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Edward Michael Trucco (born June 22, 1970) is an American actor. A native of San Mateo, California, he attended Junipero Serra High School. The son of a police officer, he was interested in being one himself until college, when he was attracted to theatrical performance. He took a theatre course for non-majors while he was studying Criminal Justice, but he did so well that he was asked to consider changing majors. He changed majors and completed his bachelor's degree in Theatre Arts at the Santa Clara University.
Trucco became active in television in the late 1990s with appearances in episodes of popular series including Touched by an Angel, Silk Stalkings, Beverly Hills 90210, Dr. Quinn: Medicine Woman, and Pensacola: Wings of Gold among others.
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Edward Michael Trucco (born June 22, 1970) is an American actor. A native of San Mateo, California, he attended Junipero Serra High School. The son of a police officer, he was interested in being one himself until college, when he was attracted to theatrical performance. He took a theatre course for non-majors while he was studying Criminal Justice, but he did so well that he was asked to consider changing majors. He changed majors and completed his bachelor's degree in Theatre Arts at the Santa Clara University.
Trucco became active in television in the late 1990s with appearances in episodes of popular series including Touched by an Angel, Silk Stalkings, Beverly Hills 90210, Dr. Quinn: Medicine Woman, and Pensacola: Wings of Gold among others. He continued appearing in shows of similar genres like CSI, Wishmaster 4: The Prophecy Fulfilled, Heartbeart, Strong Medicine, CSI: Miami, and others into the 2000s. He played Cooper Lee in six episodes of One Tree Hill from 2005 to 2006.
In 2005 Trucco joined the Peabody Award-winning drama Battlestar Galactica in the role of Samuel Anders.
In 2008 he guest-starred on NBC's Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and The Big Bang Theory.
Trucco is also the lead guitarist of the band Simpleworld and is engaged to actress Sandra Hess.
Car accident
On Sunday, 2 December 2007, Trucco was involved in a car accident with a friend who was driving a Ferrari 360 on the Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu, California. The vehicle flipped on an embankment, landing upside-down, impacting Trucco's side of the car. Trucco was badly injured in the accident, fracturing four of his vertebrae, while his friend walked away uninjured. He has stated that he initially lost feelings in his arms. He was eventually able to get out of the vehicle after regaining feeling in his hands and used his cell phone to call for emergency help. He was airlifted to UCLA Medical Center for successful surgery. Dr. Arya Nick Shamie and his team of surgeons were able to fuse his C-6 and C-7 vertebrae to his C-5 vertebrae.
As of 10 December 2007, Trucco was out of the hospital and expected to make a full recovery. Doctors said he was extremely lucky, suffering almost the same injury as Christopher Reeve.
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