1. Joseph Peter Pantoliano was born on September 12,1951 and is an American actor who has played over 150 roles across film, television, and theater.
23 Facts About Joe Pantoliano
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Joe Pantoliano is best known for portraying Ralph "Ralphie" Cifaretto on the HBO crime drama The Sopranos, for which he won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series, and Cypher in the sci-fi action film The Matrix.
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Joe Pantoliano appeared in The Fugitive and its spin-off US Marshals.
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Joe Pantoliano began working with the Wachowskis in their directorial debut Bound, and later appeared in their film The Matrix and their sci-fi series Sense8.
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Joe Pantoliano has published two memoirs and is active in the field of mental health, having documented his mother's issues and his own.
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Joseph Peter Joe Pantoliano was born in Hoboken, New Jersey, on September 12,1951, the son of parents Mary and Dominic "Monk" Joe Pantoliano.
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Joe Pantoliano's mother was a bookmaker and seamstress, while his father was a hearse driver and factory foreman.
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Joe Pantoliano's family moved to Cliffside Park, New Jersey, where he attended Cliffside Park High School.
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Joe Pantoliano attended the HB Studio and studied extensively under actors Herbert Berghof and John Lehne.
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Joe Pantoliano first grew to fame as Guido the killer pimp in 1983's Risky Business.
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Joe Pantoliano gained fame among a new generation as Cypher in the 1999 landmark sci-fi film The Matrix.
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Joe Pantoliano won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series for the role of Ralph Cifaretto in HBO's The Sopranos.
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Joe Pantoliano is known for his role as Eddie Moscone, the foul-mouthed, double-crossing bail bondsman, in the Robert De Niro comedy Midnight Run, as Captain Conrad Howard in Bad Boys, Bad Boys II, Bad Boys for Life and Bad Boys: Ride or Die, as double-crossed mafioso Caesar in Bound, as John "Teddy" Gammell in Memento, and as investigative journalist Ben Urich in Mark Steven Johnson's 2003 Daredevil adaptation.
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Joe Pantoliano played Deputy US Marshal Cosmo Renfro in The Fugitive along with Tommy Lee Jones and reprised the role in the sequel US Marshals.
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In 2003 Joe Pantoliano replaced Stanley Tucci in the Broadway play Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune.
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In 2012 Joe Pantoliano starred as the eccentric pawn broker Oswald Oswald in the film adaptation of Wendy Mass's popular children's book Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life, written and directed by Tamar Halpern.
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Joe Pantoliano was married to Morgan Kester from 1979 until they divorced in 1985.
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Joe Pantoliano married his second wife, former model Nancy Sheppard, in 1994; they have four children together, and reside in Wilton, Connecticut.
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Joe Pantoliano was introduced to Sheppard by actress Samantha Phillips.
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On October 9,2007, Joe Pantoliano announced on the National Alliance on Mental Illness blog that he had been suffering from clinical depression for the last decade, although he was only formally diagnosed recently.
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Joe Pantoliano said that his 2006 film Canvas helped him come to terms with his depression.
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Joe Pantoliano is the author of two memoirs: Who's Sorry Now: The True Story of a Stand-Up Guy and Asylum: Hollywood Tales From My Great Depression: Brain Dis-Ease, Recovery, and Being My Mother's Son.
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On May 1,2020, Joe Pantoliano suffered a concussion and chest trauma when he was hit by a car while walking in his neighborhood.