Al Pacino is known as an Oscar winning American actor. He is most famous for his roles in films like 'The Godfather,' 'Dog Day Afternoon,' and 'Scarface'.
Alfredo James Pacino was born on April 25, 1940 in New York City, New York. He was the single offspring of Italian outsiders from Sicily who isolated when he was a baby. After they split, Pacino's father moved to California and Pacino was raised by his mom and grandparents in the Bronx. Despite the fact that he was fairly bashful as a tyke, in his initial adolescent years Pacino built up an enthusiasm for acting and was later accepted at the High School of Performing Arts. He proved to be a poor understudy, bombing the greater part of his classes before he eventually dropped out at age 17.
Subsequent to leaving school, Pacino worked an assortment of occupations before moving to Greenwich Village in 1959 to pursue his fantasies of turning into an actor. He started studying theater at the Herbert Berghof Studio and before long landed parts in off-Broadway productions, including a 1963 role in the William Saroyan play Hello, Out There. In 1966, Pacino made the subsequent stage forward in his career when he was accepted at the Actors Studio, where he studied under eminent mentor Lee Strasberg.
During his career, he has brought an agonizing reality and dangerous wrath to abrasive roles, including those of mafia boss Michael Corleone in The Godfather (1972) and drug lord Tony Montana in Scarface (1983).
A flexible performer, he has featured in a different scope of projects during his prolific career, appearing in many stage productions and directing a few movies too. He got an Academy Award for Best Actor for his depiction of a visually impaired man in Scent of a Woman (1992) and in 2007 got a Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Film Institute.
In July 2019, Quentin Tarantino's new film Once Upon a Time in Hollywood caused a high sense of anticipation among movie fans because of the star studded cast. Al Pacino will appear in the film as Marvin Schwarzs.
Al Pacino has been a famous bachelor during his Hollywood career. He has not been married but is the father of three children. He has one little girl from a romantic association with his former acting mentor Jan Tarrant and a little girl and a boy from a long haul romantic association with actress Beverly D'Angelo. Throughout the years, Pacino has additionally been romantically connected with actresses such as Diane Keaton, Penelope Ann Miller, and Lucila Sola.
Birth Date: | 25 Apr, 1940 |
Age: | 80 yrs |
Citizenship: | United States of America |
Birth Place: | Manhattan |
Gender: | Male |
Description: | American stage and film actor and director |
Net Worth 2021: | 120 million |