The tall, warm and accessible Libertini is a former revue performer who has gradually worked his way into respectability--and increasingly larger roles--as a character actor in both comedy and drama. One might recall him as the unintelligible Latino preacher marrying Burt Reynolds and Goldie Hawn in "Best Friends" (1982), the bumbling Eastern guru transporting Lily Tomlin's soul to Steve Martin in "All of Me" (1984), a retentive doctor in "Nell" (1994) or a high-profile, adversarial defense attorney on several episodes of "Law and Order" (NBC).

Libertini began as a professional trumpet player