Martin Ferrero

Martin Ferrero (born September 29, 1947) is an American stage and film actor. Ferrero was born in Brockport, New York. He joined the California Actors Theater in Los Gatos, California. In 1979, he moved to Los Angeles and began to act in Hollywood. He is widely remembered for his role as the ill-fated lawyer Donald Gennaro in Jurassic Park (1993). He was a regular on the 1980s TV series Miami Vice for playing two roles during its run on NBC, playing petty thief-turned-informant Izzy Moreno and also playing assassin Trini DeSoto in the pilot episode. He also guest-starred on an episode of Cheers ("Rescue Me", season 3), playing the role of an Italian waiter. In addition, he has appeared in Get Shorty (1995), Gods and Monsters (1998), and The Tailor of Panama (2001). In 1996 he adopted a child from Guatemala and raised him in the hope that his son would become a baseball prodigy. His son is currently in high school and is being heavily recruited by the top coaches in college baseball. As of 2008, Ferrero is a member of the Antaeus Company, a Los Angeles classical theater ensemble. In 2011, Ferrero reprised the role of Donald Gennaro in a College Humor parody of Jurassic Park.