Joseph Marrese
Acting
Biography
Joseph started acting at age 13. By the age of 18, Joseph had landed over a dozen film and TV roles, along with over 14 TV commercials. Joseph's break out role was of Vittorio Innocente, playing the icon Sophia Loren's son in Capri Film's TV Mini Series Drama Lives of the Saints, with this role Joseph won the Young Artist's Award in Los Angeles California. Joseph played many recurring roles on Pax Network Doc, ESPN Playmakers, and CTV Flashpoint, in which he was nominated a second time for the Young Artist award for his work on Doc playing the role of Jordan, a teen slowing going deaf where he learned sign language. Joseph also played leading roles in the sci-fi film Threshold and USA TV net's The Promise and The Messiah. Joseph was born and raised in Toronto Canada, of Italian grandparents where he learned to speak fluent Italian.
Known For
The series is a gritty ensemble drama about the off-field lives of a group of players on a pro football team and how they deal with the pressure of being on the professional level.
Playmakers
Vittorio Innocente, a young man, estranged from the tragedies of his Italian immigrant family, has spent his adult life denying his past. When his estranged father starts to stalk Vittorio's sister, Rita, with murderous intent, Vittorio is moved to return to his family and uncover the decades-old secrets that have torn his family apart.
Lives of the Saints
Alien seeds hitch a ride to earth in a space shuttle crew and begin to grow. When their numbers reach the Threshold amount they will be an unstoppable swarm.
Threshold
Set in Remies, France in 1941 during World War II, a Jewish man tries to escape Nazi persecution and a chance encounter with a woman sitting next to him on the train. Based on a true story.
Pigeon
An ailing writer executes his dying wish: to reconcile his wildly personal take on his lifelong war with his action-movie star brother. A raucously surreal tragi-comedy.
The Human Kazoo
Separated by death, reunited by destiny
Wisteria
The new guy in town needs to deal with the old guy in town, there is no two ways about it. Newcomer learns quickly that sometimes blood, sweat and guts are just not enough. Friction sparks a back street fight that has every guy in town getting in on the action.