Known For: American actor (1944–2013)
Category: Actors
Occupation: actor, police officer, character actor, television actor, film actor
Country: United States of America
City: Chicago
Date of Birth: Tuesday, 29 February 1944
Died: 2013-07-22 00:00:00 in Q49221
Donaldo Gugliermo "Dennis" Farina was an American stage and film actor, who prior to his acting career worked as a Chicago police detective.
| BirthPlace | Chicago |
| Wikipedia | Dennis_Farina |
Farina was born on a Leap Day (February 29, 1944) in Chicago's Old Town neighborhood, the fourth son and youngest of the seven children of Joseph and Yolanda Farina. Farina's father, who was from Villalba, Sicily, was a Chicago-area doctor, and his mother a homemaker. They raised their children in a North Avenue home in Old Town, a working-class neighborhood with a broad ethnic mixture, with Italians and Germans the predominant ethnicities. Before becoming an actor, Farina served three years in the United States Army during the Vietnam Era, followed by 18 years in the Chicago Police Department (1967 to 1985), during which he advanced from patrolman to detective.
