Joe Pantoliano

Joe Pantoliano has the secret to immortality: work constantly for decades despite dyslexia and depression to become a beloved character actor who plays unforgettable roles in iconic movies. Simple as that. You know him from RISKY BUSINESS, THE GOONIES, MIDNIGHT RUN, EMPIRE OF THE SUN, MEMENTO, THE FUGITIVE and THE MATRIX to name only a few. (He’s got “another 180 that nobody’s ever heard of!”) Then there was that Emmy he won for playing a despicable mob captain on two seasons of The Sopranos. Joe cut and ran from his native New Jersey after high school and turned his own fortunes in Hollywood by making every character memorable: “I never had the luxury of saying I made it, hey I’m here. Each job was the last job, then I had to get the next one.”