Anthony Mordente

Anthony Mordente is an American Film Actor. He was born Anthony Michael Mordente on November 11, in Galveston, Texas, to Leslie Colleen Mordente (Calaway), who worked as a substitute teacher, and David John Mordente, an A/C & heating technician. His father is of Italian decent and his mother is of French, English, Irish, German, and Native American decent. He is the sixth of eleven children, and has a fraternal twin sister, Alissa Marie Mordente. He spent most of his early years doing hard labor with his dad and being outdoors. He grew up in Pearland, Texas, and graduated from Pearland High School. During which, he played football as the positions 'wide-receiver' and 'safety', was a member of the student council, competed in the Pearland debate team, and was a member of the Pearland high school medical program where he volunteered at local hospitals. He graduated high school in his third year, but decided to wait on college. After his step-mom, Terry Mordente, passed away from a three year cancer battle, he decided to enlist into the military, where two of his brothers followed. On February 19, 2008, he enlisted in the U.S. Army and served honorably for five years with many achievements and awards. In April 2009 he deployed to Camp Taji, Iraq for twelve months, and in 2011 he deployed to Camp Marmal (Mazar-E-Sharif), Afghanistan for an additional twelve months. He was attached to the 1st Air Cavalry Brigade out of Fort Hood, TX for both overseas deployments. He spent most of his military career working with the CH-47 helicopters. Although his MOS (Military Occupation of Study) was special electronics, he was forced to change his job path into aviation operations, due to his orders attaching him to an aviation brigade. After six months of being attached to his new brigade, he was noticed by his command for his military efforts and was requested to work directly with high ranking officials known as 'The Command Team'. While doing this new duty, he painted murals overseas for fallen soldiers, operated tactical flight operations, lead convoy missions, trained in a simulated combat helicopter pilot flight training, worked directly with NATO leaders, influenced and worked with foreign relations and foreign allies, trained in foreign weaponry, escorted VIP personnel through combat zones, escorted high risk personnel, coordinated multi-million dollar projects, and kept accountability of over 50,000 soldiers, all as the rank of Specialist. Some of his time was spent in Kuwait and Kyrgyzstan during his overseas tours. After his military career ended, he made the decision to become a Hollywood film actor. On April 21, 2013, he moved to Los Angeles, California to start his acting journey. In December 2013, he attended the Upright Citizens Brigade and performed live improvisation at the UCB theater and The Clubhouse Improv theater. in 2014 he stopped pursuing theater to pursue TV and film, where he began studying under Shannon Sturges and Aaron Speiser at the Aaron Speiser Acting School, now called the Speiser/Sturges Acting School. After learning the acting technique of Uta Hagen, he parted ways and started attending the Los Angeles Film School to further his knowledge of film. Immediately after, he enrolled into a new acting school, while still attending film school. In January 2015, he joined Studio 4 acting school and began studying the Meisner technique by Sanford Meisner. Although enduring many financial hardships, it was during this time that he directly worked with James Franco and worked with Heather Graham on her directorial debut film ''Half Magic (2016)''. These opportunities caused him to make the decision to drop out of film school six months before graduation and focus on acting full time. Eventually he was cast to perform in ''The Institute (2017)'' along side James Franco, 'Pamela Anderson', Eric Roberts, Topher Grace, and Tim Blake Nelson. Following this, he worked on ''Future World (2017)'' along side Milla Jovovich, Lucy Liu, Suki Waterhouse, Snoop Dogg, and Method Man. He also began an acting mentorship program directly under director, producer, and Emmy award winning actor, André Gordon, where he began working on "Cross 2 (2016)" along side Brian Austin Green, Vinnie Jones, Tom Sizemore', and Danny Trejo. In early 2016, he began working with several producers at Paramount Studios to potentially play the lead role in upcoming feature films.