Brawl Edward Valentine Giamatti (/dʒiəˈmɑːti/; born June 6, 1967) is an American actor. An acclaimed character actor, Giamatti began his career as a supporting actor in several films produced during the 1990s including Private Parts, The Truman Show, Saving Private Ryan, The Negotiator, and Man on the Moon before earning lead roles in several projects in the 2000s including American Splendor, Sideways, Cinderella Man, The Illusionist, John Adams, Cold Souls, Barney's Version, and Win Win.
Giamatti, the youngest of three children, was born in New Haven, Connecticut. His father, Angelo Bartlett Giamatti, was a Yale University professor who later became president of the university and commissioner of Major League Baseball.[1] His mother, Toni Marilyn (née Smith), was a homemaker and English teacher who taught at Hopkins School and had also previously acted.[2][3] Giamatti is of Italian, Irish, and English descent.[4] Giamatti's paternal grandmother was from a family with deep roots in New England, and his paternal grandfather was the son of Italian immigrants from Telese.[5] His brother, Marcus, is also an actor, and his sister, Elena, is a jewelry designer. Giamatti was educated at The Foote School and graduated from Choate Rosemary Hall in 1985. He attended Yale University, where he was elected to the Skull and Bones secret society.[6] Giamatti was active in the undergraduate theater scene, working alongside actors Ron Livingston and Edward Norton, who were also Yale students. He graduated from Yale in 1989 with a bachelor's degree in English. He went on to earn a Master of Fine Arts degree from the Yale School of Drama where he studied with Earle R. Gister. He performed in numerous theatrical productions (including Broadway) before appearing in some small television and film roles in the early 1990s.
Giamatti's first high-profile role was in the film adaptation of Howard Stern's Private Parts (1997) as Kenny "Pig Vomit" Rushton, Stern's antagonistic program director at WNBC. Stern praised Giamatti's performance often on his radio program, calling for him to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. He appeared in a number of supporting roles in big-budget movies such as The Truman Show, Saving Private Ryan, and The Negotiator (all 1998). In 1999, he played Bob Zmuda (and Tony Clifton) in the Andy Kaufman biographical film, Man on the Moon. Giamatti continued to be featured in major studio releases such as Big Momma's House (2000) with Martin Lawrence, the Planet of the Apes remake (2001), and in Big Fat Liar (2002) opposite Frankie Muniz and Amanda Bynes.
Giamatti began to earn critical acclaim after his lead role in the 2003 film American Splendor. He gained mainstream recognition and fame with the 2004 independent romantic comedy Sideways. His portrayal of a depressed writer vacationing in the Santa Barbara wine country garnered him a Golden Globe nomination and an Independent Spirit Award. Following the commercial success of Sideways, Giamatti appeared in Cinderella Man, for which he earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor. He was also nominated for a Golden Globe and won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Supporting Actor - Motion Picture.
In 2006, he was the lead in M. Night Shyamalan's Lady in the Water, a supernatural thriller, followed by the animated film The Ant Bully, and Neil Burger's drama The Illusionist co-starring Edward Norton. He also played Mr. Hertz in the action movie Shoot 'Em Up and Santa Claus in the comedy Fred Claus. In 2008, he received his first Emmy Award[7] for "Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie" for his title performance in the HBO miniseries John Adams, a role that also led to a Screen Actors Guild award. That same year, he starred in the independent film Pretty Bird which is a fictionalized retelling about the drama behind the invention of a rocketbelt.[8]
He was nominated for 45 separate awards between 2001 and 2008, and won 26 of them, including both an Emmy and a Golden Globe for John Adams. All of his nominations except one were for American Splendor, Sideways, Cinderella Man, or John Adams; the exception was a Blockbuster Entertainment Award nomination for Big Momma's House.[9] In 2011, he won a second Golden Globe, for his portrayal of the titular character in the Canadian film Barney's Version. The Brooklyn Academy of Music asked Giamatti, its "2007 BAM Cinema Club Chair", to pick films for an eight-movie series called "Paul Giamatti Selects" and shown at the Academy in August and September 2007. His selections indicated a taste for paranoia and "the darkest of dark comedy," according to a writer for The New York Times, and included Frenzy, Dr. Strangelove, Brewster McCloud, The Big Clock, The Seventh Victim, Dawn of the Dead (1978 version), Seconds, and Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978 version).[1][10][11]
Giamatti was set to play the lead role, Colonel Tom Parker, in Bubba Nosferatu: Curse of the She-Vampires,[12] which was to co-star Ron Perlman, who replaced Bruce Campbell.[13]
A resident of the Brooklyn Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York,[10] Giamatti has been married to Elizabeth Giamatti (née Cohen) since 1997. They have a son, Samuel Paul, known as Sam, (born 2001), who is raised in Elizabeth's Jewish religion. Giamatti himself is an atheist.[14]
Comedian James Adomian performs an impression of Giamatti on the Comedy Bang Bang podcast. The AV Club describes Adomian's caricature of Giamatti as "a fantastically broken-down sad-sack."[15]
| Year |
Title |
Role |
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| 1991 |
Past Midnight |
Larry Canipe |
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| 1992 |
Singles |
Kissing Man |
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| 1994 |
