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** His character in the ''TalesFromTheCrypt'' episode "Forever Ambergris" is a nice (if naIve) fellow. Among other things, he's, a gifted photographer who either doesn't notice how gifted he is or just doesn't let it go to his head.
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** His character in the ''TalesFromTheCrypt'' episode "Forever Ambergris" is a nice (if naIve) naive) fellow. Among other things, he's, a gifted photographer who either doesn't notice how gifted he is or just doesn't let it go to his head.
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** A former fire-fighter, he immediately went to his old firehouse and helped look for survivors of the 9/11 attacks.
*** And [[http://www.tribecatrib.com/news/2011/june/1045_residents-rally-and-ghostbusters-firehouse-is-saved.html showed up]] to help save volunteer fire company Ladder 8, also known as the Film/{{Ghostbusters}}' HQ.
** He was once stabbed trying to break up a bar fight.
** A former fire-fighter, he immediately went to his old firehouse and helped look for survivors of the 9/11 attacks.
*** And [[http://www.tribecatrib.com/news/2011/june/1045_residents-rally-and-ghostbusters-firehouse-is-saved.html showed up]] to help save volunteer fire company Ladder 8, also known as the Film/{{Ghostbusters}}' HQ.
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**likes. A former fire-fighter, he immediately went to his old firehouse and helped look for survivors of the 9/11 attacks.
*** And [[http://www.tribecatrib.com/news/2011/june/1045_residents-rally-and-ghostbusters-firehouse-is-saved.html showed up]] to help save volunteer fire company Ladder 8, also known as the Film/{{Ghostbusters}}' HQ.
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*** And [[http://www.tribecatrib.com/news/2011/june/1045_residents-rally-and-ghostbusters-firehouse-is-saved.html showed up]] to help save volunteer fire company Ladder 8, also known as the Film/{{Ghostbusters}}' HQ.
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'''Steven Vincent "Steve" Buscemi''' (born December 13, 1957) is a cadaverous character actor beloved of Creator/TheCoenBrothers, Creator/AdamSandler, Creator/QuentinTarantino, TerryZwigoff and anyone and anything related to the world of Independent cinema.
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'''Steven Vincent "Steve" Buscemi''' (born 1957) is a cadaverous character actor beloved of Creator/TheCoenBrothers, Creator/AdamSandler, QuentinTarantino, Creator/QuentinTarantino, TerryZwigoff and anyone and anything related to the world of Independent cinema.
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* HeartwarmingMoments: Returning to his old firehouse to help rescue people on 9/11 definitely counts. As well as being stabbed to protect a friend in a fight.
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* ItsPronouncedTropay: ItIsPronouncedTroPay: His last name is pronounced "Boo-seh-mi," not "Boo-she-mi," as many people seem to think. He finds the mispronunciation annoying.
* HeartwarmingMoments: Returning to his old firehouse to help rescue people on 9/11 definitely counts. As well as being stabbed to protect a friend in a fight.annoying.
* HeartwarmingMoments: Returning to his old firehouse to help rescue people on 9/11 definitely counts. As well as being stabbed to protect a friend in a fight.
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* ''Film/{{Armageddon}}'' - Rockhound
* ''Film/BigFish'': Norther Winslow
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** In the German biopic ''John Rabe'', he plays a heroic American doctor.
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* {{Jerkass}}
{{Jerkass}}: Most of the characters he plays.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Buscemi was considered to be cast for the role of [[{{Batman}} The Scarecrow]] in the cancelled {{Batman}} film, ''Batman Triumphant''.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Buscemi was considered to be cast for the role of [[{{Batman}} [[Franchise/{{Batman}} The Scarecrow]] in the cancelled {{Batman}} Franchise/{{Batman}} film, ''Batman Triumphant''.
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* {{Badass}}: He was a firefighter and helped save people on 9/11. Further proof is not needed.
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** ''BoardwalkEmpire'', as notedabove.above. Enoch Thompson is a powerful, charming [[TheDon Don]], leading a successful career as a charismatic politician and powerbroker, a commanding gangster, and all-around king of Atlantic City.
** ''BoardwalkEmpire'', as noted
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* MeanCharacterNiceActor: Despite playing immoral/amoral weasels, he has been described as a consummate professional whom everyone likes.
