Al Pacino

American actor (born 1940)

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86
Born 1940
Known for
The Godfather
1972

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Updated 2026-08-31

For fifty years, Pacino has been the actor other actors study — the live-wire intensity, the coiled stillness before the eruption. Michael Corleone made him unavoidable, but he kept raising the stakes: the blinded colonel, the coked king, the aging hitman. Triple Crown, nine Oscar nominations, and a face the camera can't leave.

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Born April 25, 1940, Alfredo James Pacino came up through underground theater and off-Broadway, studying method under Charlie Laughton and Lee Strasberg at the Actors Studio. His 1972 turn as Michael Corleone in The Godfather made him inescapable; the nominations piled up — Serpico, The Godfather Part II, Dog Day Afternoon — but the Oscar didn't come until Scent of a Woman twenty years later. In between and after: Scarface, Heat, The Insider, The Irishman, plus two Tonys and two Emmys for Angels in America and the Kevorkian biopic. He's directed four films, published a memoir in 2024, and sinc…

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Al Pacino

said2007

Off-Off-Broadway is absolutely necessary. It doesn't have to be sanctioned by the state, subsidized or anything. The plank and the passion is what it's about.

— Producing Off-Off-Broadway (2007)

Al Pacino

said2007