JOE SPANO

Emmy Award winner Joe Spano starred for 7 years as “Lt. Henry Goldblume” on the television series “Hill Street Blues”. He also starred in the series “Mercy Point”, “Amazing Grace”, “Murder One” and "NYPD Blue". He has starred in 20 films made for television and guest-starred on 35 television shows, most recently, “Crossing Jordan”. And “The Closer. He is currently a recurring character on “Navy:NCIS."
       He has appeared in 27 feature films, including Hart’s War, Texas Rangers, Primal Fear,  Apollo 13 and American Graffiti and the soon to be released, Truth, Justice and the American Way, with Adrian Brody, Ben Affleck, Diane Lane and Bob Hoskins.
     A native of San Francisco, a graduate of the University of California and a classically-trained stage actor with experience in improvisational comedy, Spano made a late Broadway debut in 1992 in the Roundabout Theater revival of Arthur Miller's The Price, with Eli Wallach, which was nominated for a Tony for Best Revival.  West coast stage credits include Eduardo Pavlovsky’s Potestad, and David Mamet's Speed the Plow and American Buffalo, for which he was awarded an LA Drama Critics Circle Award. At the Rubicon Theater in Ventura he has played General Burgoyne in Shaw’s Devil’s Disciple, Greg in A. R. Gurney’s Sylvia and Vladimir in Waiting for Godot. He is a member of the Antaeus Theater Company and a founding member of three other theater companies, including The Berkeley Repertory Theater.
He is a past Director and current e-mail coordinator of the Southern California chapter of Families with Children from China and a founding, past board member of Half the Sky Foundation, which brings early childhood development training and infant nurturing programs to orphanages in China.