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Biography
Vincenzo Amato (born 30 March 1966) is an Italian actor and sculptor.
Life and career
Born in Palermo, the son of the stage director and folk musician Emma Muzzi Loffredo, after high school Amato moved to Rome, where his mother lived.
Always dedicated to painting, finished the university Amato focused on iron sculpting. After a couple of exhibitions at the art gallery Il Gabbiano in Rome, he moved to Manhattan, and he began to expose with some success at the Earl McGrath Gallery in New York. In the US, Amato became friends with the director Emanuele Crialese, who made him debut as an actor in the film Once We Were Strangers. His career as an actor had the breakout with the role of the fisherman Pietro in Crialise's next film, Respiro.
In 2007, he was nominated for David di Donatello for Best Actor for his performance in Nuovomondo.
Selected filmography
- Respiro (2002)
- Ciao America (2002)
- Nuovomondo (2006)
- The Sweet and the Bitter (2007)
- Einstein (2008)
- School Is Over (2010)
- Girl on a Bicycle (2013)
- ReWined (2013)
- Unbroken (2014)
- War Story (2014)
- Darker Than Midnight (2014)
- The Wannabe (2015)