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Al Pacino was born Alfredo James Pacino, on April 25,
1940 in the East Harlem neighborhood of New York City and is an American actor and filmmaker.
With a career that has spanned more than five decades, he is considered one of the greatest
actors of all time. He is one of the few performers to have received the Triple
Crown of Acting as well as many other noble awards. His notable films include The Godfather
(1, 2 and 3), Serpico, Scent of a Woman, Heat, Donnie Brasco and The Irishman, among many others.
Alfredo James Pacino is the son of Italian-American parents
Salvatore Pacino and Rose Gerardi. His parents divorced when he was two years old.
Subsequently, Al and his mother moved in with his grandparents in the Bronx.
Pacino began smoking and drinking at age nine, and used marijuana casually at age 13,
but he abstained from hard drugs. He got into occasional fights and was considered
somewhat of a troublemaker at school. After dropping Herman Ridder Junior High school,
he auditioned for and was accepted into the High School of Performing Arts. His mother was furious
at this decision and, after an argument, Al moved out on his own. He supported himself outside
of school with a series of odd jobs including working as a janitor, messenger and a busboy.
Al Pacino has never been married. He had a relationship with his The Godfather
Trilogy co-star Diane Keaton. Their on-again,
off-again relationship ended after the filming of The Godfather Part III.
Pacino also had many other relationships with acting coach Jan Tarrant (1988 to 1989),
actresses Beverly D'Angelo (from 1996 to 2003),
Lucila Polak (from 2008 to 2018), Tuesday Weld,
Jill Clayburgh, Marthe Keller, Kathleen Quinlan, and Lyndall Hobbs.
The great actor has three children. The eldest, Julie Marie (born 1989),
is his daughter with acting coach Jan Tarrant.
He has twins, son Anton James and daughter Olivia Rose (born 2001), with actress
Beverly D'Angelo.
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). Wide acclaim and recognition came with his breakthrough role
as Michael Corleone in Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather (1972), for which he received a
nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, and he would reprise
the role in the sequels The Godfather Part II (1974) and The Godfather Part III (1990). Pacino
won an Academy Award for Scent of a Woman (1992) and received numerous nominations for Serpico
(1973), The Godfather Part II (1974), Dog Day Afternoon (1975), The Irishman (2019)
and so on. On television, Pacino has acted in several productions and currently stars
in the Amazon Video series Hunters (2020–present). He has also had an extensive career on stage and
worked as an acclaimed director and filmmaker. In a career spanning over five decades, Al
Pacino 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. Since 1994, he has been the joint president of the Actors Studio.
Here are the 10 best movies starring Al Pacino, according to IMDb:
As of 2021, Al Pacino’s net worth is approximately $120 million,
making him one of the richest and most popular film icons in the movie industry.
Al Pacino originally hails from New York and he has owned a significant amount of
property in his home state. His primary East Coast residence appears to be in Palisades,
New York. The 4-bedroom, 3-bathroom home is comprised of 4,290 square feet of living space.
When he’s on the West Coast, Pacino has enjoyed living large in Beverly Hills. His mansion has a
price tag that sits around $34 million. The two-story property was built in 1922, has
5,259 square feet of living space that included 6 beds and 5 baths.
In his teenage years, Pacino was known as "Sonny" to his friends.
He had ambitions to become a baseball player and was also nicknamed "The Actor".
As a teenager, Pacino acted in basement plays in New York's theatrical underground but was
rejected by the Actors Studio. He made it into the Actors Studio in 1966, after four
years at HB Studio. Pacino since studied under legendary acting coach Lee Strasberg,
creator of the Method Approach that would become the trademark of many ’70s-era actors.
During later interviews he spoke about Strasberg and the Studio's effect on his career.
"The Actors Studio meant so much to me in my life. Lee Strasberg hasn't been given the credit he
deserves … That was a remarkable turning point in my life. It was directly responsible for getting
me to quit all those jobs and just stay acting." Al Pacino's pay per film is now
approximately $10 million or more. So how do you think about him? Leave a
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