#258: Joe Mantegna - Everybody has a story

Joe Mantegna is an award-winning actor as well as writer,
producer and director who’s been in the business for 50 + years!
He has won a Tony award, been nominated for 3 Primetime Emmy
Awards and has over 400 IMDB credits.


He is probably best known for his role as Joey Zasa in
the Francis Ford Coppola epic The Godfather Part
III, in which he stars alongside Al
Pacino and Andy Garcia or his long serving role as
David Rossi in Criminal Minds which he has appeared in almost 300
episodes! He also plays Fat Tony in the Simpsons and has been in
a number of films and shows such as Shooting Gallery, Searching
for Bobby Fischer, Joan of Arcadia, National Memorial Day
Concert, Elvis and Anabelle, Homicide, Baby’s Day Out, The Rat
Pack, The Last Don and The Starter Wife.


After making his Broadway debut in Stephen Schwartz's musical of
Studs Terkel's Working, Joe was awarded the Tony and Joseph
Jefferson Award for his acclaimed performance as cynical
real-estate agent Richard Roma in David Mamet's Pulitzer
Prize-winning play Glengarry Glen Ross. 


Closely associated with Mamet’s work, Joe starred in the
theatrical premiere of A Life in the Theater, The
Disappearance of the Jews at the Goodman Theater, and in the
Broadway production of Speed the Plow with Ron Silver
and Madonna. In addition, Joe directed a critically acclaimed
stage production of Mamet's Lakeboat, starring Ed O’Neil and
George Wendt, in a successful Los Angeles theatrical run. 


Other stand-out roles include Up Close and Personal, Baby's
Day Out, Airheads, Queens Logic, Wait Until Spring Bandini, Eye
for an Eye, The Runner, and Stephen King's Thinner. In
addition to being the featured reader for numerous books-on-tape,
Joe has narrated the Oscar-nominated documentary films Crack
U.S.A.: Country Under Siege and Death on the Job. 


He has also received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in
2011.


If you’re a Criminal Minds fan we’ve also had AJ Cook (JJ) and
Paget Brewster (Emily Prentiss) on the show as well, if you want
to check them out as well.


We chat about playing Fat Tony on the Simpsons, Criminal Minds,
competitive shooting, confidence, David Mamet, being a
photographer, raising awareness about autism, being let go from
his agent, winning awards, balance plus plenty more!




The video footage of this entire chat is now out as well (one day
after release)! So check them out on YouTube under Michael
Kahan

Check Joe out on:

Website: https://www.joemantegna.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/joemantegna/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/joemantegna/

Twitter / X: https://x.com/JoeMantegna



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