Alfredo James Pacino (born April 25, 1940) is an American actor and filmmaker. In a career spanning over five decades, he has received many awards and nominations, including an Academy Award, two Tony Awards, and two Primetime Emmy Awards. He is one of the few performers to have received the Triple Crown of Acting. He has also been honored with the AFI Life Achievement Award, the Cecil B. DeMille Award, and the National Medal of Arts. A method actor and former student of the HB Studio and the Actors Studio, where he was taught by Charlie Laughton and Lee Strasberg, Pacino's film debut came at the age of 29 with a minor role in Me, Natalie (1969). He gained favorable notice for his first lead role as a heroin addict in The Panic in Needle Park (1971). Wide acclaim and recognition came with his breakthrough role as Michael Corleone in Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather (1972), for which he received his first Oscar nomination, and he would reprise the role in the sequels The Godfather Part II (1974) and The Godfather Part III (1990). His portrayal of Michael Corleone is regarded as one of the greatest in film history. Pacino received nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actor for Serpico (1973), The Godfather Part II, Dog Day Afternoon (1975), and ...And Justice for All (1979), ultimately winning it for playing a blind military veteran in Scent of a Woman (1992). For his performances in The Godfather, Dick Tracy (1990), Glengarry Glen Ross (1992), and The Irishman (2019), he earned Best Supporting Actor Oscar nominations. Other notable portrayals include Tony Montana in Scarface (1983), Carlito Brigante in Carlito's Way (1993), Benjamin Ruggiero in Donnie Brasco (1997), and Lowell Bergman in The Insider (1999). He has also starred in the thrillers Heat (1995), The Devil's Advocate (1997), Insomnia (2002), and appeared in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019). On television, Pacino has acted in several productions for HBO, including Angels in America (2003) and the Jack Kevorkian biopic You Don't Know Jack (2010), winning a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie for each. Pacino currently stars in the Amazon Video web television series Hunters (2020–present). He has also had an extensive career on stage. He is a two-time Tony Award winner, in 1969 and 1977, for his performances in Does a Tiger Wear a Necktie? and The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel. Pacino made his filmmaking debut with Looking for Richard (1996), directing and starring in this documentary about Richard III; Pacino had played the lead role on stage in 1977. He has also acted as Shylock in a 2004 feature film adaptation and 2010 stage production of The Merchant of Venice. Pacino directed and starred in Chinese Coffee (2000), Wilde Salomé (2011), and Salomé (2013). Since 1994, he has been the joint president of the Actors Studio.​ From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Filmography

• 2027Father Joe
• 2026Billy Knight — Billy Knight
• 2026Dead Man's Wire — M.L. Hall
• 2026In the Hand of Dante — Uncle Carmine
• 2026Killing Castro — Robert Maheu
• 2026Maserati: The Brothers — Vincenzo Vaccaro
• 2025Breakdown: 1975 — Sonny Wortzik (archive footage)
• 2025Easy's Waltz
• 2025The Ritual — Father Theophilus Riesinger
• 2024Knox Goes Away — Xavier Crane
• 2024Modi, Three Days on the Wing of Madness — Maurice Gangnat, Producer
• 2021American Traitor: The Trial of Axis Sally — James Laughlin
• 2021House of Gucci — Aldo Gucci
• 2020Al Pacino: The Reluctant Star — (archive footage)
• Hunters — Meyer Offerman / Wilhelm Zuchs
• 2019Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood — Marvin Schwarz
• 2019The Irishman — Jimmy Hoffa
• 2018Paterno — Joe Paterno
• 2017Hangman — Detective Archer
• 2017The Pirates of Somalia — Seymour Tolbin
• 2016Misconduct — Charles Abrams
• 2015Danny Collins — Danny Collins
• 2015Manglehorn — A.J. Manglehorn
• 2014Cruising Electric (1980) — archive
• 2014The Humbling — Simon Axler, Producer
• 2013Phil Spector — Phil Spector
• 2013Salomé — King Herod, Director, Writer
• 2013We're No Animals — The Agent
• 2013Wilde Salomé — Self / King Herod, Director, Screenplay
• 2012Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen — (archive footage)
• 2012Stand Up Guys — Valentine "Val"
• 2011Jack and Jill — Al Pacino
• 2011The Son of No One — Detective Charles Stanford
• 2010You Don't Know Jack — Dr. Jack Kevorkian
• 2008Righteous Kill — Rooster
• 200788 Minutes — Dr. Jack Gramm
• 2007Ocean's Thirteen — Willy Bank
• 2005Two for the Money — Walter Abrams
• 2004The Merchant of Venice — Shylock
• Angels in America — Roy Cohn
• 2003Gigli — Starkman
• 2003The Recruit — Walter Burke
• 2002Insomnia — Will Dormer
• 2002People I Know — Eli Wurman
• 2002S1m0ne — Viktor Taransky
• 2000Chinese Coffee — Harry Levine, Director
• 1999Any Given Sunday — Tony D'Amato
• 1999The Insider — Lowell Bergman
• 1997Donnie Brasco — Benjamin 'Lefty' Ruggiero
• 1997The Devil's Advocate — John Milton
• 1996City Hall — Mayor John Pappas
• 1996Looking for Richard — Self / Richard III, Writer, Director, Producer
• 1995Heat — Lt. Vincent Hanna
• 1995Two Bits — Gitano Sabatoni
• 1993Carlito's Way — Carlito Brigante
• 1993In the Name of the Father — Thanks
• 1992Glengarry Glen Ross — Ricky Roma
• 1992Scent of a Woman — Lt. Col. Frank Slade
• 1992The Godfather Trilogy: 1901-1980 — Don Michael Corleone
• 1991Frankie and Johnny — Johnny
• 1990Dick Tracy — Big Boy Caprice
• 1990The Godfather Part III — Michael Corleone
• 1990The Local Stigmatic — Graham, Producer
• 1989Sea of Love — Frank Keller
• 1985Revolution — Tom Dobb
• 1983Scarface — Tony Montana
• 1982Author! Author! — Ivan Travalian
• 1980Cruising — Steve Burns
• 1979...And Justice for All — Arthur Kirkland
• 1977Bobby Deerfield — Bobby
• Mario Puzo's The Godfather: The Complete Novel for Television — Don Michael Corleone
• 1975Dog Day Afternoon — Sonny
• 1974The Godfather Part II — Don Michael Corleone
• 1973Scarecrow — Francis Lionel 'Lion' Delbuchi
• 1973Serpico — Officer Frank Serpico
• 1972The Godfather — Michael Corleone
• 1971The Panic in Needle Park — Bobby
• 1969Me, Natalie — Tony
• N.Y.P.D. — John James
• Assassination
• Lear Rex — King Lear, Producer
• Sniff — Harvey Stride
• St. Vincent

