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Frank John Hughes (born November 11, 1967) is an American film and television actor. He is best known for his portrayals of "Wild Bill" Guarnere in the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers, Tom Fox in Catch Me If You Can, Tim Woods in 24, and Walden Belfiore in The Sopranos.^[1]

A native of the Bronx, Hughes studied jazz composition at the Berklee College of Music in Boston before moving back to New York City to study acting. At nineteen, he was the youngest member ever to be given lifetime membership at the Actors Studio.^{[citation needed]} To support himself as an actor he joined Teamsters Local 814 as a furniture mover.

After numerous stage productions, Hughes worked steadily in the New York independent film scene making his feature film debut in Robert Celestino's True Convictions. Since then, he has appeared in nearly one hundred films and TV shows.

His TV credits include Law & Order, Homicide: Life on the Streets, as Charley O'Banion in Dick Wolf's Players for NBC opposite Ice T, Boomtown, Monk, LAX, Curb Your Enthusiasm, as Tim Woods in seasons 7 and 8 of 24, and as Walden Belfiore in the final season of HBO's The Sopranos.

His film credits include Michael Bay's Bad Boys, starring Martin Lawrence and Wil Smith. The Sundance Film Festival hit Mr. Vincent. Able Ferrara's The Funeral. Steven Spielberg's Catch Me if You Can, where he starred opposite Tom Hanks and Leonardo DiCaprio. The Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg, Emmy Award-winning HBO mini-series Band of Brothers, where he received worldwide acclaim for his performance as Wild Bill Guarnere. He appeared in Scott Thomas's 2001 Deranged aka Anacardium as "Rich".

In 2011, Hughes wrote and co-starred with Rick Gomez in the film Leave and also wrote 2012's The Dark Tourist starring Michael Cudlitz and Melanie Griffith. In 2013, Hughes’ script Pox Americana broke the top ten on the prestigious Black List, resulting in a two-picture deal with Warner Brothers. Since then, he has written ten studio films, including projects for Tom Hanks, Tom Hardy, and Denzel Washington, and for various studios and production companies, including Warner Brothers, Sony, Paramount, BRON, and A24. His limited series 11 about the events of 9/11 is being produced by Robert De Niro and Jane Rosenthal at Tribeca Films and FilmNation.

His next film, 77 Blackout, is being produced by Chuck Roven for Paramount.

In 2021, Hughes portrayed Frank Sinatra in the Paramount+ series The Offer, directed by Dexter Fletcher, and will next be seen as Mike Marino in the upcoming film Pep, produced by Leonardo DiCaprio's Appian Way and starring James Madio, which will premiere at the Venice Film Festival.

As actor

Other appearances include: Cover Me, Law & Order, Homicide: Life on the Street, Feds, Without a Trace, Monk, Boomtown, Kings of South Beach, Curb Your Enthusiasm, JAG, The Path to 9/11, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, NCIS, and Criminal Minds.

As screenwriter

• Frank John Hughes at IMDb