Italian American Heritage Month: Antonio Sabato Jr.

Actor Antonio Sabato Jr. was born in Rome, Italy on February 29, 1972. His father was an Italian-born film star.

His uncle, Paolo Sabato, owned Ristorante Romano, which was a popular restaurant in Rome. Sabato's mother is half Czech and half Jewish. In fact, her mother was a Holocaust survivor.

Sabato and his family moved to the United States from Italy in 1985, and he became a citizen of the United States in 1996. He grew up in L.A. and received his high school diploma from Palisades Charter High School.

Sabato first gained attention working as a model, which gave him popularity to move into acting. He appeared on the soap opera General Hospital and Melrose Place in the 1990s, and was recently in a patriotic film called God's Not Dead.