Ralph: Seeing my face all over the teen fan magazines was really embarrassing. I wanted to be appreciated as an actor, but I look back, and should have just been happy with any exposure.
Ralph once saved a beached baby dolphin on the shores of a Malibu beach. Reporters tried to cover the story, but he wished to remain anonymous.
Ralph starred alongside Robert DeNiro and Burt Young in the Broadway production of Cuba and His Teddy Bear in 1986.
Ralph married Phyllis Fiero on April 5, 1987. They remain married today and share two children.
Ralph plays a young blues-loving urban man, who offers to take a forgotten blues legend back home to Mississippi in exchange for some songs, in Crossroads.
Ralph's role as Daniel LaRusso was such a great success, that two sequels followed, in 1986 and 1989.
Ralph appeared in the Francis Ford Coppola film, alongside future stars Emilio Estevez, Patrick Swayze, Matt Dillon, Tom Cruise, and C.Thomas Howell in The Outsiders. Based on the novel by S.E. Hinton, Ralph played the role of Johnny Cade, best friend to C. Thomas Howell's character, who played the lead.
Ralph landed the lead in the CBS Afternoon Playhouse production, Dangerous Company in 1982.
Ralph made his fim debut in 1980, playing the operator "Chooch" in Mad magazine's Up The Academy.
Ralph was interested in being an actor from the age of five, when he would watch them on television, and act out the scenes for himself.
Macchio is a huge fan of rocker Bruce Springsteen.
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