Chazz Palminteri

Chazz Palminteri is one of those rare actors who didn't just play a great role — he literally wrote it himself. Growing up in the Bronx, he drew on his own childhood to craft A Bronx Tale as a one-man stage show, performed it for years before Hollywood came knocking, and then refused to sell the rights unless he could star in it — a ballsy move that paid off when Robert De Niro directed the 1993 film. Then came Bullets Over Broadway the very next year, earning him an Oscar nomination, followed by The Usual Suspects in 1995. Three stone-cold classics in three years. That's not luck, that's a guy who knew exactly what he had and made sure the world saw it.

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Name (English)

Chazz Palminteri

Name (Japanese)

チャズ・パルミンテリ

Reading

ちゃず・ぱるみんてり

Born

May 15, 1952 (age 74)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Taurus / Dragon

Origin

The Bronx, New York, United States

Occupation

actor / film director / screenwriter / character actor / stage actor

High school

Theodore Roosevelt High School

• Official sitehttps://www.chazzpalminteri.net/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/chazzpalminteri/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chazz%20Palminteri
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%81%E3%83%A3%E3%82%BA%E3%83%BB%E3%83%91%E3%83%AB%E3%83%9F%E3%83%B3%E3%83%86%E3%83%AA
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q338812

Tags

• New York
• actor
• film director
• screenwriter

Last updated

2026-06-02

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