Vincent Pastore

Birthplace: New York
Birthday: July 14, 1946

Although he had dabbled in acting while a student at Pace University, Vincent Pastore didn't get serious about it until befriending Matt and Kevin Dillon while running a nightclub in New Rochelle, New York. After meeting Kevin's manager, he was soon pursuing the business in earnest, and he thought he had it made when his first film, Nancy Savoca's "True Love" (1989), won the Sundance Film Festival's Grand Jury Prize. Unfortunately, he couldn't follow up with anything but day work on "GoodFellas" and a small bit as a patient in "Awakenings" (bot…more

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Repo Man: Stealing For a Living
Family Values: The Mob & the Movies
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Witness to the Mob
Mikey DeBatt
Queens Supreme
Normy Delgado
The Great American Celebrity Spelling Bee

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2007
Signed on for the fourth season of "Dancing with the Stars" (ABC); withdrew from the competition after only one week, after finding the necessary training and preparation too physically demanding; replaced by actor John Ratzenberger
2006
Appeared on the fourth season of the VH1 reality show "Celebrity Fit Club"
2005
Cast in "Revolver," written and directed by Guy Ritchie (released theatrically in 2007)
2004
Guest starred as an attorney on ABC's "The Practice"
2004
Voiced Luca in the animated feature "Shark Tale"