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Harvey Johannes Keitel (born May 13, 1939) is an American actor known for his portrayal of morally ambiguous and "tough guy" characters. He rose to prominence during the New Hollywood movement, and has held a long-running association with director Martin Scorsese, starring in six of his films: Who's That Knocking at My Door (1967), Mean Streets (1973), Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974), Taxi Driver (1976), The Last Temptation of Christ (1988), and The Irishman (2019). Keitel received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor nomination for his portrayal of Mickey Cohen in Bugsy (1991). He won the AACTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for The Piano (1993). Other films include Blue Collar (1978), Thelma & Louise (1991), Reservoir Dogs (1992), Bad Lieutenant (1992), Pulp Fiction (1994), From Dusk till Dawn (1996), Holy Smoke! (1998), Cop Land (1997), and Youth (2015). He has acted in the Wes Anderson films Moonrise Kingdom (2012), The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014), and Isle of Dogs (2018). He played FBI Agent Peter Sadusky in both National Treasure (2004), and National Treasure: Book of Secrets (2006) and reprised his role in the Disney+ series National Treasure: Edge of History (2022). From 1995 to 2017, he was a co-president of the Actors Studio, alongside Al Pacino and Ellen Burstyn.

Harvey Keitel

Luca Demaggio
for Luca Demaggio in Babylon The Irrational
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See the origin story of how a serial killer is born, from a young angry man (David Mazouz) transforms into the deranged executioner (Keanu Reeves) who is hired for an assortment of brutal acts. Watch Babylon progress into pure darkness as he becomes the killer-for hire for Luca Demaggio (Harvey Kietel) as the Demaggio mafia in New York begins a war with the Russians, as well as discover how Babylon and the Friar (Lambert Wilson) become connected and how Babylon becomes connected with the Order of the Blooddrawers (Cillian Murphy, Patrick Fabian). This action-packed story will keep you up on your toes as it dives in to a serial killer’s mind as he loses his rationality. The first movie in the Babylon the Irrational trilogy.