NYPD Blue |
Man In Sleeping Bag |
Television series; Episode: "You Bet Your Life" |
| 1995 |
Mighty Aphrodite |
Extras Guild Researcher |
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| New York News |
Dr. Wargner |
Television series; Episode: "Past Imperfect" |
| Sabrina |
Scott |
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| 1996 |
Show, TheThe Show |
Jeffrey Roffman |
Television series; Pilot |
| Breathing Room |
George |
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| Ripper |
Doctor Bud Cable |
Video game |
| 1997 |
Arresting Gena |
Detective Wilson |
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| Donnie Brasco |
FBI Technician |
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| Private Parts |
Kenny "Pig Vomit" Rushton |
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| My Best Friend's Wedding |
Richard the Bellman |
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| Deconstructing Harry |
Professor Abbot |
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| Further Gesture, AA Further Gesture |
Hotel Clerk |
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| 1998 |
Tourist Trap |
Jeremiah Piper |
| Homicide: Life on the Street |
Harry Tjarks |
Television series; Episode: "Pit Bull Sessions" |
| Truman Show, TheThe Truman Show |
Control Room Director |
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| Dr. Dolittle |
Blaine |
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| Saving Private Ryan |
Sergeant Hill |
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| Negotiator, TheThe Negotiator |
Rudy Timmons |
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| Safe Men |
Veal Chop |
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| 1999 |
Cradle Will Rock |
Carlo |
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| Man on the Moon |
Bob Zmuda/Tony Clifton |
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| 2000 |
If These Walls Could Talk 2 |
Ted Hedley |
Television series; Segment: "1961" |
| Big Momma's House |
John Maxwell |
Nominated – Blockbuster Entertainment Award for Favorite Supporting Actor – Comedy |
| Duets |
Todd Woods |
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| 2001 |
King of the Hill |
Mr. McKay |
Television series; Episode: "It's Not Easy Being Green" |
| Storytelling |
Toby Oxman |
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| Planet of the Apes |
Limbo |
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| 2002 |
Big Fat Liar |
Marty Wolf |
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| Thunderpants |
Johnson J. Johnson |
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| 2003 |
American Splendor |
Harvey Pekar |
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| Paycheck |
Shorty |
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| Confidence |
Gordo |
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| Pentagon Papers, TheThe Pentagon Papers |
Anthony Russo |
Television series |
| 2004 |
Sideways |
Miles Raymond |
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| 2005 |
Saturday Night Live |
Host |
Television series; Episode: 30 × 10 |
| Robots |
Tim the Gate Guard |
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| Fan and the Flower, TheThe Fan and the Flower |
Narrator |
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| Cinderella Man |
Joe Gould |
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| 2006 |
Asterix and the Vikings |
Asterix |
English Dub |
| Hawk Is Dying, TheThe Hawk Is Dying |
George Gattling |
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| Illusionist, TheThe Illusionist |
Chief Inspector Uhl |
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| Lady in the Water |
Cleveland Heep |
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| Ant Bully, TheThe Ant Bully |
Stan Beals |
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| Amazing Screw-On Head, TheThe Amazing Screw-On Head |
Screw-On Head |
Television series |
| 2007 |
Nanny Diaries, TheThe Nanny Diaries |
Mr. X |
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| Shoot 'Em Up |
Karl Hertz |
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| Fred Claus |
Nicholas "Nick" Claus |
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| 2008 |
John Adams |
John Adams |
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| Pretty Bird |
Rick |
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| 2009 |
Duplicity |
Richard "Dick" Garsik |
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| Cold Souls |
Paul |
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| Haunted World of El Superbeasto, TheThe Haunted World of El Superbeasto |
Dr. Satan |
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| Last Station, TheThe Last Station |
Vladimir Chertkov |
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| 2010 |
Barney's Version |
Barney Panofsky |
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| 2011 |
Win Win |
Mike Flaherty |
Indiana Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor |
| Ironclad |
King John |
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| The Hangover Part II |
Kingsley |
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| Too Big to Fail |
Ben Bernanke |
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| Prohibition |
Himself |
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| The Ides of March |
Tom Duffy |
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| 2012 |
Rock of Ages |
Paul Gill |
filming |
| Cosmopolis |
Benno Levin |
filming |
| John Dies at the End |
Arnie Blondestone |
Also producer |
| 2013 |
The Congress |
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- ^ a b Gross, Terry (February 13, 2004). "Actor Paul Giamatti". NPR. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1674650. Retrieved May 31, 2007.
