Dark haired and olive complected, with chiseled features and a mischievous smile, actor Erik Palladino's looks could evince both an exotic allure and a down-to-earth all-American blue-collar charm. The New York born and bred actor got his start in the city's Children's Repertory Company and was trained at Marymount Manhattan College, enrolled in the only co-educational program in the primarily female institution. He went on to appear in productions of "Entertaining Mr. Sloane" and "True West" on the New York stage. In 1989, the fashionably long-haired Palladino married his performer's poise
