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Join Justin as he chats with veteran stage, screen and voice actor Raphael Sbarge about growing up behind the stage, acting methods, breaking into the business, Once Upon A Time, Mass Effect, and more!

Raphael Sbarge bio:

"Raphael Sbarge has been a working actor for more than five decades. Growing up in New York City's Lower East Side, Raphael began working on Sesame Street at the age of four. His did his first Broadway show at 16, opposite Faye Dunaway and his first big film, Risky Business starring Tom Cruise, as he was graduating high school at 18. His mother, Jeanne Button, was a Broadway costume designer and his father, Stephen Sbarge, was an artist, photographer, and documentary filmmaker.

He has performed in theaters all over the country, including at Yale Rep, Long Wharf, Mark Taper, and Kennedy Center. He has performed on stage with Al Pacino, Frank Langella, Gwyneth Paltrow, as well Jason Robards and Colleen Dewhurst in the Bway revival of Ah, Wilderness.

He has been in many successful films, including Independence Day with Will Smith, Pearl Harbor with Ben Affleck and the cult classic Carnosaur for Roger Corman. He will be in the new Universal/Blumhouse film, The Exorcist: Believer, with Ellen Burstyn, Jennifer Nettles, Leslie Odom Jr. and Ann Dowd which opens on Friday, October 13th, 2023.

Raphael's resume includes more than 100 guest appearances and series regular roles on network television shows, including the long-running ABC hit Once Upon a Time as Dr Hopper, Stephen Bochco's Murder in the First for TNT, and The Guardian with Simon Baker, for CBS. He has recurred on many series including Star Trek: Voyager, Dexter, Prison Break,