Jonathan LaPaglia, M.B.B.S. (born August 31, 1967 in Adelaide, Australia) is an Australian actor best known for his role as Frank Parker in the television series Seven Days. He is the younger brother of Australian actor Anthony LaPaglia. Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery, or in Latin Medicinæ Baccalaureus et Baccalaureus Chirurgiæ (abbreviated MB BChir, MB BCh, MB ChB, BM BS, MB BS et al. ... is the 243rd day of the year (244th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar (the link is to a full 1967 calendar). ... For other uses, see Adelaide (disambiguation). ... Actors in period costume sharing a joke whilst waiting between takes during location filming. ... For other meanings of Seven Days, see Seven Days (disambiguation). ... Anthony LaPaglia (born 31 January 1959) (pronounced ) is an Australian actor, best known for his role as FBI agent Jack Malone on the American TV series Without a Trace, a role which won him a Golden Globe Award. ...

LaPaglia graduated from Rostrevor College, then the University of Adelaide with a degree in medicine. He worked three (3) years as an emergency-room physician in Adelaide, Sydney and London. Rostrevor College is a Catholic all boys day and boarding school in Adelaide, South Australia. ... The University of Adelaide (colloquially Adelaide University or Adelaide Uni) is a public university located in Adelaide. ... The Sydney Opera House on Sydney Harbour Sydney (pronounced ) is the most populous city in Australia, with a metropolitan area population of 4,119,190, and 151,920 in the City of Sydney, as of the 2006 census. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ...

Feeling restricted, he decided to follow his brother into acting. In 1994, he moved to New York City where he joined the Circle In The Square Theatre School. He got his first break in 1996, when he joined the cast of TV show New York Undercover. New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ... New York Undercover was a one-hour urban police drama, which ran on the Fox Broadcasting Company network from 1994 to 1998. ...

From 1998 until 2001 he played the role of Lt. Frank B. Parker on the science fiction series Seven Days. He also played Kevin Debreno, a detective on the television show The District from 2001-2004. Year 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1998 Gregorian calendar). ... Year 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday (link displays the 2001 Gregorian calendar). ... Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ... For other meanings of Seven Days, see Seven Days (disambiguation). ... The television crime drama The District aired on CBS from October 7, 2000 to May 1, 2004. ...

He co-starred in the 2007 made for TV movie, Gryphon, a Sci-Fi Pictures original film. Year 2007 (MMVII) is now the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era. ... A television movie (also known as a TV film, TV movie, TV-movie, feature-length drama, made-for-TV movie, movie of the week (MOTW or MOW), single drama, telemovie, telefilm, or two-hour-long drama) is a film that is produced for and originally distributed by a television network. ... Gryphon is a 2007 film directed by Andrew Prowse, starring Amber Benson, Jonathan LaPaglia, and Larry Drake. ...

Now living in Santa Monica, California with his wife, Ursula Brooks (also an actress) and their baby daughter. For other uses, see Santa Monica (disambiguation). ...

He is involved in several current films and yet to be released TV programs.

He appears in the final season of The Sopranos as himself, acting in the fictional Mafia-funded slasher film Cleaver. The Sopranos is an American television drama series created by David Chase and originally broadcast on the HBO network. ... The term Mafia (sometimes referred to as Cosa Nostra, Mafioso, or Black Hand, there are differences), refers to Italian criminal secret societies which developed in Sicily most notably developed in the mid-19th century. ... The original 1974 Black Christmas is considered the first authentic slasher. ... Cleaver is a fictitious direct-to-DVD mafia-slasher film — described alternately as Saw meets the Godfather II and the Ring meets The Godfather — within the mob-drama The Sopranos. ...

External links

• Jonathan LaPaglia at the Internet Movie Database