Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1951-09-12 (Age: 75)
Place of Birth
Hoboken, New Jersey, USA
Joe Pantoliano
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.
Filmography (117)
Violent Night 2
2026
Holiday Touchdown: A Bills Love Story
2025
Bad Boys: Ride or Die
2024
Home Delivery
2024
A Journey to Sundance
2023
Hide and Seek
2021
The Santa Stakeout
2021
Bad Boys for Life
2020
From the Vine
2019
Feast of the Seven Fishes
2019
The Brawler
2019
Lake Placid: Legacy
2018
Happy Anniversary
2018
Just Getting Started
2017
