Al Pacino

Alfredo James Pacino (/pəˈtʃiːnoʊ/;

Italian: [paˈtʃiːno]; 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.
 Al Pacino

Pacino in 2014

Born Alfredo James Pacino

April 25, 1940
New York City, U.S.

Alma mater Actors Studio

HB Studio

Occupation Actor, filmmaker

Years active 1967–present
Works Full list

Partner(s) Jan Tarrant (1988–

1989)
Beverly D'Angelo
(1997–2003)
Lucila Polak (2008–
2018)

Children 3

Awards Full list

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.
Early life
Alfredo James Pacino was born in the
East Harlem neighborhood of New York
City on April 25, 1940. He is the son of
Italian-American parents Rose Gerardi and
Salvatore Pacino. His parents divorced
when he was two years old.[1] He then
moved with his mother to the Bronx to live
with her parents, Kate and James Gerardi,
who were Italian immigrants from
Corleone, Sicily.[2] Pacino's father was
from San Fratello, Sicily, and moved to
work as an insurance salesman and
restaurateur in Covina, California.[1][3]
In his teenage years, Pacino was known as
"Sonny" to his friends. He had ambitions to
become a baseball player and was also
nicknamed "The Actor".[4] He attended
Herman Ridder Junior High School,[5] but
soon dropped out of most of his classes
except for English. He subsequently
attended the High School of Performing
Arts,[6] after gaining admission by audition.
His mother disagreed with his decision
and, after an argument, he left home. To
finance his acting studies, Pacino took
low-paying jobs as a messenger, busboy,
janitor, and postal clerk,[1] as well as once
working in the mailroom for Commentary
magazine.[7]
Pacino began smoking and drinking at age
nine, and used marijuana casually at age
13, but he abstained from hard drugs.[8]
His two closest friends died from drug
abuse at the ages of 19 and 30.[9] Growing
up in the Bronx, Pacino got into occasional
fights and was considered somewhat of a
troublemaker at school.[10] He acted in
basement plays in New York's theatrical
underground but was rejected as a
teenager by the Actors Studio.[4] Pacino
joined the HB Studio, where he met acting
teacher Charlie Laughton,[a] who became
his mentor and best friend.[4] In this period,
he was often unemployed and homeless,
and sometimes slept on the street, in
theaters, or at friends' houses.[2][11]

In 1962, Pacino's mother died at the age of

43.[12] The following year, his grandfather
James also died.[1] Pacino recalled it as
the lowest point of his life and said, "I was
22 and the two most influential people in
my life had gone, so that sent me into a
tailspin."[3]

After four years at HB Studio, Pacino

successfully auditioned for the Actors
Studio.[4] The Actors Studio is a
membership organization of professional
actors, theater directors, and playwrights
in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood of
Manhattan.[13] Pacino studied "method
acting"[1] under acting coach Lee
Strasberg, who appeared with Pacino in
the films The Godfather Part II and in ...And
Justice for All.[2]

During later interviews he spoke about

Strasberg and the Studio's effect on his
career. "The Actors Studio meant so much
to me in my life. Lee Strasberg hasn't been
given the credit he deserves ... Next to
Charlie, it sort of launched me. It really did.
That was a remarkable turning point in my
life. It was directly responsible for getting
me to quit all those jobs and just stay
acting."[14] In another interview he added,
"It was exciting to work for him [Lee
Strasberg] because he was so interesting
when he talked about a scene or talked
about people. One would just want to hear
him talk, because things he would say,
you'd never heard before ... He had such a
great understanding ... he loved actors so
much."[15]

In 2000, Pacino was co-president, along

with Ellen Burstyn and Harvey Keitel, of the
Actors Studio.[13]

Stage career
Pacino in the play The Basic Training of Pavlo
Hummel (1971)

In 1967, Pacino spent a season at the

Charles Playhouse in Boston, performing
in Clifford Odets' Awake and Sing! (his first
major paycheck: US$125 a week); and in
Jean-Claude Van Itallie's America Hurrah.
He met actress Jill Clayburgh on this play.
They had a five-year romance and moved
back together to New York City.[16]
In 1968, Pacino starred in Israel Horovitz's
The Indian Wants the Bronx at the Astor
Place Theatre, playing Murph, a street
punk. The play opened January 17, 1968,
and ran for 177 performances; it was
staged in a double bill with Horovitz's It's
Called the Sugar Plum, starring Clayburgh.
Pacino won an Obie Award for Best Actor
for his role, with John Cazale winning for
Best Supporting actor and Horowitz for
Best New Play.[17] Martin Bregman saw the
play and became Pacino's manager, a
partnership that became fruitful in the
years to come, as Bregman encouraged
Pacino to do The Godfather, Serpico, and
Dog Day Afternoon.[18] About his stage
career, Pacino said, "Martin Bregman
discovered me ... I was 26, 25 ... he
discovered me and became my manager.
And that's why I'm here. I owe it to Marty, I
really do".[19]

