Nicholas Pileggi
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Pileggi in New York City, 2010
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| Born |
February 22, 1933 New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Occupation | Producer, author, screenwriter |
| Years active | 1989–present |
| Spouse(s) | Nora Ephron (1987–2012; her death) |
| Parent(s) | Nick Pileggi Susan (Defaslo) Pileggi |
| Awards |
Best Adapted Screenplay 1990 Goodfellas |
Nicholas Pileggi (born February 22, 1933) is an American producer, author and screenwriter.
Pileggi was born and raised in New York City, the son of first-generation Italian immigrants from Calabria, Susan (Defaslo) and Nick Pileggi, a cinema musician for silent films and later a shoe store owner. In the 1950s he worked as a journalist for Associated Press and New York magazine, specializing in the area of crime reporting for more than 30 years that would provide the background upon which he later drew as a writer of factual books and fictional films related to the Mafia.
Pileggi began his career as a journalist and had a profound interest in the Mafia. He is best known for writing Wiseguy: Life in a Mafia Family (1986), which he adapted into the movie Goodfellas (1990), and for writing Casino: Love and Honor in Las Vegas and the subsequent screenplay for Casino (1995). The movie versions of both were co-written and directed by Martin Scorsese. Pileggi also wrote the screenplay for the fictional City Hall (1996), starring Al Pacino. He served as an Executive Producer of American Gangster (2007), a biographical crime film based on the criminal career of Frank Lucas, starring Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe, and directed by Ridley Scott. He is also the author of Blye, Private Eye (1987).
Pileggi cowrote the pilot of the CBS television series Vegas, which first aired in September 2012.
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