Joe Manganiello was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and raised in Mt. Lebanon, a suburb south of the city. His parents are Susan (née Brachanow), and Charles John Manganiello. Joe Manganiello father's family is of Italian descent, from Avellino and Messina (Sicily), while his mother is of Croatian, German, and Armenian descent. Joe Manganiello has a younger brother, Nicholas. He was a student at St. Bernard School, a Roman Catholic elementary school in Mt. Lebanon, and then attended Mt. Lebanon High School, where he graduated with honors in 1995 and won the school's Great Alumni Award in 2011.
Joseph Michael "Joe" Manganiello Was born on December 28th 1976, is an American author, director, producer, film and theatre actor. Joe Manganiello holds a BFA in acting from the Carnegie Mellon School of Drama. Joe Manganiello played Flash Thompson in the original Spider-Man film series, and had various recurring roles in television on ER, How I Met Your Mother and One Tree Hill, before landing his breakout role as werewolf Alcide Herveaux on the HBO television series True Blood for which he has garnered both popular and critical praise.
