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Giamatti resides in the Brooklyn Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York [42] and was married to Elizabeth Cohen from 1997 to an undisclosed date in the 2000s. They have a son, Samuel. Though not religious, he stated: "My wife is Jewish. And I'm fine with my son being raised as a Jew". [43]
- HE GREW UP WANTING TO BE A PROFESSOR. Growing up in a family surrounded by academics, Paul Giamatti considered following his father’s career path and becoming a professor.
- HE HAD A STRANGE OBSESSION WITH BASEBALL UMPIRES. Growing up, Giamatti was oddly fascinated with baseball umpires. “I don’t think it had anything to do with their authority,” he told The Believer.
- HIS FATHER IS THE MAN WHO BANNED PETE ROSE FROM BASEBALL. Giamatti’s obsession with baseball’s supporting players might make more sense when you consider that, after leaving his position at Yale in 1986, Bart Giamatti became the president of the National League and, in 1989, was appointed MLB Commissioner.
- HE LIKES PLAYING SUPPORTING ROLES. Though he emerged as more of a leading man in the early 2000s with movies like American Splendor and Sideways, Giamatti is content to play a supporting role.
Paul Edward Valentine Giamatti was born June 6, 1967 in New Haven, Connecticut, and is the youngest of three children. His mother, the former Toni Marilyn Smith, was an actress before marrying.
- June 6, 1967
Dec 7, 2010 · Rumors. By Kyle Buchanan. In the new film Barney’s Version (based on the celebrated novel by Mordecai Richler), Paul Giamatti has plenty to sink his teeth into: He gets to age four decades as ...
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Nov 10, 2023 · The Holdovers is the story of three fractured people—Paul, Angus, and Mary, played respectively by Paul Giamatti, Dominic Sessa, and Da'Vine Joy Randolph —thrust together in an empty boarding ...
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Sep 17, 2024 · Paul Giamatti is an American actor who excels at portraying likable idiosyncratic everyman characters. He earned acclaim for his roles in the films American Splendor (2003), Sideways (2004), and Cinderella Man (2005) and the TV series John Adams (2008), for which he won an Emmy Award.
Jan 15, 2024 · Does he have a view on the “Jewface” controversy, which came to prominence when American comedian Sarah Silverman criticised the casting of gentile actors in Jewish roles.
