Vincenzo Amato
Acting • Born 1966-03-30
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.
Filmography
50 credits
Golden Door
Movie • 2006
Salvatore Mancuso
Did You Hear About the Morgans?
Movie • 2009
Girard Rabelais
Respiro
Movie • 2002
Pietro
Red Notice
Movie • 2021
Director Gallo
L'immensità
Movie • 2022
Felice
Girl on a Bicycle
Movie • 2013
Paolo Moretti
The Volcano Exiles
Movie • 2013
War Story
Movie • 2014
Filippo
Darker Than Midnight
Movie • 2014
Massimo
Vinodentro
Movie • 2013
Giovanni
Maestro
Movie • 2023
Bruno Zirato
Unbroken
Movie • 2014
Anthony Zamperini
Once We Were Strangers
Movie • 1997
The Wannabe
Movie • 2015
Richie
La scuola è finita
Movie • 2010
Aldo Talarico
Soundtrack - Ti spio, ti guardo, ti ascolto
Movie • 2015
Paolo
Through the Waves
Movie • 2022
Salvo
Smoke Signals
Movie • 2024
Giovanni Kessler
Abbraccialo per me
Movie • 2016
Pietro
Leonardo da Vinci: The Genius in Milan
Movie • 2016
It’s the Law
Movie • 2017
Pierpaolo Natoli
The Habit of Beauty
Movie • 2017
Ernesto
Sicilian Ghost Story
Movie • 2017
Padre di Luna
Veleni
Movie • 2017
Stars
Unbroken: Path to Redemption
Movie • 2018
Anthony Zamperini
Ciao America
Movie • 2002
Tornare
Movie • 2019
Marc
Storia di Nilde
Movie • 2019
Light in the Tropics
Movie • 2020
Caught by a Wave
Movie • 2021
Antonio
Breathless
Movie • 2021
Oscar Romano
The Healer
Movie • 2024
Eric Marchese
Prison Song
Movie • 2001
Store Owner
In the Hand of Dante
Movie • 2025
Michele Sindona
L'Objet du délit
Movie
The Sweet and the Bitter
Movie • 2007
Vito Scordia, Saro's father
Elementary
TV • 2012
Guillaume de Soto
The Blacklist
TV • 2013
Marcus
The Good Wife
TV • 2009
Judge Ciccone
Longlasting Youth
TV • 2010
Simone Nicolai
American Crime Story
TV • 2016
Versace Spokesman
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
TV • 1999
Inspector Rossi
Catturandi - Nel Nome del Padre
TV • 2016
Natale Sciacca
Gossip Girl
TV • 2007
Emilio Pivano
Fleishman Is in Trouble
TV • 2022
Dr. Romalino
Evil
TV • 2019
Sternest Priest
Madam Secretary
TV • 2014
Italian Ambassador Vittorio Civarelli
Elsbeth
TV • 2024
Tailor
Einstein
TV • 2008
Albert Einstein
Damages
TV • 2007
Italian Investor