JOE MANTEGNA (ROBERT MICELLI), A native Chicagoan, Joe Mantegna made his feature film debut in Frank Perry’s Compromising Positions. His early films include co-starring roles in The Money Pit, Weeds, and Suspect, as well as starring roles in David Mamet’s films House of Games, Homicide, and Things Change, for which he received the coveted Best Actor Award at the Venice Film Festival.

Mr. Mantegna’s feature film credits include starring roles in Woody Allen’s Alice and Celebrity, Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather, Part III, Barry Levinson’s Liberty Heights and Bugsy, Steven Zaillian’s Searching for Bobby Fisher, and Billy Crystal’s Forget Paris. Other starring 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.

Along with Uncle Nino, Mr. Mantegna will also star in the upcoming features Lagoon, Stateside opposite Rachel Leigh Cook and Val Kilmer, and the title role in Pontormo, based on the life of the Italian Renaissance painter.

Mantegna is seen in millions of homes each week as Will Girardi in the CBS hit series, Joan of Arcadia.

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