When Al Pacino Was Two His Mother Moved To The South Bronx Near
Pacino made his major breakthrough when he was given the role of Michael Corleone in The Godfather in 1972, which earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor. His love of Shakespeare led him to direct his first film with Looking for Richard, a part documentary on the play Richard III. Although he has never married, Pacino has had several relationships with actresses and has three children. When he was two, his mother moved to the South Bronx near the Bronx Zoo, to live with her parents, Kate and James Gerardi, who originated from Corleone, Sicily. During his teenage years ‘Sonny’, as he was known to his friends, aimed to become a baseball player, though he was also nicknamed ‘The Actor’. Pacino flunked nearly all of his classes except English and dropped out of school at 17. Growing up in a deprived area, he got into occasional fights and was something of a minor troublemaker at school.
