Augie Buttinelli was born in Washington, DC and had opportunities as a young man to pursue acting at a young age. Augie performed at the Kennedy Center, DAR Constitution Hall and pursued modeling for Cappa Chell Modeling in Washington; this took him to New York for an International Modeling show in the late 70s' where he won second place for an improvizational television commercial. Augie found a career in sales yet was able to pursue acting a little along the way. Over the past four years Augie has been very busy in a variety of projects. Augie has been in independent movies as the lead role, others as supporting characters. Augie has also been lucky enough to work on some major television shows, such as NBC Universal's Royal Pains and has done extra work in major films such as Anchorman 2 and the Diary of Preston Plummer.