Pacino took the production of The Indian

Wants the Bronx to Italy for a performance
at the Festival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto. It
was Pacino's first journey to Italy; he later
recalled that "performing for an Italian
audience was a marvelous experience".[16]
Pacino and Clayburgh were cast in "Deadly
Circle of Violence", an episode of the ABC
television series NYPD, premiering
November 12, 1968. Clayburgh at the time
was also appearing on the soap opera
Search for Tomorrow, playing the role of
Grace Bolton. Her father would send the
couple money each month to help with
finances.[20]

On February 25, 1969, Pacino made his

Broadway debut in Don Petersen's Does a
Tiger Wear a Necktie? at the Belasco
Theater, produced by A&P Heir Huntington
Hartford. It closed after 39 performances
on March 29, 1969, but Pacino received
rave reviews and won the Tony Award on
April 20, 1969.[16] Pacino continued
performing onstage in the 1970s, winning
a second Tony Award for The Basic
Training of Pavlo Hummel and performing
the title role in Richard III.[1] In the 1980s,
Pacino again achieved critical success on
stage while appearing in David Mamet's
American Buffalo, for which Pacino was
nominated for a Drama Desk Award.[1]
Since 1990, Pacino's stage work has
included revivals of Eugene O'Neill's
Hughie, Oscar Wilde's Salome and in 2005
Lyle Kessler's Orphans.[21]

In 1983, Pacino became a major donor for

The Mirror Theater Ltd, alongside Dustin
Hoffman and Paul Newman, matching a
grant from Laurence Rockefeller.[22] The
men were inspired to invest by their
connection with Lee Strasberg, as Lee's
daughter-in-law Sabra Jones was the
founder and Producing Artistic Director of
The Mirror. In 1985, Al offered the
company his production of Hughie by
Eugene O'Neill, but the company was
unable to do it at the time due to the small
cast.[22]

In October 2002, Pacino starred in Bertolt

Brecht's The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui for
the National Actor's Theater and
Complicite.[23] Directed by Simon
McBurney, the production starred a host of
Hollywood names, including John
Goodman, Charles Durning, Tony Randall,
Steve Buscemi, Chazz Palminteri, Paul
Giamatti, Jacqueline McKenzie, Billy
Crudupp, Lothaire Bluteau, Dominic
Chianese and Sterling K. Brown.[24] The
production was a critical success in which
"Pacino grabs and holds the attention like
a coiled spring about to snap. He is all
brooding menace and crocodile grimace,
butchering his way to the top with
unnervingly sinister glee."[25]

Pacino returned to the stage in the

summer of 2010, playing Shylock in the
Shakespeare in the Park production, The
Merchant of Venice.[26] The acclaimed
production moved to Broadway at the
Broadhurst Theatre in October, earning
US$1 million at the box office in its first
week.[27][28] The performance also
garnered him a Tony Award nomination for
Best Leading Actor in a Play.[29]

Pacino starred in the 30th-anniversary

Broadway revival of David Mamet's classic
play, Glengarry Glen Ross, which ran from
October 2012 to January 20, 2013.[30] He
starred on Broadway in China Doll, a play
written for him by Mamet, which opened
on December 5, 2015 and closed on
January 21, 2016 after 97
performances.[31] The previews were done
in October 2015.[32]
Film career
Pacino found acting enjoyable and realized
he had a gift for it while studying at The
Actors Studio. However, his early work was
not financially rewarding.[2] After his
success on stage, Pacino made his film
debut in 1969 with a brief appearance in
Me, Natalie, an independent film starring
Patty Duke.[33] In 1970, Pacino signed with
the talent agency Creative Management
Associates (CMA).[16]

