Joe Mantegna Biography

Fast Facts

• Sang and played bass for a Chicago-area rock band called the Apochryphals from 1964 to '69
• Met his wife, Arlene, in high school; both appeared in a touring company of Hair in 1969, which was Mantegna's professional stage debut
• In 1978, while with Chicago's Organic Theater Company, cowrote Bleacher Bums, which later played off-Broadway and was adapted for television by the Chicago PBS station (it won a local Emmy)
• Has appeared in six plays and movies written by fellow Chicagoan David Mamet, most notably Glengarry Glen Ross, for which he won a Tony
• Has set a record for guest appearances on The Simpsons, as Springfield mob chieftain Fat Tony
• Joined Criminal Minds at the beginning of the show's third season to replace departing star Mandy Patinkin
• Daughter Gia was Miss Golden Globe 2011