An actor who usually plays the bad guy on screen got the chance to be a real-life hero when he stopped a potential abduction near his home in New Jersey.

George Pogatsia is one of those actors who often is cast as a possible suspect or seedier character, as he has done on "Law & Order" and "The Sopranos." But he will never forget the real crime he thwarted outside his Jersey City home.

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"This guy was just insistent on trying to get this girl to go with him," he told NBC New York.

Pogatsia said he saw a 19-year-old girl stumbling down the street with her cousin, visibly intoxicated, along with a strange man who looked like he was about to kidnap her.

"She was under 5 feet [tall] herself. This guy was probably about

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