Dennis Farina
Gender: Male
Born: 29th February 1944 (currently 68 years old)
Nationality: United States of America, Italy
TV programs: Crime Story, Law & Order, Unsolved Mysteries, In-Laws, Buddy Faro, Luck
Movies: Another Stakeout, Big Trouble, Manhunter, Paparazzi, Snatch, Eddie, That Old Feeling, You Kill Me, Midnight Run, Stealing Harvard, Striking Distance, Out of Sight, Bonanza: Under Attack, National Lampoon's Bagboy, Street Crimes, High Stakes, Sidewalks of New York, The Grand, Bottle Shock, We're Talking Serious Money, Dream a Little Dream 2, Saving Private Ryan, Bella Mafia, Get Shorty, What Happens in Vegas..., The Mod Squad, Mac, Men of Respect, Thief, Little Big League, Code of Silence, Reindeer Games, Six Against the Rock, Knucklehead, The Killing Floor, Purple Violets, Romeo Is Bleeding, Bad Seed, Hillside Stranglers, The, Blind Faith, The Last Rites of Joe May
Dennis Farina (born February 29, 1944) is an American actor of film and television and former Chicago police officer. He is a character actor, often typecast as a mobster or police officer. His most known film roles are those of mobster Jimmy Serrano in the comedy Midnight Run and Ray "Bones" Barboni in Get Shorty. He starred on television as Detective Joe Fontana on Law & Order. His latest TV role is in HBO's Luck, which premiered on January 29, 2012.
Farina was born in Chicago, Illinois, to Italian-American parents Yolanda, a homemaker, and Joseph Farina, a Sicilian immigrant doctor. He was raised in a large family and has three brothers and three sisters.
Before becoming an actor, Farina served 18 years in the Chicago Police Department's burglary division, from 1967 to 1985.
Farina began his work in show business working for director Michael Mann as a police consultant, which subsequently led to an interest in acting when Mann cast him in a small role in the 1981 film Thief. Farina proceeded to moonlight as an actor in the Chicago theater scene before Mann chose him for his Crime Story series. Farina played the mobster Albert Lombard in Michael Mann's other television show,
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