Boardwalk Empire
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Arquette
- In Patricia Arquette
…Florida speakeasy in the series Boardwalk Empire. Arquette later starred in the short-lived CSI: Crime Scene Investigation spin-off CSI: Cyber (2015–16). She then portrayed a weary employee of a maximum-security prison who helps two inmates break out in the miniseries Escape at Dannemora (2018), which was based on true events.…
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Buscemi
- In Steve Buscemi: TV credits: The Sopranos and Boardwalk Empire
…time he also starred in Boardwalk Empire (2010–14), an HBO drama based on real-life gangsters in Atlantic City, New Jersey, during Prohibition; Martin Scorsese directed an episode and served as an executive producer. Buscemi portrayed Nucky Thompson, a character based on Nucky Johnson, a politician who also oversaw the city’s…
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Livingston
- In Ron Livingston: Band of Brothers, Sex and the City, and The Conjuring
…businessman in the HBO series Boardwalk Empire, which centers on real-life gangsters in Atlantic City during Prohibition. Two years later he appeared in the well-received The End of the Tour, about the novelist David Foster Wallace (Jason Segel) and his five-day interview with Rolling Stone reporter David Lipsky (Jesse Eisenberg)…
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Scorsese
- In Martin Scorsese: Films of the 2010s: Shutter Island, Hugo, and The Wolf of Wall Street
…as the executive producer of Boardwalk Empire (2010–14), an HBO drama series about gangsters in Atlantic City during Prohibition. He also directed the show’s first episode, for which he received an Emmy in 2011.
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Shannon
- In Michael Shannon: Breakthrough with Revolutionary Road and sundry bad guys
…acting in the TV series Boardwalk Empire (2010–14) as the tightly wound, hypocritical Nelson Van Alden, a Prohibition agent who becomes a henchman for gangster Al Capone (Stephen Graham).
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Wahlberg
- In Mark Wahlberg
…and the acclaimed morality tale Boardwalk Empire (2010–14). He served as executive producer for both, and the former series was adapted for the big screen in 2015. He also appeared as himself in Wahlburgers (2014–19), a reality TV series centred on the hamburger restaurant business of Wahlberg’s brother Paul, and…
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