Chazz Palminteri

Calogero Lorenzo Palminteri or “Chazz” Palminteri is an American producer, actor, and screenwriter, known for his work in The Usual Suspects, A Bronx Tale, and Bullets over Broadway. Chazz was born to parents, Lorenzo and Rose Palminteri. Though Palminteri is of Sicilian origin, he grew up in the neighborhood of Belmont in the Bronx. Before his career as an actor took off, Palminteri managed odd jobs such as serving as a nightclub bouncer and participating in Off-Broadway plays. 1988 saw Palminteri fired from a security job for refusing to let Irving Paul Lazar enter a club. Palminteri went on to make an autobiographical one-man show depicting the events he witnessed in his life. In 1993, Robert De Niro A legendary actor and one of the most influential >> Read More... adapted the play into a movie titled “A Bronx Tale.” The 1980s saw Palminteri feature on television shows such as Hill Street Blues, Matlock, Wiseguy, Dallas, Valerie, and in the film “ Oscar Click to look into! >> Read More... .” In 1993, Palminteri wrote the screenplay, and played the role of the gangster “Sonny,” in the Robert De Niro-directed “A Bronx Tale.”

The movie catapulted Palminteri’s career into stardom and flooded him with other project opportunities. Woody Allen Heywood Allen, also known as Heywood “Woody” Allen >> Read More... cast Palminteri in his 1994 venture “Bullets over Broadway.” Palminteri was the recipient of nominations for an Academy Award and Screen Actors Guild Award. In the following year, Palminteri was cast as David Kujan in the critically acclaimed “The Usual Suspects,” and the film was presented with several awards for the Best Cast. The Perez Family, Jade,” Diabolique,” Faithful, Mulholland Falls, Scar City, “Analyze This,” constituted some of the movies that Palminteri featured in the 1990s. The millennium decade saw Palminteri in Down to Earth, “Poolhall Junkies,” One Eyed King, Noel, Hoodwinked, Running Scared, Body Armour, The Dukes, among many others. Palminteri also featured in various television shows such as Sydney, Modern Family, Blue Bloods The drama is all about the family that works under >> Read More... and “Law & Order.” Palminteri has provided with the voice-over for the war game Call of Duty: Black Ops II, and has appeared in various Vanilla Coke commercials. Gianna Ranaudo is Palminteri’s wife, with whom he has two children.