He is seamless as Vincent Gambini, a fish-out-of-water Yankee lawyer transported to the deep south to defend his cousin wrongfully accused of murder. Pesci's stardom 'heat check' came in 1992 when he was the lead star vehicle of the comedy My Cousin Vinny. He also became a mainstay in the Lethal Weapon franchise, playing the comic sidekick to Riggs and Murtaugh, Leo Getz. In addition, he carved out a new corner of his career in his turn toward comedies, starring as Harry, one-half of the Wet Bandits in Home Alone in the same year. He won an Academy Award for playing the iconic, ruthlessly hilarious, and vicious mobster Tommy Devito in Martin Scorsese's Goodfellas. Pesci's career soared to excellence in the '90s, kicked off by a groundbreaking 1990 for the actor.
