Steve Buscemi

The number of images embodied by Steve Buscemi on the screen is the envy of fellow actors, and for some, an unattainable height. The Guinness Book of Records publishers are rumored to be setting aside a page for him, and in professional circles he has been dubbed "cinematic spam."

Yes, Buscemi's main roles can be counted on one hand, but it doesn't matter how many minutes the character lives in the frame.

Steve was born on December 13, 1957 in Brooklyn, New York. In the family of Dorothy and John Buscemi, the boy turned out to be the fourth son. Steve's parents are poor people from Ireland and Italy. Mom worked as a waitress, dad, a Korean War veteran, worked as a sewer. Children were never ashamed of their parents and helped with housework from an early age.

Steve Buscemi caught fire as an actor in his youth. After graduating from school in 1975, he entered the College of Liberal Arts, but the accumulated money was enough only for the first semester. Buscemi dropped out and, at the insistence of his father, passed the exam for the profession of a firefighter. Having applied for this job, the young man did not wait until he was called to the service.

Whoever he worked in these years: at first he worked as a loader, after a while he took the place of a waiter, then he was a distributor of newspapers and even an ice cream man. Finally, a call came to the busiest fire department in town. But the dream of becoming an artist did not leave Steve Buscemi.

Having accumulated a decent amount, the guy moved to Manhattan and began to study at the Lee Strasberg Theater Institute. Then Steve finally realized that he was in the right place. His passion for theater and cinema only grew. The future actor not only enjoyed playing on stage, but also undertook to write scripts and even staged plays on his own in small New York theaters.

The debut for Steve Buscemi is the comedy series Not Necessarily News, written by The Simpsons showrunner Greg Daniels. After the actor starred in several more small roles. He got the central character in the detective story "The way it is", filmed by the French writer and director Eric Mitchell, who is known as the co-author of the films of Jim Jarmusch. And Buscemi himself considers the episode in Jarmusch worthy of a dozen leading roles in other geniuses.

Steve's real cinematic biography, according to him, started with the drama Farewell Looks by Bill Sherwood. The actor got the role of a rock musician dying of AIDS. The film was released in 1985 and was the first Hollywood project to frankly talk about the plague of the 20th century. The director himself died from this disease after 5 years.

In Martin Scorsese's "Life Lessons" melodrama, which became part of "New York Stories," Buscemi reincarnated as a comedian performing in a nightclub. Rosanna Arquette and Nick Nolte became partners on the set.

Steve's bright and memorable works appeared in the early 90s. It was then that he starred in the Coen brothers' films Barton Fink and Miller's Crossing. Later, the fruitful collaboration with the Coens continued. Buscemi appeared in the acclaimed projects "Fargo" and "Big Lebowski". The latter acquired the status of a cult, on the basis of the principles professed by the hero of Jeff Bridges, the religion of Dudeism was formed.

This was followed by work with director Quentin Tarantino. He was just looking for an artist for the role of the thief Pink for the project "Reservoir Dogs". Buscemi fit perfectly. Tarantino praised Steve's skill and invited him to the next picture called "Pulp Fiction". This film also became a cult.

The film critics called the play of the man in Robert Rodriguez's "Desperate" film about a musician taking revenge for his murdered girlfriend. Here Steve has a small, but very significant and vivid role, written especially for him - the friend of the protagonist played by Antonio Banderas. That is why the name of the character is Buscemi.

The hero of the actor in the crime tape "The King of" New York "is a member of a drug gang led by Christopher Walken, in the fantastic action" Armageddon "- an astronaut driller, together with Bruce Willis, saving the Earth from the meteor shower. In the erotic thriller Zandali, Steve fades into the background. The main plot revolves around Erica Anderson and Nicolas Cage.

The script for the noir action movie Escape from Los Angeles lay in the storerooms for 10 years before John Carpenter decided to stage it, and only after the earthquake struck the city. The action of the film is tied to a similar cataclysm. Steve, who starred as a petty rogue, was joined by Kurt Russell, Oscar-winning Cliff Robertson and Jackie Brown star Pam Grier.

Steve Buscemi is known for carefully preparing for each role, even if he plays in an episode. Once, while filming with Adam Sandler, the artist had to play a man working in a morgue. Steve visited the existing morgue for a long time, communicated with employees. As a result, the hero looked natural and convincing, and the morgue workers recognized the character as a colleague.

Dramatic talent Steve Buscemi was able to demonstrate in two seasons of the series "Boardwalk Empire" by Tim Van Patten. Here, the actor appeared in two characters at once - a tycoon who is engaged in illegal business, and treasurer Nucky Thompson. For the latter, he was awarded the Golden Globe and was recognized as the best actor in a drama series. And the role of the treasurer brought Buscemi the prestigious Screen Actors Guild of the United States of America.

The growing rating allowed Steve to receive a high fee for his work in the frame. A contract for $ 75 thousand was signed with the creators of the series. In 1997, the thriller "Prison in Air" with Nicholas Cage and John Malkovich in the lead roles began in American cinemas, where Steve Buscemi convincingly reincarnated as the maniac-psychopath Garland. The film grossed $ 220 million worldwide and received two Oscar nominations, which it lost to James Cameron's blockbuster Titanic.