1970s …
His role as a heroin addict in The Panic in
Needle Park (1971) brought Pacino to the
attention of director Francis Ford Coppola,
who cast him as Michael Corleone in what
became a blockbuster Mafia film, The
Godfather (1972).[34] Although Jack
Nicholson, Robert Redford, Warren Beatty,
and the little-known Robert De Niro were
tried out for the part, Coppola selected
Pacino, to the dismay of studio executives
who wanted someone better known.[2][35]

Pacino's performance earned him an

Academy Award nomination, and offered a
prime example of his early acting style.
This was described by Halliwell's Film
Guide as "intense" and "tightly clenched".
Pacino boycotted the Academy Award
ceremony, insulted at being nominated for
the Supporting Acting award, as he noted
that he had more screen time than co-star
and Best Actor winner Marlon Brando—
who also boycotted the awards, but for
unrelated reasons.[36]

In 1973, Pacino co-starred in Scarecrow,

with Gene Hackman, and won the Palme
d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. That
same year, Pacino was nominated for an
Academy Award for Best Actor after
starring in Serpico, based on the true story
of New York City policeman Frank Serpico,
who went undercover to expose the
corruption of fellow officers.[36] In 1974,
Pacino reprised his role as Michael
Corleone in The Godfather Part II, which
was the first sequel to win the Best Picture
Oscar; Pacino was nominated a third time
for an Oscar, this second nomination for
the Corleone role being in the lead
category.[36] Newsweek magazine has
described his performance in The
Godfather Part II as "arguably cinema's
greatest portrayal of the hardening of a
heart".[37]

In 1975, he enjoyed further success with

the release of Dog Day Afternoon, based on
the true story of bank robber John
Wojtowicz.[2] It was directed by Sidney
Lumet, who had directed him in Serpico a
few years earlier, and Pacino was again
nominated for Best Actor.[38]

In 1977, Pacino starred as a race-car driver

in Bobby Deerfield, directed by Sydney
Pollack, and received a Golden Globe
nomination for Best Actor – Motion
Picture Drama for his portrayal of the title
role. His next film was the courtroom
drama ...And Justice for All. Pacino was
lauded by critics for his wide range of
acting abilities, and nominated for the Best
Actor Oscar for a fourth time.[38] He lost
out that year to Dustin Hoffman in Kramer
vs. Kramer—a role that Pacino had
declined.[38]

During the 1970s, Pacino had four Oscar

nominations for Best Actor, for his
performances in Serpico, The Godfather
Part II, Dog Day Afternoon, and ...And
Justice for All.[2]

1980s …

Pacino's career slumped in the early

1980s; his appearances in the
controversial Cruising, a film that provoked
protests from New York's gay
community,[39] and the comedy-drama
Author! Author!, were critically panned.[1]
However, his performance in Scarface
(1983), directed by Brian De Palma, proved
to be a career highlight and a defining
role.[2] Upon its initial release, the film was
critically panned due to violent content, but
later received critical acclaim.[40] The film
did well at the box office, grossing over
US$45 million domestically.[41] Pacino
earned a Golden Globe nomination for his
role as Cuban drug lord Tony Montana.[42]

In 1985, Pacino worked on his personal

project, The Local Stigmatic, a 1969 Off
Broadway play by the English writer
Heathcote Williams. He starred in the play,
remounting it with director David Wheeler
and the Theater Company of Boston in a
50-minute film version. The film was not
released theatrically, but was later
released as part of the Pacino: An Actor's
Vision box set in 2007.[2]

His 1985 film Revolution about a fur

trapper during the American Revolutionary
War, was a commercial and critical failure,
which Pacino blamed on a rushed
production,[43] resulting in a four-year
hiatus from films. At this time Pacino
returned to the stage. He mounted
workshop productions of Crystal Clear,
National Anthems and other plays; he
appeared in Julius Caesar in 1988 in
producer Joseph Papp's New York
Shakespeare Festival. Pacino remarked on
his hiatus from film: "I remember back
when everything was happening, '74, '75,
doing The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui on
stage and reading that the reason I'd gone
back to the stage was that my movie
career was waning! That's been the kind of
ethos, the way in which theater's
perceived, unfortunately."[44] Pacino
returned to film in 1989's Sea of Love,[2]
when he portrayed a detective hunting a
serial killer who finds victims through the
singles column in a newspaper. The film
earned solid reviews.[45]

1990s …

Pacino at the 1996 Cannes Film Festival

Pacino received an Academy Award

nomination for playing Big Boy Caprice in
the box office hit Dick Tracy in 1990, of
which critic Roger Ebert described Pacino
as "the scene-stealer".[46] Later in the year
he followed this up in a return to one of his
most famous characters, Michael
Corleone, in The Godfather Part III
(1990).[2] The film received mixed reviews,
and had problems in pre-production due to
script rewrites and the withdrawal of
actors shortly before production.[47]

