Tony Rosato
Antonio Rosato was born on December 26th, 1954 in Naples, Italy. At the age of four, his family moved to Canada, where he lived in Halifax, Ottawa, and Toronto. Not much is known of his childhood and early life. He graduated from Oakwood Collegiate Institute, in Toronto. He was originally going to go school to become a chiropractor, but eventually dropped out to pursue the entertainment industry.
Cooking With
Marcello:
Rosato was most
known for having been on Second City TV (SCTV) portraying the
character Marcello in “Cooking With Marcello” and appearing on
the sixth season of Saturday Night Live. Rosato was also in various
movies from 1978-1989, including ‘Nothing Personal’, ‘Hog
Wild’, and ‘Nightstick’. From movies in the 80’s, Tony spent
most of his time in the 90’s in TV. He voiced characters on
‘Pelswick’, ‘RoboCop: The Series’, and most notably, Luigi
from ‘The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3’ and ‘Super Mario
World’. For me, personally I am most familiar with him as having
been Dario Rosso, and Nemesis from Resident Evil 3 (and Under the
Skin).
Yes. The same man
that voiced Luigi was also Nemesis, the monster chasing Jill
Valentine in Raccoon City. It blew my mind when I found this out (I'm guessing they edited his voice to sound more monster like?). Even finding out that the same person who voiced Nemesis voiced Dario Rosso's crazy ass was shocking. Kind of weird that Rosso in game lost his daughter and wife. A little to parallel to real life (Rosato would later be divorced).
Luigi (first lines
at 37 seconds):
Nemesis:
In the early 2000’s,
Rosato’s career seemed to calm down, and eventually he got married
in 2003 to Leah Murray. Unfortunately, less than 2 years after being
married, Rosato ran into legal trouble, as he was charged with
criminally harassing his wife. Despite Rosato marrying his wife on
December 31st of 2003, apparently the harassment from him
started on December 28th of 2003 to where it escalated
through April 21st of 2005.
In May of 2005, he
apparently “frantically called the police” complaining that his
wife and newborn daughter were replaced with imposters. Though an
article from the NY Times states that he went to the police station
to file a missing persons report, since during this time, his wife
had left him. Somewhere during this time, he was arrested and a brain
scan was done, that showed that there was an abnormality. Rosato was
diagnosed (according to the NY Times while he was in the psychiatric
facility after the trial) with ‘Capgras Delusion’, a disorder
where someone thinks that their loved ones have been replaced with
imposters. He was incarcerated for almost 800 days, in jail for two
years while awaiting his trial, though this seems to be due to him
denying his mental illness and refusal to plead insanity.
There was media
scrutiny from this, since he had been the longest person in jail over
a harassment charge in Canada. Eventually the trial started in 2007,
and was ordered to stay at a psychiatric facility until determined
fit to leave. According to a quote from his former wife, she stated
that he still didn’t receive any treatment for a year. In 2009,
Tony was able to get out on probation, and with the help of
psychiatric medicine, his delusions faded. Once out, he started to
get back into entertainment, though this caused the dissolution of
his marriage.
 |
| image from find a grave |
On January 10th,
2017, Tony Rosato passed away at the age of 62 from a heart attack.
He is buried at the Queen of Heaven Catholic Cemetery in Ontario,
Canada.
video: https://youtu.be/sNLOeyXHCZc
video: https://youtu.be/sNLOeyXHCZc
[SOURCES]
No comments:
Post a Comment