Kirk Acevedo Filmography

Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: A native of Manhattan, Puerto Rican-American actor Kirk Acevedo attended and earned his BFA from SUNY Purchase, then founded a theatrical ensemble in the Big Apple christened 'The Rorschach Group.' Acevedo racked up some of his most prestigious assignments in his early years on stage, which...Read More

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Fringe [TV Series]

Actors: Anna Torv, Mark Valley, John Noble, Joshua Jackson, Blair Brown

Synopsis: The lines between science fiction and reality blur as J.J. Abrams, Roberto Orci, and Alex Kurtzman, the team behind Star Trek and Alias, regroup to craft this mind-bending series that begins as an international flight lands at Boston's Logan Airport with everyone of the passengers and crew members Read More

2008
The Black Donnellys [TV Series]

Actors: Kirk Acevedo, Tom Guiry, Billy Lush, Keith Nobbs, Michael Stahl-David, Jonathan Tucker, Olivia Wilde

Synopsis: Something of an Irish variation on The Sopranos with a considerably younger cast, NBC's weekly, hour-long The Black Donnellys was reportedly inspired on the exploits of an actual family (also named Donnelly) who were involved in a notoriously bloody fued in the Ontario of the 1880s. The TV series Read More

2007
Invincible

Actors: Mark Wahlberg, Greg Kinnear, Elizabeth Banks, Kevin Conway, Michael Rispoli

Synopsis: From the producers of The Rookie and Remember the Titans comes an inspirational sports drama detailing the true story of a down-on-his-luck football fan whose dreams of standing shoulder-to-shoulder with the best of the gridiron became a once-in-a-lifetime reality when he took part in an open Read More

8/25/06
5 Up 2 Down

Actors: Isaach de Bankolé, Kirk Acevedo

Synopsis: A drug-addicted artist and a hustler struggling with prophetic dreams and family issues set out on a spiritual journey that began 140 years ago in director Steven Kessler's impressionistic addiction drama. Santo (Isaach de Bankolé) is a street-smart city dweller who has recently taken to recording Read More

2005
Law & Order: Trial by Jury [TV Series]

Actors: Bebe Neuwirth, Jerry Orbach, Amy Carlson, Kirk Acevedo, Fred Dalton Thompson

2005
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Night

Synopsis: Angela Lansbury guest stars as Eleanor Duvall, the wealthy and politically powerful mother of suspected serial rapist Gabriel Duvall (Alfred Molina). The SVU team has built up a persuasive case against Gabriel, accusing him of preying upon illegal aliens who are in no position to testify against Read More

2005
Paradise

Actors: David Strathairn, Barbara Hershey

Synopsis: The Lord works in mysterious ways, and when astronaut Bobby Paradise (David Strathairn) has a divine vision during a moon mission gone wrong, he returns to terra firma a changed man. Subsequently devoting his entire existence to God and the ministry in order to do better spread the gospel, Bobby Read More

2004
Oz: Season 06

Actors: Ernie Hudson, Terry Kinney, Eamonn Walker, Harold Perrineau, Jr., Kirk Acevedo

Synopsis: Although Oz's longtime narrator, wheelchair-bound prison inmate Augustus Hill (Harold Perrineau Jr.), was killed at the end of the series' fifth season, he is still very much in attendance at the beginning of season six -- albeit from beyond the grave. Hill is, in fact, one of several ghostly Read More

2003
Oz: Season 05

Actors: Ernie Hudson, Terry Kinney, Eamonn Walker, Harold Perrineau, Jr., Kirk Acevedo

Synopsis: Previously fired from his job as manager of "Emerald City," the experimental unit set up at Oswald Correctional Facility, Tim McManus (Terry Kinney) has been reinstated by the time Oz's fifth season gets under way. The season begins with an accounting of the damage caused by the gas explosion at Read More

2002
Dinner Rush

Actors: Danny Aiello, Edoardo Ballerini, Vivian Wu, Mike McGlone, Kirk Acevedo

Synopsis: Music may be the food of love, but a group of gangsters are singing a very different tune at a fancy New York dining room in this dark comedy. Louis (Danny Aiello) is the owner of an upscale restaurant in New York's Tribeca district where his son Udo (Edoardo Ballerini) has become the head chef. Read More

9/28/01
Bait

Actors: Jamie Foxx, David Morse, Doug Hutchison, Robert Pastorelli, Kimberly Elise