Since the early 2000s, Buscemi has become extremely popular in cinema. In a year, the artist's filmography was replenished with 7-8 projects. Among the most striking and famous works - the series "The Sopranos" and "Coffee and Cigarettes". Talented film critics call the actor's play in Tim Burton's film Big Fish.

In the crime thriller "The Phantom Menace", he starred as a mysterious witness of the dark past that the protagonist hides, in the comedy "Reluctant Millionaire" - an inadequate vagrant, in the dystopian action movie "The Island" - an employee of a complex in which people are kept as organ donors for elite.

In the late 90s, fans of Steve Buscemi's talent saw their favorite actor as a director. The debut tape - the comedy drama Under the Shadow of the Crowns - with Samuel L. Jackson and Chloe Sevigny was very successful. Then came out on the screens pictures "Animal Factory", without embellishment telling about the "delights" of prison life, and "Lonely Jim" about a guy looking not just for work, but a place in the sun. The last film claimed the Grand Prix at the Sundance Film Festival.

In the project "Interview" Buscemi starred himself and invited Siena Miller for the role. The actor, according to the Coens, is the perfect movie psycho. This is how the hero of the story about a journalist-loser who asks sharp questions to the star of soap operas turned out to be. In the finale, he confesses to the murder.

The 2017 Toronto International Film Festival hosted the premiere of the comedy Death of Stalin, in which the plot is built around the political situation in the USSR after the death of the leader of the peoples. Steve Buscemi reincarnated as Nikita Khrushchev, Simon Russell Beale played Lawrence Beria, Jason Isaacs - Georgy Zhukov, Gerald Lepkovsky - Leonid Brezhnev.

A private screening took place at the Russian Ministry of Culture, after which it was decided to revoke the rental certificate. According to Nikita Mikhalkov, such films are speculation, not subject to discussion, and the acting, building the frame and the scenery are not professional at all.

The tragicomedy Horace and Pete, in which Buscemi starred, was considered a revolution on television. The film was broadcast on a paid subscription through the website of director Louis C. Kay, and the creation of each episode cost $ 500 thousand. But the series did not meet with the viewer, and the previously announced second season was canceled due to unprofitability.

In September 2017, the filming of the 1st season of the fantastic series "Electric Dreams by Philip K. Dick", in which Steve played the leading role, was completed.

In the late 80s, Buscemi met producer and director Mary Jo Andres. Soon, the lovers got married, and in 1991 they had their only child, Lucian. In 2019, a tragedy happened in Steve's personal life - his spouse died from a serious illness.

The son starred with his father in the films "Under the shadow of the crowns" and "The Sopranos". Some moviegoers have suggested that Bill Skarsgard, who plays the clown Pennywise in the thriller It, is a relative of Buscemi. But this is not so, the artists look alike in appearance, and nothing more.

Steve leads a closed lifestyle. The actor has no personal pages on Instagram and other social networks. Numerous publications in the media fill the fans' need for photographs.

During the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, the actor participated as a firefighter in rescuing victims in the twin towers. Buscemi worked together with former colleagues, but did not give a single comment or interview, not wanting to advertise on the tragedy.

It wasn't until 2013 that it became clear that this was not the only episode. In 2003, Steve gave a speech at a rally, calling for higher wages for firefighters and an end to job cuts. After the movie star was arrested along with the rest of the protesters firefighters. And in 2012, Buscemi helped eliminate the devastating effects of Hurricane Sandy. Nobody would have known about this, if not for the grateful residents, among whom there were many celebrity fans.

In 1997, Empire magazine recognized Buscemi as the movie star of all time and included the artist in the top 100 most popular actors. Steve finished 52nd.

In the comedy series "Miracle Workers", Steve Buscemi tried on the role of God, tired of caring about the inhabitants of the Earth and therefore wishing to destroy the restless object. A small clerk played by Daniel Radcliffe finds out about this and takes on an impossible task at first glance - to prevent the almighty boss.

On the big screen, the actor presents Jim Jarmusch's comedy horror film The Dead Don't Die. In terms of content, this is a funny story of the confrontation between police and the living dead, one of whom was played by the "godfather" of grunge rock Iggy Pop. Tilda Swinton, Bill Murray, Selena Gomez and Danny Glover also starred.

1992 - "Reservoir Dogs" 1994 - "Pulp Fiction" 1995 - "Desperate" 1996 - "Fargo" 1997 - "Air Prison" 1998 - "The Big Lebowski" 1998 - "Armageddon" 2000 - "28 Days" 2001 - "The Phantom Menace "2002 -" Spy Kids 2. Island of Lost Hopes "2004 -" The Sopranos "2010 - 2014" Boardwalk Empire "2013 -" Safari King "2016 -" Horace and Pete "2017 -" Death of Stalin "2018 -" Nancy "2019 - "Miracle Workers"

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Steve Buscemi Net Worth 2021

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Steve Buscemi Net Worth 2020

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Steve Buscemi Net Worth 2019

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Steve Buscemi Net Worth 2018

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Steve Buscemi Net Worth 2017

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Steve Buscemi Net Worth 2016

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Steve Buscemi Net Worth 2015

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