Ed Trucco

Eduardo "Ed" Trucco (born June 3, 1963, in New York City) is a Puerto Rican–American actor, producer and former sportscaster of Argentine descent. Trucco is best known as "Manning" in the American television series Law and Order, as agent "Patrick O'Hara" in "Al otro lado del muro" and as DEA agent "Ernie Palmero" in La Reina del Sur III. In his youth, he was known for his participation in two boy-band related movies in Puerto Rico. Trucco has also been involved in sportscasting, as when he was in his late teens, he hosted a BMX bike races show in Puerto Rico and has also participated in some World Wrestling Entertainment television shows. Early life Trucco was born in Queens, New York City, the son of Orestes Trucco, an Argentine film director, and a Puerto Rican mother named Gladys. At a very young age, Trucco moved to Argentina, where he lived for ten years, and where he became a big association football fan. Among his first life dreams were hopes of becoming a football player and, perhaps, join the Argentina men's national football team someday. But the Trucco family moved to Puerto Rico early in Ed's youth, and since association football was not well established in that Caribbean country as of yet, his dreams of becoming a football player were basically dashed, and Trucco decided to concentrate on acting and on television work instead. Acting and television career At the age of eight, Trucco made his film debut, in an Argentine film named "Hipolito y Evita" ('"Hipolito and Evita", which was an Argentine version of the Romeo and Juliet love story). He also acted in "Yo Gané al Prode" ("I Beat the Brave"), which was another Argentine film.