Joe Pantoliano

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Joe Pantoliano

Pantoliano aboard the USS John F. Kennedy during Fleet Week, 2005
Born Joseph Peter Pantoliano
September 12, 1951 (1951-09-12) (age 56)
Hoboken, New Jersey, USA
Other name(s) Joe Pants
Official website

Joseph Peter "Joe" Pantoliano (born September 12, 1951)[1] is an Emmy Award-winning American film and television actor.

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[edit] Biography

[edit] 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 and factory foreman.[1][2] He attended HB Studio and lives in Wilton, Connecticut with his wife, former model Nancy Sheppard, and their four children.[3]

On October 9, 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, No Kidding, Me Too!, to unite members of the entertainment industry in educating the public about mental illness. He also suffers from dyslexia.

[edit] Career

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, as double-crossed mafioso Caesar in Bound 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 1985, he appeared as the villainous Francis Fratelli in The Goonies.

In 2003, Pantoliano replaced Stanley Tucci in the Broadway play Frankie and Johnny in the Clair 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 some have pronouncing his Italian surname.[4]

Pantoliano has endorsed 2008 Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama. [5]

[edit] Filmography

[edit] References

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