Joe Pesci


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BirthPlace
02/08/1943
Newark, NJ
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Played guitar and sang in the band Joey Dee and the Starliters.
As a child, he appeared in plays and the TV variety show Startime Kids.
Landed the role of Joey LaMotta in Raging Bull (1980) after Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro saw him in the 1976 cheapie The Death Collector.
Provided the voice of the Brooklyn Bridge in a Lexus commercial.
Recorded an album in the '60s called Little Joe Sure Can Sing under the name Joe Ritchie.