In an era where actors search desperately for that one perfect role, Steve Buscemi has built his career by portraying a variety of remarkable characters. And he brings them to the screen with such uniqueness, that each and every role is unforgettable.

Most recently, Buscemi's second feature film as a director, Animal Factory, was released in theatres to critical acclaim. It is a story about a young man, sent to prison in an unjustly harsh sentence, who becomes a product of that rough environment. The film stars Willem Dafoe and Edward Furlong.

He is currently working on Paramount's Domestic Disturbance, opposite John Travolta and Vince Vaughn.

Steve recently completed work on a number of films, including Ghost World directed by Terry Zwigoff and co-starring Thora Birch, Scarlett Johansson, and Brad Renfro, The Grey Zone, and Double Whammy. He is one of the voices in Pixar's feature Monster's Inc. and Columbia Pictures animated feature Final Fantasy.

Born in Brooklyn, New York, Buscemi began to show an interest in drama while in his last year of high school. Soon after, he moved to Manhattan to study acting with John Strasberg. There he and a fellow actor/writer Mark Boone Junior began writing and performing their own theatre pieces in performance spaces and downtown theatres. This soon led to his being cast in his first lead role in Bill Sherwood's Parting Glances as a musician with AIDS.

Since then, he has become the actor of choice for many of the best directors in the business. His resume includes: Jim Jarmusch's Mystery Train for which he received an IFP Spirit Award Nomination, Alexandre Rockwell's 1992 Sundance Film Festival Jury Award-winner In The Soup, Martin Scorcese's New York Stories, the Coen Brothers' Millers Crossing, Barton Fink, the Academy Award-winning Fargo, and The Big Lebowski Stanley Tucci's The Imposters, the Jerry Bruckheimer productions Con Air and Armageddon, Tom DiCillo's Sundance Film Festival award-winning Living in Oblivion with Dermot Mulroney and James LeGros, Twenty Bucks, John Carpenter's Escape From L.A. with Kurt Russell, Desperado, Things To Do In Denver When You're Dead, Alexandre Rockwell's Somebody To Love, with Harvey Keitel in which he played a transvestite taxi dancer, an IFP Spirit Award-winning performance as Mr. Pink in Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs and Robert Altman's Kansas City, as well as numerous cameo appearances in films such as Rising Sun, The Hudsucker Proxy, Big Daddy, and The Wedding Singer.

In addition to his talents as an actor, Buscemi has proven to be a respected writer and a director, as well. His first project was a short film entitled What Happened to Pete, which was featured at several film festivals including Rotterdam and LoCarno, and aired on the Bravo Network.

He marked his full-length feature film directorial debut with Trees Lounge, (Live Entertainment) which he also wrote and starred in. The film, which co-starred Chloe Sevigny (Kids), Sam Jackson, and Anthony La Pagalia, made its debut in the Directors' Fortnight at the 1996 Cannes Film Festival, and was released domestically in Fall 1996.