Steve Buscemi

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Recent Role:
Nucky Johnson on Boardwalk Empire
Gender:
Male
Born:
12-13-1957
Birthplace:
Brooklyn, New York, USA
Birth Name:
Steven Vincent Buscemi
Steve Buscemi was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1957. Steve graduated from Valley Stream Central High School in 1975, from there he attended Nassau Community College before moving to Manhattan to attend the Lee Strasberg Institute.

He became a New York City firefighter in Little Italy from 1980-1984, afterwards deciding to move into acting. He got his first film in 1985 and from there has had over 100 acting roles, including Mr Pink in Reservoir Dogs and Carl Showalter in Fargo.

In 1992 he tried his hand at directing, culminating in directing 4



More episodes of the hit TV show The Sopranos between 2001 and 2006.

Today he is recognized as one of the best actors of his time and is highly respected by his peers.

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    9.2 Superb
    A character actor that lives up to his name! hide show

    Steve Buscemi is one of the most prolific character actors of our time! The man can simply play any type of role and be totally convincing in it! There are very few actors active today(be whatever list they may be on)that can boast of the staggering number of different characters that Buscemi has brought to life on the screen. The most amazing thing about Buscemi is that he has never been typecast. His roles cover just about every classification. He does comedy as easily as heavy drama. Buscemi may hold one record that,while perhaps on the ghoulish side,is quiet an accomplishment for the lovers of morbidity. He has died in nearly every role that he has taken. It would be a treat to see Buscemi have more leading roles. Heaven knows that if any actor has "paid his dues",Buscemi has!!!

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    8.8 Great
    One of the all-time great actors who normal people don't know. hide show

    Steve is one of the greatest niche/character actors of the past 10 years. In the same league as Christopher Walken, but he has been playing a wider variety of roles in the past decade...that is to say, he hasn't been quite as typecast as Walken.

    I won't go into a full biography, since you can get one by clicking some link at this very website, but I will recommend that people who have enjoyed him in more commercial movies (Airheads, Armageddon, Reservoir Dogs, or one of his "Big" movies [Lebowski, Daddy, Fish]) check out Living in Oblivion, which is a great movie overall and all the better for Steve. A rare leading role, and his support cast is also great.

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