Tyrone Giordano

Tyrone Giordano is a deaf American actor born in 1976 in Hartford, Connecticut, to deaf parents. He works across stage, film, and television, and attended Montgomery Blair High School in Silver Spring, Maryland, before going on to study at Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C.

Giordano's professional stage career began in 1999, when he joined a small troupe of deaf and hearing actors and took on a role in the chorus of Arena Stage's production of The Miracle Worker. Two years later, he enrolled in Deaf West Theatre's summer school program and was subsequently cast in the lead role of Huckleberry Finn in Deaf West Theatre's Los Angeles production of Big River. The show proved successful enough to transfer to the Mark Taper Forum for a second run before moving to Broadway, where it opened at the American Airlines Theatre in the summer of 2003 with several cast members from the earlier productions. Giordano's performance earned him a 2004 Drama Desk Award nomination for Outstanding Actor in a Musical. The Broadway cast of Big River was also recognized with a 2004 Tony Honors for Excellence in Theatre. Following the Broadway engagement, Giordano continued with the production through much of its national tour, which ran from June 2004 to June 2005, and accompanied the show to Japan as well.

During the Big River tour, Giordano was cast in the 2005 film The Family Stone, in which he portrayed a gay and deaf member of the Stone family. That same year he appeared in A Lot Like Love as the deaf brother of Ashton Kutcher's character. His subsequent film work includes Untraceable (2008), starring Diane Lane, and The Next Three Days (2010), with Russell Crowe. On television, he has appeared in episodes of Girlfriends and CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.

Giordano has continued to work in regional theater, playing Pippin at the Mark Taper Forum in 2009 and appearing in Edward Albee's At Home at the Zoo at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in 2017. He is also associated with the Signing Naturally textbook.