Sideways
Paul Giamatti (left) and Thomas Haden Church in Sideways (2004), directed by Alexander Payne.
Paul Giamatti
American actor
Also known as: Paul Edward Valentine Giamatti
Paul Giamatti (born June 6, 1967, New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.) is an American actor who excels at portraying likable idiosyncratic everyman characters. Giamatti was born into an intellectually active family; his mother, Toni Giamatti, was a former actor who taught English at a preparatory school, and his father, A. Bartlett Giamatti, was a professor and president of Yale University before becoming commissioner of Major League Baseball (MLB). After graduating with a degree in English from...