Joe Mantegna
Tony and Emmy Award-winning Host

Joe Mantegna is a both a Tony and Emmy Award-winning actor, and he also writes and directs for theatre, film and television. His numerous film credits include Woody Allen’s Alice and Celebrity, Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather Part III, Barry Levinson’s Liberty Heights and Bugsy, Stephen Zaillian’s Searching For Bobby Fischer, 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. He is the narrator of the Oscar-nominated documentary films, Crack USA: County Under Siege and Death on the Job.

Currently on television as part of The Simpson’s cast voicing the recurring character Fat Tony, Mantegna starred in the CBS series First Monday as well as the CBS miniseries The Last Don, for which he was nominated for an Emmy Award, and its sequel, The Last Don II. He has starred in a number of original feature films for HBO, Showtime, Starz! and Lifetime including HBO’s The Rat Pack, for which he was nominated for both an Emmy and a Golden Globe Award. He had the lead in Small Vices, Thin Air and Walking Shadow, a series of original films on A&E Network based upon Robert Parker’s Spenser novels.

Joe Mantegna is also an accomplished stage actor and has had an extensive association with the Pulitzer Prize-winning contemporary playwright David Mamet. Mantegna was awarded the Tony and Joseph Jefferson Awards for his performance in Mamet’s Glengarry Glen Ross, and starred in several of his other plays and films including Speed the Plow and Things Change (for which he won the Best Actor Award at the Venice Film Festival). Mantegna directed Mamet’s Lakeboat on stage for a successful run in Los Angeles as well as making his directorial debut on the feature film.

Behind the scenes, Mantegna co-authored the play Bleacher Bums, which was produced for television following an Off-Broadway run and earned Mantegna an Emmy Award.

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