Steve Buscemi

Steve, along with the rest of the cast of The Sopranos, was nominated for a SAG Award for Best Ensemble in a Drama Series in 2005.

Steve was born on Friday the 13th.

Steve came 52nd in Empire magazine's "Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time" list.

Steve came 21st on Tropopkin's Top 25 Most Intriguing People.

On March 4th 2005, Steve was presented the Distinguished Alumni Award as part of Valley Stream Central High School's 75th anniversary celebration.

Steve is an associate member of the experimental theater company The Wooster Group.

Steve's infamous for the amount of on screen deaths he has. Ironically, in the movie Resevoir Dogs he is believed to be the only character to survive.

Steve is referenced in the song Hey Leonardo by the band Blessed Union of Souls.

Alongside his acting career Steve has directed many films, as well as four episodes of The Sopranos.

Steve is a very prolific actor appearing in as many as 5 films in one year.

Steve is frequently typecast as sleazy or crazed characters in many of his films.

Buscemi plays Romero in the movies Spy Kids 2: Island of Lost Dreams (2002) and Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over (2003).

In 2003, as part of a year-long tourist promotion at the Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Steve narrated the facility's audio tour.

Steve auditioned for the part of "George Costanza" on Seinfeld (1990).

Steve went through a variety of interesting jobs before hitting it big as a character actor. He worked as a bartender, drove an ice-cream truck, attempted stand-up comedy, and (that which he is most proud of) was a firefighter (he continues to be a volunteer fire-fighter). He bombed so bad as a comic one night another comic took his place, Paul Reiser. Years later Buscemi and Reiser did an episode of Mad About You (1992) poking fun at the incident.

Steve modelled for H&M in 2000.

Steve bears such a strong resemblance to writer-director John Waters so much so that as a joke, Waters sent out cards with a photo of Buscemi made up to look like Waters.

Steve showed up at his old firehouse the day after the World Trade Center tragedy in New York to volunteer. Worked twelve hour shifts for a week after the terrorist act, digging through rubble with his old comrades looking for missing firefighters... anonymously.

In April, 2001, Steve was stabbed in the throat, head and arm during a barroom brawl at the Firebelly Lounge in Wilmington, North Carolina. The brawl also involved Vince Vaughn, who was arrested for brutalizing one of Buscemi's attackers. He suffered a deep cut to the face and now has a noticeable scar on his cheek. Heavy make-up is used to hide it in movies.

Steve has been cast in five movies by Joel Coen and Ethan Coen. His character died in three of them.

Steve was a New York City Fireman from 1980 to 1984, with Engine Company #55 in the Little Italy section of NY.

Steve is the brother of actor Michael Buscemi.

Steve attended Nassau Community College, then moved to Manhattan to study acting at the famed Lee Strasberg Institute.

Steve graduated in 1975 from Valley Stream Central High School, Valley Stream, NY.

Steve is of Italian and Irish-American ancestry.

Steve has been married to Jo Andres since 1987.

Steve has a son named Lucian Buscemi, who was born in 1991.

Steve is 5 feet, 9 inches tall.

Steve really gets annoyed with the often mis-pronounciation of his name. The correct way to say it is "boo-sem-me."

Steve has has played in five movies with Adam Sandler: Airheads (1994), Billy Madison (1995), The Wedding Singer (1998), Big Daddy (1999), and Mr. Deeds (2002).