Life+Before+Career

**Birth** Al Pacino was born in East Harlem, Manhattan, New York the 25 of April 1940. He was the son of Salvatore Pacino and Rose Gerardi which met in Italy and when he was born then his parents got married, tow years latter there parents got divorced and before that their parents had been divorced and remarried five times. While they were looking for a new start his parents went to California U.S.A and opened a restaurant that was called the Pacino´s Lounge. After along and tragic child hood he went to the High School of Performing Arts at New York and approved every subject except English and had to drop out the school. After that he kind of gave up on his dream and started to work in low-paid jobs like a boss boy, a janitor and a messenger. In order to re-apply and finance for his studies. He was a nobody until he applied to the high school of the performing arts. This made him see that he was actualy good at acting and then to keep on studying, but he had a slim problem and that was that was he had almost no money. He had to work hard and pay for all of his studies, he was a fighter and never gave up until he achieved what he wanted by not giving up. After he dropped out from school he had secretly organized some privet acting classes for a reasonable payment from Charles Laughton. They did these classes underneath Herbert Berghof Studios. After a hard work and dedication he pulled out a play he wrote, composed and directed. He showed what he had done to Broadway and they liked it, they hired him and offered him to be filthy rich and success. He was in and this was the beginning of a career and a new life style.
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