Erik Palladino

Erik Palladino (born May 10, 1968) is an American film and television actor. He is best known for his portrayal of Dr. Dave Malucci on the NBC medical drama ER, Frank in the Amazon Prime Video series The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, and Pino, the head of the Genovese crime family, in the MGM+ series Godfather of Harlem. Over his career, Palladino has appeared in a wide range of film and television roles, including U-571, Finders Fee, Can’t Hardly Wait, and Skincare (2024).

Erik Palladino
Palladino in 2021
Born	(1968-05-10) May 10, 1968 (age 57) Yonkers, New York, U.S.
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1994–present
Children	3

Career

Palladino began his career in the early 1990s, playing the role of Nick on Comedy Central’s Short Attention Span Theater opposite comedian Marc Maron. He went on to star in Amy Sherman’s FOX sitcom Love and Marriage, his first series-regular role. Sherman later created Gilmore Girls and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, in which Palladino would also appear two decades later.

He gained national recognition in 1999 when he joined NBC’s long-running medical drama ER as Dr. Dave Malucci, working alongside Julianna Margulies, Maura Tierney, Eriq La Salle, and Alan Alda. During his tenure on ER, Palladino co-starred with Harvey Keitel, Matthew McConaughey, and Bill Paxton in the World War II submarine drama U-571 (2000), which opened at number one at the U.S. box office.^[1][2]

Over the following years, he built a steady career across film and television, taking on recurring and starring roles in series including the FX war drama Over There, CBS’s Joan of Arcadia, USA Network’s Suits, and the CBS franchises NCIS and NCIS: Los Angeles.^[3]

From 2019 to 2023, Palladino portrayed Frank in the Emmy-winning Amazon Prime Video series The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. He later joined the MGM+ crime drama Godfather of Harlem as Pino, head of the Genovese crime family, acting opposite Forest Whitaker and Vincent D’Onofrio.^[4]

His feature-film credits include leading and supporting roles opposite Harvey Keitel, Matthew McConaughey, and Bill Paxton (U-571), Ryan Reynolds and James Earl Jones (Finders Fee), Kevin Costner (The New Daughter), and Elizabeth Banks (Skincare, 2024).^[5][6]