

In 1990, he played Mink in the Coen Brothers' neo-noir gangster film Millers Crossing starring opposite Gabriel Byrne, Marcia Gay Harden, and John Turturro. Buscemi also appeared in Jim Jarmusch's independent film Mystery Train (1989) as Charlie the Barber, and was nominated for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Male. The film screened out of competition at the 1989 Cannes Film Festival to mixed reviews with the Scorsese segment being hailed as the standout by Roger Ebert. In 1989, he appeared in four films, including James Ivory's comedy Slaves of New York, Howard Brookner's ensemble period film Bloodhounds of Broadway and the New York Stories segment directed by Martin Scorsese entitled, "Life Lessons" starring alongside Nick Nolte and Rosanna Arquette.
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Other early performances include Parting Glances (1986) as well as an appearance in an episode of the television series Miami Vice in 1986. ) Buscemi briefly attended Nassau Community College before moving to Manhattan to enroll in the Lee Strasberg Institute.Ĭareer 1980s: Early work īuscemi made his acting debut in the 1985 film The Way It Is, directed by Eric Mitchell, which was part of the no wave cinema movement. (Buscemi's 1996 film Trees Lounge, in which he starred and served as screenwriter and director, is set in and was largely shot in his childhood village of Valley Stream. In high school, Buscemi wrestled for the varsity squad and participated in the drama troupe. Buscemi graduated in 1975 from Valley Stream Central High School along with future writer Edward J. When Buscemi was 10 years old, the family moved from East New York to Valley Stream in Nassau County. Buscemi's paternal ancestors were from the town of Menfi in Sicily, and his mother is of Irish, English, and Dutch ancestry. His father was a sanitation worker and served in the Korean War, and his mother was a hostess at Howard Johnson's. Steven Vincent Buscemi was born on December 13, 1957, in the borough of Brooklyn in New York City, to Dorothy (Wilson) and John Buscemi. Multiple film critics and media outlets have cited Buscemi as one of the best actors never to have received an Academy Award nomination. film franchise (2001–2013), Wesley in Home on the Range (2004), Horace Nebbercracker in Monster House (2006), Templeton the Rat in Charlotte's Web (2006), Scamper in Igor (2008), Bucky the Hamster in G-Force (2009), Wayne the Werewolf in the Hotel Transylvania film franchise (2012–2022) and Francis E. Following this, he directed Animal Factory (2000), Lonesome Jim (2004), and Interview (2007).īuscemi has worked prominently in animation, including voice-work for Randall Boggs in the Monsters, Inc. He made his directorial film debut with Trees Lounge (1996), which he also wrote and starred in. Buscemi starred in a leading role in comedian Louis C.K.'s tragicomedy web series Horace and Pete (2016). His performance earned him two Screen Actors Guild Awards, a Golden Globe and two nominations for an Emmy Award. From 2010 to 2014, Buscemi starred in the lead role as Enoch "Nucky" Thompson in the critically acclaimed HBO television series Boardwalk Empire created by Terence Winter. Buscemi is also known for his many collaborations with the Coen brothers, having appeared in six of their films: Miller's Crossing (1990), Barton Fink (1991), The Hudsucker Proxy (1994), Fargo (1996), The Big Lebowski (1998), and Paris, je t'aime (2006).īuscemi has also had a prolific career in television.

He is known for his roles in Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs (1992), Robert Rodriguez's Desperado (1995), Simon West's Con Air (1997), Michael Bay's Armageddon (1998), the dark comedy Ghost World (2001), Tim Burton's drama Big Fish (2003), and Armando Iannucci's political satire The Death of Stalin (2017). Steven Vincent Buscemi ( / b uː ˈ s ɛ m i/ boo- SEM-ee, Italian: born December 13, 1957) is an American actor.
