[1][2] In 2017 Ciccone appeared in the racially charged bio-pic Crown Heights, written and directed by Matt Ruskin, which premiered in competition as a Grand Jury Nomination at the Sundance Film Festival on January 23, 2017, and won the Audience Award for U.S.

[19] While studying with acting coach Harold Guskin[9][20] he secured his television debut in an Under-five role as Price, a card-player in the final season of the 54 year running soap, As the World Turns.

[21][22] The following year in 2011 Ciccone landed a multiple day guest star role in an episode of White Collar playing the referee in an underground after-hours boxing club.

[23] In 2012 he appeared opposite Donnie Wahlberg and Jennifer Esposito in Blue Bloods[24] and landed a recurring role as Joe Masseria's thug on HBO's Boardwalk Empire.

[25] In 2013 he worked opposite Jake McLaughlin[26] and Erik LaRay Harvey[27] in several scenes in an episode of NBC's Believe, directed by Academy Award-winning director Alfonso Cuaron.

[30] In 2015, Ciccone was cast in the guest star role of Ronald in Master of None[31] where he worked opposite comedian Aziz Ansari (playing Dev) who employs a citizen's arrest only to "weirdly kind of sympathize with [him]".

[36] In 2017 Ciccone appeared in recurring roles on two major episodics: NBC's Shades of Blue, and HBO's hit television drama The Deuce[1] starring James Franco and Maggie Gyllenhaal.