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Date of Birth

24 December 1964, Smithtown, Long Island, New York, USA

Birth Name

Christopher John Edward Del Gaudio

Height

6' 1" (1.85 m)

Mini Biography

Christopher Del Gaudio is a graduate of New York University's Tisch School of the Arts and holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Drama. As a student at NYU, he cross-trained with the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute under the tutelage of noted acting instructors Geoffrey Horne, David Gideon, and Fred Sadoff; and cultivated his writing talents in extensive study with the late playwright Harry Kondoleon. He has worked professionally in numerous stage productions, films, and television shows, among them The Devil's Advocate (1997), A Perfect Murder (1998), Godzilla (1998), Sabrina (1995), "Law & Order" (1990), and _SubwayStories: Tales From The Underground (1997)_.

In 1993, he established Power of Cohesion Productions to produce commercial and independent film as well as broadcast and DVD quality digital video. Although his incisive, psychological, yet lushly poetic style of writing earned him industry attention, he gravitated towards a place in the independent film arena that had gone unexplored. In 1999, he marked his debut as the creator/writer/director of the cult public access television series "The Realm of Never," a supernatural anthology drama blending nuances of "The Twilight Zone" (1959) with a theatrical flavor of "Dark Shadows" (1966)and "Playhouse 90" (1956). Shot live-to-videotape with three cameras, it became a reinvention of the techniques utilized in much of television's Golden Age and elevated public access to the level of art form. It remains the only studio-produced dramatic series on public access television anywhere in the United States, as well as the first public access show to earn official selection onto a national film festival twice. While ever spreading the word and expanding the dimensions of "The Realm of Never," Mr. Del Gaudio wrote, directed, and co-executive produced the independent film _Crocus Bloomed, A(2004)_,which won First Place at the 2004 Northeast Regional Video Festival in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He recently completed a feature-length screenplay and a story projection for 22 new episodes of "The Realm of Never" and actively produces a talk show entitled "Realm of Never: The Talk Series," a companion piece to the dramatic series, spotlighting artists from the worlds of film, television, and theater.

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Trivia

The 1st May 1999 premiere date of "The Realm of Never" coincided with his father's 78th birthday.

Father, John Del Gaudio, was a minor league baseball catcher for the Maryland based Hagerstown Owls in the 1940s.

Suffered from severe asthma and allergies as a child.

Is a Christmas Eve baby, born at 3:33 p.m. exactly, and shares a birthday with Ricky Martin, Ava Gardner, composer Harry Warren, 'Howard Hughes', and Nostradamus.

At the age of three, sat down and played a Thomas organ in Macy's without ever having had a lesson.

Attended NYU and the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute with 'Adam Sandler' and 'Kevin Corrigan'.

His childhood next door neighbor was Kevin Shields, contributing composer to the Academy Award winning film Lost in Translation (2003) and founding member of the influential UK indiepop band "My Bloody Valentine."

Attended Commack High School South with Rosie O'Donnell. She was a senior. He was a freshman.

Speaks three languages including Italian, Spanish, and French.

Won several Foreign Language awards while in high school, including three from the Order Sons of Italy in America.

Personal Quotes

The term "independent filmmaker" is an oxymoron. We should be called "dependent filmmakers" because we're the ones dependent on the $$$. The major Hollywood blockbusters are the independent films!

Artists are a rare breed. The art we master is the art of sacrifice. We give our lives to live forever.

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