Michael Trucco Biography
Michael Trucco is an American actor best known for his performance in the new Battlestar Galactica and his recurrent role on How I Met Your Mother. He also participated in the 2017-2018 Netflix series Disjointed, as Tae Kwon Douglas, a local martial arts instructor who was anti-drug.
How old is Michael Trucco? – Age
He is 53 years old as of June 22, 2023. He was born in 1970 in San Mateo, California, United States. His real name is Edward Michael Trucco.
Michael Trucco Family – Education
Trucco went to Junipero Serra High School, where he played football and wrestled. He is the son of a police officer and was interested in becoming one until he discovered his passion for theatrical acting in college. He took a theatre course for non-courses while studying Criminal Justice, and he performed so well that he was requested to change majors. He changed majors and earned a bachelor’s degree in Theatre Arts from Santa Clara University. He has both Italian and Norwegian background.
Michael Trucco Accident
On Sunday, December 2, 2007, Trucco was engaged in an automobile accident with a friend driving a Ferrari 360 on the Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu, California. The vehicle rolled on an embankment and landed upside down, colliding with Trucco’s side of the car. Trucco was severely hurt in the incident, shattering four of his vertebrae, while his friend escaped unharmed.
He claimed that he immediately lost feeling in his arms. After regaining feeling in his hands, he was able to exit the truck and telephone for emergency assistance using his cell phone. He was transported to the UCLA Medical Center for additional treatment. On December 10, 2007, he was freed from hospital care. Doctors stated he was extraordinarily fortunate, sustaining nearly the same damage as Christopher Reeve.
Michael Trucco Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $5 million.
Michael Trucco Midnight Mass
He appeared as Wade Scarborough, the mayor of Crockett Island in the American gothic supernatural horror streaming television miniseries Midnight Mass. A young guy returns to his lonely birthplace on Crockett Island, wanting to restart his life after four years in prison for murdering someone while drunk driving. He arrives at the same time as a strange, charismatic young priest who starts to revive the town’s ailing religion. However, the priest’s actions quickly worsen the community’s differences, as inexplicable events occur in the little village.
Michael Trucco Fire Country
He appeared as Luke Leone, Vince’s brother and Cal Fire Battalion Chief in the American action drama television series Fire Country. Bode Donovan is a young inmate with a rough background. In order to redeem himself and shorten his prison sentence, he volunteers for the California Conservation Camp Program, which allows prisoners to assist the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, also known as Cal Fire. He is assigned to his homeland in Northern California, where he must cooperate with former friends, other inmates, and expert firemen to extinguish the region’s massive fires.
Michael Trucco Career
Trucco began acting in television in the late 1990s, appearing in episodes of Touched by an Angel, Silk Stalkings, Beverly Hills, 90210, Sabrina The Teenage Witch, Dr. Quinn: Medicine Woman, and Pensacola: Wings of Gold, among others. He proceeded to appear in comparable genre shows including as CSI, Heartbeat, Strong Medicine, CSI: Miami, and others until the 2000s. He played Cooper Lee in six episodes of One Tree Hill between 2005 and 2006.
Trucco featured in the 2002 film Wishmaster: The Prophecy Fulfilled. In 2005, he appeared in the drama Battlestar Galactica as Samuel Anders. In 2008, he appeared on NBC’s Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and The Big Bang Theory. He made a brief appearance as Detective Tom Demming on ABC’s Castle in 2010. Trucco joined the USA Network’s Fairly Legal as a series regular in 2010.
Trucco appeared in a season 6 episode of How I Met Your Mother in 2011 and remained a recurrent character in the show’s eighth season. He played Nate Ryan, a recurrent character in Revenge’s second season. He later appeared as Elliot’s brother in the 2017 film The Bye Bye Man. Trucco is also the lead guitarist for the band Simpleworld.
Michael Trucco Movies
♦ 2020 – Through the Glass Darkly
♦ 2018 – Hunter Killer
♦ 2017 – The Bye Bye Man
♦ 2016 – Hush
♦ 2010 – Meteor Storm
♦ 2010 – All American Tooles
♦ 2009 – Battlestar Galactica: The Plan
♦ 2007 – Next
♦ 2004 – Perfect Romance
♦ 2003 – The Groomsmen
♦ 2002 – Wishmaster: The Prophecy Fulfilled
♦ 2001 – Knight Club
♦ 2001 – Ablaze
♦ 2001 – A Girl, Three Guys, and a Gun
♦ 1998 – Confessions of a Sexist Pig
♦ 1994 – Eyes of Terror
Michael Trucco TV Shows
♦ 2023 – The Fall of the House of Usher
♦ 2022–present – Fire Country
♦ 2022 – Young Sheldon
♦ 2021 – FBI
♦ 2021 – Midnight Mass
♦ 2019 – The Rookie
♦ 2019 – The Good Doctor
♦ 2017 – Disjointed
♦ 2017 – Chicago P.D.
♦ 2016 – Grandfathered
♦ 2015 – The Librarians
♦ 2014 – Killer Women
♦ 2014 – Intelligence
♦ 2014 – Criminal Minds
♦ 2014 – Scandal
♦ 2014 – The Exes
♦ 2012 – Young Justice: Invasion