Adamo Ruggiero Explained

Adamo Ruggiero
Birthname:Adamo Angelo Ruggiero
Birth Date:1986 6, mf=yes
Birth Place:Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
Occupation:Actor, host
Yearsactive:2002–present

Adamo Angelo Ruggiero (born June 9, 1986) is a Canadian actor best known for his role as Marco Del Rossi in .

Career

Ruggiero has been acting since the age of seven or eight. He has starred in many plays including Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and Bye Bye Birdie. After initially auditioning for the role of Craig Manning, a role played by Jake Epstein, he joined the Degrassi cast in 2002 with the role of Marco Del Rossi, a gay teenager who struggles to come to terms with his sexuality. Ruggiero hosted The Next Star from 2008 until 2012. In November 2008, it was announced that Ruggiero would star in the gay-themed Christmas film Make the Yuletide Gay.[1] Principal filming started December 3, 2008.

In 2012, Ruggiero starred in the Young People's Theatre's production of The Neverending Story.[2]

In 2013, Ruggiero participated in Salvatore Antonio's Truth/Dare: A Satire (With Dance), an interactive audience participation show which featured staged reenactments of scenes from Madonna's 1991 film Truth or Dare, at Buddies in Bad Times during Toronto's Pride Week.[3] The show's cast also included Keith Cole and Gavin Crawford.

Personal life

Ruggiero's father, Tony, was born in Coreno Ausonio, Frosinone, Lazio, Italy. Ruggiero's mother's name is Amalia. He has an older brother named Adriano, and he is from an Italian Catholic family. Ruggiero attended the Roman Catholic St. Dunstan Elementary School and graduated from Cawthra Park Secondary School, both in Mississauga, Ontario.

Ruggiero is openly gay, having come out in January 2008 saying "I come from a traditional Italian family but they aren't so traditional that me being gay was a deal breaker." He was also on the cover of the January 23 – February 5, 2008 issue of fab magazine.[4] [5]

Filmography

Films

!Year!Title!Role!Notes
2009Make the Yuletide GayNathan Stanford
Degrassi Goes HollywoodMarco Del RossiTelevision film
2012The Pool DateRioShort film
2013GaysianGeoffShort film
2014Dear ViolaBrian SouthernTelevision film

Television

YearTitleRoleNotes
2002–2009Marco Del RossiRecurring role (season 2, 2002–2003)
Regular role (seasons 3–7, 2003–2008)
Guest appearance (seasons 8–9, 2008–2009)
2005–2007Degrassi: Minis9 episodes
2007Canada's Next Top ModelSelfEpisode: "Getting Carried Away"
Degrassi: Doing What MattersSelfTV special
2008–2012The Next StarHimselfHost
2010Being EricaLuisEpisodes: "Jenny From the Block", "Two Wrongs"
2015Straight Talk with Adamo RuggieroHimselfWeb-series
Saving HopeDonnie PatrilloEpisode: "Hearts of Glass"
MsLabelledDuke5 episodes
2016Marco Del RossiEpisode: "#ThrowBackThursday"
Music video!Year!Title!Artist!Role
2018I'm UpsetDrakeSelf

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Gay-Themed Christmas Flick Features Adamo Ruggiero . 2008-11-12 . . Regent Entertainment Media . 2009-05-16 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090202130713/http://www.advocate.com/news_detail_ektid65616.asp . 2009-02-02 .
  2. Web site: youngpeoplestheatre.ca . 2012-03-05 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120222175256/http://youngpeoplestheatre.ca/en/current/theneverendingstory.cfm . 2012-02-22 .
  3. http://www.nowtoronto.com/guides/pride/2013/story.cfm?content=193100 "Truth/Dare takes on the Material Girl"
  4. News: Adamo Ruggiero gets personal with eTalk . https://web.archive.org/web/20080120184319/http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20080111/adamo_comes_out_20080117/20080117/?s_name=degrassi2006 . dead . January 20, 2008 . Tanya . Kim . January 18, 2008 . 2008-01-19 . .
  5. fab, #338, January 23 – February 5, 2008, "High school confidential", Nelson Branco http://www.fabmagazine.com/features/338/adamo.html.