Steven Vincent Buscemi is an American actor, director, writer, producer and former firefighter. He has starred in a number of successful movies, including Reservoir Dogs, Desperado, Con Air, Armageddon, The Grey Zone, Ghost World, Big Fish, and The Death of Stalin. He is also known for his supporting roles in the Coen brothers films Miller’s Crossing, Barton Fink, The Hudsucker Proxy, Fargo and The Big Lebowski. He portrayed Enoch ‘Nucky’ Thompson in the television series Boardwalk Empire from 2010 to 2014.
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Steven Vincent Buscemi (born December 13, 1957) is an American actor, director, writer, producer and former firefighter. He has starred in a number of successful movies, including Reservoir Dogs, Desperado, Con Air, Armageddon, The Grey Zone, Ghost World, Big Fish, and The Death of Stalin. He is also known for his supporting roles in the Coen brothers films Miller’s Crossing, Barton Fink, The Hudsucker Proxy, Fargo and The Big Lebowski. He portrayed Enoch \”Nucky\” Thompson in the critically acclaimed television series Boardwalk Empire from 2010 to 2014. He made his directorial film debut with Trees Lounge, in which he also starred. He also has worked prominently in animation, including voice-work for Randall Boggs in the Monsters, Inc. film franchise and Francis E. Francis in The Boss Baby. He was rumored to be considered for the role of The Scarecrow in Joel Schumacher’s proposed fifth installment of the Batman franchise, Batman Unchained, before Warner Bros. cancelled the project.
His father was of Italian descent; his ancestors were from the town of Menfi in Sicily. His mother is of Irish, English, and Dutch ancestry, and he has three brothers—Jon, Ken, and Michael. He graduated in 1975 from Valley Stream Central High School along with classmate and future actress Patricia Charbonneau. He wrestled for the varsity squad and participated in the drama troupe. He briefly attended Nassau Community College before moving to Manhattan to enroll in the Lee Strasberg Institute. His first lead role was as Adolpho Rollo in Alexandre Rockwell’s In the Soup. He gained wider attention for his Supporting part as pseudonymous criminal Mr. Pink in Quentin Tarantino’s film Reservoir dogs, a role that Tarantino originally wrote for himself, and one that earned him the Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Male. In 1995, he appeared in a cameo appearance in Pulp Fiction, where he portrays a waiter dressed as Buddy Wallace who serves Mia Wallace and Holly Wallace.
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