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Real name: Ralph George Macchio
Date of birth (location): November 4, 1961, Huntington Beach, New York, USA.
Spouse: 'Phyllis Fiero' (April 1987 - present); 2 children, Julia and Daniel.
Other short info:
Graduated from Half Hollow Hills High School West (1979)
Listed as one of twelve "Promising New Actors of 1984" in John Willis' Screen World, Vol. 36.
Eldest of two sons.
Has a younger brother named Steve.
Has an uncredited cameo in "Fast Times At Ridgemont High" (1982) during the infamous carrot scene.
Ralph began performing in local musical productions as a
teenager, and at 16, he began working in TV commercials; before he had even
graduated from high school he had appeared in the adolescent comedy "Up the Academy" (1980).
He did not appear in another film until working in Francis Ford Coppola's epic of
teenage rivalry "The Outsiders" (1983). Between those first two films, Macchio played on
the TV comedy/drama "Eight Is Enough" as Jeremy Andretti from 1980 to 1981. He made his Broadway debut starring with Robert
DeNiro in a sold-out engagement of "Cuba and his Teddy Bear." He recently finished traveling in the
production of "How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying."
Film credits: Up the
Academy; The Outsiders; The Karate Kid; Teachers; Crossroads; The Karate Kid, Part II;
Distant Thunder; The Karate Kid, Part III; Too Much Sun; My Cousin Vinny; Naked in New York; Dizzyland; Secret of NIMH II; Animals of Farthing Wood; Can't Be Heaven.
TV series: "Eight is Enough." Television movies: "Dangerous Company,""The Three Wishes
of Billy Grier," "The Last POW?: The Bobby Garwood Story."
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