Hollywood Steve Buscemi

PROFILE

Name : Steve Buscemi

Birth Name : Steven Vincent Buscemi

Date of Birth : 13 December 1957

Birth Place : Brooklyn, New York, USA

Nickname : Busc

Height : 5' 9" (1.75 m)

Occupation : Actor / Writer / Director

Years active : 1985–present

Spouse : Jo Andres (1987–present); one child


BIOGRAPHY

Steven Arthur Buscemi (born December 13, 1957, in Brooklyn, New York) is an American film and stage character actor of Italian and Irish descent. His first lead role was opposite Richard Ganoug in Parting Glances (1986). He is an associate member of the experimental theater company The Wooster Group.
Buscemi's memorable roles include Mr. Pink in Reservoir Dogs, Rockhound in Armageddon, Donny in The Big Lebowski, Carl Showalter in Fargo, and the voice of Randall in Monsters, Inc.. Although usually a supporting actor, he has had critical success as a lead actor, particularly his role as Seymour in Ghost World.
The characters that Steve Buscemi chooses to play are generally neurotic and paranoid. Quentin Tarantino uses Buscemi (sometimes uncredited) in nearly all his movies. He often appears in films by the Coen Brothers, usually dying in a grisly or unexpected manner (such as being shot in the face with a shotgun or dropping dead of a heart attack during a fistfight).
Starting in 2003, he even made a celebrity guest appearance as himself on the long-running FOX television show The Simpsons.
Buscemi was a New York City firefighter from 1980 to 1984. The day after 9/11 he went to his old fire station to volunteer, working twelve hour shifts at "Ground Zero" for a week, searching for survivors. He avoided the cameras and worked anonymously.
In 2004, Buscemi joined the cast of The Sopranos as Tony Soprano's cousin and childhood friend, Tony Blundetto. Buscemi had previously been involved with the show, directing the third season episode "Pine Barrens", which is consistently voted by fans as their favorite episode of the series.
Buscemi also wrote, directed, and starred in the film Trees Lounge in 1996. He also directed Animal Factory (2000), Lonesome Jim (2005), and several episodes of The Sopranos.

CAREER

Acting

Buscemi is an associate member of the experimental theater company The Wooster Group. Buscemi’s first film appearance was in the 1986 Parting Glances, in which he played Nick, a young man stricken with AIDS. He also was in Slaves of New York in 1988, and Tales from the Darkside, a 1990 film with three segments. Buscemi starred in the first, playing Bellingham, a college student who orders a mummy and unleashes it on fellow college students played by Christian Slater and Julianne Moore.During 1990, Buscemi had a couple of additional crime roles. He played the henchman of Laurence Fishburne named Test Tube in Abel Ferrara’s King of New York, and played Mink in the Coen Brothers Millers Crossing. This marked the first of six of the Coen Brothers' films in which Buscemi appeared.In 1991 he played the bellboy, Chet, in the Coen Brothers film, Barton Fink. His first lead role was in 1992, where he played Adolpho Rollo in Alexandre Rockwell's In the Soup. Then he finally came to public attention for playing Mr. Pink in Quentin Tarantino’s 1992 film, Reservoir Dogs. Buscemi's most notable character roles include Mr. Pink in Reservoir Dogs, Garland Greene in Con Air, Rockhound in Armageddon, Donny in The Big Lebowski and Carl Showalter in Fargo. Although usually a supporting actor, he has had critical success as a lead actor, particularly in his role as Seymour in Ghost World. Buscemi often plays characters that are neurotic and paranoid. He has appeared in a number of films by the Coen Brothers, in which he tends to die in a grisly, prolonged or unexpected manner. He frequently provides comic relief in Adam Sandler films such as Billy Madison, The Wedding Singer, Big Daddy and Mr. Deeds. Buscemi also starred with Sandler (as brothers) in Airheads alongside Brendan Fraser. Buscemi also played a nemesis to Sandler and Kevin James in the comedy I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry. He also has worked with Tim Burton, Quentin Tarantino, producer Jerry Bruckheimer, Jim Jarmusch, The Coen Brothers, and Robert Rodriguez on various occasions.In 2003, Buscemi made a brief celebrity guest appearance as himself on the long-running Fox animated television show The Simpsons in the episode "Brake My Wife, Please". Most recently, Buscemi provided the voice for Dwight, a bank robber who Marge promises to visit in jail if he turns himself in to the authorities. This episode, entitled "I Don't Wanna Know Why the Caged Bird Sings", originally aired on October 14, 2007.In 2004, Buscemi joined the cast of The Sopranos as Tony Soprano's cousin and childhood friend, Tony Blundetto. Buscemi had previously contributed to the show as director of the third season episode "Pine Barrens" (one of the most critically-acclaimed episodes of the series). He appeared in the third episode of Season 6, as a doorman in heaven (portrayed as a country club) in Tony Soprano's dream. He returned to direct the episodes "In Camelot", the seventh episode of season five, and "Mr. & Mrs. John Sacrimoni Request", the fifth episode of Season 6.In 1995, Buscemi played suspected cop-shooter Gordon Pratt in the episode "End Game" at the end of a three-episode arc of Homicide: Life on the Street. He also had a role as Phil Hickle, Ellen's father and older Pete's guidance counselor, in The Adventures of Pete and Pete, as well as guest-starring in Miami Vice in 1986. Buscemi was rumored to be considered for the role of The Scarecrow in Joel Schumacher's proposed fifth installment of the (first) Batman franchise, Batman Triumphant, before Warner Bros. cancelled the project.In 2004, Buscemi appeared in the music video for Joe Strummer's cover of the Bob Marley track "Redemption Song". The video is shot after Strummer's death, and Buscemi appears alongside of a graffiti portrait of Strummer.

