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Also known as Dante Roman Basco

American actor and rapper

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Dante Basco, born Dante Roman Titus Basco on 29 August 1975 in Pittsburg, California, is an American film actor, television actor, voice actor, and rapper. He has worked since 1988 under the pseudonym Dante Basco, and his notable work includes The Perfect Weapon. He speaks English.

His sibling is Dion Basco, and his relative is Ella Jay Basco.

Synthesized by Vinony from 25 facts across 4 sources: Wikidata, MusicBrainz, Last.fm, TMDb. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Works
1

Top works

  • From Rufio to Zuko

via Open Library + Wikidata

Film & TV

Acting · Pittsburg, California, USA

Dante R. Basco (born August 29, 1975) is an American actor and voice actor. He is best known for his role as Rufio, the leader of the Lost Boys in Steven Spielberg's Hook and for his many voice acting roles, most notably Prince Zuko from Nickelodeon's Avatar: The Last Airbender and Jake Long from the Disney Channel's American Dragon: Jake Long.

Known for

  • Muppet Treasure Scriptland — Mad Monty2026
  • Heartstorm — Dante2025
  • One Big Happy Family — Marcus2025
  • The Invisible Raptor — Lost Man2024
  • The Keepers of the 5 Kingdoms — Frank2023
  • Fruit of the Poisonous Tree2023
  • Asian Persuasion — Mickey de los Santos2023
  • The Fabulous Filipino Brothers2021
  • Monster Hunter: Legends of the Guild — Aiden (voice)2021
  • Trese — Bagyon Kulimlim (voice)2021

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Group
Origin
Netherlands
basco

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
79
Total plays
497

<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Dante+Basco">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. The Construct of Resilience: A Critical Evaluation and Guidelines for Future Work

    · 2000 · cited 6,133x

  2. The Immune Landscape of Cancer

    · 2018 · cited 4,773x

  3. Efficient Tandem Polymer Solar Cells Fabricated by All-Solution Processing

    · 2007 · cited 3,014x

  4. Quantum Tunneling of Magnetization and Related Phenomena in Molecular Materials

    · 2003 · cited 2,723x

  5. Molecular Nanomagnets

    · 2006 · cited 2,580x

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Key facts

Born
Dante Roman Titus Basco , ( 1975-08-29 ) August 29, 1975 (age 50) , Pittsburg, California , U.S.
Occupation
Actor
Years active
1988–present
Spouse
Alice Rehemutula ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 2023 ) ​
Relatives
Dion Basco (brother), Ella Jay Basco (niece)

via Wikipedia infobox

Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Given name
Dante
Gender
male
Citizenship
United States
Place of birth
Pittsburg
Sibling
Dion Basco
Languages spoken
English language
Native language
English language
Notable work
The Perfect Weapon
Instrument
voice
Image
Dante Basco (37457006424).jpg
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Commons category
Dante Basco
date of birth
1975-08-29
start of work period
1988-00-00
pseudonym
Dante Basco
social media followers
52600
writing language
English language
birth name
Dante Roman Titus Basco
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Encyclopedic overview

Dante Roman Titus Basco (born August 29, 1975) is an American actor. He is known for his role as Rufio, the leader of the Lost Boys, in Steven Spielberg's Hook, Dolph in the cult film But I'm a Cheerleader, the lead character Ben Mercado in the independent film The Debut, and for voicing the title character of American Dragon: Jake Long and Prince Zuko in Avatar: The Last Airbender.

His voice acting roles also include Zuko's grandson General Iroh II in The Legend of Korra, Quoc Wong in The Proud Family, Jingmei in The Boondocks, Tuck in Generator Rex, Scorpion in Ultimate Spider-Man, and Jai Kell in Star Wars Rebels.

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