Al Pacino

Known for ActingBorn 1940-04-25 (age 86)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 encyclopediaRead more

Movies & web series

Nos Bastidores de Hollywood

Internet Love

The Godfather: The Complete Epic 1901–1959

The Godfather Trilogy: 1901-1980

The Godfather

Mario Puzo's The Godfather: The Complete Novel for Television

The Godfather Part II

The Making of 'Scarface'

Inside 'Serpico'

Serpico: From Real to Reel

Scarface

Heat

The Making of 'Dog Day Afternoon'

In the Name of the Father

The History of 'Cruising'

The Irishman

Carlito's Way

Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen

Becoming Al Pacino

Scent of a Woman

The Godfather Family: A Look Inside

The Irishman: In Conversation

Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood

Angels in America

Inside the Actors Studio

Dog Day Afternoon

Donnie Brasco

The Insider

Julian Schnabel: A Private Portrait

The Devil's Advocate

Sly

Hunters

The Emmy Awards

Marlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire

The Family Stallone

The Godfather Legacy

The Godfather Part III

Serpico

Glengarry Glen Ross

Knox Goes Away

The Collaboration of a Lifetime: Scorsese's Epic The Irishman

Making 'The Irishman'

You Don't Know Jack

The 'Scarface' Phenomenon

Over Your Dead Body

I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale

The Godfather and the Mob

Babbleonia