A former school teacher in his native Australia, engaging character player Anthony LaPaglia moved to NYC and began acting in the theater, his big break coming Off-Broadway in "Bouncers", a play in which he demonstrated his versatility and talent for accents while rendering eight different characters. Guest work on series like "Amazing Stories" (NBC), "Magnum, P.I." (CBS), "Hunter" (NBC) and "Trapper John, M.D." (CBS) preceded his landing the title role of the TV biopic "Frank Nitti: The Enforcer" (ABC, 1988), after which he made his feature debut in a small role in James Ivory's "Slaves of New
