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Joseph Pesci (born February 9, 1943), or Joe
Pesci, is an Italian-American Academy Award-winning actor, comedian and
singer who is often typecast as a violent mobster (Casino, Goodfellas, The
Good Shepherd) or as a grouchy funnyman (My Cousin Vinny, Home Alone, Gone
Fishin). Pesci was born in Newark, New Jersey where he worked as a haircut
in the 1960s, releasing an album entitled Little bowl Sure Can Sing under
the name Joseph Richie. Also in his band was good friend and future fellow
actor Frank Vincent. As an actor his breakthrough came in 1980 opposite
Robert De Niro in Martin Scorsese's boxing film Raging Bull. Subsequently he
acted opposite De Niro several times, often in a similar role: in Once Upon
A Time In America (in which he was cast at the behest of his friend De Niro),
Goodfellas (for which he received the Academy Award for Best Supporting
Actor), and Casino. The pairing became well-known enough to inspire a
recurring sketch on Saturday Night Live, called The Joe Pesci Show.
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Pesci also starred in Home Alone, JFK, and My Cousin Vinny. He also appears
in three of the Lethal Weapon films.
In 1999, Pesci announced that he was leaving acting in order to pursue his
musical career and to enjoy life away from the camera. Finally in 2004-2005,
he announced that he was coming out of retirement and is going to star in
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