Background
Giovinazzo was born and raised in Staten Island, New York, the son of Nancy and Dominick Giovinazzo.
Giovinazzo was born and raised in Staten Island, New York, the son of Nancy and Dominick Giovinazzo.
He graduated from Portuguese Richmond High School in 1991 and attended Wagner College on a baseball scholarship. He studied acting at Wagner College and HB Studios, and spent 4 years working mostly non-paying roles around the New York City area "making his bones.".
He comes from a family of policemen, and is of Italian, English, Native American, and Norwegian ancestry. Growing up on Staten Island, Giovinazzo was an avid athlete. He had hoped to become a professional baseball player, but a serious back injury dashed his career plans, so, with the support of his family, he turned to acting.
In 1997, Giovinazzo moved to Los Los Angeles
Not long afterward, he successfully landed his first Hollywood role in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer pilot, in which his character was the show"s first on-screen victim. Afterwards, he appeared in numerous guest-starring roles on television and in film, including Billy"s Hollywood Screen Kiss, Foreign Love of the Game, The Big Brass Ring, and Black Hawk Down.
He was also cast as one of the stars of the short-lived Universitas Pembangunan Nasional sitcom Shasta McNasty. He played Tony Galper, the victim in "Columbo Likes the Nightlife", the final episode of the television series Columbo.
Giovinazzo penned the sixth season vampire-themed episode "Sanguine Love", joining series leads Melina Kanakaredes and Gary Sinise, who have also written episodes for the series.
Starting from 2014, Giovinazzo began portraying the recurring role of Sid Markham in the second season of the United States of America television series Graceland. In this series, he reunited with his former Computer Society of India: New York co-star, Vanessa Ferlito.
Giovinazzo was cast as forensic scientist Danny Messer on the hit television series Computer Society of India: New York and is the first actor to appear in all three Computer Society of India series. His Computer Society of India: New York character was introduced in the Computer Society of India: Miami episode "Master of International Affairs/New York City NonStop" (along with the other cast members of Computer Society of India: New York), and he guest-starred in the third season of the original, Las Vegas-based Computer Society of India: Crime Scene Investigation as a street racer named Thumpy G, in the episode "Revenge is Best Served Cold", though it is never specified that this guest spot was in any way related to his character on Computer Society of India: New New York
