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Alfredo James Pacino (born April 25, 1940) is an American actor and filmmaker. In a career spanning over five decades, he 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. 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). He gained favorable notice for his first lead role as a heroin addict in The Panic in Needle Park (1971). Wide acclaim and recognition came with his breakthrough role as Michael Corleone in Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather (1972), for which he received his first Oscar nomination, and he would reprise the role in the sequels The Godfather Part II (1974) and The Godfather Part III (1990). His portrayal of Michael Corleone is regarded as one of the greatest in film history. Pacino received nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actor for Serpico (1973), The Godfather Part II, Dog Day Afternoon (1975), and ...And Justice for All (1979), ultimately winning it for playing a blind military veteran in Scent of a Woman (1992). For his performances in The Godfather, Dick Tracy (1990), Glengarry Glen Ross (1992), and The Irishman (2019), he earned Best Supporting Actor Oscar nominations. Other notable portrayals include Tony Montana in Scarface (1983), Carlito Brigante in Carlito's Way (1993), Benjamin Ruggiero in Donnie Brasco (1997), and Lowell Bergman in The Insider (1999). He has also starred in the thrillers Heat (1995), The Devil's Advocate (1997), Insomnia (2002), and appeared in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019). On television, Pacino has acted in several productions for HBO, including Angels in America (2003) and the Jack Kevorkian biopic You Don't Know Jack (2010), winning a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie for each. Pacino currently stars in the Amazon Video web television series Hunters (2020–present). He has also had an extensive career on stage. He is a two-time Tony Award winner, in 1969 and 1977, for his performances in Does a Tiger Wear a Necktie? and The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel. Pacino made his filmmaking debut with Looking for Richard (1996), directing and starring in this documentary about Richard III; Pacino had played the lead role on stage in 1977. He has also acted as Shylock in a 2004 feature film adaptation and 2010 stage production of The Merchant of Venice. Pacino directed and starred in Chinese Coffee (2000), Wilde Salomé (2011), and Salomé (2013). Since 1994, he has been the joint president of the Actors Studio. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Al Pacino
St. Francis Ferrante
for St. Francis Ferrante in In Nomine Patris
Suggested by thepyggsy
In 1990s New Jersey, the rain doesn’t wash the streets—it just drowns the hope. Leonardo "Leo" Massaro is a man at the end of his rope. Living in a decaying tenement where the heater is a luxury and the milk has run dry, he spends his nights screaming at a God who has seemingly gone deaf. To Leo, faith isn't a comfort; it’s a weight. His only anchor is his wife, Chressera—the "quiet miracle" he feels he is failing every single day. When the Ferrante crime family extends a hand, Leo doesn't see a descent into the underworld; he sees a ladder. Led by the imposing and silver-tongued Big Ben Gallucci, the Ferrantes offer Leo a "Blood Covenant"—a chance to trade his poverty for a position of power and protection. It is a devil’s bargain wrapped in the language of family and loyalty. As Leo begins his "Double Life," the world splits in two. By day, he is the provider, the husband, and the father trying to shield his family from the grime of the city. By night, he is a servant of the shadows, carrying secrets that grow heavier with every dollar he earns. But in Jersey, every debt must be settled. Caught between the predatory warmth of Big Ben and the weary, persistent grace of Father Hiddleston—the man who once saved Leo from the gutter—Leo is forced into a corner where his faith and his survival collide. As a web of lies begins to tighten around his home, Leo discovers that the hardest part of a Blood Covenant isn't the blood you spill—it's the man you become to keep it