In 1991, Pacino starred in Frankie and

Johnny with Michelle Pfeiffer, who co-
starred with Pacino in Scarface. Pacino
portrays a recently paroled cook who
begins a relationship with a waitress
(Pfeiffer) in the diner where they work. It
was adapted by Terrence McNally from his
own Off-Broadway play Frankie and Johnny
in the Clair de Lune (1987), that featured
Kenneth Welsh and Kathy Bates. The film
received mixed reviews, although Pacino
later said he enjoyed playing the part.[48]
Janet Maslin in The New York Times wrote,
"Mr. Pacino has not been this
uncomplicatedly appealing since his Dog
Day Afternoon days, and he makes
Johnny's endless enterprise in wooing
Frankie a delight. His scenes alone with
Ms. Pfeiffer have a precision and honesty
that keep the film's maudlin aspects at
bay."[49]
In 1993, Pacino won the Academy Award
for Best Actor, for his portrayal of the blind
U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel Frank Slade
in Martin Brest's Scent of a Woman.[2] That
year, he was also nominated for Best
Supporting Actor for Glengarry Glen Ross,
making Pacino the first male actor ever to
receive two acting nominations for two
movies in the same year, and to win for the
lead role.[2]

Pacino starred alongside Sean Penn in the

crime drama Carlito's Way in 1993, in which
he portrayed a gangster released from
prison with the help of his lawyer (Penn)
and vows to go straight.[50] Pacino starred
in Michael Mann's Heat (1995), in which he
and Robert De Niro appeared on-screen
together for the first time (though both
Pacino and De Niro starred in The
Godfather Part II, they did not share any
scenes).[2][51]

In 1996, Pacino starred in his theatrical

docudrama Looking for Richard, a
performance of selected scenes of
Shakespeare's Richard III and a broader
examination of Shakespeare's continuing
role and relevance in popular culture. The
cast brought together for the performance
included Alec Baldwin, Kevin Spacey, and
Winona Ryder.[52] Pacino played Satan in
the supernatural thriller The Devil's
Advocate (1997) which co-starred Keanu
Reeves. The film was a success at the box
office, taking US$150 million worldwide.[53]
Roger Ebert wrote in the Chicago Sun-
Times, "The satanic character is played by
Pacino with relish bordering on glee."[54]

In 1997's Donnie Brasco, Pacino played

gangster "Lefty" in the true story of
undercover FBI agent Donnie Brasco
(Johnny Depp) and his work in bringing
down the Mafia from the inside.[55] In
1999, Pacino starred as 60 Minutes
producer Lowell Bergman in the multi-
Oscar nominated The Insider opposite
Russell Crowe, and in Oliver Stone's Any
Given Sunday.[56][57]

2000s …

Pacino at the 2004 Venice Film Festival

Pacino won three Golden Globes since

2000; the first being the Cecil B. DeMille
Award in 2001 for lifetime achievement in
motion pictures.[58]

In 2000, Pacino released a low-budget film

adaptation of Ira Lewis' play Chinese
Coffee to film festivals.[59] Shot almost
exclusively as a one-on-one conversation
between two main characters, the project
took nearly three years to complete and
was funded entirely by Pacino.[59] Chinese
Coffee was included with Pacino's two
other rare films he was involved in
producing, The Local Stigmatic and
Looking for Richard, on a special DVD box
set titled Pacino: An Actor's Vision, which
was released in 2007. Pacino produced
prologues and epilogues for the discs
containing the films.[60]

Pacino turned down an offer to reprise his

role as Michael Corleone in the computer
game version of The Godfather. As a
result, Electronic Arts was not permitted to
use Pacino's likeness or voice in the game,
although his character does appear in
it.[61] He did allow his likeness to appear in
the video game adaptation of 1983's
Scarface, quasi-sequel titled Scarface: The
World is Yours.[62][63]

Director Christopher Nolan worked with

Pacino on Insomnia, a remake of the
Norwegian film of the same name, co-
starring Robin Williams. Newsweek stated
that "he [Pacino] can play small as
rivetingly as he can play big, that he can
implode as well as explode".[64] The film
and Pacino's performance were well
received, gaining a favorable rating of 93
percent on the review aggregation website
Rotten Tomatoes.[65] The film did
moderately well at the box office, taking in
$113 million worldwide.[66] His next film,
S1m0ne, did not gain much critical praise
or box office success.[67]

