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Al Pacino | biography | clip | filmography | relationships | quotes | awards |
BiographyAmerican actor and filmmaker![]() Watch video clip |
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ChildrenJulie Marie (b. 1989), daughter with acting coach Jan Tarrant; Olivia Rose and Anton James (twins, b. 2001), with Beverly D'Angelo. RelationshipsPacino is one of Hollywood's most enduring and notorious bachelors, having never been married. He has a daughter, Julie Marie, with acting teacher Jan Tarrant, and a new set of twins with longtime girlfriend Beverly D'Angelo. His romantic history includes a long-time romance with Diane Keaton. Awards and nominationsAl Pacino was awarded the 2011 American National Medal of the Arts for his services to drama on February 13, 2012 at the White House in Washington, D.C. "Al Pacino is an enduring and iconic figure, who came of age in one of the most exciting decades of American cinema, the 1970s. He has been nominated and has won many awards during his acting career, including nine Academy Awards nominations (winning one), 18 Golden Globe nominations (winning four), five BAFTA nominations (winning one), two Primetime Emmy Awards for his work on television, and two Tony Awards for his stage work. In 2007, the American Film Institute awarded Pacino with a lifetime achievement award and, in 2003, British television viewers voted Pacino as the greatest film star of all time in a poll for Channel 4. Filmography1971 "The Panic in Needle Park" as Bobby 1972 "The Godfather" as Michael Corleone 1973 "Scarecrow" as Francis Lionel 'Lion' Delbuchi 1973 "Serpico" as Officer Frank Serpico 1974 "The Godfather II" as Don Michael Corleone 1975 "Dog Day Afternoon" as Sonny Wortzik 1977 "Bobby Deerfield" as Bobby 1980 "Cruising" as Steve Burns 1983 "Scarface" as Tony Montana 1985 "Revolution" as Tom Dobb 1989 "Sea of Love" as Det. Frank Keller 1990 "The Local Stigmatic" as Graham 1990 "Dick Tracy" as Big Boy Caprice 1990 "The Godfather III" as Don Michael Corleone 1991 "Frankie and Johnny" as Johnny 1992 "Glengarry Glen Ross" as Ricky Roma 1992 "Scent of a Woman" as Lieutenant Colonel Frank Slade 1993 "Carlito's Way" as Carlito 'Charlie' Brigante 1995 "Two Bits" as Gitano Sabatoni 1995 "Heat" as Lt. Vincent Hanna 1996 "Looking for Richard" as Richard III 1996 "City Hall" as Mayor John Pappas 1997 "Donnie Brasco" as Benjamin 'Lefty' Ruggiero 1997 "The Devil's Advocate" as John Milton 1999 "The Insider" as Lowell Bergman 1999 "Any Given Sunday" as Tony D'Amato 2000 "Chinese Coffee" as Harry Levine 2002 "People I Know" as Eli Wurman 2002 "Insomnia" as Will Dormer 2002 "S1m0ne" as Viktor Taransky 2003 "The Recruit" as Walter Burke 2003 "Gigli" as Starkman 2003 "Angels in America" as Roy Cohn 2004 "The Merchant of Venice" as Shylock 2005 "Two for the Money" as Walter Abrams 2007 "88 Minutes" as Jack Gramm 2007 "Ocean's Thirteen" as Willy Bank 2008 "Righteous Kill" as David 'Rooster' Fisk 2010 "You Don't Know Jack" as Jack Kevorkian 2011 "The Son of No One" as Detective Charles Stanford 2012 "Stand Up Guys" as Val 2013 "Phil Spector" as Phil Spector 2013 "Salomé" as King Herod 2014 "The Humbling" as Simon Axler 2014 "Manglehorn" as A.J. Manglehorn 2015 "Danny Collins" as Danny Collins 2016 "Misconduct" as Charles Abrams 2017 "Hangman" as Detective Ray Archer 2018 "Paterno" as Joe Paterno 2019 "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" as Marvin Schwarz 2019 "The Irishman" as Jimmy Hoffa 2020 "Hunters" (TV Series) as Meyer Offerman 2021 "Axis Sally" as James J. Laughlin 2021 "House of Gucci" as Aldo Gucci |
Quotes"I hope the perception is that I'm an actor, I never intended to be a movie star." "Did you know I started out as a stand-up comic? People don't believe me when I tell them." "I was hoping that we could have a museum where we had films; that there was a museum where films were, like, hung. Like paintings. And you went to the museum." "Charles Laughton was my favorite. Jack Nicholson has that kind of persona; he's also a fine actor. Robert Mitchum's great. Lee Marvin, too. These guys are terrific actors. "An actor with too much money will usually find a way to get rid of it." "It was a new feeling. I'd never felt it, when I won the Oscar for Scent of a Woman (1992). I don't see my Oscar much now. But when I first got it, there was a feeling for weeks afterward that I guess is akin to winning a gold medal in the Olympics. It's a wonderful feeling, a complete feeling." "In America most everybody who's Italian is half Italian. Except me. I'm all Italian. I'm mostly Sicilian, and I have a little bit of Neapolitan in me." "To me, it's not who you love...a man, a woman, what have you...it's the fact that you love. That is all that truly matters." "It's good to have someone in your life that you're going through this thing with. It's good. That's a thing in life that I aspire to." "Trying to give the right answer or what I think is the right answer. It's a human instinct. You try to be as clever as you can be. You're trying to come off like you really know what the hell's going on, when you don't!" "There are times when I have a temperament. I hope I'm gentle. Yes, I think I am." SalaryHis salary was around $10 million a picture. (2002) |
Trade MarkVolcanic tirade, smoke-burnished voice ; frequently plays men of power and/or authority; jet black hair and dark owl eyes; diminutive frame, off-set by his formidable bearing. TriviaHis role as a heroin addict in The Panic in Needle Park (1971) brought Pacino to the attention of director Francis Ford Coppola, who cast him as Michael Corleone in what became a blockbuster Mafia film, The Godfather (1972). Although Jack Nicholson, Robert Redford, Warren Beatty, and the little-known Robert De Niro were tried out for the part, Coppola selected Pacino, to the dismay of studio executives who wanted someone better known. He studied acting at HB Studio in Greenwich Village, New York City. Before becoming a professional actor he held a number of jobs including a messenger, shoe salesman, supermarket checker, shoe shiner, furniture mover, office boy, fresh-fruit polisher, and a newsboy. An avid fan of opera, Pacino once worked as an usher at Carnegie Hall. In a Playboy magazine interview, he claimed that he was fired from his job as a movie theater usher while walking down the staircase and admiring himself in the mirrored wall. Pacino was so much into character (playing a plain-clothes New York City policeman) while filming Serpico (1973) he actually pulled over and threatened to arrest a truck driver for exhaust pollution. Early in his acting career, he considered changing his name to "Sonny Scott" to avoid being typecast by his Italian name. "Sonny" was his childhood nickname. |