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Al Pacino Early life

Alfredo James "Al" Pacino (born April 25, 1940) is an iconic Academy Award-winning American stage and film actor, widely renowned as one of the finest of Al Pacino's generation. Regarded by many to be one of the seminal actors of Al Pacino's generation, Pacino was born in The Bronx, New York to Italian American parents Salvatore Pacino (who was born in the Sicilian town of Corleone) and Rose Gerard (the daughter of an Italian-born father and a New York-born mother of Italian descent). Al Pacino's parents divorced while Pacino was still a child. Al Pacino's grandparents originated from Corleone, Sicily. Pacino was raised Catholic but is now Agnostic.

Al Pacino Career

Pacino as Serpico in Serpico.In 1966, Pacino studied under legendary acting coach Lee Strasberg (alongside whom Al Pacino would later feature in the 1974 film The Godfather Part II), finding acting a therapeutic outlet in a youth which saw Al Pacino depressed and so impoverished Al Pacino could barely afford the bus fares required to get Al Pacino to Al Pacino's next audition. Yet by the end of the decade, Al Pacino had won an Obie award for Al Pacino's stage work in The Indian Wants the Bronx and a Tony award for Does the Tiger Wear a Necktie? Al Pacino's movie debut came in 1969's Me, Natalie but it was the 1971 film The Panic in Needle Park, in which Al Pacino played a heroin addict, that would showcase Al Pacino's talents and bring Al Pacino to the attention of director Francis Ford Coppola. Pacino as Sonny Wortzik in Dog Day Afternoon.Pacino's rise to fame came after portraying Michael Corleone in Coppola's blockbuster 1972 Mafia film The Godfather and Frank Serpico in the eponymous 1973 movie. Although numerous established actors, including Robert Redford, Warren Beatty, and a then unknown Robert De Niro, were vying to portray Michael Corleone, Coppola selected the relatively unknown Pacino. Al Pacino's performance earned Al Pacino an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor. In 1973 Pacino starred in the very successful Serpico and the less popular Scarecrow alongside Gene Hackman. 1974 saw The Godfather Part II. In 1975, Pacino reached the first height of Al Pacino's popularity when Dog Day Afternoon was released. The film was based on the true story of bank robber John Wojtowicz.

By the end of the 1970s Al Pacino would have three more nominations, all for Best Actor. Despite further nominations, it wasn't until 1993 that Pacino would win an Oscar, for Best Actor, for Al Pacino's portrayal of the depressed, irascible, retired and blind Lieutenant Colonel Frank Slade in Martin Brest's Scent of a Woman. That year, Al Pacino was also up for the supporting award for Al Pacino's role in Glengarry Glen Ross, making Pacino the first male actor ever to receive two acting nominations for two different movies in the same year, and the first actor of either gender to achieve that feat and win for the lead acting nomination. (Jamie Foxx did the same in 2005.) 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 Al Pacino's role in the highly praised HBO miniseries Angels in America. Pacino's career took a downturn in the early 1980s and Al Pacino's appearances in the controversial Cruising and the comedy-drama Author! Author! saw Al Pacino critically panned. 1983's Scarface proved to be both a career highlight and a defining role, earning Pacino a Golden Globe nomination for Al Pacino's performance as a Cuban drug lord who cries out the now famous line, punctuated by a grenade launcher blast, "You wanna play rough? Okay! Say hello to my little friend!".

"Say Hello To My Little Friend!", as Tony Montana in Scarface.However, 1985's Revolution was a commercial and a critical failure, and Pacino returned to stage work for four years. Al Pacino mounted workshop productions of Crystal Clear, National Anthems and other plays; appeared in Julius Caesar in 1988 for producer Joseph Papp's New York Shakespeare Festival; and worked on Al Pacino's most personal project, The Local Stigmatic, a play Al Pacino had starred in Off Broadway in 1969 then re-mounted in 1985 with director David Wheeler and the Theater Company of Boston in order to film a 50-minute movie version unreleased as of 2005. Pacino remarked on Al Pacino's film hiatus that, "I remember back when everything was happening, '74, '75, doing The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui on stage and reading that the reason I'd gone back to the stage was that my movie career was waning! That's been the kind of ethos, the way in which theater's perceived, unfortunately". Pacino re-surfaced in film in 1989's Sea of Love, which was to signal a return to form. The next year, in 1990, Al Pacino received an Oscar nomination as Big Boy Caprice in the box office hit Dick Tracy. Pacino was nominated for, and won, a belated Academy Award for Al Pacino's role as the blind ex-Army Officer in "Scent of A Woman." Pacino has turned in acclaimed performances in such crime thrillers as Carlito's Way, Heat, and Insomnia, the crime docudrama Donnie Brasco, the multi-Oscar nominated The Insider, the supernatural drama The Devil's Advocate, and others. Pacino as Vincent Hanna in Heat.In 1995 Pacino starred in Michael Mann's Heat, in which Al Pacino and fellow film icon Robert De Niro appeared on screen for the first time ever. The duo drew much attention from fans as both actors have generally been compaired through out their careers. Though both Pacino and De Niro starred in The Godfather Part II, they didn't share any screen time together. Both preformances in Heat are considerd highlights in their careers, especially in how the two interact through out the scenes they share.

