{{short description|American film and television actor}}
{{Infobox person |name = Sal Jenco |image = Sal Jenco.webp |caption = Jenco in 1988 |birth_place = Newark, New Jersey, U.S.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/874171401/|title=Kitsap gets taste of Hollywood at weekend yacht race|first=Nita|last=Martin|work=Kitsap Sun|location=Bremerton, Washington|date=August 1, 1988|access-date=July 18, 2025|page=7|via=Newspapers.com}} {{Closed access}}</ref> |occupation = Actor |years_active = 1987–1998 }}
'''Sal Jenco''' is an American film and television actor.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/822545988/|title=From screen to stage|first=Sarah|last=Allen|work=Oakland Tribune|location=Oakland, California|date=July 31, 1997|access-date=July 18, 2025|page=23|via=Newspapers.com}} {{Closed access}}</ref> He is best known for playing maintenance engineer Blowfish in the American police procedural television series ''21 Jump Street''.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Television_Crime_Fighters_Factbook/AU6nCgAAQBAJ?hl=en|title=The Television Crime Fighters Factbook: Over 9,800 Details from 301 Programs, 1937-2003|page=180|first=Vincent|last=Terrace|publisher=McFarland|date=October 2, 2015|isbn=9781476611433|via=Google Books}}</ref>
Jenco appeared in television programs including ''Beauty and the Beast'' and ''The Wonder Years'', and also in films such as ''Trouble Bound'' (as Danny), ''Arizona Dream'', ''Tall Tale'' and ''Donnie Brasco''.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Johnny_Depp/z0eN9jMc7m8C?hl=en|title=Johnny Depp|page=11|first=Eleonora|last=Saracino|date=2000|publisher=Gremese|ISBN=8877424435|via=Google Books|language=Italian}}</ref> During his screen career, in 1993, he and actor Johnny Depp co-owned and managed The Viper Room, a nightclub in West Hollywood, California.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/155300957/|title=Pop Eye|work=The Los Angeles Times|date=July 30, 1995|access-date=July 18, 2025|page=332|via=Newspapers.com}} {{Closed access}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1997/12/28/travel/the-young-and-the-restless.html|title=The Young and the Restless|first=Neil|last=Strauss|work=The New York Times|date=December 28, 1997|access-date=July 18, 2025}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Somewhere_You_Feel_Free/FSz_DwAAQBAJ?hl=en|title=Somewhere You Feel Free: Tom Petty and Los Angeles|page=179|first=Christopher|last=McKittrick|date=November 17, 2020|publisher=Post Hill Press|ISBN=9781642935127|via=Google Books}}</ref>
Jenco retired from acting in 1998, last appearing in the film ''Living Out Loud''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmovie.com/artist/sal-jenco-an115794/filmography|title=Sal Jenco|work=AllMovie|access-date=July 18, 2025}}</ref>
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== External links == *{{IMDb name|0420693}} *{{TCM name|94763}} *[https://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/sal_jenco/ Rotten Tomatoes profile]
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