Lou Ferrigno

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Gender: Male
Born: 9th November 1951 (currently 60 years old)
Nationality: United States of America, Italy
TV programs: Filthy Rich: Cattle Drive, The Incredible Hulk, The Incredible Hulk, Trauma Center, The King of Queens
Movies: Hercules, Hulk, Sinbad of the Seven Seas, Cage, The Incredible Hulk, The Avengers, Liberty & Bash, The Adventures of Hercules, The Naked Truth, The Making of '...And God Spoke', Ping!, Surge of Power: The Stuff of Heroes, The Godson, Miss Cast Away and the Island Girls, Stand tall, The Incredible Hulk Returns, The Trial of the Incredible Hulk, I Love You, Man, Hangfire

Louis Jude "Lou" Ferrigno (born November 9, 1951)) is an American actor, fitness trainer/consultant, and retired professional bodybuilder. As a bodybuilder, Ferrigno won an IFBB Mr. America title and two consecutive IFBB Mr. Universe titles, and appeared in the bodybuilding documentary Pumping Iron. As an actor, he is best known for portraying the titular role in the CBS television series The Incredible Hulk and for voicing the character in subsequent animated and computer-generated incarnations. He has also appeared in European-produced fantasy-adventures such as Sinbad of the Seven Seas and Hercules, and as himself in the sitcom The King of Queens and the 2009 comedy I Love You, Man.

Lou Ferrigno was born in Brooklyn, New York to Victoria and Matt Ferrigno, a police lieutenant. He is of Italian descent. Soon after he was born, Ferrigno says he believes he suffered a series of ear infections and lost 75 to 80% of his hearing, though his condition was not diagnosed until he was three years old. Ferrigno started weight training at age 13, citing body builder and Hercules star Steve Reeves as one of his role models. He was also a fan of the Hercules films that starred Reeves—and

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