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Al Pacino - Actor

Occupation: Actor Birth Name: Alfredo James Pacino Birth Date: 04/25/1940 Birth Place: East Harlem, New York, USA Height: 5' 7" Sex: M Nationality: American Father: Salvatore Pacino Mother: Rose Pacino Relation: Jill Clayburgh (1970-1975), Diane Keaton, Kathleen Quinlan (1979-1981), Jan Tarrant, Beverly D'Angelo (1997-2001) Claim Fame: As Michael Corleone in "The Godfather" (1972)

Al Pacino (born April 25, 1940) is an American film actor.
He was born Alfred James Pacino in The Bronx, New York, the son of Salvatore and Rose Pacino. His parents divorced while Pacino was still a child. He is of Sicilian heritage; Pacino's maternal grandparents immigrated to the United States from Corleone, Sicily.
In the late 1960s, Pacino studied under legendary acting coach Lee Strasberg, finding acting a therapeutic outlet in a youth which saw him depressed and so impoverished he could barely afford the bus fares required to get him to his next audition. His talent shone through and by the end of the decade he had won an Obie award for his stage work in The Indian Wants the Bronx and a Tony Award for Does the Tiger Wear a Necktie? His big screen debut came in 1969's Me, Natalie but it was the 1971 film The Panic in Needle Park that would really show off his talents and bring him to the attention of director Francis Ford Coppola.
His meteoric rise to fame came after portraying Michael Corleone in the blockbuster Mafia film The Godfather 1972. Although numerous established actors, including Robert Redford, Warren Beatty, and Robert De Niro, were vying for the part, director Francis Ford Coppola selected the relatively unknown Pacino. His performace earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor and, by the end of the 1970s he would have three more nominations, all for Best Actor. Despite further nominations, it wasn't until 1993 that Pacino would win an Oscar, this time for his portrayal of the irascible, retired and blind Lieutenant_Colonel Frank Slade in Martin Brest's Scent of a Woman. Pacino won himself Best Actor and was also up for the supporting award for his role in Glengarry Glen Ross, the only actor to ever receive both nominations in the same year. (The actress Julianne Moore repeated the feat in 2003, however she did not win either award). Pacino has not received another nomination from the Academy since those two, but has won two Golden Globes since the turn of the century, the first being the Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement in motion picture, and the second for his role in the HBO miniseries Angels in America.
Pacino's career took something of a downturn in the early 1980s and his appearances in Cruising and Author! Author! saw him critically panned. 1983's Scarface proved to be both a career highlight and a defining role, earning Pacino a Golden Globe nomination for his performance as a Cuban drug lord who cries out the now infamous line "You wanna play rough? Okay. Say hello to my little friend!"
However, 1985's Revolution was arguably the worst film to ever feature Pacino and he returned to stage work for four years, re-surfacing in film in 1989's Sea of Love, which was to signal a welcome return to form. Pacino's more recent body of work remains impressive, boasting a number of fine performances that include the somewhat under-recognised 1990's crime thrillers Carlito's Way, Heat (movie), Donnie Brasco and The Recruit. Pacino has turned down a number of key roles in his career, including that of Han Solo in Star Wars, Captain Willard in Apocalypse Now and Edward Lewis in Pretty Woman.
The quality of Pacino's performances, as well as his larger-than-life onscreen presence (Pacino stands about 5'6"), have established him as one of the greatest actors in motion picture history. Pacino still performs theatre work and has also dabbled in direction, his first film, The Local Stigmatic remains unreleased but his other two works, Looking for Richard and Chinese Coffee are both highly acclaimed.
Although he has never been married, Pacino has three children. The first, Julie Marie, is his daughter with acting coach Jan Tarrant. He also has twins, Anton and Olivia, with longtime girlfriend Beverly D'Angelo.

Filmography:

Year	Name	Star	Genre	Other
2008	88 Minutes	Dr. Jack Gramm	MV	aka 88
2007	Ocean's Thirteen	Willie Banks	MV
2007	Salomaybe?	Himself/King Herod	MV
2007	Torch	Jack Graham	MV
2006	Torch		MV
2005	Void Moon		MV
2005	2 for the Money	Walter Abrams	MV
2003	Gigli	Starkman	MV
2003	The Recruit	Walter Burke	MV
2003	Angels in America	Roy Marcus Cohn	TV
2002	People I Know	Eli Wurman	MV	aka Innere Kreis, Der (Germany: video title)
2002	S1m0ne	Viktor Taransky	MV
2002	Insomnia	Detective Will Dormer	MV
2000	Chinese Coffee	Harry Levine	MV
1999	Any Given Sunday	Tony D'Amato	MV
1999	The Insider	Lowell Bergman	MV
1997	The Devil's Advocate	John Milton	MV	aka Im Auftrag des Teufels (Germany)
1997	Donnie Brasco	Benjamin 'Lefty' Ruggiero	MV
1996	City Hall	Mayor John Pappas	MV
1995	Heat	Lt. Vincent Hanna	MV
1995	Two Bits	Gitano Sabatoni	MV	aka A Day to Remember
1993	Carlito's Way	Carlito Brigante	MV
1992	The Godfather Trilogy: 1901-1980	Don Michael Corleone	MV	aka The Godfather Trilogy
1992	The Godfather Trilogy: 1901-1980	Don Michael Corleone	VI	aka The Godfather Trilogy
1992	Glengarry Glen Ross	Ricky Roma	MV
1991	Frankie and Johnny	Johnny	MV	aka Frankie & Johnny
1990	The Godfather: Part III	Don Michael Corleone	VI	aka Mario Puzo's The Godfather: Part III
1990	The Godfather: Part III	Don Michael Corleone	MV	aka Mario Puzo's The Godfather: Part III
1989	The Local Stigmatic		MV
1989	Sea of Love	Det. Frank Keller	MV
1985	Revolution	Tom Dobb	MV
1983	Scarface	Tony Montana	MV
1982	Author! Author!	Ivan Travalian	MV
1980	Cruising	Steve Burns	MV	aka William Friedkin's Cruising
1979	And Justice for All	Arthur Kirkland	MV
1977	Bobby Deerfield	Bobby Deerfield	MV	aka Heaven Has No Favorites
1975	Dog Day Afternoon	Sonny Wortzik	MV
1974	The Godfather: Part II	Don Michael Corleone	MV	aka Mario Puzo's The Godfather: Part II
1973	Scarecrow	Francis	MV
1973	Serpico	Frank Serpico	MV
1972	The Godfather	Michael Corleone	MV	aka Mario Puzo's The Godfather (USA: complete title)
1971	The Panic in Needle Park	Bobby	MV
1969	Out of It	Ray	MV
1969	Me, Natalie	Tony	MV
1968	N.Y.P.D. - Deadly Circle of Violence	John James	TV

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