Last updated on: October 31, 2024

Alfredo James “Al” Pacino (born on April 25, 1940) is a legendary American actor and filmmaker. You’d probably recognize him as Michael Corleone from the Godfather trilogy, but there’s a hell of a lot more to the man’s tale. Pacino, in fact, came from a theatre background, winning Tony Awards for remarkable performances in Does a Tiger Wear a Necktie? and The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel. Those early days of theater were of some sort of foundation which later helped him make himself a Hollywood icon.

Overnight success struck with the release of The Godfather. His performance as the complex and powerful Michael Corleone exemplifies him in the books of Hollywood history. But that is not enough. Pacino’s raw intensity seems to breathe into the very character he portrays, whether it is a gritty cop in Serpico, a desperate bank robber in Dog Day Afternoon, or the unforgettable Tony Montana in Scarface.

And who can forget his Oscar for Best Actor at the Academy Awards for Scent of a Woman? There, he was playing a blind, retired Army officer. It isn’t just movies, though- Pacino has also impacted television shows. He won several Emmy awards for his performances in Angels in America and in You Don’t Know Jack. One can only pay respect to Pacino; one can appreciate masterful modulations with each movie and his passion for acting. No wonder that he is one of the most respected actors around!

As of December 2024, Al Pacino is 84 years and 7 months old, his estimated net worth is $120 million and he stands at a height of 5 feet and 7 inches (170 cm or 1.70 m) tall.

Table of Contents Toggle Bio / Wiki
Full Name	Alfredo James Pacino
Nickname	Al, Sonny
Profession	Actor and filmmaker
Career
Debut Film	Me, Natalie (1969)
Best Known for	The Godfather (1973)
Awards	Full list
Personal Profile and Background Details
Date of Birth	25 April 1940
Age	As of today, Al is 84 years, 7 months, and 8 days old.
Zodiac Sign	Taurus
Signature
Nationality	American
Birth Place	East Harlem, New York, U.S.
Residence	Beverly Hills, California, Palisades in New York
School / College / University	Herman Ridder Junior High School, High School of Performing Arts, Herbert Berghof Studio (HB Studio), The Actors Studio
Religion	Al is an Agnostic
Race / Ethnicity	White (Italian ancestry)
Food Habits	Non-vegetarian
Hobbies	Acting, reading
Tattoo	Unknown
Physical Attributes and Measurements
Height	In feet: 5′ 7″, In Centimeters: 170 cm, In meters: 1.70 m
Weight	In kilograms: 72 kg, In Pounds: 159 lbs
Body Measurements	Chest Size: 43 inches, Biceps Size: 14 inches, Waist Size: 36 inches
Shoe size	10 (US) or 9 (US)
Eye color	Hazel
Hair Color	Dark Brown

 

Family

The family life of Al Pacino has been quite interesting: sometimes up and down. Born to parents Salvatore Pacino and Rose Gerardi in East Harlem, New York, when Pacino was two years old his parents divorced. After the separation from his father, Pacino was brought up by his mother and maternal grandparents and raised in a fairly modest, working-class background, in the Bronx. His grandparents were Italian immigrants; through their impact and upbringing, he assumed a big portion of his cultural identity.

Though never married, he has been in some public relationships. He has three children from two relationships. His first child, Julie Marie, was born in 1989 with acting coach Jan Tarrant. Then came the twins, Anton James and Olivia Rose, born with actress Beverly D’Angelo, whom Pacino was dating between 1997 and 2003. Though not married, Pacino also showed deep love and commitment to his children.

Family has always been important to Pacino, and while his career had kept him busy, he made earnest efforts to maintain close bonds with his kids. An actor who never experienced growing up under a father figure, Pacino’s journey as a dad was not a piece of cake, but he embraced it fully.

Wife

Never Married

Father

Salvatore Pacino (Insurance salesman and restaurateur)

Mother

Rose Pacino (Died in 1962)

Siblings

Josette Pacino (Half-Sister) (Teacher)

Paula Pacino (Half-Sister)

Roberta Pacino (Half-Sister)

 

Desiree Pacino (Younger Half-Sister)

Children

Julie Marie Pacino (daughter) (Born on 16 October 1989) (Film producer)

 

Olivia Pacino (daughter) (Born on 25 January 2001)

 

Anton James Pacino (son) (Born on 25 January 2001)

 

Roman Pacino (Born in June 2023)

Others

Alfio Pacino (Paternal Grandfather)

