Physical Description: Height: 5'9"; Hair color: light brown with slight grey; Eye color: blue

Parents: Dorothy and John Buscemi (Steve's father, a veteran of the Korean war, worked for the NYC Sanitation Department, Retired)

Syblings:Three brothers: Michael (also an actor), Ken and Jon.

Traumatic childhood event: Steve was hit by a city bus when he was 4 years old. The accident fractured his skull. The city paid $6,000 as settlement.

Raised: Valley Stream, New York

Graduated: 1975 Valley Stream Central High School

Other Education: Nassau Community College, Garden City, NY. He majored in liberal arts, and dropped out after one semester.

Lives Currently: Brooklyn, New York

Marital Status: Married to dancer/choreographer/film-maker Jo Andres for 16 years.

Kids: One son, Lucian Buscemi, Born November 28, 1990

Pre-celebrity jobs: Amatuer stand-up comedian, waiter, mover, gas station attendant, ice cream truck driver, NYC Fire Department, Engine 55

First acting experience: Playing the Cowardly Lion in his 4th grade performance of The Wizard of Oz

Formal acting training:Lee Strasburg Institute in Manhattan

First film role: Eric Mitchell's film The Way It Is (Or Eurydice in the Avenues) [1983] -- $10,000 budget, no script, black-and-white without sound.

First featured film role: Parting Glances: as Nick, a rock musician with AIDS. Steve was the first actor ever to portray a person with AIDS on film.

Character closest to the real Steve: Tommy in Trees Lounge.

Friends in the business: (Partial list) Mark Boone Junior, Rockets Redglare (Born Michael Morra, deceased 2001 at age 52), Alexandre Rockwell (director), Elizabeth Bracco (and her husband Aidan Quinn), Seymour Cassel, Tom DiCillo (director), Stanley Tucci, Harvey Keitel, Danny Trejo, Peter Stormare (and many many more)

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