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** Best shown in an episode of ''Homicide: Life On The Street'' where his character is a pretentious longshoreman with delusions of genius who talks down to the detectives whom he views as inferior. They bring in his copy of a Latin manuscript which he cannot read but which Pembleton can.
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Steven Vincent "Steve" Buscemi (born 1957) is a cadaverous character actor beloved of Creator/TheCoenBrothers, AdamSandler, Creator/AdamSandler, QuentinTarantino, TerryZwigoff and anyone and anything related to the world of Independent cinema.
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* OlderThanTheyLook: He's in his 50s now, but still looks like he's in his 40s. In ''{{Airheads}}'', [[DawsonCasting he was 36 when he played the 20-something]] metalhead Rex, and was more convincing than actual (then-)20-something costars Creator/BrendanFraser and AdamSandler.
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* OlderThanTheyLook: He's in his 50s now, but still looks like he's in his 40s. In ''{{Airheads}}'', [[DawsonCasting he was 36 when he played the 20-something]] metalhead Rex, and was more convincing than actual (then-)20-something costars Creator/BrendanFraser and AdamSandler.Creator/AdamSandler.
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* FiremenAreHot: Subversion. For a guy who actually used to be a fireman he definitely tends to play a lot of "funny lookin'" loser/creep types.
* {{It Is Pronounced Tro-PAY}}: His last name is pronounced "Boo-seh-mi," not "Boo-she-mi," as many people seem to think. He finds the mispronunciation annoying.
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* FiremenAreHot: Subversion. For a guy who actually used to be a fireman fireman, he definitely tends to play a lot of "funny lookin'" loser/creep types.
*{{It Is Pronounced Tro-PAY}}: ItsPronouncedTropay: His last name is pronounced "Boo-seh-mi," not "Boo-she-mi," as many people seem to think. He finds the mispronunciation annoying.
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* ''{{Armageddon}}'' ''Film/{{Armageddon}}'' - Rockhound
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In a career spanning over twenty years, Buscemi has carved himself a niche playing an assortment of freaks, losers, weirdos, creeps and psychos. It may be possible that his role in ''{{Fargo}}'' as [[{{Fargo}} a man who gets fed through a woodchipper]] will have him forever pegged as that "kinda funny lookin'" guy.
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**His character in the ''TalesFromTheCrypt'' episode "Forever Ambergris" is a nice (if naIve) fellow. Among other things, he's, a gifted photographer who either doesn't notice how gifted he is or just doesn't let it go to his head.
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-->'''Townsperson:''' Oh, he was a little guy... kinda funny lookin'. \\
'''Cop:''' Uh-huh. In what way? \\
'''Townsperson:''' Oh, just in a general kinda way.
-->-- ''{{Fargo}}'' describes every character Steve Buscemi has ever played.
Cadaverous character actor beloved of TheCoenBrothers, AdamSandler, QuentinTarantino, TerryZwigoff and anyone and anything related to the world of Independent cinema.
In a career spanning over twenty years, Buscemi has carved himself a niche playing an assortment of freaks, losers, weirdos, creeps and psychos. It may be possible that his role in ''{{Fargo}}'' will have him forever pegged as that "kinda funny lookin'" guy.
In addition to his work as an actor, he has also directed a number of feature films and several episodes of ''HomicideLifeOnTheStreet'', ''{{OZ}}'' and ''Series/TheSopranos'', notably the celebrated "Pine Barrens" episode.
Buscemi has currently stepped out of his "creepy weirdo" oeuvre to play the lead character Enoch "Nucky" Thompson in HBO's [[TheRoaringTwenties Prohibition Era]] drama ''BoardwalkEmpire''.
!!!'''Notable Roles:'''
* ''TheBigLebowski'' - Theodore Donald "Donny" Kerabatsos
* ''BoardwalkEmpire'' - Enoch "Nucky" Thompson
* ''{{Armageddon}}'' - Rockhound
* ''ConAir'' - Garland "The Marietta Mangler" Greene
* ''{{Fargo}}'' - Carl "The Guy Who Got Fed Into The Woodchipper" Showalter
* ''GhostWorld'' - Seymour
* ''Film/LivingInOblivion''
* ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc'' - Randall Boggs (voice)
* ''ReservoirDogs'' - Mr. Pink
* ''Series/TheSopranos'' - Tony "Tony B" Blundetto/ Man
* ''ThingsToDoInDenverWhenYoureDead'' - Mr. Shhh
* ''BigFish'': Norther Winslow
!!!Steve Buscemi displays examples of:
* Badass: He was a firefighter and helped save people on 9/11. Further proof is not needed.
