Harvey Keitel

Known for ActingBorn 1939-05-13 (age 87)Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

Harvey Johannes Keitel (born May 13, 1939) is an American actor known for his portrayal of morally ambiguous and "tough guy" characters. He rose to prominence during the New Hollywood movement, and has held a long-running association with director Martin Scorsese, starring in six of his films: Who's That Knocking at My Door (1967), Mean Streets (1973), Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974), Taxi Driver (1976), The Last Temptation of Christ (1988), and The Irishman (2019). Keitel received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor nomination for his portrayal of Mickey Cohen in Bugsy (1991). He won the AACTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for The Piano (1993). Other films include Blue Collar (1978), Thelma & Louise (1991), Reservoir Dogs (1992), Bad Lieutenant (1992), Pulp Fiction (1994), From Dusk till Dawn (1996), Holy Smoke! (1998), Cop Land (1997), and Youth (2015). He has acted in the Wes Anderson films Moonrise Kingdom (2012), The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014), and Isle of Dogs (2018). He played FBI Agent Peter Sadusky in both National Treasure (2004), and National Treasure: Book of Secrets (2006) and reprised his role in the Disney+ series National Treasure: Edge of History (2022). From 1995 to 2017, he was a co-president of the Actors Studio, alongside Al Pacino and Ellen Burstyn.Read more

Movies & web series

Down Where the Buffalo Go

This Year in Czernowitz

Martin Scorsese Directs

A Memory of Two Mondays

Scorsese's GoodFellas

The John Garfield Story

Pulp Fiction

The Ten Commandments of Creativity

Inglourious Basterds

Harvey Keitel - Between Hollywood and Independent Film

The Tattooist of Auschwitz

The Grand Budapest Hotel

Reservoir Dogs

Abel Ferrara: Not Guilty

Who Killed the Idea?

Isle of Dogs

100 Years of Warner Bros.

Taxi Driver

Baciami Strega

La bella Otero

Moonrise Kingdom

A Director's Journey: The Making of 'Red Dragon'

The Irishman

Mike

Inside the Actors Studio

Milarepa

Thelma & Louise

Fatima

11 Colours of the Bird

Ulysses' Gaze

The Ellen Burstyn Show

The Path to 9/11

The Piano

Amazing Stories

The Painted Bird

Hogan's Heroes

Three Seasons

Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood

Smoke

Spread

The Last Temptation of Christ

Blue Collar

Youth

Red Dragon

Duelling Directors: Ridley Scott & Kevin Reynolds

The Duellists

From Dusk Till Dawn

Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam