Chazz Palminteri Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Palminteri starred on Broadway in A Bronx Tale the semi autobiographical one man show he first performed off Broadway in 1989. Palminteri plays 18 characters in A Bronx Tale, which depicts a harsh youth on the streets of the Bronx. The play ran for 2 months at Playhouse 91 in 1989. Robert De Niro viewed this show there and made his directorial debut with all the big screen version, costarring with Palminteri. On January 20, 2010, Palminteri guested on Modern Family and played the exact same character on the November 2, 2011, episode. Palminteri has reprises the role twice more in season 5. In June 2010, Palminteri started guest-starring on the TNT offense play Rizzoli & Isles as Frank Rizzoli, Sr.
Actor, Screenwriter, Film Producer, Businessperson, Voice Actor, Film director
Education
Theodore Roosevelt High School
Nationality
United States of America
Spouse
Gianna Ranaudo (m. 1992)
Children
Dante Lorenzo Palminteri, Gabriella Rose Palminteri
Parents
Lorenzo Palminteri,Rose Palminteri
Nicknames
Calogero Lorenzo "Chazz" Palminteri , Calogero Lorenzo Palminteri , Chazz from Bedford , Chazz , Calogero Palminteri
Awards
Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Male, Outer Critics Circle Special Award, Sundance Film Festival Special Jury Prize for Best Ensemble Cast
Nominations
Academy Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role, Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role, Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Solo Performance
Movies
A Bronx Tale, The Usual Suspects, Bullets over Broadway, Analyze This, Legend, Running Scared, Mulholland Falls, Diabolique, Stuart Little, A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints, In the Mix, Yonkers Joe, Hurlyburly, Poolhall Junkies, Noel, Hoodwinked!, The Perez Family, The Little Man, Mighty Fine, Jad...
TV Shows
Kojak, Dr. Vegas
Star Sign
Taurus
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Trademark
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Gravelly Voice
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Quote
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[re his Bronx childhood] The big guys used to beat up the little guys, and the little guys used to beat up the real little guys. If you were a little guy, you'd become a big guy and then beat up the little guys underneath you. Kids now, all they do is sit down and play Facebook. I was on the stoop, and I saw a man kill another man right in front of me. People go, 'You must have been traumatized!' I really wasn't. I just saw this guy kill a guy, and my father dragged me upstairs, we talked about it, I didn't rat on the guy, and that was it.
I think the lessons I learned growing up in the streets in the Bronx were never tip your hand too soon. Always keep your cards close to the vest.
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I speak as much as I can about the working man in the Italian-American community. It's the working man who makes up the heart of the community. The Italian-Americans I play are mobsters who have a heart or a positive element.
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Fact
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Voiced two animated characters who were junkyard animals that hated house animals. In Stuart Little (1999) he voiced Smokey a junkyard cat who hated house cats and in Lady and the Tramp II: Scamp's Adventure he voiced Buster a junkyard dog who hated house dogs.
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Got his role in The Usual Suspects after it was turned down by Al Pacino.
Italian-American, with roots in Agrigento, Sicily.
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Is a frequent caller to WFAN sports radio in New York.
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Began as a long-haired lead singer for a band called "Razzamachazz."
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Although "A Bronx Tale" was his first play, he had written skits for a comedy troupe for about four or five years prior to that.
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He was initially offered $250,000, then a seven-figure amount, for the film rights to his play "A Bronx Tale," but he refused to sell out, insisting that he write the screenplay and play the lead, which he did (A Bronx Tale (1993)).
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Chazz used to bounce at The LimeLight in New York City.