1957-12-13 New York City, New York, USA
An American actor, writer and director. He was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Dorothy, who worked as a hostess at Howard Johnson's, and John Buscemi, a sanitation worker and Korean War veteran. Buscemi's father was Sicilian American and his mother Irish American. He has three brothers: Jon, Ken, and Michael. Buscemi was raised Roman Catholic. Buscemi has starred and supported in successful Hollywood and indie films, including Parting Glances (1986), New York Stories (1989), Mystery Train (1989), Reservoir Dogs (1992), Pulp Fiction (1994), Desperado (1995), Con Air (1997), Armageddon (1998), The Grey Zone (2001), Ghost World (2001), Big Fish (2003), Lean on Pete (2017), and The Death of Stalin (2017). He is also known for his appearances in many films by Coen brothers: Miller's Crossing (1990), Barton Fink (1991), The Hudsucker Proxy (1994), Fargo (1996), and The Big Lebowski (1998). Buscemi provides the voice of Randall Boggs in the Monsters, Inc. franchise. From 2010 to 2014, he portrayed Enoch "Nucky" Thompson in the critically acclaimed series Boardwalk Empire, which earned him two Screen Actors Guild Awards, a Golden Globe, and two nominations for an Emmy Award. He made his directorial debut in 1996, with Trees Lounge, in which he also starred. Other works include Animal Factory (2000), Lonesome Jim (2005), and Interview (2007). Buscemi has one son, Lucian, with his wife Jo Andres.
Twilight Park | Grandpa Jules | 2025-12-25 | |
Transformers One | Starscream (voice) | 2024-09-11 | |
Carole & Grey | Shapeshifter | 2024-11-21 | |
Day of the Fight | Uncle | 2024-11-15 | |
The Shallow Tale of a Writer Who Decided to Write about a Serial Killer | Kollmick | 2024-06-08 | |
Vacation Friends 2 | Reese Hackford | 2023-08-25 | |
The Year Between | Don | 2023-03-03 | |
Bonnie | Self | 2022-11-12 | |
Hotel Transylvania: Transformania | Wayne (voice) | 2022-01-31 | |
Quentin Tarantino: From a Movie Buff to a Hollywood Legend | Self (archive footage) | 2021-01-02 | |
Beastie Boys Story | Self | 2020-04-24 | |
Hubie Halloween | Walter Lambert | 2020-10-07 | |
The King of Staten Island | Papa | 2020-07-22 | |
QT8: The First Eight | Self (archive footage) | 2019-10-21 | |
The Dead Don't Die | Farmer Frank Miller | 2019-05-15 | |
Lean on Pete | Del | 2018-04-06 | |
The Week Of | Charles | 2018-04-27 | |
Nancy | Leo | 2018-06-08 | |
Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation | Wayne (voice) | 2018-06-28 | |
Night of Too Many Stars: America Unites for Autism Programs | Self | 2017-11-18 | |
Transformers: The Last Knight | Daytrader (voice) | 2017-06-16 | |
The Death of Stalin | Nikita Khrushchev | 2017-10-20 | |
The Boss Baby | Francis E. Francis (voice) | 2017-03-23 | |
Mildred and the Dying Parlor | Rick | 2016-04-15 | |
Tony Bennett Celebrates 90 | Self | 2016-12-20 | |
Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer | Rabbi Blumenthal | 2016-04-14 | |
The Ridiculous 6 | Doc Griffin | 2015-12-11 | |
Hotel Transylvania 2 | Wayne (voice) | 2015-09-21 | |
The Cobbler | Jimmy | 2014-09-11 | |
The Celery Incident | Marty | 2014-02-20 | |
The Final Shot: A Farewell to Boardwalk Empire | Self | 2014-10-20 | |
Time Out of Mind | Building Manager | 2014-09-07 | |