* BrooklynRage
* ChronicallyKilledActor: Especially in TheCoenBrothers movies, and the brothers note that his remains get smaller and smaller through each film.
* DeadpanSnarker
* FiremenAreHot: Subversion. For a guy who actually used to be a fireman he definitely tends to play a lot of "funny lookin'" loser/creep types.
* {{It Is Pronounced Tro-PAY}}: His last name is pronounced "Boo-seh-mi," not "Boo-she-mi," as many people seem to think. He finds the mispronunciation annoying.
* HeartwarmingMoments: Returning to his old firehouse to help rescue people on 9/11 definitely counts. As well as being stabbed to protect a friend in a fight.
* JerkAss
* JerkassWoobie: [[invoked]] Many of his characters would be sympathetic if they weren't so unpleasant or ruthless.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold
* KnowNothingKnowItAll
* LeanAndMean
* LoserProtagonist
* LunaticLoophole : ''{{Armageddon}}'', ''ConAir'', ''ReservoirDogs''.
* MoneyDearBoy: If a job pays well enough, he'll generally do it.
* MeanCharacterNiceActor: Despite playing immoral/amoral weasels, he has been described as a consummate professional whom everyone likes.
** A former fire-fighter, he immediately went to his old firehouse and helped look for survivors of the 9/11 attacks.
*** And [[http://www.tribecatrib.com/news/2011/june/1045_residents-rally-and-ghostbusters-firehouse-is-saved.html showed up]] to help save volunteer fire company Ladder 8, also known as the Film/{{Ghostbusters}}' HQ.
** He was once stabbed trying to break up a bar fight.
* OlderThanTheyLook: He's in his 50s now, but still looks like he's in his 40s. In ''{{Airheads}}'', [[DawsonCasting he was 36 when he played the 20-something]] metalhead Rex, and was more convincing than actual (then-)20-something costars Creator/BrendanFraser and AdamSandler.
* OnlySaneMan
* PlayingAgainstType: ''BoardwalkEmpire'', as noted above.
** Donny in ''TheBigLebowski'', a nice, upbeat, naive guy who's never allowed to speak for more than a second. The last part was done as a nod to the fact the his character in ''{{Fargo}}'' wouldn't shut up.
** An earlier example is ''InTheSoup'' in which his character is a struggling but Sweet Film Director with an unrequited crush on Jennifer Beals' character
* SmallNameBigEgo: Many of his characters, but ''{{Fargo}}'''s Carl Showalter stands out. ''Armageddon'' finally let him play a character who really was as smart as he thought he was.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Buscemi was considered to be cast for the role of [[{{Batman}} The Scarecrow]] in the cancelled {{Batman}} film, ''Batman Triumphant''.
** If JohnMalkovich hadn't been up for it, the film might have been called ''[[BeingJohnMalkovich Being Steve Buscemi]]'' instead.
* UglyGuyHotWife: Despite being "kind of funny lookin'", his onscreen girlfriends have included Jennifer Beals, KellyMacdonald and Paz De La Huerta among others.
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-->'''Townsperson:''' Oh, he was a little guy... kinda funny lookin'. \\
'''Cop:''' Uh-huh. In what way? \\
'''Townsperson:''' Oh, just in a general kinda way.
-->-- ''{{Fargo}}'' describes every character Steve Buscemi has ever played.
Cadaverous character actor beloved of TheCoenBrothers, AdamSandler, QuentinTarantino, TerryZwigoff and anyone and anything related to the world of Independent cinema.
In a career spanning over twenty years, Buscemi has carved himself a niche playing an assortment of freaks, losers, weirdos, creeps and psychos. It may be possible that his role in ''{{Fargo}}'' will have him forever pegged as that "kinda funny lookin'" guy.
In addition to his work as an actor, he has also directed a number of feature films and several episodes of ''HomicideLifeOnTheStreet'', ''{{OZ}}'' and ''Series/TheSopranos'', notably the celebrated "Pine Barrens" episode.
