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In 1974 De Niro received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of the young Vito Corleone in The Godfather, Part II, and in1980 won his second Oscar, as Best Actor, for his extraordinary portrayal of Jake La Motta in Scorsese’s Raging Bull. De Niro has earned four additional Academy Award nominations: for his role as Travis Bickle in Scorsese’s acclaimed Taxi Driver, as a Vietnam vet in Michael Cimino’s The Deer Hunter, as a catatonic patient brought to life in Penny Marshall’s Awakenings, and as an ex-con looking for revenge in Scorsese’s 1992 remake of the classic Cape Fear. De Niro’s distinguished body of work also includes performances in Elia Kazan’s The Last Tycoon, Bernardo Bertolucci’s 1900, Ulu Grosbard’s True Confessions and Falling in Love, Sergio Leone’s Once Upon a Time in America, Scorsese’s King of Comedy, New York, New York, GoodFellas, and Casino, Terry Gilliam’s Brazil, Roland Joffe’s The Mission, Brian De Palma’s The Untouchables, Alan Parker’s Angel Heart, Martin Brest’s Midnight Run, David Jones’ Jacknife, Martin Ritt’s Stanley and Iris, Neil Jordan’s We’re No Angels, Irwin Winkler’s Guilty By Suspicion and Night and the City, Ron Howard’s Backdraft, Barry Primus’ Mistress, Michael Caton-Jones’ This Boy’s Life, John McNaughton’s Mad Dog and Glory, A Bronx Tale, Kenneth Branagh’s Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Michael Mann’s Heat, Barry Levinson’s Sleepers and Wag the Dog, Jerry Zaks’ Marvin’s Room, Tony Scott’s The Fan, James Mangold’s Copland, Alfonso Cuarón’s Great Expectations, Quentin Tarantino’s Jackie Brown, John Frankenheimer’s Ronin, Harold Ramis’ Analyze This, Joel Schumacher’s Flawless, Des McNuff’s Rocky and Bullwinkle, Jay Roach’s Meet The Parents, George Tillman’s Men of Honor, John Herzfeld’s Fifteen Minutes and Frank Oz’s crime drama The Score. He recently starred in the Michael Caton-Jones drama City By The Sea and teamed with Eddie Murphy for the comedy Showtime. De Niro takes great pride in the development of his production company, Tribeca Productions, and the Tribeca Film Center which he founded in 1988 with Analyze That producer Jane Rosenthal. Through Tribeca, he develops projects on which he serves in a combination of capacities, including producer, director and actor. Tribeca’s A Bronx Tale marked his directorial debut. In 1992, Tribeca TV was launched with the critically acclaimed series Tribeca, for which De Niro served as one of the series executive producers. In 1998, Tribeca produced a miniseries for NBC, based on the life of Sammy ‘the Bull’ Gravano. In May 2002, De Niro and Rosenthal presented the first annual Tribeca Film Festival, an enormous success, with its mission being to aid in the revitalization of lower Manhattan since the terrorist attacks on September 11th. |
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Crystal’s family owned and operated the legendary Commodore label and record store, so Crystal grew up surrounded by musicians. His father, Jack, produced concerts by the era’s greatest jazz performers, including the legendary Billy Holliday. Crystal parlayed his talent for stand-up comedy into a varied stage act that incorporated his gifts for mimicry and satire and featured characters based partly on family members and people he had befriended through the family business. After touring with Billy Joel, Barry Manilow, Neil Sedaka and Sha Na Na, Crystal became a regular on the popular series Soap, playing the first openly gay character on a network television series. In the 1984-85 television season, he met with phenomenal national success on NBC’s Saturday Night Live, creating memorable characters such as Fernando and Willie the Masochist. Among the films in which Crystal has starred are Running Scared, This is Spinal Tap, The Princess Bride, Throw Momma from the Train, Memories of Me, When Harry Met Sally, City Slickers I and II, Mr. Saturday Night (which he also directed), Fathers’ Day, Forget Paris (directed), Kenneth Branagh’s Hamlet, Woody Allen’s Deconstructing Harry, Analyze This, My Giant (produced) and America’s Sweethearts. He recently lent his voice to the character Mike Wazowksi in Disney’s Monsters, Inc. Crystal’s film "61*" for HBO showcased him as both director and executive producer. The film received 12 Emmy nominations including those for Best Director and Best Made for Television Movie. In addition, Crystal was nominated for a DGA Award as Best Director. He created, wrote and produced the critically acclaimed HBO series Sessions, and became the first comedian to perform in the (then) Soviet Union with his special Midnight Train to Moscow, one of the four one-man specials he has done for HBO. His work has earned six Emmy Awards, six American Comedy Awards and seven CableAce Awards. Crystal has served as host for the Grammy Awards three times, and for the Oscars, seven times. A dedicated human rights advocate, Crystal has co-hosted with Robin Williams and Whoopi Goldberg all eight Comic Relief telethons for HBO. |
