Bio
Enrico Colantoni is a Canadian actor best known for his roles in the sitcom Just Shoot Me!, playing the womanizing fashion photographer Elliot DiMauro, and as Keith Mars on the drama series Veronica Mars.
His other television appearances include a starring role for two seasons on Hope & Gloria and guest starring roles on NYPD Blue, New York Undercover and Law & Order.
Colantoni's film projects include Steven Soderbergh's Full Frontal, Frank McKluskey, C.I. and The First $20 Million Is Always the Hardest.
Colantoni can also be seen in Galaxy Quest, Steven Spielberg's Artificial Intelligence: A.I., Stigmata, Albino Alligator and Money Train.
He also received critical praise for his role in the Golden Globe Award-winning and Emmy Award-nominated cable television movie James Dean.
Among his theatre credits are The Merry Wives of Windsor at New York Central Park's Delacorte Theater, Arabian Nights at New York's Manhattan Theater Club, The Triumph of Love at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, Dracula in San Diego, and self-produced productions of Macbeth and Chekhov Project 2000 in Los Angeles.
Colantoni attended the University of Toronto and the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, where he received the Princess Grace Scholarship and the Charles Jehlinger Award, and was graduated from Yale School of Drama, where he received the school's Carol Dye Award.
Born in Toronto and the younger of two sons of an Italian immigrant worker, Colantoni remains an avid fan of the Toronto Maple Leafs hockey team.
In his spare time, he teaches drama to Los Angeles youth at Inner City Arts and devotes time to Penny Lane, a residential treatment center for at-risk youth.
Colantoni lives in Los Angeles. He has a son and daughter.