Vincenzo Amato
Date of birth: 1966-03-30
Place of birth: Palermo, Sicily, Italy
Known for: Acting
Also known as: 빈센조 아마토
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.
Movie Credits
Golden Door
2006-09-22
The story is set at the beginning of the 20th century in Sicily. Salvatore, a very poor farmer, and
Did You Hear About the Morgans?
2009-12-17
New Yorkers Paul and Meryl Morgan seem to have it all -- except that their marriage is crumbling aro
Respiro
2002-05-18
Grazia is a free-spirited mother-of-three married to shy fisherman Pietro and living on the idyllic
Red Notice
2021-11-04
An Interpol-issued Red Notice is a global alert to hunt and capture the world's most wanted. But whe
L'immensità
2022-09-15
Clara and Felice struggle to raise their three children in 1970s Rome. The eldest, Andrew, is transg
Girl on a Bicycle
2013-03-04
Paolo, an Italian tour bus driver living in Paris, has just summoned up the courage to propose marri
The Volcano Exiles
2013-09-22
She menage to save from a fire a bunch of pictures and a diary written by hand. Those words and face
War Story
2014-01-19
Lee is a world-weary American woman who arrives in an Italian city. Her tangles with hotel staff, in
Darker Than Midnight
2014-05-15
Davide is different from the other teenagers. Something makes him look like a girl. Davide is fourte
Vinodentro
2013-12-12
For John Cuttin it all started with the first sip of the wine of her life. A "Marzemino", a typical
Maestro
2023-11-22
A towering and fearless love story chronicling the lifelong relationship between Leonard Bernstein a
Unbroken
2014-12-25
A chronicle of the life of Louis Zamperini, an Olympic runner who was taken prisoner by Japanese for
Once We Were Strangers
1997-08-29
Antonio is a seductive, charismatic Sicilian living illegally in New York. He wanders from job to jo
The Wannabe
2015-12-04
Based on true events, The Wannabe, a story about Thomas, a man obsessed with Mafia culture during th
La scuola è finita
2010-11-12
Some people say that school days are the best day of our lives... but there are plenty of exceptions
Soundtrack - Ti spio, ti guardo, ti ascolto
2015-06-25
Through the Waves
2022-12-07
Salvo and Lea travel in the night in a refrigerator truck. Theirs is a mysterious destination as wel
Smoke Signals
2024-05-01
2012, John Dalli, the European Commissioner for Health, is accused of corruption and influence peddl
Abbraccialo per me
2016-04-21
Leonardo da Vinci: The Genius in Milan
2016-04-21
An exhibit of Da Vinci's works traces the pathways of the great artist's mind.
It’s the Law
2017-01-19
A small Sicilian town elects a new, honest major but quickly learns that playing by the rules is not
The Habit of Beauty
2017-06-22
Elena and Ernesto are a couple who are bitterly torn apart by the death of their only child. Three y
Sicilian Ghost Story
2017-11-18
In a little Sicilian village at the edge of a forest, Giuseppe, a boy of 13, vanishes. Luna, his cla
Veleni
2017-10-24
Unbroken: Path to Redemption
2018-09-14
Zamperini returns to California where he wound up marrying Cynthia Applewhite while wrestling with u
Ciao America
2002-01-01
Having recently earned his college degree, Lorenzo Primavera (Eddie Malavarca) leaves his home in Bo
Tornare
2019-10-26
Cristina Comencini defines the film as a "thriller of the soul." It's the story of a woman who retur
Storia di Nilde
2019-12-05
Light in the Tropics
2020-02-25
A film like a monument: Luz nos Trópicos is a tribute to the rich greens of the Amazon and the fores
Caught by a Wave
2021-03-25
A summer fling born under the Sicilian sun quickly develops into a heartbreaking love story that for
Breathless
2021-08-11
In the DR, hardened cop Manolo tries to take down an infamous drug cartel; meanwhile, his daughter h
The Healer
2024-09-26
In the shadowed aftermath of the Second World War, Giovanni Velasques returns to his quaint hometown
Prison Song
2001-04-27
Elijah has been bounced from group home to group home throughout his turbulent young life. What has
In the Hand of Dante
2025-09-03
A handwritten manuscript of Dante Alighieri's poem "The Divine Comedy" makes its way from a priest t
L'Objet du délit
Behind the scenes of an ambitious staging of the opera The Marriage of Figaro, an accusation of sexu