Giuseppa Latteri (Paternal Grandmother)

James Giacomo Gerardi (Maternal Grandfather) (Died in 1963)

Kate Gerardi (Maternal Grandmother)

Relationship & More

Marital Status

In a relationship with Noor Alfallah

Marriage Date

N/A

Girlfriend and Dating History

Veruschka von Lehndorff 

Jill Clayburgh

Tuesday Weld (1972)

Marthe Keller

Kathleen Quinlan (1979–1981)

Diane Keaton (1971–1991)

Jan Tarrant

Lyndall Hobbs

Penelope Ann Miller

Beverly D’Angelo (1996–2003)

 

Lucila Solá

 

Meital Dohan (2018–2020)

Noor Alfallah (2022–Present)

Favorite Things

• Favorite films – The Tree of Wooden Clogs (1978), Singin’ in the Rain (1952)
• Actress – Julie Christie
• Favorite Actor – Charles Laughton
• Favorite play – Hamlet

Net Worth 2024

As of December 2024, it’s estimated that Julia Roberts has a net worth of about $120 million, based on information from different reliable sources.

He is one of the most famous actors in Hollywood, whose money is made from different sources. Breaking down where his money comes from and how much he has earned from different aspects of his career;

1. Acting in Movies

​This is the major source of money for Al Pacino. The American public introduced him with The Godfather in 1972, whereby he received only $35,000 at the time. But once the career began to work its magic, so did the money. He was making $5 million a film for The Godfather Part III (1990). His biggest check he received came when he worked on Scarface (1983) and also when he received paychecks from other major hits for Scent of a Woman (1992) for about $10 million.

Al Pacino’s bankability really rose for contemporary films. He was said to earn $20 million as part of the cast for The Irishman (2019). In total, with acting alone, this totals hundreds of millions; his earnings are estimated at around $200 million from films during his career.

2. Stage Performances

Pacino’s theatrical love is also a money earner, though it is much more of a hobby. He began his career on the stage of Broadway and periodically still acts on stage. Stage paychecks do not come anywhere close to the pay of moviemaking paychecks, however, box office hits on Broadway raise lead actors such as Pacino several hundred thousand dollars.

3. Television

TV productions with Pacino included a number of very recent high-profile series. Among his other high-profile miniseries work was in HBO’s Angels in America (2003), which reaped both critical and commercial rewards. On other shows like You Don’t Know Jack (2010), he was reported to have earned $1-3 million per episode, which also amounted to a significant addition to the actor’s income through television work.

4. Endorsements & Public Appearances

Though he is not as commercially invested in endorsements like some other stars, he has completed a few different campaigns to augment his revenue. His deal with fashion lines or designer goods crops up occasionally and adds up to his streams of revenue. Paid appearances-public speaking events add to his overall wealth but tend to be less frequent, as he has placed more emphasis on acting work.

5. Production & Filmmaking

He has also produced and directed his own films apart from what he is famous for to boost the diversification of income. Neither of the two directing ventures; Chinese Coffee (2000) and Wilde Salome (2011), truly enjoys any huge success but adds to his wealth generally.

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Car collection

1. Rolls Royce Phantom
2. Mercedes SLS Class
3. Cadillac CTS
4. Range Rover Vogue
5. Lexus GX

House

Pets

Social Media Profile

He is not active on social media.

Al Pacino’s interesting and unknown facts

1. Alfredo James “Al” Pacino was born April 25, 1940, in New York City (East Harlem).

2. His parents had been Sicilian-American Salvatore Pacino and Rose, who divorced while he was years old.

3. His mother moved to The Bronx to stay with her mother and father, Kate and James Gerardi, who, coincidentally, had come from a town in Sicily named Corleone.

4. His father, who became from San Fratello inside the Province of Messina, moved to Covina, California, and labored as an insurance salesman and restaurateur.

5. In his teen years “Sonny”, as he turned into acknowledged to his pals, aimed to end up a baseball player, and become additionally nicknamed “The Actor”.

6. Pacino went through Herman Ridder Junior High School, however in secondary college dropped out of many classes, although not English.

7. He attended the High School of Performing Arts but dropped out of school at age 17.

8. His mom disagreed with his decision; they argued and he left home.

9. He worked at low-paying jobs; messenger, busboy, janitor, and postal clerk, to finance his performing studies. He is as soon as labored within the mailroom for Commentary magazine.
10. He started out smoking and drinking at age nine, and took up casual hashish use at age 13, but by no means used difficult drugs.

