Career
Acovone starred in various movies during the 2000s and also appeared in several television series including Beauty and the Beast and Hollywood Beat. He also appeared as Charles Kawalsky in season 1, 2, 3 and 8 of Stargate SG-1. He can be seen playing the officer pulling over the Texas Terminator in Terminator 3.
He appeared in Criminal Minds, guest-starring as Detective Morrison of the Palm Beach Police Department who enlists the BAU"s help in capturing a bomber in the episode, Won"t Get Fooled Again.
He also appeared in an episode of Friends. Jay guest starred in three episodes of Sliders.
Jay played Skip Lee in the film Cruising (1980). Jay guest starred as a Casino owner with unconfirmed Mafia connections in a 2012 episode of The Mentalist entitled "Pink Champagne on Ice", alongside fellow Stargate actor Christopher Judge.
In Independence Day, he played a guard who at first denies Will Smith"s character entrance to Area 51.
In 2013 he plays agent Gibbs" barber in NCIS episode "Prime Suspect". Jay also appeared in at least three episodes of The X-Files, first in "Demons" as Detective Joe Curtis (Season 4, 1997). Later, he portrayed Duffy Haskell in "Per Manum" and "Essence" (Season 8, 2001).