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Al Pacino

Al Pacino

Birthday: 1940-04-25 | Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA

Alfredo James Pacino (born April 25, 1940) is an American actor and filmmaker. In a career spanning over five decades, he has received many awards and nominations, including an Academy Award, two Tony Awards, and two Primetime Emmy Awards. He is one of the few performers to have received the Triple Crown of Acting. He has also been honored with the AFI Life Achievement Award, the Cecil B. DeMille Award, and the National Medal of Arts. A method actor and former student of the HB Studio and the Actors Studio, where he was taught by Charlie Laughton and Lee Strasberg, Pacino's film debut came at the age of 29 with a minor role in Me, Natalie (1969). He gained favorable notice for his first lead role as a heroin addict in The Panic in Needle Park (1971). Wide acclaim and recognition came with his breakthrough role as Michael Corleone in Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather (1972), for which he received his first Oscar nomination, and he would reprise the role in the sequels The Godfather Part II (1974) and The Godfather Part III (1990). His portrayal of Michael Corleone is regarded as one of the greatest in film history. Pacino received nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actor for Serpico (1973), The Godfather Part II, Dog Day Afternoon (1975), and ...And Justice for All (1979), ultimately winning it for playing a blind military veteran in Scent of a Woman (1992). For his performances in The Godfather, Dick Tracy (1990), Glengarry Glen Ross (1992), and The Irishman (2019), he earned Best Supporting Actor Oscar nominations. Other notable portrayals include Tony Montana in Scarface (1983), Carlito Brigante in Carlito's Way (1993), Benjamin Ruggiero in Donnie Brasco (1997), and Lowell Bergman in The Insider (1999). He has also starred in the thrillers Heat (1995), The Devil's Advocate (1997), Insomnia (2002), and appeared in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019). On television, Pacino has acted in several productions for HBO, including Angels in America (2003) and the Jack Kevorkian biopic You Don't Know Jack (2010), winning a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie for each. Pacino currently stars in the Amazon Video web television series Hunters (2020–present). He has also had an extensive career on stage. He is a two-time Tony Award winner, in 1969 and 1977, for his performances in Does a Tiger Wear a Necktie? and The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel. Pacino made his filmmaking debut with Looking for Richard (1996), directing and starring in this documentary about Richard III; Pacino had played the lead role on stage in 1977. He has also acted as Shylock in a 2004 feature film adaptation and 2010 stage production of The Merchant of Venice. Pacino directed and starred in Chinese Coffee (2000), Wilde Salomé (2011), and Salomé (2013). Since 1994, he has been the joint president of the Actors Studio.​ From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2021
House of Gucci

as    Aldo Gucci

2021
2020
2020
Making 'The Irishman'

as    Self

2019
The Irishman

as    Jimmy Hoffa

2018
Paterno

as    Joe Paterno

2017
Hangman

as    Detective Archer

2017
Frank Serpico

as    Self (voice)

2017
The Pirates of Somalia

as    Seymour Tolbin

2016
Misconduct

as    Charles Abrams

2015
Manglehorn

as    A.J. Manglehorn

2015
Danny Collins

as    Danny Collins

2015
The Humbling

as    Simon Axler

2013
Phil Spector

as    Phil Spector

2013
We're No Animals

as    The Agent

2012
The Godfather Legacy

as    Self

2012
Stand Up Guys

as    Valentine "Val"

2011
Jack and Jill

as    Al Pacino

2011
The Son of No One

as    Detective Charles Stanford

2010
You Don't Know Jack

as    Dr. Jack Kevorkian

2008
Righteous Kill

as    Detective Dave 'Rooster' Fisk

2007
88 Minutes

as    Dr. Jack Gramm

2007
Ocean's Thirteen

as    Willy Bank

2005
Two for the Money

as    Walter Abrams