Bobby Tonelli
| Bobby Tonelli | |
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| Born |
Robert Tonelli Jr. October 25, 1975 Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S. |
| Other names | Bobby Tonelli |
Robert Tonelli Jr., known as Bobby Tonelli (born October 25, 1975) is an American actor who has appeared in several Hollywood films including Cages, Running Red, No Tomorrow, and The Darwin Conspiracy.
Bobby Tonelli was born and raised in Las Vegas, Nevada. He attended Chaparral High School in Las Vegas, NV and graduated in 1994. He had a promising career in baseball as a pitcher until he suffered a rotator cuff injury that hindered his chances to pitch at the professional level. Tonelli attended several small colleges in California in hopes of rehabilitating his shoulder and professional baseball pitching career. Upon his decision to leave baseball in 1997, he fell into the fashion industry by chance where he traveled throughout Southeast Asia as a print and runway model, working for companies such as Donna Karan, Versace, Levi's, and Louis Vuitton, and for fashion show producer Daniel Boey.
In 1998, Tonelli traveled to Europe to continue modeling where he also attended The Actor's Centre in London, England, as well as several renowned coaches in the US Ivana Chubbuck, Howard Fine, John Holma.
Tonelli's acting career consisted of smaller roles in television and feature films from 1999-2004. In 2002, his involvement in the Singaporean feature film Cages began after a chance meeting with director Graham Streeter. Because of his previous art background as an accomplished painter, Tonelli chose to paint all of the character Ethan's art in that film. During this time he also starred in the experimental short "Hallelujah" also directed by Streeter.
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