DeCaro was born in Chicago on April 2, 1956. He studied education at the
University of Illinois Chicago and taught at the
Chicago Academy for the Arts. His stage work includes the
Victory Gardens Theater's production of
Symmetry and the role of Mr. Meyers in the world premiere of
Rebecca Gilman's 1999 play
Spinning into Butter. At the time of his death, he was part of the cast for a production of
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom at Chicago's
Goodman Theatre. DeCaro lived in the
Bridgeport neighborhood of Chicago with his wife, Sheila O'Callaghan, and had a son. He died from heart failure in his home on April 25, 2026, at the age of 70. ==Filmography==