Synopsis: In this action comedy, a crook trying to go straight finds himself lured back to crime by the police, without his even knowing it. When master criminals Jasper (Robert Pastorelli) and Bristol (Doug Hutchison) pull a heist that nets $40 million in gold but leaves behind several dead policemen Read More

9/15/00
Oz: Season 04

Actors: Ernie Hudson, Terry Kinney, Eamonn Walker, Harold Perrineau, Jr., Kirk Acevedo

Synopsis: As season four of Oz begins, the experimental unit at Oswald State Correctional Facility known as "Emerald City" is not living up to manager Tim McManus' (Terry Kinney) hopes. Ever since he set up the unit, wherein convicts are given more freedom of movement, extra privileges, and the opportunity Read More

2000
In The Weeds

Actors: Joshua Leonard, Molly Ringwald

Synopsis: At a restaurant located somewhere in midtown New York, waiters, waitresses, cooks, a struggling playwright, and one exceptionally nasty restaurant owner serve up lavish helpings of food and mordant comedy. Among the players is a narcissistic would-be screen idol (Michael Buchman Silver), a naive Read More

2000
Oz: Season 03

Actors: Ernie Hudson, Terry Kinney, Eamonn Walker, Harold Perrineau, Jr., Kirk Acevedo

Synopsis: Idealistic, "New Age" unit manager Tim McManus (Terry Kinney) persists in trying to mold "Emerald City" (aka Cell Block 5 of Oswald State Correctional Facility -- formerly Oswald Maximum Security Penitentiary) into a model "prison within a prison" as Oz begins its third season. Part of McManus' Read More

1999
Witness to the Mob

Actors: Nicholas Turturro, Tom Sizemore, Debi Mazar, Abe Vigoda, Philip Baker Hall

Synopsis: The key figure in this two-part TV mob miniseries is Mafia snitch Sammy "The Bull" Gravano (Nicholas Turturro). Gravano ratted on John Gotti (Tom Sizemore), who manipulated the 1985 murder of mob boss Paul Castellano (Abe Vigoda). Gravano is seen rising in the mob ranks through various Read More

1998
Oz: Season 02

Actors: Ernie Hudson, Terry Kinney, Eamonn Walker, Harold Perrineau, Jr., Kirk Acevedo

Synopsis: Season two of Oz gets under way in the wake of the bloody riot at "Emerald City," the experimental unit set up on Cell Block 5 of Oswald Maximum Security Penitentiary, in which eight are killed and 34 wounded. Though it is obvious to many observers that the ruthlessly ambitious Governor Devlin (Zeljko Ivanek Read More

1998
Arresting Gena

Actors: Paul Lazar, Sam Rockwell, Summer Phoenix, Aesha Waks

Synopsis: Gena (Aesha Waks) is a 16-year-old girl whose mother has fallen into a coma; with her immediate family unable to watch over her, it's decided that she'll spend the summer with her Uncle John (Paul Lazar). Gena takes a part-time job at a beauty parlor and makes friends with a girl named Jane (Summer Phoenix Read More

1997
The Sunshine Boys

Actors: Woody Allen, Peter Falk, Sarah Jessica Parker, Michael McKean, Liev Schreiber

Synopsis: Neil Simon adapted this 1997 comedy from his 1972 play, first filmed in 1975 with Walter Matthau and George Burns as two feuding veteran vaudevillians reuniting to do a television special. For this new version, Simon updated the period and characters into a tale of two comedians (Woody Allen, Peter Falk Read More

1997
Oz: Season 01

Actors: Ernie Hudson, Terry Kinney, Eamonn Walker, Harold Perrineau, Jr., Kirk Acevedo

Synopsis: Seen mostly through the eyes of wheelchair-bound prisoner Augustus Hill (Harold Perrineau Jr.), who serves as narrator and "tour guide," the first season of Oz begins with the establishment of a "prison within a prison" on Cell Block 5 of Oswald Maximum Security Penitentiary -- aka "Oz." Under the Read More

1997
Law & Order: Corruption

Synopsis: Kevin Conway guest stars as police lieutenant John Flynn who, while on a stakeout with Briscoe (Jerry Orbach) and Curtis (Benjamin Bratt), kills a suspected drug dealer. The subsequent Internal Affairs investigation results in friction at the NYPD when Curtis refuses to testify that the dead man Read More

1996