Alfred C. "Fred" Cerullo, III is an actor and Republican Party

Republican Party (United States)

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 lawmaker and government official from New York City

New York City

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Biography

Cerullo, one of the most successful, and high profile chief executives on the New York City political and business scene, usually spends his spare time pursuing a theatrical acting career. Sharing the television, legit, and film sound stages with such names as Shirley MacLaine

Shirley MacLaine

Shirley MacLaine is an American film and theater actress, singer, dancer, activist and author, well-known for her beliefs in new age spirituality and reincarnation. She has written a large number of autobiographical works, many dealing with her spiritual beliefs as well as her Hollywood career...

, Liza Minnelli

Liza Minnelli

Liza May Minnelli is an American actress and singer. She is the daughter of singer and actress Judy Garland and film director Vincente Minnelli....

, Susan Lucci

Susan Lucci

Susan Victoria Lucci is an American actress and entrepreneur, best known for portraying Erica Kane on the daytime drama All My Children. The character is considered an icon, and Lucci has been called "Daytime's Leading Lady" by TV Guide, with New York Times and Los Angeles Times citing her as the...

, Keifer Sutherland, Eartha Kitt

Eartha Kitt

Eartha Mae Kitt was an American singer, actress, and cabaret star. She was perhaps best known for her highly distinctive singing style and her 1953 hit recordings of "C'est Si Bon" and the enduring Christmas novelty smash "Santa Baby." Orson Welles once called her the "most exciting woman in the...

, Brooke Shields

Brooke Shields

Brooke Christa Shields is an American actress and model. Some of her better-known movies include Pretty Baby and The Blue Lagoon, as well as TV shows such as Suddenly Susan, That '70s Show and Lipstick Jungle....

 and numerous others, Cerullo's gradual progression in trodding the boards stands in unique contrast to his daily bread-and-butter responsibilities as President/CEO of the Grand Central Partnership

Grand Central Partnership

The Grand Central Partnership manages the Grand Central Business Improvement District, one of the largest business improvement districts in the world, comprising of commercial space in a 70-block area of Midtown Manhattan with irregular borders reaching from East 35th Street to East 54th Street...

 and as an active Commissioner of the New York City Planning Commission.

While holding down key roles in productions of works by Neil Simon

Neil Simon

Neil Simon is an American playwright and screenwriter. He has written numerous Broadway plays, including Brighton Beach Memoirs, Biloxi Blues, and The Odd Couple. He won the 1991 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his play Lost In Yonkers. He has written the screenplays for several of his plays that...

 (Rumors

Rumors

Rumors is a farcical play by Neil Simon.At its start, several affluent couples gather in the posh suburban residence of a couple for a dinner party celebrating their hosts' tenth anniversary. When they arrive, they discover there are no servants, the hostess is missing, and the host - the deputy...

, Laughter on the 23rd Floor

Laughter on the 23rd Floor

Laughter on the 23rd Floor is a play by Neil Simon.Inspired by Simon's early career experience as a junior jokesmith for Your Show of Shows, the play focuses on Sid Caesar/Jackie Gleason-like Max Prince, the star of a weekly comedy-variety show circa 1953, and his staff, including Simon's...

, California Suite

California Suite

California Suite is a 1976 play by Neil Simon. Similar in structure to his earlier Plaza Suite, the comedy is composed of four playlets set in Suite 203-04, which consists of a living room and an adjoining bedroom with an ensuite bath, in The Beverly Hills Hotel.-Plot:In Visitor from New York,...

), Wendy Wasserstein

Wendy Wasserstein

Wendy Wasserstein was an American playwright and an Andrew Dickson White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University...

 (An American Daughter

An American Daughter

An American Daughter is a play written by Wendy Wasserstein. The play takes place in a living room in Georgetown, Washington, D.C.-Production history:...

),and Robin Cook

Robin Cook

Robert Finlayson Cook was a British Labour Party politician, who was the Member of Parliament for Livingston from 1983 until his death, and notably served in the Cabinet as Foreign Secretary from 1997 to 2001....

 (NBC's Invasion), Cerullo has served as a New York City Councilman and Commissioner of both the New York City Department of Consumer Affairs

New York City Department of Consumer Affairs

The New York City Department of Consumer Affairs is a department of the Government of New York City responsible for enforcing the city's consumer protection laws, licensing businesses, dealing with consumer complaints, and participating in consumer education...

 and the New York City Department of Finance

New York City Department of Finance

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, as well as a Board Member of many non-profit organizations. A member of the Bar in New York, New Jersey, California and Washington, DC, Cerullo is constantly striving to make his list of theatrical credits as long and esteemed as his affiliations with countless community-based and charitable organizations in the Greater New York area.

Cerullo is the nephew of Academy Award Nominee Patty McCormack

Patty McCormack

Patty McCormack is an American actress with a career in theater, films and television.She achieved success as a child actress, and received a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in The Bad Seed...

, who chilled audiences as "The Bad Seed

The Bad Seed (film)

The Bad Seed is a 1956 American horror-thrillerfilm directed by Mervyn LeRoy. It is based upon a play by Maxwell Anderson, which in turn is based upon William March's 1954 novel The Bad Seed. The play was adapted by John Lee Mahin for the screenplay of the film...

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