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Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania of Italian/ Syrian heritage, Abraham attended the University of Texas, then studied acting under Uta Hagen in New York. He began his acting career on the stage, making his stage debut in a Los Angeles staging of Ray Bradbury's The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit .

Although his filmography is not large, he has always turned in competent performances. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor for Amadeus, and has appeared in such other films as The Big Fix , Scarface, The Ritz , The Name of the Rose, An Innocent Man, The Bonfire of the VanitiesThe Bonfire of the Vanities is a 1987 novel by Tom Wolfe, published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York. The story is a satire about ambition and greed in a nightmarish New York City, centered around protagonist Sherman McCoy, a successful and very self-, Last Action HeroLast Action Hero is a 1993 action movie. It was directed by John McTiernan and stars Arnold Schwarzenegger and Austin O'Brien. Last Action Hero was billed at the time as "the next great summer action movie" and many movie insiders predicted the movie to b and .