He played a publicist in People I Know, a

small film that received little attention
despite Pacino's well-received
performance.[68] Rarely taking a
supporting role since his commercial
breakthrough, he accepted a small part in
the box office flop Gigli, in 2003, as a favor
to director Martin Brest.[68][69] The Recruit,
released in 2003, featured Pacino as a CIA
recruiter and co-stars Colin Farrell. The
film received mixed reviews,[70] and has
been described by Pacino as something he
"personally couldn't follow".[68] Pacino next
starred as lawyer Roy Cohn in the 2003
HBO miniseries Angels in America, an
adaptation of Tony Kushner's Pulitzer Prize
winning play of the same name.[2] For this
performance, Pacino won his third Golden
Globe, for Best Performance by an Actor,
in 2004.[71]

Pacino at the Rome Film Festival in 2008

Pacino starred as Shylock in Michael

Radford's 2004 film adaptation of The
Merchant of Venice, choosing to bring
compassion and depth to a character
traditionally played as a villainous
caricature.[72] In Two for the Money, Pacino
portrays a sports gambling agent and
mentor for Matthew McConaughey,
alongside Rene Russo. The film was
released on October 8, 2005, to mixed
reviews.[73] Desson Thomson wrote in The
Washington Post, "Al Pacino has played the
mentor so many times, he ought to get a
kingmaker's award ... the fight between
good and evil feels fixed in favor of
Hollywood redemption."[74]

On October 20, 2006, the American Film

Institute named Pacino the recipient of the
35th AFI Life Achievement Award.[75] On
November 22, 2006, the University
Philosophical Society of Trinity College,
Dublin awarded Pacino the Honorary
Patronage of the Society.[76]

Pacino played a supporting role in Steven

Soderbergh's Ocean's Thirteen, alongside
George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon,
Elliott Gould and Andy García, as the villain
Willy Bank, a casino tycoon targeted by
Danny Ocean and his crew. The film
received generally favorable reviews.[77]

88 Minutes was released on April 18, 2008,

in the United States, after having been
released in various other countries in
2007. The film co-starred Alicia Witt and
was critically panned,[78] although critics
found fault with the plot, and not Pacino's
acting.[79] In Righteous Kill, Pacino and
Robert De Niro co-star as New York
detectives searching for a serial killer. The
film was released to theaters on
September 12, 2008. While it was an
anticipated return for the two stars, it was
not well received by critics.[80] Lou
Lumenick of the New York Post gave
Righteous Kill one star out of four, saying:
"Al Pacino and Robert De Niro collect
bloated paychecks with intent to bore in
Righteous Kill, a slow-moving, ridiculous
police thriller that would have been
shipped straight to the remainder bin at
Blockbuster if it starred anyone else."[81]

2010s …

Pacino at the Toronto Film Festival in 2014

Pacino played Jack Kevorkian in an HBO

Films biopic titled You Don't Know Jack,
which premiered April 2010. The film is
about the life and work of the physician-
assisted suicide advocate. The
performance earned Pacino his second
Emmy Award[82] for lead actor[83] and his
fourth Golden Globe award.[84] He co-
starred as himself in the 2011 comedy film
Jack and Jill. The film was panned by
critics, and Pacino "won" the Golden
Raspberry Award for Worst Supporting
Actor at the 32nd ceremony.[85]

He was presented with Jaeger-LeCoultre

Glory to the Filmmaker Award on
September 4, 2011, prior to the premiere of
Wilde Salomé, a 2011 American
documentary-drama film written, directed
by and starring Pacino.[86][87] Its US
premiere on the evening of March 21,
2012, before a full house at the 1,400-seat
Castro Theatre in San Francisco's Castro
District, marked the 130th anniversary of
Oscar Wilde's visit to San Francisco, the
event was a benefit for the GLBT Historical
Society.[88][89][90] Pacino, who plays the
role of Herod in the film, describes it as his
"most personal project ever".[87] In
February 2012, Barack Obama awarded Al
Pacino the National Medal of Arts.[91][92]

