History Creator / JamesMadio

* TeensAreShort: He's 5'5" so he found himself playing teenagers well into his twenties. Indeed his first role in ''Hook'' was when he was fourteen, playing a boy of about ten.

--> ''"If I could have man-love for another man's body, it would be for Jimmy Madio."''
---> '''- Creator/DamianLewis'''

* ButNotTooBlack: He has a shade of brown skin but many of his headshots show him with a lighter shade, presumably because of this trope.

* ButNotTooBlack: He has AmbiguouslyBrown skin but many of his headshots show him with a lighter shade, presumably because of this trope.

* TinySchoolboy: Played this role early in his career.
* UncannyValley: [[invoked]] Appeared in a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mesvJEJ8G80 Pepsi commercial]] with his face superimposed on a bar of soap. It's...slightly creepy.

* PrinceOfPranksters: Again on the ''BOB'' set. Highlights include taking dumps in everyone's trailers and turning the heat up, allowing the smell to spread.

* ProductionPosse: The film ''The Week'' alongside Rick Gomez, Frank John Hughes and Richard Speight Jr. All of them also appear in James's short ''Applebox''.

* SpicyLatina: If Italians count then he definitely qualifies. He's also been able to pass himself off as Latino for a couple of roles, due to LatinoIsBrown.

'''James "Jimmy" Madio''' (born November 22nd 1975) is an American actor from The Bronx, New York. He got his start as a child actor, playing a Lost Boy called Don't Ask in Steven Spielberg's ''{{Film/Hook}}'' and Dustin Hoffman's son in the film ''Hero''. He continued acting into adulthood with roles in ''Film/TheBasketballDiaries'', ''Film/JerseyBoys'', ''Film/KickAss'' and ''Love Lies Bleeding'', among other independent films. He's perhaps best known for playing Bobby "Lazz" Lazzarini on the sitcom ''Series/USAHigh'' or as Frank Perconte in ''Series/BandOfBrothers''. He's also done voiceover work for he ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty'' video games, as well as writing, producing and directing numerous projects.

* TheHeart: By all accounts, he was this on the set of ''Series/BandOfBrothers''. David Schwimmer said he would have loved to have made friends with him during filming [[note]]Schwimmer was kept isolated from the rest of the cast for the sake of EnforcedMethodActing[[/note]].

'''James "Jimmy" Madio''' (born November 22nd 1975) is an American actor from The Bronx, New York. He got his start as a child actor, playing a Lost Boy called Don't Ask in Steven Spielberg's ''{{Film/Hook}}'' and Dustin Hoffman's son in the film ''Hero''. He continued acting into adulthood with roles in ''Film/TheBasketballDiaries'', ''Film/JerseyBoys'', ''Film/KickAss'' and ''Love Lies Bleeding'', among other independent films. He's perhaps best known for playing Bobby "Lazz" Lazzarini on the sitcom ''USA High'' or as Frank Perconte in ''Series/BandOfBrothers''. He's also done voiceover work for he ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty'' video games, as well as writing, producing and directing numerous projects.

* {{Expy}}: His character Lazz in ''USA High'' was one of Screech from ''Series/SavedByTheBell''.

In 2011 when interviews were done to commemorate the ten year anniversary of ''Series/BandOfBrothers'', he enjoyed a surge in notoriety - as his fellow cast members
seemed to have endless stories about him on set, making him something of a MemeticBadass. It should come as no surprise that he's still good friends with most of them to this day.

* HoYay: Neal [=McDonough=] said that one day he bit him on the chest for no real reason. This was apparently part of an EscalatingWar on set.

* UncannyValley: Appeared in a [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mesvJEJ8G80 Pepsi commercial]] with his face superimposed on a bar of soap. It's...slightly creepy.

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* OlderThanTheyLook: Certainly doesn't look like he's approaching 40.

---> '''Creator/DamianLewis'''

seemed to have endless stories about him on set, making him something of a MemeticBadass to fans of the show. It should come as no surprise that he's still good friends with most of them to this day.

* ActuallyPrettyFunny: On his first day of boot camp, he went up to Capt Dale Dye (on the bad advice of Donnie Wahlberg) and said "Hey general, I got this problem with my gun here"[[note]]A) You should ask for permission to speak first, B) He's a captain, not a general, C) Never say 'gun', say 'weapon' instead[[/note]]. In a real military situation, this would be a serious offence (and he was given lots of push-ups to do as punishment). Capt Dye describes himself leaving another officer to discipline him and - as soon as he was out of earshot - broke down in a fit of hysterical laughter.

* CastingGag: Along with several other ''Series/BandOfBrothers'' cast members, he voiced soldiers in ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty''.

* MemeticBadass: As far as his ''BOB'' cast members go. During the ten year anniversary interviews, half of them told a story about James Madio starting a bar fight in Soho. Proving how this trope can go, James's version says he went down to prevent a fight.

James "Jimmy" Madio is an American actor from The Bronx, New York. He got his start as a child actor, playing a Lost Boy called Don't Ask in Steven Spielberg's ''{{Film/Hook}}'' and Dustin Hoffman's son in the film ''Hero''. He continued acting into adulthood with roles in ''Film/TheBasketballDiaries'', ''Film/JerseyBoys'', ''Film/KickAss'' and ''Love Lies Bleeding'', among other independent films. He's perhaps best known for playing Bobby "Lazz" Lazzarini on the sitcom ''USA High'' or as Frank Perconte in ''Series/BandOfBrothers''. He's also done voiceover work for he ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty'' video games, as well as writing, producing and directing numerous projects.