11. His two closest buddies died from drug abuse between the ages of 19 and 30.

12. Growing up in The Bronx, he was given into occasional fights and become considered something of a troublemaker at college.

13. He acted inside the basement plays in New York’s theatrical underground but became rejected for the Actors Studio even as a teenager.

14. Pacino then joined the Herbert Berghof Studio (HB Studio), in which he met acting trainer Charlie Laughton (not to be harassed with the British actor Charles Laughton), who has become his mentor and pleasant friend.

15. In this period, he became often unemployed and homeless and occasionally slept on the street, in theaters, or at friends’ houses.

16. In 1962, his mother died at the age of 43.

17. The following year, Pacino’s grandfather James Gerardi, one of the most influential human beings in his life, also died.

18. After four years at HB Studio, Pacino efficaciously auditioned for the Actors Studio.

19. The Actors Studio is a membership employer of expert actors, theatre directors, and playwrights within the Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City.

20. Pacino studied “approach performing” under acting train Lee Strasberg, who seemed with Pacino inside the films The Godfather Part II and in …And Justice for All.

21. During later interviews, he spoke about Strasberg and the Studio’s effect on his profession.

22. Pacino is currently co-president, together with Ellen Burstyn and Harvey Keitel, of the Actors Studio.

23. An approach actor and former student of the HB Studio and the Actors Studio in New York City, where he was taught via Charlie Laughton and Lee Strasberg, Pacino made his characteristic film debut with a minor function in Me, Natalie (1969) and won favorable notices for his lead function as a heroin addict in The Panic in Needle Park (1971).

24. He has done international acclaim and reputation for his breakthrough function as Michael Corleone in Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather (1972).

25. He obtained his first Oscar nomination and could reprise the role in the equally successful sequels The Godfather Part II (1974) and The Godfather Part III (1990).

26. Pacino’s overall performance as Corleone now seems like one of the greatest screen performances in movie history.

27. Pacino obtained his first Best Actor Oscar nomination for Serpico (1973); he changed into also nominated for The Godfather Part II, Dog Day Afternoon (1975), and …And Justice for All (1979) and received the award in 1993 for his performance as a blind Lieutenant Colonel in Scent of a Woman (1992).

28. For his performances in The Godfather, Dick Tracy (1990), and Glengarry Glen Ross (1992), Pacino become nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.

29. Other tremendous roles consist of Tony Montana in Scarface (1983), Carlito Brigante in Carlito’s Way (1993), Lieutenant Vincent Hanna in Heat (1995), Benjamin Ruggiero in Donnie Brasco (1997), Lowell Bergman in The Insider (1999), and Detective Will Dormer in Insomnia (2002).

30. In television, Pacino has acted in several productions for HBO including the miniseries Angels in America (2003) and the Jack Kevorkian biopic You Don’t Know Jack (2010), each of which received him the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie.

31. In addition to his work in film, Pacino has had an intensive career on the degree and is a -time Tony Award winner, in 1969 and 1977, for his performances in Does a Tiger Wear a Necktie? And The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel respectively.

32. A lifelong fan of Shakespeare, Pacino directed and starred in Looking for Richard (1996), a documentary movie approximately the play Richard III, a position which Pacino had in advance portrayed on-stage in 1977.

33. He has also acted as Shylock in a 2004 function film variation and a 2010 production of The Merchant of Venice.

34. Having made his filmmaking debut with Looking for Richard, Pacino has additionally directed and starred in the independent film Chinese Coffee (2000) and the films Wilde Salomé (2011) and Salomé (2013), about the play Salomé through Oscar Wilde.

35. Although he has in no way married, Pacino has 3 children. The eldest, Julie Marie (born 1989), is his daughter with performing instruct Jan Tarrant. He also has twins, son Anton James and daughter Olivia Rose (born January 25, 2001), with actress Beverly D’Angelo, with whom he had a relationship from 1996 until 2003.

36. Pacino had a courting with Diane Keaton, his co-star in the Godfather trilogy. The on-again, off-once more dating ended following the filming of The Godfather Part II.

37. He has had relationships with Tuesday Weld, Jill Clayburgh, Marthe Keller, Kathleen Quinlan, and Lyndall Hobbs.

38. The Internal Revenue Service filed a tax lien against Pacino, claiming he owes the authorities a complete of $188,000 for 2008 and 2009. A representative for Pacino blamed his former business manager Kenneth Starr for the discrepancy.

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