
Al Pacino
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Biography
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.
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Known For

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

The Oscars

Golden Globe Awards

Tony Awards

Celebrities Uncensored

The Emmy Awards

60 Minutes

Late Show with David Letterman

The Family Stallone

Val

How to Rob a Bank

Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood

Ocean's Thirteen

Pepsi, Where's My Jet?

The Godfather Family: A Look Inside

The Irishman: In Conversation

Misconduct

Serpico: From Real to Reel

Inside 'Serpico'

House of Gucci

Knox Goes Away

I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale

The Devil's Advocate

Righteous Kill

The Godfather

Donnie Brasco

Hunters

The Irishman

American Traitor: The Trial of Axis Sally

Jack and Jill

The Godfather Part III

Sniff

Any Given Sunday

Heat

Danny Collins

Glengarry Glen Ross

Insomnia

Frankie and Johnny

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

...And Justice for All

Scent of a Woman

Scarface

The Godfather Part II

The Godfather Trilogy: 1901-1980

Carlito's Way

Mario Puzo's The Godfather, Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone

Angels in America

The Insider

Serpico
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