- ^ Pringle, Gill (November 27, 2007). "Paul Giamatti: Mr Potato face". The Independent (UK). http://arts.independent.co.uk/film/features/article3199367.ece. Retrieved November 27, 2007.
- ^ "–Ai. Bartlett Giamatti Marries Ton! Smith". The New York Times. June 19, 1960. http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F00B15F738551A7A93CBA8178DD85F448685F9. Retrieved May 22, 2010.
- ^ Interview previously available at http://www.sundayherald.com/57083
- ^ Reston, James (1997). Collision at Home Plate: The Lives of Pete Rose and Bart Giamatti. Nebraska: U of Nebraska Press. pp. 15–16. ISBN 0-8032-8964-2. http://books.google.ca/books?visbn=0-8032-8964-2&id=znjlwbfZOTcC&pg=RA1-PA16&lpg=RA1-PA16&ots=_8zqp4MZuD&dq=%22Bartlett+Giamatti%22+ITALIAN&sig=iGZHVZTGXmCp8qRjBnZbD5GjzyE.
- ^ Burkeman, Oliver (November 12, 2009). "G2: 'I'm clearly not Brad Pitt': Paul Giamatti tends to play moody defeatists and rageful misanthropes. Which is just the way he likes it.". The Guardian.
- ^ Paul Giamatti Emmy Award Winner
- ^ Paul Giamatti's Good Times
- ^ According to the Internet Movie Database
- ^ a b Hale, Mike. "Film", The New York Times. July 29, 2007. Retrieved November 29, 2007.
- ^ Web page titled "Paul Giamatti Selects" at the Brooklyn Academy of Music Web site, Retrieved July 28, 2007
- ^ "Paul Giamatti Will Break Spine For Bubba Nosferatu! Now THAT'S Dedication!". DreadCentral. http://www.dreadcentral.com/news/38374/paul-giamatti-will-break-spine-for-bubba-nosferatu-now-thats-dedication.
- ^ Wigler, Josh (July 6, 2010). "EXCLUSIVE: Paul Giamatti Says 'Bubba Nosferatu' Will Come Together, Despite Financial Setbacks". MTV. http://moviesblog.mtv.com/2010/07/06/exclusive-paul-giamatti-says-bubba-nosferatu-will-come-together-despite-financial-setbacks/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+mtvmoviesblog+%28MTV+Movies+Blog%29. Retrieved July 6, 2010.
- ^ "I never saw Russell lose it on set..." | TotalFilm.com
- ^ "AV Club Podmass: The Best" (Week of February 17–23) The Onion
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- Gosford Park (2001): Eileen Atkins, Bob Balaban, Alan Bates, Charles Dance, Stephen Fry, Michael Gambon, Richard E. Grant, Tom Hollander, Derek Jacobi, Kelly Macdonald, Helen Mirren, Jeremy Northam, Clive Owen, Ryan Phillippe, Maggie Smith, Geraldine Somerville, Kristin Scott Thomas, Sophie Thompson, Emily Watson, James Wilby
- Chicago (2002): Christine Baranski, Ekaterina Chtchelkanova, Taye Diggs, Denise Faye, Colm Feore, Richard Gere, Deidre Goodwin, Queen Latifah, Lucy Liu, Susan Misner, Mýa, John C. Reilly, Dominic West, Renée Zellweger, Catherine Zeta-Jones
- The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003): Sean Astin, Sean Bean, Cate Blanchett, Orlando Bloom, Billy Boyd, Bernard Hill, Ian Holm, Ian McKellen, Dominic Monaghan, Viggo Mortensen, John Noble, Miranda Otto, John Rhys-Davies, Andy Serkis, Liv Tyler, Karl Urban, Hugo Weaving, David Wenham, Elijah Wood
- Crash (2005): Christopher "Ludacris" Bridges, Sandra Bullock, Don Cheadle, Matt Dillon, Jennifer Esposito, William Fichtner, Brendan Fraser, Terrence Howard, Thandie Newton, Ryan Phillippe, Larenz Tate
- Slumdog Millionaire (2008): Rubina Ali, Tanay Chheda, Ashutosh Lobo Gajiwala, Azharuddin Mohammed Ismail, Anil Kapoor, Irrfan Khan, Ayush Mahesh Khedekar, Tanvi Ganesh Lonkar, Madhur Mittal, Dev Patel, Freida Pinto
- Inglourious Basterds (2009): Daniel Brühl, August Diehl, Julie Dreyfus, Michael Fassbender, Sylvester Groth, Jacky Ido, Diane Kruger, Mélanie Laurent, Denis Menochet, Mike Myers, Brad Pitt, Eli Roth, Til Schweiger, Rod Taylor, Christoph Waltz, Martin Wuttke
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