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Joe Pantoliano

1951 - Today

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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 Ralph "Ralphie" Cifaretto on the HBO crime drama The Sopranos (1999–2007), for which he won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series, and Cypher in the sci-fi action film The Matrix (1999). After early roles in the television series M*A*S*H and the comedy film Risky Business, Pantoliano gained recognition for numerous supporting roles in films and television shows such as Hill Street Blues, The Goonies, La Bamba, Empire of the Sun, Midnight Run, NYPD Blue, Memento, and Bad Boys and its sequels. He also appeared in The Fugitive and its spin-off U.S. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joe Pantoliano has received more than 7,295,142 page views. His biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 39 in 2019). Joe Pantoliano is the 1,250th most popular actor (down from 1,175th in 2019), the 2,161st most popular biography from United States (down from 2,102nd in 2019) and the 588th most popular American Actor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 7.3M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 57.33

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 40

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.35

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.49

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Joe Pantoliano ranks 1,250 out of 13,578. Before him are Cloris Leachman, Elizabeth Hurley, Laura Dern, Michel Simon, Elke Sommer, and William Sadler. After him are Ted Danson, Vincent Schiavelli, Uta Hagen, Stefanie Powers, Jack Warden, and Fess Parker.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1951, Joe Pantoliano ranks 91. Before him are Karekin II, Hilda Heine, Isabel Preysler, Kim Peek, Jack Unterweger, and Jackie Jackson. After him are Samuel Doe, Alexander Bortnikov, Emmanuel Todd, Laimdota Straujuma, Carl Wieman, and Christian Lacroix.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Joe Pantoliano ranks 2,161 out of 20,380. Before him are Laura Dern (1967), Alvin Kraenzlein (1876), George Wallace (1919), George B. McClellan (1826), William Sadler (1950), and E. E. Cummings (1894). After him are Ted Danson (1947), Ken Wilber (1949), Barry Seal (1939), Tony Levin (1946), Vincent Schiavelli (1948), and Jessye Norman (1945).

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Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Joe Pantoliano ranks 588. Before him are Vera Farmiga (1973), Lance Reddick (1962), Beau Bridges (1941), Cloris Leachman (1926), Laura Dern (1967), and William Sadler (1950). After him are Ted Danson (1947), Vincent Schiavelli (1948), Stefanie Powers (1942), Jack Warden (1920), Fess Parker (1924), and John Barrymore (1882).

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Television and Movie Roles

Memento
Teddy
Leonard Shelby is tracking down the man who raped and murdered his wife. The difficulty of locating his wife's killer, however, is compounded by the fact that he suffers from a rare, untreatable form of short-term memory loss. Although he can recall details of life before his accident, Leonard cannot remember what happened fifteen minutes ago, where he's going, or why.
Oct 11o 20008.181 / 10
The Matrix
Cypher
Set in the 22nd century, The Matrix tells the story of a computer hacker who joins a group of underground insurgents fighting the vast and powerful computers who now rule the earth.
Mar 31o 19998.2 / 10
The Fugitive
Cosmo Renfro
Wrongfully convicted of murdering his wife and sentenced to death, Richard Kimble escapes from the law in an attempt to find the real killer and clear his name.
Aug 6o 19937.47 / 10