Jerry Della Salla

Jerry Della Salla (born May 7, 1969) is an American stage and film actor.

Della Salla was born in Livingston, New Jersey. He studied with acting coach Stella Adler, and is a 1992 graduate of NYU's Tisch Drama Program. After graduation, he began performing in the New York theater scene, and in several Off-Broadway productions. During his early career, he shared the stage with such future A List actors as Edward Norton, Peter Dinklage, and the late Philip Seymour Hoffman to name a few.

His performance as Piero in the Theater for the New City Manhattan premiere of Big Love in 2004, was described as "strong" and "debonair".[1] In 2012, he made his Los Angeles stage debut starring in a critically acclaimed revival of the British farce What the Butler Saw, as Sergeant Match, at the famed Odyssey Theater Ensemble. In 2013 he was featured in the Pacific Resident Theatre award nominated production of Arthur Miller's classic A View From the Bridge. The company would receive nominations for Best Revival from the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award and the LA Weekly. He has also worked with the award winning Rogue Machine Theatre.

In the late 90's he began to work on the small screen, playing guest spots on such notable soap operas as One Life to Live and The Guiding Light. In 2002, he was the recipient of the Columbia University School of the Arts Best Actor Award, for his comedic as well dramatic portrayal of small town cop Tom Sykousky, in the award winning short film 'Broken'. The movie would go on to screen at several prominent film festivals from around the world, including the Woodstock Film Festival and Gen Art Film Festival, where it also won best short. In 2006 he co-starred in Personal Sergeant, a made for TV movie that aired on the Hallmark's Family Channel starring Victor Argo. Subsequent to its release, the film would then air on Netflix for over seven years and was voted as one of the top 25 soccer movies by the networks rating scale.

His largest role to date was in 2010, co- starring as Met-D platoon sergeant Wilkins in Universal Studios war film Green Zone, opposite Matt Damon and directed by Paul Greengrass. Della Salla was chosen by the film's director from over hundreds of would be candidates for the role. Citing his theater and military combat experience as being the overall advantage to his casting. Recently he was featured as Marine Lt. Marks in the 2013 TV One Network film A Christmas Blessing, playing opposite David Banner and starring Omari Hardwick and Luenell. The made for cable holiday movie was directed by Russ Parr, and is slated for DVD release in 2014.

References

  1. ↑ Estrada, David Miguel. "Big Love". Ragged Blade Reviews.

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