Happy Birthday, Mark Margolis!

"I am just a journeyman actor. Most often I take what's offered me, and I've been able to work year after year. I was in 'Scarface' (1983, playing Alberto "The Shadow"). Some people think this must have done me a world of good. Truth to tell, six months after 'Scarface' I had to take a job with a real estate development friend for a few months just to get by."
"I've been stopped 50 times a day for 29 years because of 'Scarface'. It's always by weird kids and hoodlums. 'Hey man, was the cocaine real?' and I say 'Yeah! So was the blood and the bullets.'"
Q: "What do you most remember about working with 'Scarface' director Brian De Palma?"
Margolis: That man … the whole time I worked in that film, he never said a word to me. I could never tell whether he loved me, he hated me, he didn't know I was there. I saw him years later, he was very nice and we talked. But it was an odd thing."
Margolis was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and is from a Jewish immigrant family from Europe who loves Israel. He went to Temple University briefly before moving to New York City, where he studied drama with Stella Adler and at the Actors Studio.