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Actor Steve Buscemi (pronounced buss-ehm-ee) has had a long and varied career in television and films since breaking into the acting business in the mid-1980's, best known for playing darker roles such as Carl Showalter, one of the two kidnappers in the 1996 crime drama Fargo, Tony Blundetto, the cousin of mob boss Tony Soprano in the 2004 season of the HBO television series The Sopranos, and politician/gangster Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson in the HBO series Boardwalk Empire. But, as noted in an item posted to the Brotherhood of Fire Facebook page in September 2013, Steve Buscemi (a Brooklyn native) began his working life as 22-year-old New York City firefighter: Buscemi joined the FDNY's Engine Co. 55 in Manhattan's Little Italy section in 1980 and served with that company for four years, as he told a Salon interviewer: Moreover, although he had long since left the FDNY and established himself as a leading actor by then, immediately after the 9/11 terrorist attacks on New York in September 2001 Buscemi returned to Engine Co. 55 and spent several days working lengthy shifts with other FDNY firefighters (without publicity), helping to sift through the rubble of the destroyed World Trade Center:
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