Directing

Buscemi has worked extensively as a writer-director since making his debut feature during the 1990s. His directional credits include:Trees Lounge (1996) - Animal Factory (2000) - Lonesome Jim (2005) - Interview (2007) In addition to feature films, he directed episodes of the television shows Homicide: Life on the Street and The Sopranos, as well as two episodes of HBO's prison-drama series Oz, entitled "U.S. Male" and "Cuts Like a Knife". He also directed an episode of 30 Rock, entitled "Retreat to Move Forward". He has also directed episodes four, five, seven and eight from Season 1 of Showtime's Nurse Jackie.Whilst scouting a location for a film, Buscemi visited the Philadelphia Eastern State Penitentiary. He found the building so interesting that he later provided the majority of the narration for the audio tour there.

MOVIES LIST

As a Actor

Rampart (2011)
On the Road (2011)
The Chosen One (2010)
Pete Smalls Is Dead (2010)

Grown Ups (2010)

Pete Smalls Is Dead (2010)

Saint John of Las Vegas (2010)

Youth in Revolt (2010)

G-Force (2009) (voice)

Keep Coming Back (2008)

Igor (2008) (voice)

I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry (2007)

I Think I Love My Wife (2007)

Interview (2007)

Charlotte's Web (2006) (voice)

Delirious (2006)

Paris, je t'aime (2006)

Monster House (2006)

The Island (2005)

Art School Confidential (2005)

Romance & Cigarettes (2005)

Who's the Top? (2005)

The Sky Is Green (2004)

Coffee and Cigarettes (2004)

Home on the Range (2004) (voice)

Big Fish (2003)

Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over (2003)

Deaddrockstar (2002)

Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams (2002)

The Grey Zone (2002)

Mr. Deeds (2002)

Love in the Time of Money (2002)

Monsters, Inc. (2001) (voice)

The Laramie Project (2002)

Domestic Disturbance (2001)

Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (2001) (voice)

Ghost World (2001)

Double Whammy (2001)

In Bad Taste (2000)

28 Days (2000)

Animal Factory (2000)

Franky Goes to Hollywood (1999)

Big Daddy (1999)

The Imposters (1998)

Louis & Frank(1998)

Armageddon (1998)

The Big Lebowski (1998)

The Wedding Singer (1998) (uncredited)

Divine Trash (1998)

The Real Blonde (1997)

Con Air (1997)

Fargo (1997)

John Carpenter's Escape From L.A. (1996)

Kansas City (1996)

Somebody To Love (1996)

The Search For One-Eye Jimmy (1996)

Trees Lounge (1996)

Billy Madison (1995)

Desperado (1995)

Living In Oblivion (1995)

Things To Do In Denver When You're Dead (1995)

Airheads (1994)

Even Cowgirls Get The Blues (1994)

Floundering (1994)

Pulp Fiction (1994)

Scene Six, Take One (1994)

The Hudsucker Proxy (1994)

The Last Outlaw (1994)

Ed And His Dead Mother (1993)

Rising Sun (1993)

Twenty Bucks (1993)

Crisscross (1992)

In The Soup (1992)

Reservoir Dogs (1992)

Who Do I Gotta Kill? (1992)

Barton Fink (1991)

Billy Bathgate (1991)

Trusting Beatrice (1991)

Zandalee (1991)

Miller's Crossing (1990)

Tales From The Darkside: The Movie (1990)

The Grifters (1990)

Bloodhounds Of Broadway (1989)

Borders (1989)

Heart Of Midnight (1989)

King Of New York (1989)

Mystery Train (1989)

New York Stories (1989)

Slaves Of New York (1989)

Call Me (1988)

Vibes (1988)

Force Of Circumstance (1987)

Heart (1987)

Kiss Daddy Goodnight (1987)

Coffee And Cigarettes II (1986)

No Picnic (1986)

Parting Glances (1986)

Sleepwalk (1986)

The Way It Is (1984)

As a Director

Interview (2007)

Lonesome Jim (2006)

Animal Factory (2000)

Trees Lounge (1996)