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Al Pacino (born April 25, 1940) is an United
States|American film actor.

He was born Alfred James Pacino in The Bronx, New
York City|New York, the son of Salvatore and Rose
Pacino. His parents divorced while Pacino was
still a child. He is of Sicily|Sicilian heritage;
Pacino's maternal grandparents immigrated to the
United States from Corleone, Sicily.

In the late 1960s, Pacino studied under legendary
acting coach Lee Strasberg, finding acting a
therapeutic outlet in a youth which saw him
depressed and so impoverished he could barely
afford the bus fares required to get him to his
next audition. His talent shone through and by the
end of the decade he had won an Obie award for his
stage work in The Indian Wants the Bronx and a
Tony award for Does the Tiger Wear a Necktie? His
big screen debut came in 1969's Me, Natalie but it
was the 1971 film Panic in Needle Park, in which
he played a heroin addict, that would really show
off his talents and bring him to the attention of
Film_director|director Francis Ford Coppola.



His meteoric rise to fame came after portraying
Michael Corleone in the blockbuster 1972 Mafia
film The Godfather.  Although numerous established
actors, including Robert Redford, Warren Beatty,
and a then unknown Robert De Niro, were vying for
the part, Coppola selected the relatively unknown
Pacino. His performance earned him an Academy
Award nomination for Academy Award for Best
Supporting Actor|Best Supporting Actor and, by the
end of the 1970s he would have three more
nominations, all for Academy Award for Best
Actor|Best Actor. Despite further nominations, it
wasn't until 1992 that Pacino would win an Oscar,
for Best Actor, for his portrayal of the
irascible, retired and Blindness|blind Lieutenant
Colonel Frank Slade in Martin Brest's Scent of a
Woman. That year, he was also up for the
supporting award for his role in Glengarry Glen
Ross (film)|Glengarry Glen Ross, the first actor
to ever receive both nominations in the same year;
Jamie Foxx was nominated for both in 2005. (The
actress Julianne Moore repeated the feat in 2003,
however she did not win either award). Pacino has
not received another nomination from the Academy
since those two, but has won two
Golden_Globe|Golden Globes since the turn of the
century, the first being the
Cecil_B._DeMille|Cecil B. DeMille Award for
lifetime achievement in motion picture, and the
second for his role in the HBO miniseries
Angels_in_America|Angels in America.

Pacino's career took something of a downturn in
the early 1980s and his appearances in Cruising
and Author! Author! saw him critically panned.
1983's Scarface (1983 movie)|Scarface proved to be
both a career highlight and a defining role,
earning Pacino a Golden_Globe|Golden Globe
nomination for his performance as a Cuba|Cuban
drug lord who cries out the now infamous line "You
wanna play rough? Okay! Say hello to my little
friend!"

However, 1985's Revolution (1985 movie)|Revolution
was arguably a poor film, and he returned to stage
work for four years, re-surfacing in film in
1989's Sea of Love, which was to signal a welcome
return to form. Pacino's more recent body of work
remains impressive, boasting a number of fine
performances that include the somewhat
under-recognised 1990's crime thrillers Carlito's
Way, Heat (movie)|Heat and Donnie Brasco. Pacino
has turned down a number of key roles in his
career, including that of Han Solo in Star Wars,
Captain Willard in Apocalypse Now and Edward Lewis
in Pretty Woman (movie)|Pretty Woman.

The quality of Pacino's performances, as well as
his larger-than-life onscreen presence (Pacino
stands about 5'6"), have established him as one of
the greatest actors in motion picture history.
Pacino still performs theatre work and has also
dabbled in direction, his first film, The Local
Stigmatic remains unreleased but his other two
works, Looking for Richard and Chinese Coffee are
both highly acclaimed.

Although he has never been married, Pacino has
three children.  The first, Julie Marie, is his
daughter with acting coach Jan Tarrant.  He also
has twins, Anton and Olivia, with longtime
girlfriend Beverly D'Angelo.

== Filmography ==
*Me, Natalie (1969)
*Panic in Needle Park (1971)
*The Godfather (1972)
*Scarecrow (movie)|Scarecrow (1973)
*Serpico (1973)
*The Godfather: Part II (1974)
*Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
*Bobby Deerfield (1977)
*...And Justice for All (movie)|...And Justice for
All (1979)
*Cruising (movie)|Cruising (1980)
*Author! Author! (1982)
*Scarface (1983 movie)|Scarface (1983)
*Revolution (1985 movie)|Revolution (1985)
*The Local Stigmatic (1989) (unreleased) (also
director and producer)
*Sea of Love (1989)
*Dick Tracy (film)|Dick Tracy (1990)
*The Godfather: Part III (1990)
*Madonna: Truth or Dare (1991) (documentary)
*Frankie and Johnny (1991 film)|Frankie and Johnny
(1991)
*Glengarry Glen Ross (1992)
*Scent of a Woman (1992)
*Carlito's Way (1993)
*Jonas in the Desert (1994) (documentary)
*Two Bits (1995)
*Heat (movie)|Heat (1995)
*City Hall (movie)|City Hall (1996)
*Looking for Richard (1996) (documentary) (also
director and producer)
*Pitch (movie)|Pitch (1997) (documentary)
*Donnie Brasco (1997)
*Devil's Advocate (movie)|Devil's Advocate (1997)
*The Insider (1999)
*Any Given Sunday (1999)
*Chinese Coffee (2000) (also director)
*Insomnia (movie)|Insomnia (2002)
*S1m0ne (2002)
*People I Know (2002)
*The Recruit (2003)
*Gigli (movie)|Gigli (2003)
*Angels in America (2003)
*The Merchant of Venice (2004)
*2 for the Money (2005) (currently in
post-production)
*88 Minutes (2005) (currently announced start of
production)
*Torch (2006) (currently announced start of
production)

== External links ==
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