Stephen Spinella (born October 11, 1956)[1] is an American stage, television, and film actor.
Spinella was born in Naples, Italy, to a father who was an American naval airplane mechanic.
He also attended NYU's Tisch School of the Arts' Graduate Acting Program, graduating in 1982.
[2] Spinella won consecutive Tony awards for Best Featured Actor and Best Actor in a Play for his performance as Prior Walter in Angels in America: Millennium Approaches (1993) and Angels in America: Perestroika (1994) respectively.
He was also nominated for Best Featured Actor in a Musical for James Joyce's The Dead.