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| Birth Name(s) : Alfonso James Picano |
Date of Birth: April 25, 1940 |
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Dating
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Partner:
Beverly D'Angelo |
| Profession:
Actor |
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Full Al Pacino Biography
Perhaps most memorable as Michael Corleone in Francis Coppola's "The Godfather" (1972), Al Pacino returned to the role twice more before moving on to other Oscar-nominated characters such as Ricky Roma in "Glengarry Glen Ross" (1992).
Never straying far from his first love, the stage, he's garnered great appreciation for unexpected projects such as "Richard III" and "Salome". |
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Additional Al Pacino Biography
Alfredo James Pacino (born April 25, 1940) is an Academy, Golden Globe, Tony, BAFTA, Emmy, and SAG award winning American film and stage actor and director, who is widely recognized as one of the greatest actors of his generation.
In 1966, Pacino studied under legendary acting coach Lee Strasberg (alongside whom he would later feature in the 1974 film The Godfather Part II). He found acting to be enjoyable and realized he had a gift for it. However, it did put him in financial straits until the end of the decade when he had won an Obie Award for his work in The Indian Wants the Bronx and the Tony for Best Featured Actor in a Play for Does the Tiger Wear a Necktie?. He made his first screen appearance in an episode of the television series N.Y.P.D. in 1968, and his largely unnoticed movie debut in Me, Natalie came the following year.
It was the 1971 film The Panic in Needle Park, in which he played a heroin addict, that would bring him to the attention of director Francis Ford Coppola. 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 several established actors, including Robert Redford, Warren Beatty, and a little-known Robert De Niro were vying to portray Michael Corleone, director Coppola selected the relatively unknown Pacino, much to the dismay of studio executives. His performance earned him an Academy Award nomination. Pacino's performance as Michael Corleone offers one of the finest examples of his early acting style, described by Halliwell's Film Guide as "intense" and "tightly clenched".
Pacino continued his dedication to the stage, winning a second Tony Award for The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel and performing the title role in Richard III for a record run on Broadway despite poor notices from critics.
His greatest stage success of the decade was David Mamet's American Buffalo, for which Pacino was nominated for a Drama Desk Award.
In 1995, Pacino starred in Michael Mann's Heat, in which he and fellow film icon Robert De Niro appeared onscreen together for the first time. (Though both Pacino and De Niro starred in The Godfather Part II, they did not share any scenes. The pairing drew much attention as the two actors have long been compared). In 1996, Pacino starred in his theatrical feature Looking for Richard, and was lauded for his role as Satan in the supernatural drama The Devil's Advocate in 1997. Pacino also starred in Oliver Stone's critically acclaimed Any Given Sunday playing the team coach. The speech he performs in the film has become known world-wide as "the Al Pacino Speech" which is used to inspire many (mainly sportsmen/women) around the world.
Pacino recently turned down an offer to reprise his role as Michael Corleone in The Godfather: The Game, ostensibly because his voice had changed dramatically since playing Michael in the first two Godfather films. As a result, Electronic Arts was not permitted to use Pacino's likeness or voice in the game, although his character does appear in it. It is rumored Pacino actually declined the role due to a conflict with Electronic Arts' rival, Vivendi Universal, which launched a competing game adaptation of the 1983 remake of Scarface, titled Scarface: The World is Yours. However, Pacino did not voice his character in this game for the same given reason. But Pacino did allow his likeness to be used for the game and even suggested the person who voices Tony Montana in the game.
With his box office earnings relatively modest of late, Pacino looks to be gearing up with several new projects. He starred in Steven Soderbergh’s Ocean's Thirteen alongside George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, and Andy Garcia as the villain Willy Bank, a casino tycoon who is targeted out of revenge by Danny Ocean and his crew.
On June 19, 2007, a boxset titled Pacino: An Actor's Vision was released, containing 3 rare Al Pacino films: The Local Stigmatic (Disc 1), Looking For Richard (Disc 2) and Chinese Coffee (Disc 3), and also a documentary on Pacino's entire film career, Babbleonia (Disc 4).
Al Pacino's latest film 88 Minutes is due for release early next year (2008). Next scheduled for release is Righteous Kill where he will be teamed with his Heat co-star Robert De Niro as two New York detectives searching for a serial killer while resolving issues between them. In Rififi, a remake of the 1955 French original based on the novel by Auguste Le Breton, Pacino plays a career thief just out of prison who finds his wife has left him; in his anger, he starts planning a heist. Also Pacino is set to play surrealist Salvador Dalí in the film Dali & I: The Surreal Story.
Over the course of his career Pacino has also been romantically involved with Debra Winger, Lyndall Hobbs and Tuesday Weld, as well as a past long-term relationship with his Godfather co-star Diane Keaton. Pacino also lived with actress Jill Clayburgh from 1970 to 1975. |
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