Martin Ferrero

• Name — Martin Ferrero • Birth Name — Martin Victor Ferrero • Born — 29 September 1947 • Birthplace — Brockport, New York, U.S. • Occupation — Actor • Years Active — 1979–present

Ferrero was born in Brockport, New York. He joined the California Actors Theater in Los Gatos, California. In 1979, he moved to Los Angeles and began to act in Hollywood. He is widely remembered for his role as the ill-fated lawyer Donald Gennaro in Jurassic Park (1993). He appeared as a regular on the 1980s TV series Miami Vice playing the comic relief character Izzy Moreno, an informant with a Cuban accent infused with a malapropism who was involved in a variety of outlandish business ventures. He initially appeared in the pilot episode as assassin Trini DeSoto. He guest-starred on an episode of Cheers ("Rescue Me", season 3), playing the role of an Italian waiter. In addition, he has appeared in Get Shorty (1995), Gods and Monsters (1998), and The Tailor of Panama (2001). As of 2008, Ferrero is a member of the Antaeus Company, a Los Angeles classical theater ensemble. In 2011, he reprised the role of Donald Gennaro in a CollegeHumor (now Dropout) parody of Jurassic Park.

• Year — Title — Role — Notes • 1979 — The Ropers — Salesman — Episode: "Puppy Love" • Soap — Waiter — Episode: "Episode #3.6" • 1981 — M*A*S*H — Wounded man in jeep — Episode: "That's Show Biz" • 1982 — Mork & Mindy — The Salesman — Episode "I Don't Remember Mama" (#4.15) • 1983 — Diff'rent Strokes — Coach — Episode "The Goat" • 1984 — Alice — Bart — Episode "Romancing Mr. Stone" • 1985 — Hill Street Blues — Alan "Rambo" Branford — Episode: "Somewhere Over The Rambo" • Cheers — Waiter — Episode: "Rescue Me" • 1986 — Moonlighting — Peter Macy — Episode: "Yours, Very Deadly" • 1984–1989 — Miami Vice — Izzy Moreno/Trini DeSoto — 18 episodes/1 episode • 1988 — L.A. Law — Julius Goldfarb / The Salamander — Episode: "Leapin' Lizards" • 1990 — Shannon's Deal — Lou Gondolf • 1996 — Nash Bridges — Vincenzo 'Vince' Diamond — Episode: "Javelin Catcher" • 1997 — The Practice — Sam Feldberg — Episode: "Save the Mule" • 1998 — The X-Files — Shooter — Episode: "The End" • 2000 — Ali: An American Hero — Angelo Dundee — (TV movie) • 2011 — CollegeHumor Originals — Donald Gennaro — Episode: "Jurassic Park Character's Awful Realization" • 2017 — Jimmy Kimmel Live! — Himself Donald Gennaro — Episode: David Muir, Pedro Pascal, Music from Mariah Carey