Alfredo James Pacino (born April 25, 1940 in The Bronx, New York) is an Italian-American film actor.

A boy of Salvatore Pacino (world health organization was innate around Italy) and Rose Gerard (a girl of an Italian-born father and the New York born mother of Italian descent). His parents divorced when Pacino was however the little one. His grandparents originate from either Corleone, Sicily, Italy.

In the late 1960s, Pacino studied under legendary acting coach Lee Strasberg, finding acting a sanative outlet within the youth which saw him depressed then impoverished he may barely afford the carfare called upon for him to his next audition. His talent shone across & per prevent of the decade he experienced won an Obie award for his stage work in a Indian Wants the Bronx & the Tony award for Does the Tiger Get into the Tie? His large screen debut come within 1969's Me, Natalie however it was a 1971 film The Panic in Needle Park, in which he played the heroin addict, that would really show off his talents & bring him to the attention of director Francis Ford Coppola.

His meteoric rise to fame come fallowing portraying Michael Corleone in the blockbuster 1972 Mafia film The Godfather. Although many constituted actors, including Robert Redford, Warren Beatty, and the so unknown Robert De Niro, were vying for a part, Coppola selected the comparatively unknown Pacino. His performance earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor and, by the prevent of the 1970s he would have tierce supplementary nominations, entirely for Best Actor. Despite farther nominations, it wasn't until 1992 that Pacino would win an Oscar, for Best Actor, for his portrayal of the irascible, out & blind Lieutenant Colonel Frank Slade in Martin Brest's Scent of a Woman. That month, he was besides higher for the supporting award for his role inside Glengarry Glen Ross, the 1st actor to ever receive two nominations in the equivalent month; Jamie Foxx was nominated for both inside 2005. (A actress Julianne Moore repeated the deed inside 2003, even so she did non win either award). Pacino has non received a second nomination from either a Academy since people 2, however has won both Golden Globes since a turn of the century, the 1st existence the Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement in motion picture, and the second for his role in the HBO miniseries Angels in America.

Pacino's career took something of the downswing in the early 1980s and his appearances in Cruising and Author! Author! saw him critically panned. 1983's Scarface proved to be two the career highlight & the shaping role, earning Pacino the Golden Globe nomination for his performance as a Cuban drug lord who cry a currently ill-famed line "You wanna play rough? Okay! Say hello to my little friend!"

Nonetheless, 1985's Revolution was arguably a unfortunate film, & he returned to stage function for quatern years, re-surfacing withinside film in 1989's Sea of Love, which was to signal a welcome go to to form. Pacino's additional recent work remains telling, boasting a total of ticket performances that include the somewhat under-recognised 1990's crime thrillers ''Carlito's Way, Heat and Donnie Brasco. Pacino has turned down the total of key roles inside his career, including that of Han Solo in Star Wars, Captain Willard in Apocalypse Now and Edward Lewis in Pretty Woman''.

A quality of Pacino's performances, too when his larger-than-epic onscreen presence (Pacino stands astir Quint'Half a dozen"), have established him as one of the greatest actors in motion picture history. Pacino still performs theatre work and has also dabbled in direction, his first film, The Local Stigmatic remains unreleased but his other two works, Looking for Richard and Chinese Coffee are both highly acclaimed.

Although he has never been married, Pacino has three children. The first, Julie Marie, is his daughter with acting coach Jan Tarrant. He also has twins, Anton and Olivia, with longtime girlfriend Beverly D'Angelo. Pacino continues to be regarded as the best actor of his generation and in the top list of all time world class actors in movie history.

Filmography
Me, Natalie (1969) Panic in Needle Park (1971) The Godfather (1972) Scarecrow (1973) Serpico (1973) The Godfather: Part II (1974) Dog Day Afternoon (1975) Bobby Deerfield (1977) ...And Justice for All (1979) Cruising (1980) Author! Author! (1982) Scarface (1983) Revolution (1985) The Local Stigmatic (1989) (unreleased) (also director and producer) Sea of Love (1989) Dick Tracy (1990) The Godfather: Part III (1990) Madonna: Truth or Dare (1991) (documentary) Frankie and Johnny (1991) Glengarry Glen Ross (1992) Scent of a Woman (1992) ''Carlito's Way (1993) Jonas in the Desert (1994) (documentary) Two Bits (1995) Heat (1995) City Hall (1996) Looking for Richard (1996) (documentary) (also director and producer) Pitch (1997) (documentary) Donnie Brasco (1997) Devil's Advocate (1997) The Insider (1999) Any Given Sunday (1999) Chinese Coffee (2000) (also director) Insomnia (2002) S1m0ne (2002) People I Know (2002) The Recruit (2003) Gigli (2003) Angels in America (2003) The Merchant of Venice (2004) 2 for the Money (2005) 88 Minutes (2005) (currently announced start of production) Torch'' (2006) (currently announced start of production)