Ralph Mucci Biography

Ralph was born and raised in the Forest Hill, North Ward section of Newark, New jersey. He attended St. Francis Xavier elementary school, Barringer High and Essex Catholic High school all in Newark. He then attended The Dramatic Arts school In Elizabeth New Jersey to study acting. Ralph later attended Bloomfield College in Bloomfield, New Jersey where he majored in Materials Management. Ralph began his acting career at the early age of 8. While performing in his Mothers Civic club Christmas play, Ralph knew then that it was performing he wanted to pursue. He then began performing in several elementary school plays and continued performing thru high school. During his high school years Ralph was casted in such plays as "The West Side Story" playing Bernardo the Puerto Rican gang leader of the Sharks and "Rebel Without A Cause" portraying Plato the disturbed & confused adolescent.

In 1974 Ralph was casted in the Independent movie "The Retaliator" in which he costarred in. Ralph played the character Chuck who was a heroin addict bent on a collision course with death.

Ralph has just recently returned back to the acting world after a very long hiatus. He recently just completed filming the movie "By The River Rye," in the summer of 2002, an independent film starring Johnny Grasso and Paul Shields. Ralph portrays a character named Bear. Bear is a fence operator of stolen goods. Says Ralph " It feels great to get back into this business especially after being away from it for so long. Even tough I have roughly only 10 ins of film time in the movie, my character and scenes are quite important to the plot. Johnny Grasso who wrote, directed and is starring in the movie was great to work with. I have to laugh because I always seem drawn to play the bad guy, which of course is quite the opposite of me." The movie is now in post production as of this writing. Negotiations are currently under way as to the distribution of this movie. It is unclear at this time if it will be a theatrical release or video release, or possibly both.

Ralph is currently appearing in the fall of 2002 at the Parsippany Playhouse in Lake Hiawatha, New Jersey as Mr. Anagnos in "The Miracle Worker" the story of Helen Keller.