Surprisingly, the oneįorm his trademark flesh-lipped snarl was spotted in gritty urban settings playingīoss in In the Fix (2005) a dirty cop in Often violent typecast, it has been a secure and flashy one thatĬontinues to run strong into the millennium. Though Palminteri was invariably drawn into a rather tight-fitting, He was on the right side of the law in bothįirst romantic lead, and then the classic crimer Nomination the following year for his portrayal of a Runyonesque hit At age 41 Palminteri had become an "overnight" star. His mentor, backed him up all the way, and the rest is history.Ī Bronx Tale (1993), which featured his actress/producer/wife Gianna Palminteri, earned strong Part of the package as both actor and screenwriter. Stage property (the offers went into the seven figures) unless he was An unknownįilm commodity at the time, Chazz had stubbornly refused to sell his Palminteri played one of theįlashier roles, Sonny, a gangster, in the movie version. DeNiro, wanting to directįor the first time, saw the potential of this project and brought both Showcased for years in both Los Angeles and New York, finally sparking Palminteriīrought each and every character to life (18 in all) in thisĪutobiographical piece - his friends, enemies, even his own family. Great detail, which included witnessing gangland slayings. One-man stage commentary in which he depicted his bruising childhood in In 1988 he wrote for himself a play entitled "A Bronx Tale," a powerful In them to show that he was capable of stronger leading parts. Sharp, well-acted and with a distinct edge to them, there was nothing In films he started off playing a 1930s-style gangster in Unflinching hoods and hard-nosed cops were all part of his ethnic Well-suited for getting tough-talker parts. In 1986 he headed west and found that his ethnic qualifications was He appeared off-Broadway in theĮarly 1980s while paying his dues as a bouncer and doorman in Theodore Roosevelt High School and started out pursuing his craft inġ973 studying at the Actor's Studio. That would later prove very useful to his career. He grew up in a tough area of the Bronx, giving him the life lessons Chazz was born Calogero Lorenzo Palminteri in 1952 in the Bronx, New York, the son of Rose, a homemaker, and Lorenzo Palminteri, a bus driver. Joe Pesci, Palminteri has brought grit, muscleĪnd an evocative realism to the sidewalks of his New York neighborhood, Bronx-born and raised Chazz Palminteri was a natural choice to continue
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