Harvey Keitel Overview:

Actor, Harvey Keitel, was born on May 13, 1939 in Brooklyn, NY. As of December 2025, Harvey Keitel was 86 years old.

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Although Keitel was nominated for one Oscar, he never won a competitive Academy Award.

Academy Awards

YearAwardFilm nameRoleResult
1991Best Supporting ActorBugsy (1991)Mickey CohenNominated
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Best Supporting Actor Oscar 1991
WINNER
Jack Palance
(as Curly)
in City Slickers
Nominee
Tommy Lee Jones
(as Clay Shaw)
in JFK
Nominee

(as Mickey Cohen)
in Bugsy
Nominee
Ben Kingsley
(as Meyer Lansky)
in Bugsy
Nominee
Michael Lerner
(as Jack Lipnick)
in Barton Fink
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Harvey Keitel Facts
Graduated from the BFA program at the prestigious Actors Studio, New School University in New York city, under Dean James Lipton.
Although he frequently plays Italian-American characters, Keitel is of Polish and Romanian Jewish heritage.
Apocalypse Now (1979), from which he was fired, was loosely based on Joseph Conrad's novel, "Heart of Darkness". Although Keitel didn't appear in the final film, he does appear in The Duellists (1977), which is based on another Conrad story.
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