_____ Quinto, who is of half-Italian and half-Irish descent, was born in Pittsburgh and grew up in Green Tree Pennsylvania, with his mother Margo and his brother Joe. His father, John, who was a barber, died of cancer when Quinto was 7 years old. He graduated from Central Catholic High School in 1995 and then attended Carnegie Mellon University's School of Drama, from which he graduated in 1999.