Meet Noah D’castellano | Italian American actor-model, entrepreneur, polyglot and icon fashionista, and his approach to the industry

We had the good fortune of connecting with Noah D’castellano and we’ve shared our conversation below.

Hi Noah, what role has risk played in your life or career?
For me life in a nutshell is too short in human terms in how we develop and what we have to exercise our life, that is why we have to take risks from the moment we are born.

We are all born the same but the role of life will be designed according to your criteria, your behaviors, what you like to do, eat and wear, for that reason I have gone through several stages.

I come from a family not very much related to the world of cameras, as they are based more on family business, and making the decision to be a model at first was not very well seen, then I focused on acting to what happened to me the same, but my intuition to be in the world of training began since I was 12 years old.

Alright, so let’s move onto what keeps you busy professionally?
My career as an actor began when I was 10 years old, during this time I lived in Cali, Colombia. It was there where I started taking acting, singing and literature classes, I had to take small roles and represent them in the theaters of that area along with other classmates.

I was born from a business family of southern Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom. Nothing related to the cameras, nor TV entertainment, Was all about being an entrepreneur and how to keep that legacy in the family. To be honest I always liked art I’m so into about it, I always knew it since I spent my time drawing and singing at school, on what I can recall, teachers say the same. My approach to the world of acting was at 8 years old, but then I changed that I wanted to be a model, and as I had the possibility of achieving it if I proposed it, I told my dad “This’s what I want no matter what”. But at that age, children don’t know what it can take to keep a family on its feet and how difficult it can be to achieve a career goal. Perhaps during that time he was in another country, also living there, which is Honduras. However back then I was in Colombia with my grandmother on my mother’s side.

Time passed, then due to family issues, my parents get divorced, so my dad took me to Honduras before I was 12 years old, where I really decided to be a model as a secondary goal. But everything became hard not so much because of the language but as everything was very different, the money, slang words people had, not being able to leave the house because of the insecurity, many things depressed me for a while. this I shared with my father, he knew that all I wanted was something serious. So he never let go of my hand and always supported me. Without saying much, in fact the country didn’t have that possibility to make things or be involved on society, I did not have the maximum possibility to make myself known during I was living there. Although I tried with several modeling companies, nothing worked, neither attend school frequently because I was focused on acting and modeling, so hard to describe this type of circumstances nowadays.

After this situation, trying in several ways I told my father I want to return to the United States “Please”, I know that being there I can achieve many things, then he said yes, but first he wanted me to go to Mexico City, to try 6 months an arts school, to which I accepted, I was very excited because even he saw how much I was despised and nobody gave me the slightest opportunity to do what I liked, and this wasn’t because of money, was because the kind of society in which you develop “now you can tell”, so I was glad that he was also looking for a way about my life was not a failure and at that young age everything was so complicated for me. Later then I moved to Mexico City for 6 and a half months studying arts and graphic design, I finished my course and in October 2017 I returned to the United States, I arrived in New York City then I moved to Kingston New York., Where I started a classes of music, art, design, painting, and a separate modeling course, this in December of the same year.

Already in the United States I continued with my studies separately, still taking general classes whenever I could, in 2021 I moved to Connecticut, where my family is from partially on my father’s side., Where I decided to finish High School, looking forward I found Norwalk High School, my best decision ever, so graduated from in 2023, Just in my second year living in Connecticut I got a proposal from Vogue Magazine if I wanted to participate in the New York fashion Week 2022, In which I said yes of course, that took date on September 9, 2022. Thinking about, that year was where I said, “Everything I did, what I been doing, my effort, was worth it” I remember being excited for it, and everything turned out well.

My goal in 2024 and on, is to do what I like, to see any opportunity that comes my way, but the most important thing is to see if I am right for it, It may be the best project of the year for many but if I don’t feel good taking that opportunity, if I don’t feel good with the treatment I receive or the place I deserve as a person, and also my career, then I will say “NO” with much regret, I will give that project to someone else, because for sure there are people who deserve it and maybe better than me.

I love learning new things, new challenges, I know that being here present as a human being has already made me an achiever, I love being what I am, my life is based on learning, I live by what I have learned, and I will continue to live if I continue to do so.

I have a motto that nothing in this life is easy, and if it’s hard at that time it’s because what you’re doing will be worth it, I want young people to learn to appreciate what they have, especially Gen Z what I’m belong, not follow the labels or see the best paid to want to do the same, Whether in a career or work job, they have to follow their passion working by passion not for money, live their lives in the best possible way, we only have one life and if you don’t live it, someone else will carry it and criticize it day by day.

I want the world to know me for being an open-minded person, willing to fight for what I want and where I know I deserve to be, as I know my worth, I want to raise expectations of fashion and acting, I want to be remembered as an acting icon and a good fashion strategist from where many can be picked up ideas and take notes.

Something else I wanted to add. So important for me, to you, I want to share it to serve as an example to others in the future.
Well I had a long distance love courtship, this started in 2021, I was still a minor, and he was older than me, on both sides we lied, he claimed to be younger and I did the opposite, it hurt me emotionally and a lot, I thought about how to die somehow.
He told me that it was his fault everything he has done, even though he make decisions wrong, I know was my fault not accepting that was he was doing to me wasn’t fair. Never confuse love with physical attraction, or obsession, love is pure and that is what you work for, engagements are not anyone’s obligations, if you do not love yourself you will never be able to love other people, better educate your life, learn new things, do not give things thinking that you will receive something in return, if you are going to have a commitment think three times.

Any places to eat or things to do that you can share with our readers? If they have a friend visiting town, what are some spots they could take them to?
I would definitely take them to New York., Before giving a mini tour of my current city or Connecticut in general, In New York I would take them to eat at the restaurant “Queensyard” located in Hudson Yards, then take a coffee at “Starbucks at Times Squares” and go to “Little Island” a tourist amusement park on the outskirts of NYC town.

On the way home in Connecticut I would take my friends to “Una Dolce Vita” an Italian pizza restaurant located in Bridgeport, then take them shopping at “The SoNo Collection” mall in Norwalk, considered by me the best in Connecticut, Then we went to Calf Pasture Beach and Shady Beach also in Norwalk for sunbathing and swimming, at night we went to the Avenue Club in New York.

Who else deserves some credit and recognition?
First of all all the success that I already have and continue to have I dedicate it to God because he is above all, and the rest I owe to my father for being responsible, for not putting labels on me about what I should be or who I should be or do in my life, whether it was in terms of sexuality or what career I liked more, since in this whole field my father and my mother never told us this is for boy or girl, in my house everything was for everyone without labels, being what I am, I owe it to them, also the unconditional love to my family for being the only son open to a bisexual sexuality.

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Image Credits
Image credits for – Gabriela Munguia

Makeup credits for – Es France MY

Credits to the writer, personal manager and company for – Michael Blanchet under byactorsbusinessbackstage@gmail.com

Location or scenery credits for – Una Dolce Vita Restaurant, Bridgeport, CT – Bridgeport CT, Library – Manhattan New York City – Boston Massachusetts – Old Greenwich, CT