Pacino starred in a 2013 HBO biographical

picture about record producer Phil
Spector's murder trial, titled Phil
Spector.[93] He took the title role in the
comedy-drama Danny Collins (2015) and
this performance as an aging rock star
garnered him a Golden Globe Award for
Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or
Comedy nomination.[94] In 2016, Pacino
received the Kennedy Center Honor.[95]
The tribute included remarks by Sean
Penn, Kevin Spacey, Bobby Cannavale and
Chris O'Donnell.[96]

In September 2012, Deadline reported that

Pacino would play the former Penn State
University football coach Joe Paterno in
the television film Paterno based on a
2012 biography by sportswriter Joe
Posnanski.[97] Paterno premiered on HBO
on April 7, 2018.[98]

Pacino starred alongside Brad Pitt and

Leonardo DiCaprio in Quentin Tarantino's
comedy-drama Once Upon a Time in
Hollywood, which was released on July 26,
2019.[99] Later in 2019, Pacino played
Teamsters chief Jimmy Hoffa, alongside
Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci, in Martin
Scorsese's Netflix film The Irishman, based
on the 2004 book I Heard You Paint Houses
by Charles Brandt; this was the first time
Pacino was directed by Scorsese, and also
received an Academy Award for Best
Supporting Actor nomination.[100] Pacino's
performance received positive reviews.
Peter Bradshaw described it as "glorious"
in The Guardian.[101] Justin Chang wrote,
"De Niro, Pesci and Pacino are at the top of
their game, in part because they aren't
simply rehashing the iconic gangster types
they've played before."[102]

2020s …

In February 2020, Pacino starred as Meyer

Offerman, a fictional Nazi hunter, in the
Amazon Video web television series
Hunters.[103] This is Pacino's first television
series since Angels in America (2003).
Hunters was renewed for a second season
in August 2020.[104]

Personal life
Pacino has fathered three children. The
eldest, Julie Marie (born 1989), is his
daughter with acting coach Jan Tarrant.
He has twins, son Anton James and
daughter Olivia Rose (born January 25,
2001), with actress Beverly D'Angelo, with
whom he had a relationship from 1996
until 2003. He has never been
married.[105][106]

Pacino had a relationship with his The

Godfather Trilogy co-star Diane Keaton.
Their on-again, off-again relationship
ended after the filming of The Godfather
Part III. Keaton said of Pacino, "Al was
simply the most entertaining man... To me,
that's, that is the most beautiful face. I
think Warren was gorgeous, very pretty, but
Al's face is like whoa. Killer, killer face."[107]
He has had relationships with Tuesday
Weld, Jill Clayburgh, Marthe Keller,
Kathleen Quinlan, and Lyndall
Hobbs.[60][108] Pacino had a ten-year
relationship with Argentine actress Lucila
Polak from 2008 to 2018.[109]

Awards and nominations

Pacino has been nominated and has won
many awards during his acting career,
including nine Oscar nominations (winning
one), 18 Golden Globe nominations
(winning four), five BAFTA nominations
(winning one), two Primetime Emmy
Awards for his work on television, and two
Tony Awards for his stage work. In 2007,
the American Film Institute awarded
Pacino with a lifetime achievement award
and, in 2003, British television viewers
voted Pacino as the greatest film star of all
time in a poll for Channel 4.[110]

Filmography
The Panic in Needle Park (1971)
The Godfather (1972)
Serpico (1973)
Scarecrow (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)
Sea of Love (1989)
Dick Tracy (1990)
The Godfather Part III (1990)
Frankie and Johnny (1991)
Glengarry Glen Ross (1992)
Scent of a Woman (1992)
Carlito's Way (1993)
Two Bits (1995)
Heat (1995)
City Hall (1996)
Looking for Richard (1996)
Donnie Brasco (1997)
The Devil's Advocate (1997)
The Insider (1999)
Any Given Sunday (1999)
Insomnia (2002)
Simone (2002)
People I Know (2002)
The Recruit (2003)
Gigli (2003)
Angels in America (2003)
The Merchant of Venice (2004)
Two for the Money (2005)
88 Minutes (2007)
Ocean's Thirteen (2007)
Righteous Kill (2008)
You Don't Know Jack (2010)
The Son of No One (2011)
Wilde Salomé (2011)
Jack and Jill (2011)
 Stand Up Guys (2012)
Phil Spector (2013)
Manglehorn (2014)
The Humbling (2014)
Danny Collins (2015)
Misconduct (2016)
Hangman (2017)
Paterno (2018)
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019)
The Irishman (2019)

Notes
a. Not to be confused with the British
actor Charles Laughton.
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