1940-04-25 ( 84 years old ) in New York City, New York, USA
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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Movies
The Ritual
2025-04-24
Modì, Three Days on the Wing of Madness
2024-12-05
Bad Bunny: Most Wanted Tour
2024-06-07
How to Rob a Bank
2024-06-04
Knox Goes Away
2024-03-15
Sly
2023-09-16
Robert De Niro: Hiding in the Spotlight
2023-08-14
Becoming Al Pacino
2022-02-06
House of Gucci
2021-11-24
American Traitor: The Trial of Axis Sally
2021-05-28
Making 'The Irishman'
2020-11-24
Al Pacino: The Reluctant Star
2020-04-25
The Irishman: In Conversation
2019-11-27
The Irishman
2019-11-01
Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
2019-07-24
Paterno
2018-04-07
Hangman
2017-12-22
The Pirates of Somalia
2017-12-08
Frank Serpico
2017-11-01
Julian Schnabel: A Private Portrait
2017-05-05
Misconduct
2016-02-05
Manglehorn
2015-06-03
Danny Collins
2015-03-19
The Humbling
2014-12-31
Marlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire
2014-09-20
Cruising Electric (1980)
2014-01-17
Wilde Salomé
2013-12-20
We're No Animals
2013-10-03
Salomé
2013-08-10
Phil Spector
2013-06-14
Stand Up Guys
2012-12-14
Casting By
2012-11-01
The Godfather Legacy
2012-07-12
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
2012-02-04
Jack and Jill
2011-11-11
The Son of No One
2011-11-04
The 'Scarface' Phenomenon
2011-09-06
You Don't Know Jack
2010-06-27
I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale
2009-01-16
Righteous Kill
2008-09-11
The History of 'Cruising'
2007-09-18
Exorcising 'Cruising'
2007-09-18
Ocean's Thirteen
2007-06-05
Brando
2007-05-01
88 Minutes
2007-02-14
The Godfather and the Mob
2006-04-25
Eugene O’Neill: A Documentary Film
2006-03-27
The Making of 'Dog Day Afternoon'
2006-02-28
Two for the Money
2005-10-07
Babbleonia
2005-07-12
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
2005-03-01
Pacino and De Niro: The Conversation
2005-02-22
The Making of 'Heat'
2005-02-22
The Merchant of Venice
2004-12-03
The Making of 'Carlito's Way'
2003-09-02
Gigli
2003-08-01
The Recruit
2003-01-31
Inside 'Serpico'
2002-12-03
Serpico: From Real to Reel
2002-12-03
People I Know
2002-11-21
S1m0ne
2002-08-23
The Kid Stays in the Picture
2002-08-16
Insomnia
2002-05-24
Chinese Coffee
2000-09-02
Any Given Sunday
1999-12-22
The Insider
1999-10-28
Internet Love
1998-07-03
The Making of 'Scarface'
1998-03-31
The Devil's Advocate
1997-10-17
Pitch
1997-09-04
Lee Strasberg: The Method Man
1997-07-23
Donnie Brasco
1997-02-27
Looking for Richard
1996-10-11
City Hall
1996-02-16
Heat
1995-12-15
Two Bits
1995-10-22
Jonas in the Desert
1994-01-01
Carlito's Way
1993-11-10
Scent of a Woman
1992-12-23
The Godfather Trilogy: 1901-1980
1992-10-21
Glengarry Glen Ross
1992-09-10
Frankie and Johnny
1991-10-11
Madonna: Truth or Dare
1991-05-10
The Godfather Part III
1990-12-25
The Godfather Family: A Look Inside
1990-07-12
Dick Tracy
1990-04-05
The Local Stigmatic
1990-03-01
Sea of Love
1989-09-15
Revolution
1985-12-25
Scarface
1983-12-09
Author! Author!
1982-06-18
Night of 100 Stars
1982-03-08
The Godfather 1901–1959: The Complete Epic
1981-03-24
Cruising
1980-02-15
...And Justice for All
1979-10-19
Bobby Deerfield
1977-09-29
Dog Day Afternoon
1975-09-21
The Godfather Part II
1974-12-20
Serpico
1973-12-18
Scarecrow
1973-04-11
On the Road with: Scarecrow
1973-01-01
The Godfather
1972-03-14
The Panic in Needle Park
1971-06-01
The Godfather: Behind the Scenes
1971-01-01
Me, Natalie
1969-07-13
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