My Depression (The Up and Down and Up of It) | Suicidal Thoughts (voice) | 2014-04-17 | |
A Good Job: Stories of the FDNY | Self | 2014-09-08 | |
The Incredible Burt Wonderstone | Anton Marvelton | 2013-03-14 | |
AMEX Unstaged Presents: Vampire Weekend | Self | 2013-04-28 | |
Monsters University | Randy (voice) | 2013-06-19 | |
James Gandolfini: Tribute to a Friend | Self | 2013-12-22 | |
Khumba | Skalk (voice) | 2013-07-18 | |
Grown Ups 2 | Wiley | 2013-07-11 | |
12-12-12 | The Concert for Sandy Relief | Self | 2012-12-12 | |
Hotel Transylvania | Wayne (voice) | 2012-09-20 | |
On the Road | Tall thin salesman | 2012-05-22 | |
Fight for Your Right Revisited | Waiter | 2011-04-22 | |
Rampart | Bill Blago | 2011-11-23 | |
Blank City | Self | 2011-04-06 | |
The Chosen One | Neal | 2010-09-03 | |
Saint John of Las Vegas | John | 2010-01-29 | |
Pete Smalls Is Dead | Bernie Lake | 2010-09-17 | |
Grown Ups | Wiley | 2010-06-24 | |
John Rabe | Dr. Robert Wilson | 2009-04-02 | |
The Messenger | Dale Martin | 2009-11-13 | |
I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale | Self | 2009-01-16 | |
G-Force | Bucky the Hamster (voice) | 2009-07-24 | |
Handsome Harry | Thomas Kelley | 2009-04-25 | |
Youth in Revolt | George Twisp | 2009-09-11 | |
Rage | Frank | 2009-09-24 | |
I'm Dirty! | Backhoe Loader | 2008-04-22 | |
Igor | Scamper (voice) | 2008-09-19 | |
I Think I Love My Wife | George | 2007-03-07 | |
Voom Portraits | Self | 2007-10-01 | |
I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry | Clinton Fitzer | 2007-07-12 | |
Interview | Pierre Peders | 2007-07-13 | |
Delirious | Les Galantine | 2007-07-04 | |
Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten | Self | 2007-05-18 | |
...So Goes the Nation | Self | 2006-10-04 | |
Edge of Outside | Self | 2006-06-11 | |
Paris, je t'aime | Touriste (Tuileries) | 2006-06-21 | |
Art School Confidential | Broadway Bob D'Annunzio | 2006-05-05 | |
Monster House | Nebbercracker (voice) | 2006-06-30 | |
Charlotte's Web | Templeton the Rat (voice) | 2006-12-07 | |
O Código Tarantino | Mr. Pink (archive footage) | 2006-01-04 | |
Dust to Dust: The Health Effects of 9/11 | narrator | 2006-09-11 | |
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take 2 ½ | Self | 2005-01-20 | |
Champion | Self | 2005-03-12 | |
Romance & Cigarettes | Angelo | 2005-09-13 | |
Nobody Wants Your Film | Self | 2005-05-06 | |
The Island | James 'Mac' McCord | 2005-07-21 | |
Who's the Top? | Cymon | 2005-02-01 | |
Excavating Taylor Mead | Narrator | 2005-10-08 | |
Coffee and Cigarettes | Danny (segment "Twins") | 2004-03-12 | |
On the Set: Elaine’s | Self | 2004-11-22 | |
Home on the Range | Wesley (voice) | 2004-04-02 | |
Minnesota Nice | Self | 2003-04-01 | |
Rockets Redglare! | Self | 2003-05-02 | |
Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over | Romero | 2003-07-25 | |
Big Fish | Norther Winslow | 2003-12-25 | |
The Laramie Project | Doc O'Connor | 2002-01-10 | |
Love in the Time of Money | Martin Kunkle | 2002-11-01 | |
Paul McCartney: Back in the U.S. | Self | 2002-11-26 | |
Mr. Deeds | Crazy Eyes | 2002-06-28 | |
9/11 | Self (archive footage) | 2002-03-10 | |
13 Moons | Bananas | 2002-08-30 | |
Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams | Romero | 2002-08-07 | |
The Grey Zone | 'Hesch' Abramowics | 2001-09-13 | |
Ghost World | Seymour | 2001-07-20 | |
