Joe Pingue is a Canadian actor and film maker. His roles include Captain McDowell in the Prime sci-fi series The Expanse, Aloznzo Bunker in the Netflix Western limited series Godless and Hoyt in the feature film The Book of Eli.

Pingue was born and raised in St. Catharines, Ontario.^[1] He attended Ridley College for both elementary and high school,^[1][2] and studied theatre at York University.^[1]

Giuseppe "Joe" Pingue is a Canadian character actor. He became known for playing supporting roles in many films such as Miss Sloane, American Whiskey Bar, Pompeii,^[3] Antiviral,^[4] The Boondock Saints,^[1] Repo Men,^[1] Blindness,^[1] The Book of Eli,^[1] Maps to the Stars^[5] and Dream House.^[6]

His television work includes appearances on Degrassi: The Next Generation,^[1] Orphan Black,^[7] Wild Card,^[1] 24 Hour Rental,^[8] Across the River to Motor City,^[9] The Expanse.^[10] Godless and the 2021 HBO mini-series Station Eleven. He also is the voice of Tamago on the animated series The Very Good Adventures Of Yam Roll In Happy Kingdom, the voice of Entree in the cartoon Spliced,^[1] Dan in Trucktown, Ming in Kody Kapow, and additional voices in Norman Picklestripes, and Agent Binky: Pets of the Universe.