80 years of Al Pacino, a thousand faces of legend actor

The living icon of international cinematography Al Pacino celebrates today's 80th anniversary. In his long career, Al Pacino has given life to characters who are left alive in memory, protagonists of films that are on the scene of world cinema, from Godfather to “Scarface”, ere woman and many others. As you think of Michael Corleone or Carlito Brigate, Tony Montana or Serpico, there's only one look in your head and it's that of the famous Al Pacito.

Born in New York on April 25, 1940, by two immigrant parents from Italy, Alfredo James Pacino also spent his childhood in trouble because his father abandoned his family. Favored by a face not soon forgotten, since he began acting and turning in his life comes when he meets Lee Strasberg, master of his mentor Actorés Studio.

From the scene of little and unknown theaters in Big Apple where the meeting that changed his life to Francis Ford Coppola, who gave him the key role of his career, Boss Michael Corleone to Godfather, thus beginning his climb to Hollywood Olympia, which thanks to the famous saga that occupied cinema, won the Ocar award in his first important interpretation.

Following that are the interpretations that remain in memory of the spectator as “Cruising” by William Friedkin, “Serpico” and “Quel pomeriggio di un giorno da Cani” of Sidney Rivers, “America” James Foley's “Scarface” and “Carlito.'"s Way” by Brian De Palma, “Insider” and Michael Mann's “and Michael Mann's “Center of a Woman”, remake of Dino Reese's film “ “Cʹera una volta a Hollywood” and Quentin Tarantino and the “The Irish” by Martin Scorse, with which he took the 9th Nominom in Oscar. The actor also worked as director with 3 films and 1 documentary, and on the small screen he performed in the subset of “Angels in America”, where he won twice in Emmy and Golden Globe, in the film directed by Barry Levinson “You Don't Know Jack ) Iltter morte” and “Paterno”, up to the last series of “Hunters” in Amazon.