Al Pacino

Al Pacino (born 1940) is an American actor who also works as a director, known for intense stage and screen performances and for completing the Triple Crown of Acting with an Academy Award, a Tony Award and an Emmy Award. His career began in the theater, then moved to film with The Godfather and its sequels, and later included Serpico, Dog Day Afternoon, Scarface, Heat and the Best Actor winning Scent of a Woman. For the media atlas his place as a filmmaker rests on Looking for Richard (1996), a documentary that marked his directorial debut and won a Directors Guild of America Award, and on the later projects he directed and starred in, Chinese Coffee, Wilde Salome and Salome. On television he won Primetime Emmy Awards for the HBO productions Angels in America and You Dont Know Jack, and since 1995 he has been co-president of the Actors Studio.