
AOL Moviefone/Sprint presented a series called DM or Defining Moment. In this video, actor Joe Pantoliano (Joey Pants) answers the question, "What has been a defining moment in your life and career?" Joe Pantoliano is known as one of our hardest-working and most accomplished actors on stage and screen. His range of characters in significant films and television series over the last 35 years is breathtaking. He has played important roles in such major motion pictures as RISKY BUSINESS, LA BAMBA, GOONIES, MIDNIGHT RUN, EMPIRE OF THE SUN, THE FUGITIVE, BOUND, THE MATRIX, BAD BOYS, DAREDEVIL and MEMENTO, working for such directors as Steven Spielberg, Richard Donner, Andrew Davis, Andy and Larry Wachowski and Christopher Nolan. His television work includes such landmark series as MASH, HILL STREET BLUES, HART TO HART, LA LAW, NYPD BLUE, ARLI$$, THE OUTER LIMITS, and of course, THE SOPRANOS, for which he won the Emmy for Best Supporting Actor in 2003. Joey Pants, as he is affectionately nicknamed, was born in Hoboken NJ in 1951, the son of a hearse driver and part-time seamstress/bookie. Growing up in a broken home, Joey suffered from severe dyslexia, but discovered acting in high school and became determined to be a professional actor. Juggling acting classes with auditions and work as a waiter, he landed the role of Billy Bibbit in a touring production of ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOOS NEST in 1972. In 1974 he moved to Hollywood and was soon getting television work. A major <b>...</b>
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