Ed Trucco

Trucco was born in Queens, New York City, the son of Orestes Trucco, an Argentine film director, and a Puerto Rican mother named Gladys. At a very young age, Trucco moved to Argentina, where he lived for ten years, and where he became a big association football fan. Among his first life dreams were hopes of becoming a football player and, perhaps, join the Argentina men's national football team someday. But the Trucco family moved to Puerto Rico early in Ed's youth, and since association football was not well established in that Caribbean country as of yet, his dreams of becoming a football player were basically dashed, and Trucco decided to concentrate on acting and on television work instead. == Acting and television career ==

At the age of eight, Trucco made his film debut, in an Argentine film named "Hipolito y Evita" ('"Hipolito and Evita", which was an Argentine version of the Romeo and Juliet love story). He also acted in "Yo Gané al Prode" ("I Beat the Brave"), which was another Argentine film. By 1982, when Trucco was in his late teens, he was hired by his father Orestes to work in his (Orestes') directed movie, where he (Ed) joined Puerto Rican boy band Menudo in their second film, named "Una Aventura Llamada Menudo" ("An Adventure Named Menudo"). another character whose role in the story was also pretty substantial. In the mid-80s, Trucco acted in some telenovelas in Puerto Rico; in one of them, he met his future sister in law, actress Giselle Blondet. At some point early in his career, Trucco was one of the first MTV veejay, along with Daisy Fuentes. and played that character in 58 episodes. By then, Trucco had received an offer from Mexico to go there and work at "La Reina del Sur 2", but he was not selected to join the series at that time. Trucco filmed two movies in 2018: "Fists of Love" as "Chris" and "Even After Everything" as "Richard Warren". He returned to television acting in 2019, acting as "Pete" in the Telemundo series "You Cannot Hide" and as "Roland" in "A Couple in Quarantine". Trucco followed the latter two movies with his participation in the feature film "Rumba Love", where he appeared as "Jim". Then, in 2022, Trucco acted in "La Reina del Sur III", as DEA agent "Ernie Palermo". == Personal life ==

Trucco is often cast to play anglo-saxon characters, such as "Al Otro Lado del Muro"'s "Patrick O'Hara". He is a fervent fan of association football and of the Argentine men's national football team. Through his older brother, producer Harold Trucco, he was once the brother-in-law of Puerto Rican actress and show host Giselle Blondet and is the uncle of their daughter Gabriela and son Harold, Jr.. == See also ==