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Kudrow was also named Best Supporting Actress by the New York Film Critics and received an Independent Spirit Award nomination and a Chicago Film Critics Award nomination for her role in the Don Roos film The Opposite of Sex in 1998. In 2000, she was honored with a Blockbuster Award as well as an American Comedy Award nomination for her performance opposite Robert De Niro and Billy Crystal in the international hit Analyze This. Her recent film credits include starring roles in Diane Keaton’s Hanging Up, Nora Ephron’s Lucky Numbers, the hit Romy & Michele’s High School Reunion, Clockwatchers and Albert Brooks’ Mother. Although passionate about acting, the California native never considered it as a career until after her graduation from Vassar College with a degree in biology. She intended to go into the medical research field with her father, a renowned headache specialist. At that time, her brother’s good friend, actor/comedian Jon Lovitz, encouraged her to pursue her dream. She began studying with improvisational instructor Cynthia Szigeti and acting teacher Ian Tucker, and in 1989 was accepted as a member of the famed Los Angeles improvisational group, The Groundlings. Kudrow has the distinction of having appeared in two television series simultaneously: Friends and Mad About You. She is currently shooting a film based on the infamous Wonderland Murders alongside Val Kilmer, who stars as porn star John Holmes. |
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Equally effective in drama or comedy, Viterelli’s feature film credits include See Spot Run, Analyze This, Mickey Blue Eyes, American Strays, Eraser, Heaven’s Prisoners, The Crossing Guard, The Firm, Ruby and State of Grace. He also starred as Nick Valenti in Woody Allen’s Bullets Over Broadway and as Clamato in the spoof Mafia! Among his television work are the telefilms What She Doesn’t Know, In the Shadow of a Killer and Palace Guard. He starred in the Las Vegas-based drama The Strip, and guest-starred on the series Fallen Angels, The Commish and Equal Justice. Viterelli was a late bloomer in his acting career. For more than 25 years he turned down numerous acting opportunities offered by producers, directors and casting directors, including his longtime friend, filmmaker Leo Penn, to whom he stated, "I lived my whole life keeping a low profile, now you want me to put this mug on a 40-foot screen?" Then, in 1981, Sean Penn (Leo Penn’s son) called to say that they were having difficulty casting a character from the Lower East Side in a film currently shooting on location in Viterelli’s old neighborhood on Mott Street. The resulting screen test led to Viterelli’s motion picture debut in Phil Joanou’s State of Grace, and the rest is history. |
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She followed up her Raging Bull performance with appearances in Kindergarten Cop, Soapdish, Matinee, The Gun In Betty Lou’s Handbag, Another Stakeout, Steven Spielberg’s Casper, and Forget Paris, directed by Billy Crystal. In 1995, Moriarty-Gentile co-starred in the CBS-TV series Bless This House, and also appeared in Séance, an episode for HBO’s Tales from the Crypt, winning a CableAce Award. Among her film credits are roles in Hugo Pool, Dream with the Fishes, Copland, Digging to China, the 1999 remake of Gloria, Crazy In Alabama and The Prince of Central Park. In 1998, Moriarty-Gentile played the part of the good witch Gert in Fox Home Video’s Casper Meets Wendy. She can also be heard as the voice of Ruby the Junkyard Dog in Disney’s DVD of Lady and the Tramp II: Scamp’s Adventures. Married in the summer of 1999, Moriarty-Gentile is spending more of her time in New York with her husband Joseph Gentile, a well-known New York financier, their twins, Joseph John and Catherine Patricia, and newborn daughter, Annabella Rose. |
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ROBERT
De NIRO
(Paul Vitti) launched his prolific motion picture career in Brian
De Palma’s The Wedding Party in 1969. By 1973 he had
twice won the New York Film Critics’ Award for Best Supporting
Actor in recognition of his critically acclaimed performances
in Bang the Drum Slowly and Martin Scorsese’s Mean
Streets. 
BILLY
CRYSTAL (Ben Sobel/Executive Producer) has created one of the
most versatile and prolific careers in the entertainment business,
finding success in front of the camera, as a performer in film and
television, and behind the scenes as a writer, director and producer.
LISA
KUDROW’s (Laura Sobel) characterization of the quirky and
complex Pheobe Buffay on the NBC hit comedy series Friends
has earned her an Emmy Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award, as
well as nominations for a Golden Globe Award and an American Comedy
Award. 
JOE
VITERELLI (Jelly) has appeared in more than 40 films, most recently
Face to Face, Shallow Hal, and Serving Sara.
CATHY
MORIARTY-GENTILE (Patty LoPresti) made her feature film debut
at 18 in Martin Scorsese’s Raging Bull, opposite Robert
De Niro, a role that earned her a BAFTA nomination, two Golden Globe
nominations and an Academy Award nomination as Best Supporting Actress.
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Photos by Phillip V. Caruso
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