Ricco Ross

• Name — Ricco Ross • Birthplace — Chicago, Illinois, U.S. • Occupation — Actor • Years Active — 1982–present • Children — 2

Ross was born in Chicago.

Ross' first television role was as an extra on The Young and the Restless, which was followed by a small part in Hill Street Blues and the male lead in the music video for Whitney Houston's 1985 hit song "Saving All My Love for You". He later played Private Ricco Frost in the film Aliens (1986), and also appeared in the films Death Wish 3 (1985), Spies Like Us (1985), The Dirty Dozen: Next Mission (1985 TV film), "Displaced Person" (1985 episode of American Playhouse), Gulliver's Travels (1996), Mission Impossible (1996), Fierce Creatures (1997), Nate and the Colonel (2003) and Hydra (2009). From the late 1980s to the early 1990s, he lived and worked in the United Kingdom. He portrayed Greg Dacosta on the BBC1 drama Westbeach. While there, he made guest appearances in Doctor Who (in the 1988 serial The Greatest Show in the Galaxy) and Jeeves and Wooster, and played a supporting role as CIA agent Karl Richfield in the 1991 mini-series Sleepers. Ross now appears in various commercials as well as TV shows aired throughout the United States.

Ricco Ross originally read for the part of Corporal Hicks. He was then offered the role of Private Drake, but he turned it down in favour of appearing in Full Metal Jacket. However, James Cameron was so impressed with Ross' audition that he wrote the character of Frost specifically for him, and as a result Ross left Kubrick's production to appear in Aliens. In a 2014 interview for the podcast I Was There Too, Ross stated that Private Frost's first name is actually Robert.

In 1994 Ross toured Great Britain performing in the play Skin.

• Year — Title — Role — Notes • 1982 — Hill Street Blues — Tyler Bragg — Recurring cast: season 2 • 1985 — American Playhouse — Jackson — Episode: "Displaced Person" • C.A.T.S. Eyes — Edsom — Episode: "Love Byte" • 1988 — The Play on One — Larry — Episode: "Airbase" • 1988-89 — Doctor Who — Ringmaster — Episode: "The Greatest Show in the Galaxy Part 1-4" • 1989 — The Bill — Maxi Silver — Episode: "Duty Elsewhere" • CBS Summer Playhouse — Alvin — Episode: "American Nuclear" • 1991 — Sleepers — Karl Richfield — Recurring cast • Murder Most Horrid — Gary — Episode: "Mrs Hat and Mrs Red" • 1992 — Jeeves and Wooster — Liftman Coneybear — Recurring cast: season 3 • The Tomorrow People — Sergeant Young — Episode: "The Origin Story: Part 5" • 1993 — Westbeach — Greg Dacosta — Main cast • Sitting Pretty — Cliff Monahann — Episode: "Wills of Fire" • 1996 — Gulliver's Travels — Brobdingnag Scientist — Episode: "Episode #1.1" • Highlander: The Series — Kassim — Episode: "Promises" • 1997 — JAG — Secret Service #2 — Episode: "Washington Holiday" • Babylon 5 — Captain Frank — Episode: "The Face of the Enemy" • The Pretender — Larron — Episode: "Back from the Dead Again" • The Practice — Reporter — Episode: "Reasonable Doubts" & "Hide and Seek" • 1999 — Beverly Hills, 90210 — Miles Caufield — Episode: "Agony" • 2000 — Days of Our Lives — Reggie Morris — Episode: "Episode #1.8729" • 2006 — ER — Barnard — Episode: "Scoop and Run" • 2012 — Bite Me — Barnard — Main cast: season 2 • 2014 — Caper — Psycho — Recurring cast • Family Time — - — Episode: "Powering Down" • Match — Detective Purcell — Episode: "Secret Lives" • 2015 — Escorts — Charles Stone Sr. — Recurring cast • 2016 — K.C. Undercover — Preacher — Episode: "The Love Jinx" • 2019 — No Good Nick — Walter Strickland — Episode: "The Pigeon Drop" • 2020-22 — P-Valley — Pastor R. J. Gilfield — Recurring cast: season 1, guest: season 2 • 2024–26 — Beauty in Black — Horace — Main cast

• Year — Title — Artist — Role • 1985 — Saving All My Love for You — Whitney Houston — Producer / Lover

Ricco Ross is recorded as actor.