Biagio Messina
Reality TV producer, actor, and filmmaker from Cleveland.
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Biagio Messina is an American television producer, director, showrunner, filmmaker, and actor. His hometown is Cleveland, Ohio, where he graduated from Parma Senior High School. While still in high school, he wrote the play Me and Grandma, which won the Marilyn Bianci Young Playwrights Festival and was produced at Dobama Theater. He later played the role of Marc Cram on the Nickelodeon sitcom Kenan & Kel, with additional acting jobs on Nickelodeon’s All That and NBC’s medical drama ER.
His filmmaking credits include the feature-length, theatrically released documentary Dying to do Letterman, which was invited by the International Documentary Association to qualify for Academy Award consideration. Messina's television producing credits include the VH1 reality TV series Scream Queens, the MTV documentary series Caged, The CW reality show Beauty and the Geek, and the MTV True Life Presents documentary Secrets, Lies, and Sex. He has produced and contributed to over one-hundred hours of TV and film.
Quick Facts
- Hometown
- Cleveland, Ohio
- High school
- Parma Senior High School
- Spouse
- Joke Fincioen
- Production company
- Joke Productions
- Television producing credits include
- Scream Queens
- Caged
- Beauty and the Geek
- Secrets
- Lies
- and Sex
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Career
Messina is best known for playing Marc Cram on the Nickelodeon sitcom Kenan & Kel, with additional acting work on Nickelodeon’s All That and NBC’s ER. He directed the feature-length documentary Dying to do Letterman, which was released in theaters and invited by the International Documentary Association to qualify for Academy Award consideration. On the producing side, his credits include VH1’s Scream Queens, MTV’s Caged, The CW’s Beauty and the Geek, and MTV’s True Life Presents documentary Secrets, Lies, and Sex.
Altogether, he has produced and contributed to more than one hundred hours of television and film. Earlier in his career, Messina won money on the game show Majority Rules and used it to fund a feature film adaptation of his play Me and Grandma. He wrote, directed, and acted in that adaptation, which he produced with his future wife Fincioen. Although the film did not secure wide distribution, it helped him land the role of Marc Cram on Kenan & Kel.
According to the book Small Screen, Big Picture by Chad Gervich, Messina has made 'countless hours of television for both broadcast and cable networks.'
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Sources
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- Wikipedia: Biagio Messina (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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