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Which actor starred as a stressed New York paramedic in Bringing Out the Dead?

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Martin Scorsese smiling in a tuxedo and bow tie, holding an Oscar statuette at the Academy Awards, with a gold Oscar statue in the background. — Martin Scorsese American film director Martin Scorsese, 2008.

In the 1999 film Bringing Out the Dead, Nicolas Cage starred as the New York paramedic struggling with the stress of his profession.1