Vincenzo Amato

Vincenzo Amato

Born: March 30, 1966
in Palermo, Sicily, Italy
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.

Movies for Vincenzo Amato...

Une affaire de principe
Title: Une affaire de principe
Character: Giovanni Kessler
Released: May 1, 2024
Type: Movie
Brussels, 2012. After the Health Commissioner's abrupt dismissal shrouded in secrecy, MEP José Bové and his team launch an investigation into the matter.
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Maestro
Title: Maestro
Character: Bruno Zirato
Released: November 22, 2023
Type: Movie
A towering and fearless love story chronicling the lifelong relationship between Leonard Bernstein and Felicia Montealegre Cohn Bernstein. A love letter to life and art, Maestro at its core is an emotionally epic portrayal of family and love.
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Through the Waves
Title: Through the Waves
Character: Salvo
Released: December 7, 2022
Type: Movie
Salvo and Lea travel in the night in a refrigerator truck. Theirs is a mysterious destination as well as the cargo they carry. That journey becomes an opportunity to discuss their abruptly interrupted relationship. Suspended between a past that made them happy and a present that oscillates between resentment and a desire for love, Salvo and Lea travel on a night that seems to have no end.
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Title: Fleishman Is in Trouble
Character: Dr. Romalino
Released: November 17, 2022
Type: TV
Recently separated forty-something Toby Fleishman dives into the brave new world of app-based dating with the kind of success he never had dating in his youth. But just at the start of his first summer of sexual freedom, his ex-wife disappears, leaving him with the kids and no hint of where she is or whether she plans to return.
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L'immensità
Title: L'immensità
Character: Felice
Released: September 15, 2022
Type: Movie
Set in 1970s Rome, the fiction tracks the plight of a nuclear family, consisting of an unhappy married couple: Clara (a deeply dissatisfied expatriate Spaniard) and Felice (an abusive businessman cheating on Clara with his secretary) and their children Adriana, Gino, and Diana. Their eldest child, 12-year-old Adriana, experiences gender dysphoria; he rejects girlhood and instead goes by the name of Andrea (a primarily masculine name in Italian). Andrea develops a crush for Sara, a Roma girl who knows him as a boy. Upon a shared sense of being outsiders, Andrea and Clara grow closer.
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Red Notice
Title: Red Notice
Character: Director Gallo
Released: November 4, 2021
Type: Movie
An Interpol-issued Red Notice is a global alert to hunt and capture the world's most wanted. But when a daring heist brings together the FBI's top profiler and two rival criminals, there's no telling what will happen.
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Breathless
Title: Breathless
Character: Oscar Romano
Released: August 11, 2021
Type: Movie
In the DR, hardened cop Manolo tries to take down an infamous drug cartel; meanwhile, his daughter has fallen in love with Lorenzo, a construction worker who's unwittingly gotten embroiled in the drug cartel's dealings.
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Caught by a Wave
Title: Caught by a Wave
Character: Antonio
Released: March 25, 2021
Type: Movie
A summer fling born under the Sicilian sun quickly develops into a heartbreaking love story that forces a boy and girl to grow up too quickly.
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Tornare
Title: Tornare
Character: Marc
Released: May 4, 2020
Type: Movie
Cristina Comencini defines the film as a "thriller of the soul." It's the story of a woman who returns to Italy from the US to attend the funeral of her late father, an American admiral living in Naples. Here she meets a man who seems to know too many things about her.
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Light in the Tropics
Title: Light in the Tropics
Released: February 25, 2020
Type: Movie
A film like a monument: Luz nos Trópicos is a tribute to the rich greens of the Amazon and the forests of New England in winter, celebrating the indigenous peoples of continental America and flowing as a film as freely as a winding river.
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Storia di Nilde
Title: Storia di Nilde
Released: December 5, 2019
Type: Movie
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Unbroken: Path to Redemption
Title: Unbroken: Path to Redemption
Character: Anthony Zamperini
Released: September 14, 2018
Type: Movie
Zamperini returns to California where he wound up marrying Cynthia Applewhite while wrestling with untreated PTSD, suffering constant nightmares, angry, bitter and deeply depressed, his wife convinces Zamperini to attend the 1949 Billy Graham Crusade.
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Sicilian Ghost Story
Title: Sicilian Ghost Story
Character: Padre di Luna
Released: November 18, 2017
Type: Movie
In a little Sicilian village at the edge of a forest, Giuseppe, a boy of 13, vanishes. Luna, his classmate who loves him, refuses to accept his mysterious disappearance. She rebels against the silence and complicity that surround her, and to find him she descends into the dark world which has swallowed him up and which has a lake as its mysterious entrance.
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Veleni
Title: Veleni
Character: Stars
Released: October 24, 2017
Type: Movie
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The Habit of Beauty
Title: The Habit of Beauty
Character: Ernesto
Released: June 22, 2017
Type: Movie
Elena and Ernesto are a couple who are bitterly torn apart by the death of their only child. Three years later they have both somehow managed to start a new life. Until destiny forces them to reconnect and understand, they never really stopped loving one another other.
