Joe Pantoliano

Joe Pantoliano

1951-09-12
Hoboken, New Jersey, USA

Biography

Joseph Peter Pantoliano (born September 12, 1951) is an American actor who has played over 150 roles across film, television, and theater. He is best known for portraying Francis Fratelli in The Goonies (1985), Captain Conrad Howard in the Bad Boys film series (1995–2024),  Cypher in the Wachowskis' sci-fi action film The Matrix (1999), Teddy in Christopher Nolan's psychological thriller film Memento (2000), and Ralph "Ralphie" Cifaretto on the HBO crime drama The Sopranos (2001–2004), for which he won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series. Other notable film credits include Risky Business (1983), Steven Spielberg's Empire of the Sun (1987), La Bamba (1987), Midnight Run (1988), The Fugitive (1993), Baby's Day Out (1994), the Wachowskis' directorial debut Bound (1996), and Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief (2010). In 2025, he received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series for his performance in The Last of Us. Pantoliano has published two memoirs and is active in the field of mental health, having documented his mother's issues and his own. He founded the nonprofit No Kidding, Me Too!, which is dedicated to removing the stigma from mental illness. Description above from the Wikipedia article Joe Pantoliano, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Acting

The Matrix
8.236
Bad Boys: Ride or ...
7.346
Percy Jackson & the ...
6.2
The Goonies
7.511
Bad Boys II
6.655
Bad Boys for Life
7.126
Falling Up
5.246
Memento
8.177
Baby's Day Out
6.389
Just Getting Started
4.916
The Fugitive
7.466
La Bamba
7.256
Bad Boys
6.825
Wedding Daze
5.6
Cats & Dogs: The ...
5.2
The Spy Within
4.6
The Legend of Secret ...
5.7
The Amateurs
5.6
The Easter Egg ...
5.5
Three of Hearts
4.8
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