Career
Born in Messina and known for his deadpan humour, he debuted for Italian television with Renzo Arbore"s Quelli della notte (1985), in which he played a semi-illiterate friar. Later, again under Arbore, he was given a major role in the also surreal and successful Indietro tutta! of 1987. Frassica has subsequently featured in numerous comic movies, Il Bi e il Ba (1986), and television shows for Italian television
He plays Lieutenant
Cecchini on the Italian television series Don Matteo.