Who Is Ralph Macchio's Wife, Phyllis Fierro?

While Ralph Macchio has been an actor all of his career and even did a little stint as a dancer on “Dancing With The Stars,” his wife Phyllis Fierro is a nurse practitioner as Country Living reported. And with the COVID-19 pandemic taking up the past few years, Fierro has been more than busy. ‘It’s tough,” Macchio said during a January 2021 appearance on “The View.” “A lot of what she does is dealing with the families and palliative medicine.” This means she’s a nurse practitioner that deals with end-of-life care and those patients’ families. “It is hero work, and I am so proud of her … We are hanging in there,” he said of his wife. Macchio’s family consists of his wife as well as their two kids, Julia and Daniel Macchio (yes, Daniel is named after Macchio’s famous “The Karate Kid” character). 

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And that’s not the first or only time he’s called his wife a hero for her line of work. While on “The Drew Barrymore Show,” he said Fierro’s “one of the heroes of the family.” He went on to describe more of her work, saying that she helps those patients and their families “manage those very difficult decisions” that come with people near the end of their lives. “It’s hero work, you know, it really is,” he told Barrymore.