Biography

Jim Bracchitta has been a professional actor for more than twenty-five years. He appeared in the HBO mini-series Show Me A Hero. Written by David Simon and directed by Academy-Award winner Paul Haggis, the series is about Yonkers, NY during the racial crisis that enveloped it in the 1980s. Jim plays Nick Longo, one of the defiant members of the Yonkers City Council. Over the years, he has appeared on Broadway, off-Broadway, on TV and in the movies, and has been proud to have shared the stage and screen with, among others, Lynn Redgrave, Brian Dennehy, Alfred Molina, Judd Hirsch, Lyle Lovett, Aidan Quinn, Amy Ryan, Robin Williams, Jerry Orbach, Mary J. Blige, Montel Williams, Mia Farrow, Susan Sarandon, Ralph Fiennes and Sam Waterston.

Among his notable appearances are the hit Broadway revival of Gypsy(2009), opposite Patti LuPone and Boyd Gaines; the award-winning off-B'way production of The Exonerated (2012). He played defense attorney Jason Goidell in nearly a dozen episodes of Law & Order (1990). In the last season of The Sopranos (1999) he played the Essex county prosecutor.

He's been in more than 1000 radio and TV commercials; and for many years was the voice of the Olive Garden, where he continually reminded folks, that "when you're here, you're family!"

He is a graduate of NYU, and a co-founder of The Cape Cod Theatre Project, a non-profit theatre company that develops new plays in Woods Hole, MA.
- IMDb mini biography by: Jim Bracchitta