Joe Pantoliano

Joe Pantoliano

ActorProducer
Date of birth: September 12, 1951 (75)City: Hoboken, New Jersey, USA

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

2010s8 roles
2017Just Getting StartedJoey★ 4.9Movie
2012LoosiesCarl★ 5.7Movie
2000s14 roles
2009Falling UpGeorge★ 5.2Movie
2006UnknownBound Man★ 6.2Movie
2006Wedding DazeSmitty★ 5.6Movie
1990s21 roles
1999The MatrixCypher★ 8.3Movie
1999Black and WhiteBill King★ 4.6Movie
1998U.S. MarshalsRenfro★ 6.5Movie
1980s13 roles
1987La BambaBob Keane★ 7.3Movie
1970s1 role