Steve Vincent Buscemi is a Hollywood actor and director. He is known for the role of negative characters: killers, bandits, maniacs and gangsters. Each of his characters is remembered thanks to the talented game of the actor.
Biography
Steve Buscemi was born in New York in 1958 in 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 a nurse; in his mother, Dorothy was a waitress. However, children were never ashamed of their parents and helped them from an early age.
Steve studied at the Wally Stream Central School, where he began to play in the 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 public 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, seller in a newsstand. But Buscemi did not abandon the dream of becoming an actor. When he was finally admitted to the New York Fire Department, he worked as a fireman for four years, saving money on his studies.
Having collected 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 the theater and cinema. The future actor not only enjoyed playing on stage, but also wrote scripts, and even independently directed plays in small New York theaters.
Movies
Steve Buscemi made his debut in the movie Tommy. Later, the actor played several more roles. But, according to the actor, he began his career by playing a role in the film "Farewell Views", directed by Bill Sherwood. Steve got the role of a rock musician who died of AIDS. The film was released in 1985 and was the first Hollywood project to openly talk about HIV and AIDS.
After this actor was noticed, and in the early 1990s, they began to offer him vivid and memorable roles. The actor starred in the films of the Cohen brothers "Barton Fink" and "Miller's Crossroads."
The next work was a film by Quentin Tarantino. The director was looking for an actor for the role of Mr. Pink in the project "Mad Dogs". Buscemi was perfect for her. Tarantino praised Steve's talent and invited the actor to the next project called Pulp Fiction, which soon became a cult film.
Undoubtedly, critics noticed the talented play 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 every job, even if he plays a minor or episodic role. When the actor starred in Adam Sandler's film, he had to play the man who worked in the morgue. Steve visited a real morgue, talked with employees. As a result, the hero looked real and convincing.
Steve Buscemi worked with well-known directors, starred in the films of Jim Jarmusch, Abel Ferrara. The most notable works were the roles of Karl Schoulter in the thriller Fargo, Donnie in Bolshoi Lebowski, and the prisoner Garland Green in Air Prison. Buscemi has starred in more than 50 films.
He also worked as a director. His film projects were films "Rest among the trees", "Animal Farm", "Clan Soprano".
