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  • American people of Italian descent
  • Best Supporting Actor Academy Award winners
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  • American male film actors
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  • 1943 births
  • American male comedians
  • BAFTA winners (people)
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  • Musicians from Newark, New Jersey
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  • Italian-American actor born February 9, 1943, in Newark, New Jersey. Known mostly for his roles in %22My Cousin Vinny%22, %22Casino%22, %22JFK%22, that of a bumbling burglar in the %22Home Alone%22 movies, motor-mouth con-man Leo Getz in the %22Lethal Weapon%22 movies and, of course, his Academy Award winning and psychotic performance in %22Goodfellas%22.Unknown to most is that he began his show-business career as a musician, initially as a guitarist in Joey Dee & The Starliters and later on as a solo singer.
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  • Joseph Frank %22Joe%22 Pesci (/ˈpɛʃi/ PESH-ee; Italian: [ˈpeʃʃi]; born February 9, 1943) is an Italian-American actor, comedian and musician, known for playing tough, volatile characters, in a variety of genres. He is best known for a trio of films in which he co-starred with Robert De Niro, directed by Martin Scorsese: Raging Bull (1980), Goodfellas (1990) and Casino (1995). Pesci was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Raging Bull, and then won the same award for his role as the psychopathic mobster Tommy DeVito (based on Thomas DeSimone) in Goodfellas.Pesci has starred in a number of other high-profile films, including Easy Money, Once Upon a Time in America, My Cousin Vinny, JFK, Home Alone, Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, A Bronx Tale and the Lethal Weapon series. He announced his retirement from acting in 1999, and since then he has appeared only sporadically in films, including a cameo appearance in the 2006 spy thriller The Good Shepherd, directed by De Niro.
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