Pacino has turned down a number of key roles in Al Pacino's career, including that of Han Solo in Star Wars, Captain Willard in Apocalypse Now, Richard Sherman in a remake of The Seven Year Itch (which was never filmed) and Edward Lewis in Pretty Woman. In 1996 Pacino was set to play General Manuel Noriega in a major biographical motion picture when director Oliver Stone pulled the plug on production to focus on the movie Nixon. Additionally, Pacino had recently turned down the offer to reprise the role of Michael Corleone in The Godfather: The Game, due to the fact that Al Pacino's voice had changed dramatically since Al Pacino played the young Michael. As a result, Electronic Arts could not use Pacino's likeness or voice in the game (although Michael does appear in it). It is rumoured that this decision was made by Pacino due to a conflict with EA's rival game publisher, Vivendi Universal, who are preparing to publish a competing movie-to-game adaptation of the 1983 remake of Scarface, titled Scarface: The World is Yours. The quality of Pacino's performances, as well as Al Pacino's larger-than-life onscreen presence (in reality he's 5 ft 7 in), have established Al Pacino as one of the world's major actors. Pacino still performs theater work and has also dabbled in direction. While The Local Stigmatic remains unreleased, Al Pacino's theatrical feature Looking for Richard and Al Pacino's film festival-screened Chinese Coffee earned good notices. Several characters essayed by Pacino are famous in popular culture. On the AFI's 100 Years... 100 Heroes and Villains, Al Pacino is only the second actor to have three appearances on both lists: on the heroes as Frank Serpico and on the villains list as Tony Montana and Michael Corleone. Although Al Pacino has never been married, Pacino has three children. The first, Julie Marie is Al Pacino's daughter with acting coach Jan Tarrant. Al Pacino also has twins, Anton and Olivia, with ex-girlfriend Beverly D'Angelo.

Al Pacino Filmography

July 13, 1969 Me, Natalie Tony
May 9, 1971 The Panic in Needle Park Bobby Lionelli
March 15, 1972 The Godfather Michael Corleone
August 31, 1973 Scarecrow Francis Lionel 'Lion' Delbuchi
December 5, 1973 Serpico Officer Frank Serpico
December 12, 1974 The Godfather Part II Michael Corleone
September 21, 1975 Dog Day Afternoon Sonny Wortzik
September 17, 1977 Bobby Deerfield Bobby Deerfield
June 29, 1979 ...And Justice for All Arthur Kirkland
February 8, 1980 Cruising Steve Burns
June 18, 1982 Author! Author! Ivan Travelian
December 9, 1983 Scarface Tony Montana
June 30, 1985 Revolution Tom Dobb
1989 The Local Stigmatic Graham
September 15, 1989 Sea of Love Detective Frank Keller
June 15, 1990 Dick Tracy Big Boy Caprice
December 25, 1990 The Godfather Part III Michael Corleone
1991 Madonna: Truth or Dare
October 11, 1991 Frankie and Johnny Johnny
September 30, 1992 Glengarry Glen Ross Ricky Roma
December 23, 1992 Scent of a Woman Lieutenant Colonel Frank Slade
November 10, 1993 Carlito's Way Carlito 'Charlie' Brigante
1994 Jonas in the Desert
November 22, 1995 Two Bits Gitano Sabatoni
December 15, 1995 Heat Lieutenant Vincent Hanna
February 16, 1996 City Hall Mayor John Pappas
July 5, 1996 Looking for Richard
1997 Pitch
February 28, 1997 Donnie Brasco Benjamin 'Lefty' Ruggiero
October 17, 1997 Devil's Advocate John Milton
November 5, 1999 The Insider Lowell Bergman
December 16, 1999 Any Given Sunday Tony D'Amato
2000 Chinese Coffee Harry Levine
May 3, 2002 Insomnia Detective Will Dormer
August 23, 2002 S1m0ne Viktor Taransky
October 11, 2002 People I Know Eli Wurman
January 25, 2003 The Recruit Walter Burke
August 8, 2003 Gigli Starkman
December 7, 2003 Angels in America Roy Cohn
September 3, 2004 The Merchant of Venice Shylock
October 7, 2005 Two for the money Walter Abrams
2006 88 Minutes Jack Gramm
2006 Torch
2007 Rififi
2007 Ocean's Thirteen Willie Banks

Al Pacino Academy Award and nominations

1972 - Nominated - Best Actor in a Supporting Role - The Godfather
1973 - Nominated - Best Actor in a Leading Role - Serpico
1974 - Nominated - Best Actor in a Leading Role - The Godfather Part II
1975 - Nominated - Best Actor in a Leading Role - Dog Day Afternoon
1979 - Nominated - Best Actor in a Leading Role - ...And Justice for All
1990 - Nominated - Best Actor in a Supporting Role - Dick Tracy
1992 - Nominated - Best Actor in a Supporting Role - Glengarry Glen Ross
1992 - Won - Best Actor in a Leading Role - Scent of a Woman

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