Joe Pantoliano
Actor
- Born
- September 12, 1951 (age 75) · 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.
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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.
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Known for
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- 2026Violent Night 2
- 2026Higher Love as Barney Taylor
- 2026The Isolate Thief as "Burial" Perry Parker
- 2026Home Delivery as Gary Templeton
- 2025Holiday Touchdown: A Bills Love Story as Uncle Tommy Rossi
- 2024Bad Boys: Ride or Die as Captain Howard
- 2023A Journey to Sundance as Self
- 2021Hide and Seek as Collin Carmichael
- 2021The Santa Stakeout as Mr. Miller
- 2020Bad Boys for Life
