Steve Vincent Buscemi is a Hollywood actor and director. He is known for the roles of negative characters: killers, bandits, maniacs and gangsters. Each of his characters is remembered thanks to the talented acting of the actor.
Biography
Steve Buscemi was born in New York in 1958 to an international family. His father was Italian and his mother was Irish. The boy was the fourth son in the family of Dorothy and John Buscemi. Steve's parents were poor people. John Buscemi (Steve's father) worked as an orderly, in his mother Dorothy was a waitress. However, children were never ashamed of their parents and helped them from an early age.
Steve attended Valley Stream Central School, where he began acting in school theater. After graduating in 1975, he entered the College of Liberal Arts in Garden City, where he studied for only one semester and was expelled for non-payment. Buscemi was trained to work in the civil service and became a firefighter at the insistence of his father.
For three years Buscemi could not get a permanent job. He changed many places. He worked as a loader, waiter, salesman at a newsstand. But Buscemi did not give up his dream of becoming an actor. When he was finally accepted into the New York Fire Department, he worked as a firefighter for four years, saving money for his studies.
After collecting a sufficient amount, Buscemi moved to Manhattan to enter the Lee Strasberg Institute. At that time, Steve Buscemi finally realized that acting was his calling. He was even more fascinated by theater and cinema. The future actor not only enjoyed playing on stage, but also wrote scripts, and even staged plays on his own in small New York theaters.
Films
Steve Buscemi made his film debut in Tommy. Later, the actor played several more roles. But, according to the actor, he started his career by playing a role in the film "Farewell Looks", which was directed by Bill Sherwood. Steve got the role of a rock musician who died of AIDS. The film was released in 1985 and became the first Hollywood project to openly talk about HIV and AIDS.
After that, the actor was noticed and in the early 1990s they began to offer him bright and memorable roles. The actor starred in the Coen brothers' films Barton Fink and Miller's Crossing.
The next work was a film by Quentin Tarantino. The director was looking for an actor for the role of Mr. Pink in the "Reservoir Dogs" project. Buscemi was perfect for her. Tarantino praised Steve's talent and invited the actor to his next project, Pulp Fiction, which soon became a cult film.
Undoubtedly, critics have noticed the talented performance of the actor in Rodriguez's film Desperado. Buscemi had a small, but very significant and vibrant role. It is known that Steve Buscemi carefully prepares for each work, even if he plays a minor or episodic role. When the actor starred in the film by Adam Sandler, he had to play a man who worked in a morgue. Steve visited a real morgue, talked to the staff. As a result, the hero looked real and convincing.
Steve Buscemi worked with famous directors, starred in the films of Jim Jarmusch, Abel Ferrara. The most notable works were the roles of Carl Scoulter in the thriller Fargo, Donnie in The Big Lebowski, Garland Green's prisoner in Air Prison. Buscemi has starred in over 50 films.
He also worked as a director. His film projects were the films "Rest among the Trees", "Animal Factory", "The Sopranos".
Personal life
In the late 1980s, Buscemi met actress and director Joe Anders. Steve and Joe soon got married, and in 1991 they had a son, Lucian. The son made his debut with his father in the film "Rest in the Trees".
