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Juilliard School.
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Kario Salem
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He received a second Emmy nomination the following year for writing The Rat Pack, in addition to a second Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association nomination. Salem also co-starred on Broadway as "Scoop" in The Heidi Chronicles with Mary McDonnel.
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In 1997, Salem earned an Emmy Award as a writer for the television special Don King: Only in America, which also earned him a Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association nomination. The film also won the Broadcast Film Critics Award and Peabody Award for Best Television Film of the year. Salem won a Drama Log award for his performance in Richard Greenberg"s "The Extra Manitoba" at South Coast Repertory Theater, as well as a Boston Critic"s award for his performance as "Cousins" in George Bernard Shaw"s Major Barbara with Cherry Jones at the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge. He has appeared in over 80 guest starring roles on television, including the role of Marcel Pasquinel in Centennial (1978), and the ghost of a dead soldier in an Emmy Award winning episode of M*A*South*H. His film roles include the role of Jocko in Triumph of the Spirit (1989), the role of The Grand Inquistor in Ridley"s Scott"s 1492: Conquest of Paradise (1992), and the bleach blonde French gangster in Roger Avary"s Killing Zoe (1994).