Domestic Disturbance | Ray Coleman | 2001-10-28 | |
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within | Off. Neil Fleming (voice) | 2001-07-02 | |
Double Whammy | Jerry Cubbins | 2001-10-17 | |
The Concert for New York City | Self | 2001-10-20 | |
Monsters, Inc. | Randall (voice) | 2001-11-01 | |
Playboy Mansion Parties Uncensored | Self | 2001-05-31 | |
Come Together: A Night for John Lennon's Words & Music | 2001-10-02 | ||
Divine Trash | Self | 2000-03-31 | |
28 Days | Cornell | 2000-04-06 | |
Animal Factory | A.R. Hosspack | 2000-10-13 | |
Big Daddy | Homeless Guy | 1999-06-25 | |
In Bad Taste | Self | 1999-09-03 | |
Armageddon | Rockhound | 1998-07-01 | |
The Wedding Singer | David 'Dave' Veltri (uncredited) | 1998-02-13 | |
The Real Blonde | Nick | 1998-02-27 | |
Louis & Frank | 1998-07-08 | ||
The Big Lebowski | Donny | 1998-03-06 | |
The Impostors | Happy Franks | 1998-10-02 | |
Con Air | Garland Greene - "The Marietta Mangler" | 1997-06-05 | |
Black Kites | 1996-07-18 | ||
Trees Lounge | Tommy | 1996-05-11 | |
Kansas City | Johnny Flynn | 1996-08-16 | |
Fargo | Carl Showalter | 1996-03-08 | |
Escape from L.A. | Eddie | 1996-08-09 | |
Living in Oblivion | Nick Reve | 1995-07-21 | |
Dead Man | Bartender | 1995-12-23 | |
Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead | Mister Shhh | 1995-12-01 | |
Billy Madison | Danny McGrath (uncredited) | 1995-02-10 | |
Desperado | Buscemi | 1995-08-25 | |
Pulp Fiction | Buddy Holly | 1994-09-10 | |
Who Do I Gotta Kill? | (uncredited) | 1994-09-23 | |
The Hudsucker Proxy | Beatnik Barman | 1994-03-11 | |
Floundering | Ned | 1994-11-04 | |
Somebody to Love | Mickey | 1994-09-27 | |
Airheads | Rex | 1994-08-05 | |
The Search for One-eye Jimmy | Ed Hoyt | 1994-11-09 | |
Rising Sun | Willy Wilhelm | 1993-07-30 | |
Ed and His Dead Mother | Ed Chilton | 1993-06-04 | |
Twenty Bucks | Frank | 1993-10-21 | |
The Last Outlaw | Philo | 1993-10-30 | |
What Happened to Pete | Pete | 1992-03-02 | |
CrissCross | Louis | 1992-05-08 | |
Claude | Danny | 1992-01-11 | |
Reservoir Dogs | Mr. Pink | 1992-09-02 | |
In the Soup | Aldolpho Rollo | 1992-10-23 | |
Barton Fink | Chet | 1991-08-01 | |
Reservoir Dogs | Mr. Pink | 1991-06-01 | |
Billy Bathgate | Irving | 1991-11-01 | |
Zandalee | OPP Man | 1991-05-09 | |
Miller's Crossing | Mink | 1990-09-21 | |
King of New York | Test Tube | 1990-07-18 | |
Tales from the Darkside: The Movie | Bellingham (segment ‘Lot 249’) | 1990-05-03 | |
New York Stories | Gregory Stark | 1989-03-10 | |
Mystery Train | Charlie | 1989-09-06 | |
Borders | Ted | 1989-05-05 | |
Coffee and Cigarettes II | Waiter | 1989-01-01 | |
Slaves of New York | Wilfredo | 1989-03-18 | |
Bloodhounds of Broadway | Whining Willie | 1989-11-03 | |
Call Me | Switchblade | 1988-05-20 | |
Vibes | Fred | 1988-08-05 | |
Heart of Midnight | Eddy | 1988-11-10 | |
New York Stories: Life Lessons | Gregory Stark | 1988-03-10 | |
Arena Brains | Wired Kid #1 | 1987-10-01 | |
Heart | Nicky | 1987-11-13 | |
Kiss Daddy Goodnight | Johnny | 1987-10-29 | |
Days Are Numbered | 1986-02-04 | ||
Sleepwalk | Worker | 1986-09-09 | |
No Picnic | Dead Pimp | 1986-01-17 | |
Parting Glances | Nick | 1986-02-19 | |
Film House Fever | Tony | 1986-01-02 | |
The Way It Is | Willy / Raphael | 1986-04-04 | |
Tommy's | 1985-06-01 | ||
Klara and the Sun |