Michael mantenuto biography
Michael mantenuto biography
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Michael Mantenuto
American ice hockey player, actor and soldier
Michael Mantenuto (May 13, 1981 – April 24, 2017) was an American college ice hockey player, film actor, and Army non-commissioned officer, best known for his performance as Olympic ice hockey star Jack O'Callahan in the 2004 Disney film Miracle.
Early life and sports
Michael Mantenuto was born on May 13, 1981, in Holliston, Massachusetts to parents Ed Mantenuto and Kerry Lee Barton. He had three sisters.[1] Mantenuto is of Italian descent.[2] His father, the assistant principal and the school hockey coach at Holliston High School,[3] taught him how to play hockey at an early age and eventually became his high school coach.[4] He is an alumnus of the University of Maine, where he played one season for the Maine Black Bears men's ice hockey squad; following that season he transferred to the University of Massachusetts at Boston and played one additional season for thei