A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
Francesca Cesca
Francesca Gelsomina
Francesca Gelsomina Ruscio
Birthplace:
Bucks County, Pennsylvania, USA
Born:
February 26, 1993
Francesca Ruscio is an actress. She was born in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Her mother, Mirella DiFulvio-Ruscio was born is Fara Filiorum Petri, Abruzzo, Italy and her father, Pat Ruscio is the son of Italian immigrants. In 2013, Francesca Ruscio was crowned Miss Philadelphia 2013 under the Miss America Organization and dedicated her year of service to working with Veteran charities and Children's Miracle Network Hospitals. Francesca graduated with a bachelor's degree from Temple University in the city of Philadelphia, majoring in broadcast journalism minoring in theater, with an original plan to be a journalist in Philadelphia or New York City. She has professionally studied music for over 15 years and is a trained Soprano singer. After some early film appearances, she booked her first principle role in director Joe Gawalis's film, "Bare Knuckle Brawler" with Machete's Danny Trejo and Karate Kid's Martin Kove, and will be filming along side some well-known faces from THE SOPRANOS summer of 2018 in a film called, "Made In Chinatown".
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Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).
At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.
Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.