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Recent Role:
Det. Joe Fontana on Law & Order
Birthday:
2-29-1944
Birthplace:
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Birth Name:
AKA:
Dennis G. Farina

Dennis Farina is an American actor. He was in a large Italian family. He had two brothers and three sisters. In 1967 Dennis joined the police department. Farina was a police consultant for director, Michael Mann's early work. He first became interested in acting after he got a small role in one of Mann's movies. He then started acting at various Chicago theaters. Farina quite the force when...

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  • Dennis Farina was one of three actors (the other two were Scott Glenn in Silence of the Lambs and Harvey Keitel in Red Dragon) to play the character of Jack Crawford in the Hannibal Lecture series of films. Farina had the Crawford role in the 1986, Michael Mann film, Manhunter. Farina was the only one of the three to have actual law enforcement experience.(edit)
  • Dennis has been typecast into the role of either a police officer or a mobster.(edit)
  • Dennis was in New York City on September 11th.(edit)
  • Dennis would love to be in a western.(edit)
  • Dennis loves England.(edit)
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