Franky Tarantino

Frank A.Tarantino was born in East Orange,N.J and raised in the city of the Northern district of Newark,N.J. Comes from an Italian American family as the son of Frank Tarantino Sr. and Paula Tarantino ...Show More

Frank A.Tarantino was born in East Orange,N.J and raised in the city of the Northern district of Newark,N.J. Comes from an Italian American family as the son of Frank Tarantino Sr. and Paula Tarantino and has one sibling.Frank Sr's family migrated from Palermo,Italy which is a Southern city in Sicily. Franky went to an all Catholic school in Newark by the name of St,Lucy's where he was an altar boy,then Our Lady Of Good Counsel,Essex Catholic, then the public schools of Barringer High School in which he later dropped out in 1999 but graduated in 2003 with a high school diploma through Harrison High's night program where he received an award in health.He later went on to take a six month program that was run out of a small class in the Rutgers building receiving a diploma in Entrepreneurship. Franky was a one of the original twenty-five pilot students for a program known as the READY Foundation which was formed by Raymond Chambers.Not only did he attend this program for mentoring in academics but he was also featured in a newspaper article giving then VP George Bush a set of golf clubs in the Newark's Boys And Girls Club in 1988.He accomplished many things with the foundation and learned to become a successful entrepreneur. At the age of thirteen he learned to become creative not only with writing horror stories for class projects but also developed a skill in performing freestyles in hip hop and writing music,although he never found much success in the music,Franky was part of an underground hip hop group known as M2S,where he provided leg work as a public relations consultant.He also joined another group who is unknown and did the same work as well. Franky Tarantino has learned to develop many skill sets not only in music,but has been acting since he was a child in school plays,and has a niche for cooking.In 2011 he brought into his first business which was a small pizzeria called Fatcakes Pizza & Subs,and he also provided help as a volunteer for St.Josephs School for the Blind in Jersey City,N.J to work along side Paula Tarantino his mother to cook Thanksgiving dinner for over two hundred plus students and staff every year up until 2012. He began professional acting in the summer of 2006 and has been doing so ever since. Hide