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It’s the Law
Title: It’s the Law
Character: Pierpaolo Natoli
Released: January 19, 2017
Type: Movie
A small Sicilian town elects a new, honest major but quickly learns that playing by the rules is not as easy as it seems.
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Title: Catturandi - Nel Nome del Padre
Character: Natale Sciacca
Released: September 12, 2016
Type: TV
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Leonardo da Vinci: The Genius in Milan
Title: Leonardo da Vinci: The Genius in Milan
Released: April 21, 2016
Type: Movie
An exhibit of Da Vinci's works traces the pathways of the great artist's mind.
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Abbraccialo per me
Title: Abbraccialo per me
Released: April 21, 2016
Type: Movie
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Title: American Crime Story
Character: Versace Spokesman
Released: February 2, 2016
Type: TV
An anthology series centered around some of history's most famous criminal investigations.
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The Wannabe
Title: The Wannabe
Character: Richie
Released: December 4, 2015
Type: Movie
Based on true events, The Wannabe, a story about Thomas, a man obsessed with Mafia culture during the 1990s in New York City. When Thomas’s failed attempts to fix the trial of infamous mobster John Gotti gets him rejected by the people he idolizes most, he sets off on a drug infused crime spree with his girlfriend and longtime mob groupie, Rose, by brazenly robbing the local Mafia hangouts.
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Soundtrack - Ti spio, ti guardo, ti ascolto
Title: Soundtrack - Ti spio, ti guardo, ti ascolto
Character: Paolo
Released: June 25, 2015
Type: Movie
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Unbroken
Title: Unbroken
Character: Anthony Zamperini
Released: December 25, 2014
Type: Movie
A chronicle of the life of Louis Zamperini, an Olympic runner who was taken prisoner by Japanese forces during World War II.
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Darker Than Midnight
Title: Darker Than Midnight
Released: May 15, 2014
Type: Movie
Davide is different from the other teenagers. Something makes him look like a girl. Davide is fourteen when he runs away from home. His intuition leads him to choose Villa Bellini, a park in Catania, as a refuge. The park is a world in itself, a world of the marginalized, to which the rest of the city turns a blind eye. But one day the past catches up and Davide has to face the most difficult choice, this time alone.
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War Story
Title: War Story
Character: Filippo
Released: January 19, 2014
Type: Movie
Lee is a world-weary American woman who arrives in an Italian city. Her tangles with hotel staff, incessant smoking and her disregard of the persistently ringing telephone hint at her volatility brewing beneath the surface. Between fitful naps, she wanders the streets, snapping pictures of refugees as if her camera were both weapon and olive branch. Struggling to confront her demons, Lee resolves to help a beautiful young woman in need.
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Vinodentro
Title: Vinodentro
Character: Giovanni
Released: December 12, 2013
Type: Movie
For John Cuttin it all started with the first sip of the wine of her life. A "Marzemino", a typical wine of the province of Trento, quoted by Lorenzo Da Ponte in his libretto for "Don Giovanni" by Mozart. The instant he tasted the blood-red drop of nectar John felt a sort of pleasant and mysterious explosion of the senses, and from that moment on, his nature is transformed. In just three years, from shy bank clerk and faithful husband became director, tombeur de femmes and the most revered and respected expert on wine in Italy. Just as he had predicted the enigmatic "Professor" who had convinced him to taste his first glass of wine. The only event that the "Professor" with his accent and his piercing blue eyes, had not predicted was that he would soon be charged with the murder of his wife Adele. While being put under pressure by the Commissioner Sanfelice, John is to reflect on the last three years of his life, dominated by a single and mad passion: wine.
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Title: The Blacklist
Character: Marcus
Released: September 23, 2013
Type: TV
Raymond "Red" Reddington, one of the FBI's most wanted fugitives, surrenders in person at FBI Headquarters in Washington, D.C. He claims that he and the FBI have the same interests: bringing down dangerous criminals and terrorists. In the last two decades, he's made a list of criminals and terrorists that matter the most but the FBI cannot find because it does not know they exist. Reddington calls this "The Blacklist". Reddington will co-operate, but insists that he will speak only to Elizabeth Keen, a rookie FBI profiler.
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The Volcano Exiles
Title: The Volcano Exiles
Released: September 22, 2013
Type: Movie
She menage to save from a fire a bunch of pictures and a diary written by hand. Those words and faces becomes the last traces left from the man she one day knew and loved. Crossing mountains and roads, she tries to remake his steps. The places she vists bring people, gestures, memories and histories that slowly become part of her life.
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Girl on a Bicycle
Title: Girl on a Bicycle
Character: Paolo Moretti
Released: March 4, 2013
Type: Movie
Paolo, an Italian tour bus driver living in Paris, has just summoned up the courage to propose marriage to his German girlfriend Greta. However, a chance encounter with a French woman on a bicycle the very next day turns Paolo's life upside down.