Appearances as themselves (56)

• 2026Mineshaft: The Cruising Murders — Self (archive footage)
• 2023Sly — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
• The Family Stallone — Self
• 2022Becoming Al Pacino — Self (archive footage)
• 2021Val — Self (archive)
• 2020Making 'The Irishman' — Self
• 2020The Collaboration of a Lifetime: Scorsese's Epic The Irishman — Self
• 2019The Irishman: In Conversation — Self
• 2017Frank Serpico — Self (voice)
• 2017Julian Schnabel: A Private Portrait — Self
• 10 самых... — Self (archive footage)
• 2014Marlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire — Self - Actor (archive footage)
• The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon — Self
• 2012Casting By — Self
• 2012The Godfather Legacy — Self
• 2011The 'Scarface' Phenomenon — Self (archive footage)
• 2009I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale — Self
• 2007Brando — Self
• Brando: The Documentary — Self
• 2007Exorcising 'Cruising' — Self (archive footage)
• 2007The History of 'Cruising' — Self (archive footage)
• 2006Eugene O’Neill: A Documentary Film — Self
• 2006The Godfather and the Mob — Self (archive footage)
• 2006The Making of 'Dog Day Afternoon' — Self
• 2005Babbleonia — Self
• 2005Nos Bastidores de Hollywood — Self (archive footage)
• 2005Pacino and De Niro: The Conversation — Self
• 2005The Making of 'Heat' — Self
• Celebrities Uncensored — Self
• Jimmy Kimmel Live! — Self - Guest
• 2003The Making of 'Carlito's Way' — Self (archive footage)
• 2002Heart of the Festival — Self (archive footage)
• 2002Inside 'Serpico' — Self (archive footage)
• 2002Serpico: From Real to Reel — Self (archive footage)
• 1999Tough Guise: Violence, Media & the Crisis in Masculinity — Self
• 1998Internet Love — Self (uncredited)
• 1998The Making of 'Scarface' — Self
• 1997Lee Strasberg: The Method Man — Self
• 1997Pitch — Self
• Inside the Actors Studio — Self
• 1994Jonas in the Desert — Self
• Late Show with David Letterman — Self - Guest
• 1991Madonna: Truth or Dare — Self
• 1990Dick Tracy: Behind the Badge, Behind the Scenes — Self
• 1990The Godfather Family: A Look Inside — Self
• Goldene Kamera — Self
• 1983James Bond: The First 21 Years — Self
• 1982Night of 100 Stars — Self
• 1973On the Road with: Scarecrow — Self
• Film '72 — Self
• 1971The Godfather: Behind the Scenes — Self
• 60 Minutes — Self
• Tony Awards — Self - Winner
• The Oscars — Self
• The Emmy Awards — Self
• Golden Globe Awards — Self, Self - Presenter, Self - Honoree