Nicholas Pileggi is an American author, producer and screenwriter.
10 Facts About Nicholas Pileggi
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Nicholas Pileggi wrote the non-fiction book Wiseguy and co-wrote the screenplay for Goodfellas, its 1990 film adaptation, for which he received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.
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Pileggi was born and raised in Brooklyn, the elder son of an Italian immigrant father, Nicola Pileggi from Calabria and an American-born mother, Susie.
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Nicola "Nick" Nicholas Pileggi was a musician who played slide trombone in a cinema orchestra for silent films; he subsequently owned shoe stores.
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Nicholas Pileggi began his career as a journalist and had a profound interest in the Mafia.
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Nicholas Pileggi is best known for writing Wiseguy: Life in a Mafia Family, which he adapted into the movie Goodfellas, and for writing Casino: Love and Honor in Las Vegas and the subsequent screenplay for Casino.
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Nicholas Pileggi wrote the screenplay for the film City Hall, starring Al Pacino.
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Nicholas Pileggi served as an Executive Producer of American Gangster, a biographical crime film based on the criminal career of Frank Lucas.
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Nicholas Pileggi co-wrote the pilot of the CBS television series Vegas, which first aired in September 2012.
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Nicholas Pileggi was married to fellow author, journalist, and filmmaker Nora Ephron from 1987 until her death in 2012.