Vincenzo Amato

Biography

Vincenzo Amato (born 30 March 1966) is an Italian actor and sculptor. He has two daughters (11 and 12) Born in Palermo as 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, he finished university focused on iron sculpting. After a couple of exhibitions at the art gallery Il Gabbiano in Rome, he moved to Manhattan, New York and began to exhibit with some success at the Earl McGrath Gallery in New York. In the US, Amato became friends with the director Emanuele Crialese, who directed his debut as an actor in the film Once We Were Strangers. His career as an actor had a breakthrough 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.

Known For

Salvatore Mancuso

Nuovomondo

Girard Rabelais

Did You Hear About the Morgans?

Pietro

Respiro

Director Gallo

Red Notice

Felice

L'immensità

Paolo Moretti

Girl on a Bicycle

Exilados do Vulcão

Filippo

War Story

Massimo

Più Buio di Mezzanotte

Giovanni

Vinodentro

Bruno Zirato

Maestro

Anthony Zamperini

Unbroken

Once We Were Strangers

Richie

The Wannabe

Aldo Talarico

La scuola è finita

Paolo

Soundtrack - Ti spio, ti guardo, ti ascolto

Salvo

Tra le onde

Giovanni Kessler

Une Affaire de principe

Pietro

Abbraccialo per me

Leonardo Da Vinci - Il genio a Milano

Pierpaolo Natoli

L'ora legale

Ernesto

The Habit of Beauty

Padre di Luna

Sicilian Ghost Story

Stars

Veleni

Anthony Zamperini

Unbroken: Path to Redemption

Ciao America

Marc

Tornare

Storia di Nilde

Luz nos Trópicos

Antonio

Sulla stessa onda

Oscar Romano

Sinaliento

Eric Marchese

La bocca dell'anima

Store Owner

Prison Song

Michele Sindona

In the Hand of Dante

L'Objet du délit