Marco Perella is an American character actor and author, who has played a variety of small roles in motion pictures shot in Texas.
Perella was born in Houston, Texas, the son of Anthony Paul Perella and Edna Lee Drake. He studied at Stanford University, in Northern California, but left after his junior year. He then worked as a construction worker, firefighter and musician, before auditioning for a role in West Side Story.
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