Harvey Keitel
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Harvey Keitel ( ky-TEL; born May 13, 1939) is an American actor and producer.
He has starred in films such as Mean Streets (1973), Taxi Driver (1976), The Duellists (1977), The Last Temptation of Christ (1988), Bugsy (1991), Thelma & Louise (1991), Reservoir Dogs (1992), Bad Lieutenant (1992), The Piano (1993), Pulp Fiction (1994), From Dusk till Dawn (1996), Cop Land (1997), The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014), Youth (2015) and The Irishman (2019).Keitel has been nominated for a number of accolades in his career, including Academy and Golden Globe awards, and has won an Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for his role in The Piano.
From 1995 to 2017, he was a co-president of the Actors Studio, along with actors Al Pacino and Ellen Burstyn.
Early life
Keitel was born in New York City, on May 13, 1939, the youngest child of Jewish immigrants. His mother Miriam (née Klein; 1911–1987) was from Romania and his father, Harry Keitel, was from Poland. His parents owned and ran a luncheonette, while his father worked as a hat maker. He grew up in the Brighton Beach neighborhood of Brooklyn, with his elder sister, Renee, and elder brother, Jerry. He attended Abraham Lincoln High School. He enlisted in the Marines at the age of 17. After his discharge, he worked as a court stenographer for 10–12 years before beginning his acting career.
Personal life
Keitel was in a long-term relationship with American actress Lorraine Bracco from 1982 to 1993, but the relationship ended acrimoniously and included a prolonged custody battle over their daughter, Stella (born 1985). He married Canadian actress Daphna Kastner in 2001. He had two more children after Stella: a son from his relationship with Lisa Karmazin, and a son from his marriage to Kastner.
Keitel is an honorary citizen of Romania.
Career
Keitel worked with Stella Adler and Lee Strasberg and at the HB Studio, eventually landing roles in some Off-Broadway productions. Keitel auditioned for filmmaker Martin Scorsese and became a lead actor in Scorsese's first feature film, "Who's That Knocking at My Door (1967). Scorsese and Keitel have collaborated on several projects since then. In Mean Streets, Scorsese's best-known film, Keitel played a lead character. Keitel reteamed with Scorsese for Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974), in which he had a bad supporting role, and he appeared in Scorsese's Taxi Driver (1976), portraying Jodie Foster's character.
Keitel appeared in Paul Schrader's directorial debuts (Blue Collar, co-starring Richard Pryor and Yaphet Kotto), Ridley Scott (The Duellists, co-starring Keith Carradine), and James Toback (Fingers), in which Keitel played a street hood with aspirations of being a pianist (Toback wrote for Robert De Niro to play).
Captain Willard was depicted in Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now (1979), and Keitel was involved in the first week of principal photography in the Philippines. Coppola was dissatisfied with Keitel's portrayal of Willard, saying that the actor "finded it impossible to portray him as a passive onlooker." Coppola switched Keitel with Martin Sheen, a casting session favorite after watching the first week's film.
In the 1980s, Keitel began to work on both stage and film, often in the stereotypical role of a thug. In the 1983 thriller Copkiller (co-starring musician John Lydon), Keitel played a corrupt police officer before appearing in the romantic drama Falling in Love (1984), starring Robert De Niro and Meryl St. He was one of the busiest character actors around, appearing in 16 films and telefilms, including Brian De Palma's Mobster Guys (1986), starring Danny DeVito and Joe Piscopo, and as Judas in Martin Scorsese's controversial The Last Temptation of Christ (1988).
Jack Nicholson appeared in the Chinatown sequel The Two Jakes (1990), directed by Jack Nicholson. In 1991, Ridley Scott played Keitel as the sympathetic policeman in Thelma & Louise; the same year, Keitel appeared in Barry Levinson's Bugsy for which he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor. In the Whoopi Goldberg-starring comedy Sister Act, Keitel appeared in another mobster the following year.
Keitel appeared in Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs (which he co-produced) in 1992, where his role as "Mr. White" brought his career to a different degree. Since then, Keitel has opted for care, aiming to enhance his image and showcase a wider acting range. In Bad Lieutenant, one of those roles was the title character, about a self-loathing, heroin-addicted police lieutenant who was struggling to recover himself. He appeared in The Piano in 1993 and played Winston "The Wolf" Wolfe in Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction, an obvious recreation of Victor the Cleaner's 1994 appearance in Point of No Return. In Spike Lee's Clockers (a Richard Price-based adaptation co-produced by Martin Scorsese), Keitel appeared as a police detective. Keitel appeared in Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez's film From Dusk to Dawn in 1996, and in 1997, he appeared in the crime drama Cop Land, which also starred Sylvester Stallone, Ray Liotta, and Robert De Niro.
His father, Satan, is the protagonist of Little Nicky, a sage Navy man in U-571, diligent FBI Special agent Sadusky in National Treasure, and the latter's sequel, The Book of Secrets, were among his later appearances. Keitel was shot and killed on set of Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut in 1999, and he appeared in Tony Bui's award-winning directorial debut, Three Seasons (which Keitel also produced). Also for Holy Smoke, Keitel re-teamed with Jane Campion! Kate Winslet, a co-star, appears in this film.
In the film The Grey Zone, Keitel played opposite roles: in 2001, she appeared in both roles: as a US Army denazification prosecutor and as SS-Oberscharführer Erich Muhsfeldt.
Keitel was honoured with the Stanislavsky Award in 2002 for his contribution to the Stanislavsky's School's basic principles.
In 2007, he appeared in the Steinlager Pure retail stores in New Zealand. Keitel has appeared in several films, including full frontal nudity in Bad Lieutenant and The Piano, unlike many American male actors.
In January 2008, Keitel appeared as Jerry Springer in Jerry Springer's premiere at Carnegie Hall in New York City. In 2008, Keitel appeared as Detective Gene Hunt in ABC's short-lived US adaptation of the hit British time-travel drama series Life on Mars.
He made a cameo appearance in "D.O.A." in June 2009. "Death of Auto-Tune"), a nod to his Brooklyn roots. He appeared in a Beyoncé music video for "Pretty Hurts" in 2013.
He appeared in the independent film A Farewell to Fools in 2013.
He resurrectled his role as Winston Wolfe from Pulp Fiction between 2014 and early 2020 as part of British insurance company Direct Line's £40 million television advertising campaign.
In 2021, he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Newport Beach Film Festival.
Keitel appeared in Steven Brand's noir drama Joe Baby in 2022, alongside Dichen Lachman, Willa Fitzgerald, and Ron Perlman.
