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Steve Buscemi

Born 1957-12-13

📍 Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

Steven Vincent Buscemi (born December 13, 1957) is an American actor. His early credits consist of significant roles in independent film productions such as Parting Glances (1986), Mystery Train (1989), In the Soup (1992), and his breakout role as Mr. Pink in Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs (1992). Buscemi has appeared in both independent and mainstream films, including Living in Oblivion (1995), Desperado (1995), Con Air (1997), Armageddon (1998), Ghost World (2001), Big Fish (2003), and The Death of Stalin (2017).

Buscemi has often collaborated with the Coen brothers, appearing in Miller's Crossing (1990), Fargo (1996), and The Big Lebowski (1998). He also appeared in supporting or cameo roles in many films with Adam Sandler, including Airheads (1994), Billy Madison (1995), The Wedding Singer (1998), Mr. Deeds (2002), and Hubie Halloween (2020). He provided voice acting roles in the animated films Monsters, Inc. (2001), The Boss Baby (2017), and Transformers One (2024). Buscemi also directed the films Trees Lounge (1996), Animal Factory (2000), and Interview (2007).

Buscemi has also had an extensive career in television, notably starring in the lead role of Enoch "Nucky" Thompson in the HBO series Boardwalk Empire (2010–2014). His performance earned him two Screen Actors Guild Awards, a Golden Globe and two nominations for a Primetime Emmy Award. His other television roles include Lonesome Dove (1989), The Sopranos (2004, 2006), 30 Rock (2007–2013), Horace and Pete (2016), and Miracle Workers (2019–2023).

Filmography 232

Wild Horse Nine

Klara and the Sun

Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World

as Mr. Whymper (voice)

as Celeste's Dad

The Only Living Pickpocket in New York

Happy Gilmore 2

as Bad Neighbor Pat

Psycho Therapy: The Shallow Tale of a Writer Who Decided to Write About a Serial Killer

as Steve Buscemi

as Shapeshifter

Day of the Fight

as Mike's Uncle

Transformers One

as Starscream (voice)

as Simon Carroll

as Hephaestus (voice)

Saturday in the Park

Vacation Friends 2

as Reese Hackford

as The Antiquarian (voice)

The Year Between

as Good Buddy (voice)

StoryBots: Answer Time

Hotel Transylvania: Transformania

as Wayne (voice)

Monsters at Work

as Randall (voice)

Hubie Halloween

as Walter Lambert

The King of Staten Island

Beastie Boys Story

Talking Sopranos

Scooby-Doo and Guess Who?

as Steve Buscemi (voice)

The Dead Don't Die

as Farmer Frank Miller

Miracle Workers

as Benny the Teen

Miracle Workers

Miracle Workers

as Morris 'The Junkman' Rubinstein

Miracle Workers

as Eddie Shitshoveler

Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation

as Wayne (voice)

Night of Too Many Stars: America Unites for Autism Programs

The Death of Stalin

as Nikita Khrushchev

as The Remembrancer (voice)

Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams

Transformers: The Last Knight

as Daytrader (voice)

as Francis E. Francis (voice)

Tony Bennett Celebrates 90

Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer

as Rabbi Blumenthal

Full Frontal with Samantha Bee

Horace and Pete

The Ridiculous 6

Hotel Transylvania 2

as Wayne (voice)

Time Out of Mind

as Building Manager

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt

as Steve Buscemi (voice)

Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt

as Steve Buscemi

The Final Shot: A Farewell to Boardwalk Empire

A Good Job: Stories of the FDNY

Park Bench with Steve Buscemi

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

as Self - Special Guest

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

as Chief Dam Inspector

My Depression (The Up and Down and Up of It)

as Suicidal Thoughts (voice)

Late Night with Seth Meyers

The Celery Incident

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

James Gandolfini: Tribute to a Friend

as Eddie (voice)

as Skalk (voice)

Monsters University

as Randy (voice)

AMEX Unstaged Presents: Vampire Weekend

The Incredible Burt Wonderstone

as Anton Marvelton

12-12-12 | The Concert for Sandy Relief

Hotel Transylvania

as Wayne (voice)

as Tall thin salesman

Fight for Your Right Revisited

as Book Store Customer

as Tom Innocenti (voice)

Boardwalk Empire

as Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson

Pete Smalls Is Dead

Who Do You Think You Are?

Saint John of Las Vegas

Youth in Revolt

as George Twisp

as Bucky the Hamster (voice)

as Thomas Kelley

as Dr. Robert Wilson

I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale

as Scamper (voice)

as Backhoe Loader

as Pierre Peders

I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry

as Clinton Fitzer

as Les Galantine

Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten

I Think I Love My Wife

Charlotte's Web

as Templeton the Rat (voice)

as Lenny Wosniak

...So Goes the Nation

Dust to Dust: The Health Effects of 9/11

as Nebbercracker (voice)

Paris Je T'aime

as Touriste (Tuileries)

Edge of Outside

Art School Confidential

as Broadway Bob D'Annunzio (uncredited)

The Henry Rollins Show

Excavating Taylor Mead

Romance & Cigarettes

as James 'Mac' McCord

Nobody Wants Your Film

Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take 2½

Tanner on Tanner

Home on the Range

as Wesley (voice)

Coffee and Cigarettes

as Danny (segment "Twins")

as Norther Winslow

Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over

Rockets Redglare!

Paul McCartney: Back in the U.S.

Love in the Time of Money

as Martin Kunkle

Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams

as Self (archive footage)

The Laramie Project

as Doc O'Connor

as Randall (voice)

Domestic Disturbance

The Concert for New York City

as Jerry Cubbins

Come Together: A Night for John Lennon's Words & Music

as 'Hesch' Abramowics

Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within

as Off. Neil Fleming (voice)

Curb Your Enthusiasm

as Mike DiCarlo

as A.R. Hosspack

as Homeless Guy

as Tony Blundetto

as Happy Franks

The Big Lebowski

The Real Blonde

The Wedding Singer

as David 'Dave' Veltri (uncredited)

as Garland Greene - "The Marietta Mangler"

as Johnny Flynn

Escape from L.A.

as Carl Showalter

Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead

The Drew Carey Show

as Mr. Marchetti

Living in Oblivion

as Danny McGrath (uncredited)

The Search for One-eye Jimmy

Somebody to Love

Who Do I Gotta Kill?

as (uncredited)

as Art Masterson

The Hudsucker Proxy

as Beatnik Barman

The Last Outlaw

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

as Self - Guest

as Willy Wilhelm

Ed and His Dead Mother

Homicide: Life on the Street

as Gordon Pratt

as Aldolpho Rollo

as Howie Balinger

What Happened to Pete

Miller's Crossing

King of New York

Force of Circumstance

Tales from the Darkside: The Movie

as Bellingham (segment ‘Lot 249’)

as Dwight (voice)

as Steve Buscemi (voice)

Bloodhounds of Broadway

as Whining Willie

Tales from the Crypt

as Ike (segment "Forever Ambergris")

Slaves of New York

New York Stories

as Gregory Stark

Coffee and Cigarettes II

Heart of Midnight

Kiss Daddy Goodnight

as Wired Kid #1

as Willy / Raphael

Parting Glances

Days Are Numbered

Film House Fever

as Archie, the Electronics Store Clerk

Saturday Night Live

Saturday Night Live

as Mr. Pink (uncredited)

Saturday Night Live

as Billy (uncredited)

as Grandpa Jules