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Currently, Burt Young is 84 years, 6 months and 25 days old. Burt Young will celebrate 85rd birthday on a Wednesday 30th of April 2025. Below we countdown to Burt Young upcoming birthday.
| Popular As | Burt Young |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Age | 84 years old |
| Zodiac Sign | Taurus |
| Born | April 30, 1940 ( New York City, New York, United States) |
| Birthday | April 30 |
| Town/City | New York City, New York, United States |
| Nationality | United States |
Burt Young’s zodiac sign is Taurus. According to astrologers, Taurus is practical and well-grounded, the sign harvests the fruits of labor. They feel the need to always be surrounded by love and beauty, turned to the material world, hedonism, and physical pleasures. People born with their Sun in Taurus are sensual and tactile, considering touch and taste the most important of all senses. Stable and conservative, this is one of the most reliable signs of the zodiac, ready to endure and stick to their choices until they reach the point of personal satisfaction.
Burt Young was born in the Year of the Dragon. A powerful sign, those born under the Chinese Zodiac sign of the Dragon are energetic and warm-hearted, charismatic, lucky at love and egotistic. They’re natural born leaders, good at giving orders and doing what’s necessary to remain on top. Compatible with Monkey and Rat.
Young was born in Queens, New York, the son of Josephine and Michael, a high school shop Teacher. He is of Italian descent. He was trained by Lee Strasberg at the Actors Studio. Young is a widower and has one daughter, Anne Morea. He lives in Port Washington, New York. Young served a tour of duty in the United States Marine Corps from 1957 to 1959. While in the Marine Corps, he won 32 of 34 boxing bouts. He later turned pro and compiled a 17-0 record under three different aliases. His manager was Cus D'Amato.
Young made his name playing rough-edged working class Italian-American characters, the best-known Example being his signature role as Rocky Balboa's friend (and Future brother-in-law) Paulie in Rocky (1976), for which he received an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor. He is one of four actors (the other three being Sylvester Stallone, Stu Nahan and Tony Burton) who have appeared in all of the first six Rocky films (although Talia Shire, who appears in the first five films, makes a flashback appearance in the sixth). Young did not reprise his role in the 2015 film Creed, with the character described as having died in 2012.
Young participated in the 1984 New York City Marathon.
In 2017, Burt Young returned to the stage as an aged mob boss in The Last Vig, a play written by Dave Varriale. The show ran from January 14 to February 19, 2017, at The Zephyr Theatre in Los Angeles.