Buscemi has currently stepped out of his "creepy weirdo" oeuvre to play the lead character Enoch "Nucky" Thompson in HBO's [[TheRoaringTwenties Prohibition Era]] drama ''BoardwalkEmpire''.
!!!'''Notable Roles:'''
* ''TheBigLebowski'' - Theodore Donald "Donny" Kerabatsos
* ''BoardwalkEmpire'' - Enoch "Nucky" Thompson
* ''{{Armageddon}}'' - Rockhound
* ''ConAir'' - Garland "The Marietta Mangler" Greene
* ''{{Fargo}}'' - Carl "The Guy Who Got Fed Into The Woodchipper" Showalter
* ''GhostWorld'' - Seymour
* ''Film/LivingInOblivion''
* ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc'' - Randall Boggs (voice)
* ''ReservoirDogs'' - Mr. Pink
* ''Series/TheSopranos'' - Tony "Tony B" Blundetto/ Man
* ''ThingsToDoInDenverWhenYoureDead'' - Mr. Shhh
* ''BigFish'': Norther Winslow
!!!Steve Buscemi displays examples of:
* Badass: He was a firefighter and helped save people on 9/11. Further proof is not needed.
* BrooklynRage
* ChronicallyKilledActor: Especially in TheCoenBrothers movies, and the brothers note that his remains get smaller and smaller through each film.
* DeadpanSnarker
* FiremenAreHot: Subversion. For a guy who actually used to be a fireman he definitely tends to play a lot of "funny lookin'" loser/creep types.
* {{It Is Pronounced Tro-PAY}}: His last name is pronounced "Boo-seh-mi," not "Boo-she-mi," as many people seem to think. He finds the mispronunciation annoying.
* HeartwarmingMoments: Returning to his old firehouse to help rescue people on 9/11 definitely counts. As well as being stabbed to protect a friend in a fight.
* JerkAss
* JerkassWoobie: [[invoked]] Many of his characters would be sympathetic if they weren't so unpleasant or ruthless.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold
* KnowNothingKnowItAll
* LeanAndMean
* LoserProtagonist
* LunaticLoophole : ''{{Armageddon}}'', ''ConAir'', ''ReservoirDogs''.
* MoneyDearBoy: If a job pays well enough, he'll generally do it.
* MeanCharacterNiceActor: Despite playing immoral/amoral weasels, he has been described as a consummate professional whom everyone likes.
** A former fire-fighter, he immediately went to his old firehouse and helped look for survivors of the 9/11 attacks.
*** And [[http://www.tribecatrib.com/news/2011/june/1045_residents-rally-and-ghostbusters-firehouse-is-saved.html showed up]] to help save volunteer fire company Ladder 8, also known as the Film/{{Ghostbusters}}' HQ.
** He was once stabbed trying to break up a bar fight.
* OlderThanTheyLook: He's in his 50s now, but still looks like he's in his 40s. In ''{{Airheads}}'', [[DawsonCasting he was 36 when he played the 20-something]] metalhead Rex, and was more convincing than actual (then-)20-something costars Creator/BrendanFraser and AdamSandler.
* OnlySaneMan
* PlayingAgainstType: ''BoardwalkEmpire'', as noted above.
** Donny in ''TheBigLebowski'', a nice, upbeat, naive guy who's never allowed to speak for more than a second. The last part was done as a nod to the fact the his character in ''{{Fargo}}'' wouldn't shut up.
** An earlier example is ''InTheSoup'' in which his character is a struggling but Sweet Film Director with an unrequited crush on Jennifer Beals' character
* SmallNameBigEgo: Many of his characters, but ''{{Fargo}}'''s Carl Showalter stands out. ''Armageddon'' finally let him play a character who really was as smart as he thought he was.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Buscemi was considered to be cast for the role of [[{{Batman}} The Scarecrow]] in the cancelled {{Batman}} film, ''Batman Triumphant''.
** If JohnMalkovich hadn't been up for it, the film might have been called ''[[BeingJohnMalkovich Being Steve Buscemi]]'' instead.
* UglyGuyHotWife: Despite being "kind of funny lookin'", his onscreen girlfriends have included Jennifer Beals, KellyMacdonald and Paz De La Huerta among others.
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