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Joe Mantegna

David Rossi in Criminal Minds

Photos Joe Mantegna Birth name: Joseph Anthony Mantegna Jr.
Birth date: 1947/11/13 (76 years old)
Birth place : Chicago
Height: 1.80 m

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Biography for Joe Mantegna

Joe Mantegna is an American actor, producer, screenwriter and director born on November 13, 1947 in Chicago in an Italian-American family, who began his acting career in the theater in 1969, in the adaptation of the musical Hair. After joining the company Organic Theater of Chicago, he made his debut in Broadway in the musical working. He then met the scriptwriter and author David Mamet, who entrusted him with a role in his play Glengarry Glen Ross (adapted to the cinema in 1993). He pierced on television in 1977, with the Soap series, before playing his first role in the cinema in Towing where he replied to Sue Lyon.

A prolific actor, eternal second knife in the cinema, the career of Joe Mantegna is punctuated by many role, sometimes significant. Like the crooked character of Mike in Engrenages, directed by his friend David Mamet, whom he found three years later on the set of Homicide, in which he camp this time an inspector of the criminal brigade investigating On murders in the American Jewish community. In 1990, Francis Ford Coppola entrusted him with the memorable role of the psychotic mafia Joey Zasa in the third part of the godfather, where he tried to overthrow by force and in the blood Al Pacino. He becomes an actor-producer for the first time in the Buddy Movie Jerry and Tom, where he embodies a car seller during the day but a hitman at night. During the decade 1995-2005, he runs the cachet, chaining a number of minor roles, while he devoted himself in parallel to the small screen, playing the guest star or the time of a cameo in series most often unpublished in France.

Joe Mantegna is also known to regularly lend his voice to "Fat Tony", a Caïd of the crunched underworld under the pen of Matt Groening, in the Simpson series. A cult character that we find in the first adventures in the cinema of the most delusional family of the United States.

Joe Mantegna is an American actor known for his work in films, television and television series. Born on November 13, 1947 in Chicago, Illinois, he began his acting career in the early 1970s by working in local theater productions before being noticed by Hollywood. He has since played in many films and television series, especially in the films "Three Amigos!" And "Baby's Day Out" as well as in the television series "Joan of Arcadia" and "Criminal Minds". Mantegna is also an active member of the artistic community of Chicago and played an important role in promoting the city theater. Apart from his acting career, he is also known to be a collector of firearms and an aviation enthusiast.

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