Real Name : Alfredo James Pacino
Date of Birth : April 25, 1940
Place of Birth : Manhattan, New York City, United States
Age : 83
Wife : Never Married
Father : Salvatore Pacino
Mother : Rose Gerardi
Height : 5 feet 7 inches or 170 centimeters
Interesting Facts :
1) Pacino has won multiple honors and recognitions during his career, including four Golden Globes, two Tony Awards, two Primetime Emmy Awards, and an Academy Award. The Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement in the film industry is another honor bestowed upon him.
2) Pacino was raised in the South Bronx by impoverished parents. Throughout his infancy and adolescence, he encountered obstacles such as his parents’ divorce and financial hardships. He persevered in following his acting passion in spite of these challenges, eventually rising to considerable success in the field.
3) Pacino is of Italian-American descent. His character Michael Corleone in “The Godfather” gets his name from Corleone, Sicily, where his grandparents immigrated to the United States.
Notable Movies
1) The Godfather [1972] – Pacino plays Michael Corleone, the reluctant heir to a wealthy crime family, in the Francis Ford Coppola-directed film.
2) Serpico [1973] – Playing a real-life New York City police officer who exposes corruption within the force, Pacino plays Frank Serpico.
3) Dog Day Afternoon [1975] – In the film, Pacino plays bank robber Sonny Wortzik, who is trying to pull off a heist in order to pay for his lover’s sex-change business.
4) Scarface [1983] – In this classic Brian De Palma crime film, Pacino plays Tony Montana, a Cuban immigrant who becomes powerful in the Miami drug trade. Wortzik is a bank robber who wants to carry out a heist to fund his lover’s sex-change business.
5) Scent of a Woman [1992] – For his portrayal of blind retired Army officer Lieutenant Colonel Frank Slade, who shows New York City to a young man (played by Chris O’Donnell), Pacino was awarded the Academy Award for Best Actor.
6) Heat [1995] – Under Michael Mann’s direction, Pacino plays LAPD Detective Vincent Hanna, a man on the hunt for a master thief played by Robert De Niro.
7) The Insider [1999] – In the film, Pacino plays real-life investigative journalist Lowell Bergman, who exposes the dishonesty and corruption of the tobacco industry.
8) Insomnia [2002] – Christopher Nolan’s psychological thriller features Pacino as a detective looking into a murder that occurred in a small Alaskan town.
9) Angels in America [2003] – Tony Kushner’s Pulitzer Prize–winning play is adapted for television by HBO in which Pacino plays a number of characters in interconnected storylines set against the backdrop of the 1980s AIDS crisis.
10) The Irishman [2019] – Martin Scorsese, the film’s director, casts Pacino as real-life labor union leader Jimmy Hoffa, whose disappearance is still a mystery.
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