Who is Steve Buscemi?
Steve Buscemi is an actor best known for his roles in Quentin Tarantino’s “Reservoir Dogs” and “Pulp Fiction,” as well as the Coen brothers’ “Miller’s Crossing,” “Barton Fink,” “The Hudsucker Proxy,” “Fargo,” and “The Big Lebowski.”
Steve Buscemi bio
Steven Buscemi was born in Brooklyn, New York, on December 13, 1957. On Friday the thirteenth, he arrived. Steve, Jon, Ken, and Michael are the four sons of John and Dorothy Buscemi.
Buscemi initially pronounced his name as boo-SEM-ee. It is pronounced boo-SHEM-ee in Sicily, where his family originated. I had to travel to Sicily before I realized I pronounce my name properly, he once claimed.
When he was a child, his family moved to Nassau County, New York. Steve was a member of the wrestling team and the theater club at Valley Stream Central High School. He received his diploma in 1975. Buscemi briefly attended Nassau Community before moving to New York City to enrol in the Lee Strasberg Institute.
Steve Buscemi career
In 1976, Buscemi took a test for the civil service. In 1980, he began working with the New York City Fire Department. He served in Little Italy Engine CO. 55 of the FDNY for four years. Buscemi returned to Engine Co. 55 after the attacks of September 11, 2001, and for several days, he and other firefighters worked 12-hour shifts to sort through the World Trade Center’s rubble. At a union protest in 2003, he advocated for higher pay for firefighters. In 2014, the FDNY designated him as an Honorary Battalion Chief.
Buscemi typically plays characters who are neurotic and paranoid. Steve Buscemi made his acting debut in “The Way It Is” in 1985. Tales from the Darkside (1990), Slaves of New York (1988), and Parting Glances are some of his other early films (1986). In 1990, Buscemi played other criminal roles. He played Test Tube, Laurence Fishburne’s bodyguard, in Abel Ferrara’s “King of New York.” He also played Mink in “Miller’s Crossing” by the Coen Brothers. Buscemi had to go through two rounds of auditions for this role, which would appear in the first of five Coen Brothers films in which he would appear.
He portrayed Chet, the bellboy, in the Coen Brothers movie “Barton Fink” in 1991. In the Soup,” a 1992 film, he played Adolpho Rollo in his first leading role. In 1992’s “Reservoir Dogs,” directed by Quentin Tarantino, he acquired more recognition as Mr. Pink. Additionally, he was in Tarantino’s subsequent movie, “Pulp Fiction.” Other notable character roles played by Buscemi include Carl Showalter in Fargo, Garland Greene in Con Air, Donny in The Big Lebowski, Rockhound in Armageddon, Seymour in Ghost World (for which he received numerous awards), Randall Boggs in Monsters, Inc. and Monsters University, Templeton the Rat in Charlotte’s Web, and Wayne the Werewolf in all of the “Hotel Transylvania” films.
Buscemi joined the cast of “The Sopranos” in 2004. Buscemi also made an appearance in “Boardwalk Empire.” He received the Golden Globe for Best Actor for his work in that show. In addition to starring in a number of big-budget films, actor Steve Buscemi also directed episodes of “Homicide: Life on the Street,” “The Sopranos,” “Oz,” “30 Rock,” and “Nurse Jackie,” a show that starred his “Sopranos” co-star Edie Falco.
The Pete Davidson biopic “The King of Staten Island,” which was released in 2020, features Buscemi. The 26-year-old actor Pete Davidson is the subject of the film, which was directed by Judd Apatow. Steve Buscemi, Marisa Tomei, Bel Powley, Bill Burr, and Maude Apatow are also seen.
Steve Buscemi net worth
A well-known American actor, writer, director, producer, and former firefighter, Steve Buscemi has a $35 million net worth. The Coen brothers’ movies “Miller’s Crossing,” “Barton Fink,” “The Hudsucker Proxy,” “Fargo,” and “The Big Lebowski,” as well as Quentin Tarantino’s “Reservoir Dogs” and “Pulp Fiction,” are where Steve Buscemi is probably best recognized for his supporting parts.
Steve Buscemi wife
Buscemi and Jo Andres first crossed paths as neighbors in 1983. When she was traveling to or from work, Buscemi, who had a crush on her, would go outside to walk his dog. That strategy was successful, although Buscemi was unaware that she had seen his face on posters promoting his experimental comedy team “Steve and Mark” at the time. She said, “I’m going to snag that guy,” to her pal. In 1987, the couple was hitched.
They have one son, Lucien, an actor and musician born in 1990.
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