Joe Pantoliano
Joseph Peter Pantoliano (born September 12, 1951) is an American actor who has played over 150 roles across film, television, and theater. He is best known for portraying Francis Fratelli in The Goonies (1985), Captain Conrad Howard in the Bad Boys film series (1995–2024), Cypher in the Wachowskis' sci-fi action film The Matrix (1999), Teddy in Christopher Nolan's psychological thriller film Memento (2000), and Ralph "Ralphie" Cifaretto on the HBO crime drama The Sopranos (2001–2004), for which he won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series. Other notable film credits include Risky Business (1983), Steven Spielberg's Empire of the Sun (1987), La Bamba (1987), Midnight Run (1988), The Fugitive (1993), Baby's Day Out (1994), the Wachowskis' directorial debut Bound (1996), and Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief (2010). In 2025, he received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series for his performance in The Last of Us. Pantoliano has published two memoirs and is active in the field of mental health, having documented his mother's issues and his own. He founded the nonprofit No Kidding, Me Too!, which is dedicated to removing the stigma from mental illness. Description above from the Wikipedia article Joe Pantoliano, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography (34)
The Isolate Thief
Bad Boys: Ride or Die
Bad Boys for Life
Feast of the Seven Fishes
Just Getting Started
Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore
Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief
Unknown
Racing Stripes
Bad Boys II
Daredevil
The Adventures of Pluto Nash
Cats & Dogs
Memento
Ready to Rumble
The Matrix
U.S. Marshals
Bound
Bad Boys
Congo
The Last Word
Baby's Day Out
The Fugitive
Zandalee
Short Time
Midnight Run
Empire of the Sun
La Bamba
Amazon Women on the Moon
Running Scared
The Goonies
The Mean Season
Eddie and the Cruisers
