Say Hello To These 30 Little Facts About Al Pacino

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How do you like your Pacino? Maybe as the chilling Michael Corleone in one of the greatest movies ever made? How about the psychotic drug lord Tony Montana? Frank Serpico, the undercover cop who got in too deep? Shall I go on?

In a career spanning five decades, Al Pacino has starred in countless iconic roles for both the screen and stage, and his powerful and often intense performances are always memorable. Here are some facts of one of the all-time great American actors.

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Al Pacino Facts

30. A Tale of Two New York Actors

The lives and careers of Pacino and Robert DeNiro have been closely intertwined. Both are actors of Italian-American heritage that were born in New York City in the 1940s. Both came of age in the 1970s, a decade that started out with a then-unknown DeNiro losing the role of Michael Corleone to Pacino. They were co-stars in The Godfather Part II, but did not share any scenes. They would finally become scene partners when they starred in Michael Mann’s 1995 film Heat. They would go onto co-star in 2008’s Righteous Kill and the upcoming Martin Scorsese film The Irishman.

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29. Collaborations with Mamet

Throughout the course of his career, Pacino has collaborated with many projects helmed by playwright and director David Mamet. He starred in the film adaptation of Mamet’s play Glengarry Glen Ross playing the part of Ricky Roma and played the titular controversial music producer the Mamet-directed HBO film Phil Spector. He has also appeared in productions of plays written by Mamet including American Buffalo, China Doll, which Mamet wrote with Pacino specifically had in mind, and Glengarry Glen Ross, 20 years after starring in the film version, this time playing Shelley Levene.

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28. New York Roots

Alfredo James Pacino was born on April 25, 1940 in East Harlem, in the borough of Manhattan in New York City.

Pacino’s formative years were spent in another borough of the Big Apple—the Bronx, where he moved to with his mother following the divorce of his parents when he was just two years old.

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