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Title: Elementary
Character: Guillaume de Soto
Released: September 27, 2012
Type: TV
A modern-day drama about a crime-solving duo that cracks the NYPD's most impossible cases. Following his fall from grace in London and a stint in rehab, eccentric Sherlock escapes to Manhattan where his wealthy father forces him to live with his worst nightmare - a sober companion, Dr. Watson.
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Title: Longlasting Youth
Character: Simone Nicolai
Released: December 13, 2010
Type: TV
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La scuola è finita
Title: La scuola è finita
Character: Aldo Talarico
Released: November 12, 2010
Type: Movie
Some people say that school days are the best day of our lives... but there are plenty of exceptions. When chronically bored student Alex seems to have no future, two of his teachers take the challenge to help him discover the motivation he lacks. The teachers, a couple in the middle of their divorce, will fight to impose the best way to make Alex a promising student.
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Did You Hear About the Morgans?
Title: Did You Hear About the Morgans?
Character: Girard Rabelais
Released: December 17, 2009
Type: Movie
New Yorkers Paul and Meryl Morgan seem to have it all -- except that their marriage is crumbling around them. But their romantic woes are small compared to the trouble they find themselves in after witnessing a murder. To protect them from an assassin, federal agents whisk away Paul and Meryl to a small town in Wyoming, where their marriage will crash and burn, or their passion will reignite.
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Title: The Good Wife
Character: Judge Ciccone
Released: September 22, 2009
Type: TV
Alicia Florrick boldly assumes full responsibility for her family and re-enters the workforce after her husband's very public sex and political corruption scandal lands him in jail.
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Einstein
Title: Einstein
Character: Albert Einstein
Released: October 26, 2008
Type: Movie
The relationship between renowned scientist Albert Einstein and his first wife, Mileva Marić.
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Title: Gossip Girl
Character: Emilio Pivano
Released: September 19, 2007
Type: TV
An exclusive group of privileged teens from a posh prep school on Manhattan's Upper East Side whose lives revolve around the blog of the all-knowing albeit ultra-secretive Gossip Girl.
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Golden Door
Title: Golden Door
Character: Salvatore Mancuso
Released: September 22, 2006
Type: Movie
The story is set at the beginning of the 20th century in Sicily. Salvatore, a very poor farmer, and a widower, decides to emigrate to the US with all his family, including his old mother. Before they embark, they meet Lucy. She is supposed to be a British lady and wants to come back to the States. Lucy, or Luce as Salvatore calls her, for unknown reasons wants to marry someone before to arrive to Ellis Island in New York. Salvatore accepts the proposal. Once they arrive in Ellis Island they spend the quarantine period trying to pass the examinations to be admitted to the States. Tests are not so simple for poor farmers coming from Sicily. Their destiny is in the hands of the custom officers.
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Respiro
Title: Respiro
Character: Pietro
Released: May 18, 2002
Type: Movie
Grazia is a free-spirited mother-of-three married to shy fisherman Pietro and living on the idyllic but isolated island of Lampedusa in the Mediterranean Sea. She shows signs of manic depressive behavior — one moment she's laughing wildly and swimming half-naked in the sea, while the next she's curled in a ball on her bed. Out of her earshot, the adult members of her extended family vaguely discuss sending her to a facility of some sort in Northern Italy.
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Ciao America
Title: Ciao America
Released: January 1, 2002
Type: Movie
Having recently earned his college degree, Lorenzo Primavera (Eddie Malavarca) leaves his home in Boston to travel to his family's ancestral homeland in Italy -- as was requested by his late grandfather. Upon arriving, Lorenzo is offered a short-term position as coach for an American-style football team by the team's manager, Giulio Fellini (Maurizio Nichetti). As the young American immerses himself in his new duties, he makes the acquaintance of Paola Angelini (Violante Placido) and the two begin a friendship that quickly blossoms into something more. In between spending time with Paola and working with the team, Lorenzo also begins investigating his own family's history and learns the reason for his grandfather's departure from Italy, as well as why his grandfather never returned to visit. As Lorenzo begins to forge an identity for himself in Italy -- not to mention strong romantic attachments to Paola -- he must eventually decide whether or not to return to the States.
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Title: Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Character: Inspector Rossi
Released: September 20, 1999
Type: TV
In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Special Victims Unit. These are their stories.
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Once We Were Strangers
Title: Once We Were Strangers
Released: August 29, 1997
Type: Movie
Antonio is a seductive, charismatic Sicilian living illegally in New York. He wanders from job to job, lives as a squatter and enjoys a carefree romantic tryst with a wealthy art dealer. When he falls in love with Ellen, a strong-willed radio talk-show host who is set to move to Paris within a few days, he decides he must find a way to keep her from leaving.