Joe Pantoliano

format_quote Follow him on Instagram.

format_quote He has worked as an associate producer on films including Tinseltown (1997), The Immortals (1995), The Last Word (1995), and Robot in the Family (1993).

format_quote He also has dyslexia.

stars  Keen wine buff. On a recent episode of Jon Favreau's "Dinner for Five" (2001) on IFC, he was choosing the wine, inquiring about a '97 Ornellaia before settling on a '79 Tignanello. When the wine was presented to him for tasting, he picked up that it was corked and asked the sommelier to taste it himself, and the sommelier concurred.

stars  Often works with Carrie-Anne Moss.

stars  He landed his first professional role in 1972 when he played Billy Bibbit in the national touring company of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. He worked in regional theater appearing in more than 40 Off-Broadway productions including Vision of Kerouac at the Lion Theater and The Death Star at the Theater of St. Clements.

stars  At age seventeen he moved from his hometown of Hoboken, New Jersey, to Manhattan to study to become a barber.

stars  Italian-American.