10 Joe Pantoliano was born in Hoboken, New Jersey and was 32 before he hit it big playing the ruthless pimp Guido in Tom cruise’s first major success Risky Business in 1983. Since then he has played opposite many of the top Hollywood actors in such memorable films as Midnight Run (1988), The Fugitive (1993), U S Marshals (1998) and The Matrix (1999). Pantoliano has suffered from clinical depression since the 90s. He usually plays a fast-talking, profane, deceitful wise-acre. In my opinion, his best performance in a movie was in Risky Business, although he won an Emmy in 1999 for his work on The Sopranos TV series. 9 Peter Stormare in Fargo Having enjoyed watching his performance as Steve Buscemi’s homicidal, moronic partner in Fargo (1996), it is difficult to imagine that Swedish-born Stormare was Associate Artistic Director of the Tokyo Globe Theatre from 1990-3, directing productions of Shakespearean plays, most notably Hamlet. So far, this highly versatile performer has played an American, a German, an Italian, a Dane, a Swede, a Norwegian, a Frenchman and a Russian (three times) on-screen. Stormare is a seriously talented individual, being a playwright and [...]
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