ACTOR
Paul Giamatti
- Known for
- Planet of the Apes (2001), Lady in the Water (2006), Big Momma's House (2000), Gunpowder Milkshake (2021)
25 archived facts 3 topics 1 source Last reviewed Oct 2026
Paul Giamatti is an actor best known for Planet of the Apes, Lady in the Water and Big Momma's House.
All facts (25)
- #001
Russell Crowe said in an interview that working with Giamatti on Cinderella Man (2005) was one of his favorite experiences in show business.
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During his final year at Yale University, Giamatti was selected for the Skull and Bones secret society.
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He graduated from Yale University with a degree in English.
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He is the son of Bart Giamatti, the former president of Yale University, Major League Baseball commissioner and adversary of Pete Rose.
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He and his wife Elizabeth Giamatti have a son named Samuel, born in 2001.
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Despite playing Miles in Sideways (2004) and Miles's passion for Pinot Noir, Giamatti admits he knows very little about wines and is not much of a fan of them.
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He graduated from the Yale University School of Drama with a master's degree in drama.
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In Sideways (2004), his character Miles looks at a photograph of himself as a young man standing with a man in sunglasses. It is a photograph of him with his father (Bart Giamatti).
- #009
He is a big fan of science fiction.
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His father, Bart Giamatti, died in 1989 while serving as Commissioner of Major League Baseball.
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His father's grandfather, Valentine John Giamatti, was born in New Haven, CT, to an Italian family from Campania. His father's grandmother Mary Claybaugh (Walton) was born in Wakefield, MA, and was largely of English descent with deep Colonial American roots in Massachusetts and Maine. Paul's mother's ancestors included German, English, Dutch, Irish and distant Scottish and French.
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He has twice played a real U.S. President: John Adams in John Adams (2008), the second President, and the 26th President Theodore Roosevelt (voice) in The Roosevelts: An Intimate History (2014).
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His lifelong passion was to star in a crime film with Robert Duvall and John Hurt (who died in 2017). He planned to contact the two stars with the idea if Sideways (2004) won the Best Picture Oscar.
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He has appeared in four films nominated for the Best Picture Oscar: Saving Private Ryan (1998), Sideways (2004), 12 Years a Slave (2013) and The Holdovers (2023). 12 Years a Slave won in the category.
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He often plays roles based on real people — Private Parts (1997), Winchell (1998), Man on the Moon (1999), American Splendor (2003), Cinderella Man (2005), John Adams (2008), Too Big to Fail (2011) and Parkland (2013).
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He and his wife Elizabeth Giamatti have a house in Venice, CA.
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He is a Boston Red Sox fan.
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After college he lived briefly in Seattle, WA.
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He is a lifelong Democrat.
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Paul Giamatti is the younger brother of Marcus Giamatti.
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Paul Giamatti graduated from Choate Rosemary Hall.
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Paul Giamatti appeared in three films featuring characters from Late Show with David Letterman (1993): Private Parts (1997), American Splendor (2003) and Man on the Moon (1999), as well as a fourth, Storytelling (2001), which starred Conan O'Brien, who hosted "Late Night" after Letterman moved his show to CBS.
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Paul Giamatti is the former brother-in-law of Kathryn Meisle.
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Paul Giamatti graduated from Choate Rosemary Hall in 1985.
- #025
Paul Giamatti was mentioned in 80'lerin Adamı (2021).
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