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 Pantoliano aboard the USS John F. Kennedy during Fleet Week 2005. |
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| Birth name | Joseph Peter Pantoliano | |||||
| Born | September 12 1951 Hoboken, New Jersey, U.S. |
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| Other name(s) | Joey Pants | |||||
| Official site | http://www.joeypants.com | |||||
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Joseph Peter "Joe" Pantoliano (born September 12 1951[1]) is an Emmy Award-winning American film and television actor.
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Biography
Personal life
Pantoliano was born in Hoboken, New Jersey, to first-generation Italian American parents Mary, a bookie and seamstress, and Dominic "Monk" Pantoliano, a hearse driver[1] and factory foreman.[2] He attended HB Studio[3] and lives in Wilton, Connecticut with his wife, former model Nancy Sheppard, and their four children. On October 9th, 2007 Pantoliano announced on the National Alliance on Mental Illness blog that he has been suffering from clinical depression for the last decade, although he was only formally diagnosed recently. He claims that his recent film Canvas was what helped him come to terms with his depression. Rather than hide his struggle from the public, he has chosen to speak out about it to remove some of the stigmas that are commonly associated with mental illness. He founded a non-profit organization called No Kidding, Me Too! to unite members of the entertainment industry in educating the public about mental illness. In an interview, he revealed that he has been taking two anti-depressant medications.[4] He also suffers from dyslexia.
Career
Pantoliano played the role of the younger Fratelli brother in The Goonies. He appeared as Cypher in The Matrix, the character of Ralph Cifaretto in the HBO show The Sopranos for which he won an Emmy, and Guido the Killer Pimp in Risky Business, for which he first grew to fame. Pantoliano is also known for his role as Eddie Moscone, the bail bondsman, in the Robert De Niro comedy Midnight Run and as police officer John Edward "Teddy" Gammel in Memento. He also played Deputy Marshal Cosmo Renfro in The Fugitive along with Tommy Lee Jones and reprised the role in the sequel U.S. Marshals. In 2003, Pantoliano replaced Stanley Tucci in the Broadway play Frankie and Johnny in the Claire de Lune. That same year he won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series for The Sopranos. He is often referred to as Joey Pants, due to the difficulty from some to correctly pronounce his ethnic last name.[5]
Filmography
- From Here to Eternity (1979) (TV)
- The Idolmaker (1980)
- M*A*S*H (Identity Crisis (episode)) (TV) (1981)
- Monsignor (1982)
- The Final Terror aka Carnivore (1983)
- Risky Business (1983)
- Eddie and the Cruisers (1983)
- The Goonies (1985)
- The Mean Season (1985)
- Running Scared (1986)
- Amazon Women on the Moon (1987)
- Empire of the Sun (1987)
- La Bamba (1987)
- The In Crowd (1988)
- Midnight Run (1988)
- Nightbreaker aka Advance to Ground Zero (1989) (TV)
- Downtown (1990)
- The Last of the Finest (1990)
- El Diablo (1990)
- Short Time (1990)
- Backstreet Dreams (1990)
- Zandalee (1991)
- One Special Victory (1991) (TV)
- Through the Eyes of a Killer (1992) (TV)
- Used People (1992)
- Three of Hearts (1993)
- Me and the Kid (1993)
- The Fugitive (1993)
- Calendar Girl (1993)
- Teresa's Tattoo (1994)
- Dangerous Heart (1994) (TV)
- Baby's Day Out (1994)
- The Last Word (1995)
- Steal Big, Steal Little (1995)
- Bad Boys (1995)
- Congo (1995)
- The Flight of the Dove aka The Spy Within (1994)
- The Immortals (1995)
- Bound (1996)
- (1996) (TV)
- Natural Enemy (1997) (TV)
- Top of the World (1997)
- Tinseltown (1997)
- U.S. Marshals (1998)
- Hoods (1998)
- The Matrix (1999)
- The Outer Limits: "Alien Radio" (1999)
- New Blood (1999)
- The Life Before This (1999)
- Black and White (1999)
- Memento (2000)
- Ready To Rumble (2000)
- The Sopranos (2000-01)
- Cats & Dogs (2001) (voice)
- Grand Theft Auto III (Video Game) (2001) (voice)
- The Adventures of Pluto Nash (2002)
- Daredevil (2003)
- Bad Boys II (2003)
- Racing Stripes (2005) (voice)
- Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector (2006)
- Wedding Daze (2006)
- The Simpsons - voice of Dante Calabresi in The Mook, the Chef, the Wife and Her Homer
- Deceit (2006)
- Canvas (2006)
- Unknown (2006)
References
- ^ a b http://www.filmreference.com/film/58/Joe-Pantoliano.html
- ^ http://www.smokemag.com/0902/cover.htm
- ^ http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1800016627/bio
- ^ Joe Pantoliano Admits Struggle with Depression http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/409331/joe_pantoliano_admits_struggle_with.html
- ^ Joeypants.com http://www.joeypants.com/
