsequently appeared in more than 30 television shows. He was a regular on the Nickelodeon series Just for Kicks, and he had appeared in Everybody Hates Chris as Chris' overgrown classmate Frank DiPaolo.[1]
On June 8, 2009, he and his girlfriend Alessandra Giangrande were both killed in an early morning car crash in North Hollywood, California.[2] Giangrande was driving at the time. Palermo was 27 years old at his death.
Filmography
- Pizza with Bullets (an independent film released on October 1, 2009)
- Rules of Engagement
- CSI: Miami
- How I Met Your Mother
- CSI: NY
- General Hospital
- ER
- Everybody Hates Chris
- What About Brian
- Just for Kicks
- Slip
- Campus Ladies
- Sad Potato
- Without a Trace
- Sissy Frenchfry
- Passions
- Days of Our Lives
- Cold Case