Ricco Ross
American actor
Ricco Ross is an American actor. He is best known for his portrayal of private Frost in the 1986 science fiction action film Aliens and currently as Horace Bellarie in Tyler Perry's Netflix's drama series Beauty in Black.
Early life
Ross was born in Chicago.
Career
Ross' first television role was as an extra on The Young and the Restless, which was followed by a small part in Hill Street Blues and the male lead in the music video for Whitney Houston's 1985 hit song "Saving All My Love for You". He later played Private Ricco Frost in the film Aliens (1986), and also appeared in the films Death Wish 3 (1985), Spies Like Us (1985), The Dirty Dozen: Next Mission (1985 TV film), "Displaced Person" (1985 episode of American Playhouse), Gulliver's Travels (1996), Mission Impossible (1996), Fierce Creatures (1997), Nate and the Colonel (2003) and Hydra (2009).
From the late 1980s to the early 1990s, he lived and worked in the United Kingdom. He portrayed Greg Dacosta on the BBC1 drama Westbeach. While there, he made guest appearances in Doctor Who (in the 1988 serial The Greatest Show in the Galaxy) and Jeeves and Wooster, and played a supporting role as CIA agent Karl Richfield in the 1991 mini-series Sleepers.
Ross now appears in various commercials as well as TV shows aired throughout the United States.
Aliens
Ricco Ross originally read for the part of Corporal Hicks.
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