Personal Info
Birth date
1966-03-30 (59 Years)
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Palermo, Sicily, Italy
Also known as
빈센조 아마토
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.
Filmography
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
7.936
Overview:
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.The Good Wife
7.599
Overview:
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.The Blacklist
7.6
Overview:
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.Evil
7.781
Overview:
Skeptical forensic psychologist Kristen Bouchard joins priest-in-training David Acosta and technology expert Ben Shakir as they investigate supposed miracles, demonic possessions, and other extraordinary occurrences to assess for a scientific explanation or if something truly supernatural is at work.Elementary
7.6
Overview:
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.American Crime Story
7.56
Overview:
An anthology series centered around some of history's most famous criminal investigations.Gossip Girl
8.195
Overview:
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.Elsbeth
7.313
Overview:
After her successful career in Chicago, Elsbeth Tascioni, an astute but unconventional attorney, utilizes her singular point of view to make unique observations and corner brilliant criminals alongside the NYPD.Madam Secretary
7
Overview:
After years away from the CIA, Elizabeth McCord is pulled back into the political arena. The newly appointed Secretary of State is tough, fair, and smart, driving international diplomacy, wrangling office politics, and circumventing protocol as she negotiates global and domestic issues, both at the White House and at home.Fleishman Is in Trouble
7.226
Overview:
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.Red Notice
6.763
Overview:
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.Unbroken
7.425
Overview:
A chronicle of the life of Louis Zamperini, an Olympic runner who was taken prisoner by Japanese forces during World War II.Maestro
6.304
Overview:
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.Unbroken: Path to Redemption
6.6
Overview:
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.Did You Hear About the Morgans?
5.373
Overview:
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.L'immensità
6.386
Overview:
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.Caught by a Wave
6.6
Overview:
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.Smoke Signals
6.617
Overview:
2012, John Dalli, the European Commissioner for Health, is accused of corruption and influence peddling related to the tobacco industry. French Member of the European Parliament José Bové, maverick politician and prominent figure of the environmental party, suspects a setup by the tobacco manufacturer Swedish Match, potentially involving the President of the European Commission, José Barroso. Standing alone against all odds, he decides to investigate and unravel this story, which shook the foundations of the entire European institutions.The Habit of Beauty
3.2
Overview:
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.Girl on a Bicycle
6.025
Overview:
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.The Wannabe
5.2
Overview:
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.Prison Song
5.4
Overview:
Elijah has been bounced from group home to group home throughout his turbulent young life. What has sustained him is his art. After a promised scholarship is taken away, Elijah ends up in a fight that result in the death of another boy. Now, sentenced to a minimum of fifteen years, the young man must find a way to keep his soul alive behind bars or turn into a hardened bitter criminal.Golden Door
6.511
Overview:
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.Sicilian Ghost Story
6.608
Overview:
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.It’s the Law
6.556
Overview:
A small Sicilian town elects a new, honest major but quickly learns that playing by the rules is not as easy as it seems.Respiro
6.599
Overview:
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.War Story
4.159
Overview:
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.Acting
2024The Healer as Eric Marchese
2024Smoke Signals as Giovanni Kessler
2024Elsbeth (1 Episode) as Tailor
2023Maestro as Bruno Zirato
2022Through the Waves as Salvo
2022Fleishman Is in Trouble (2 Episodes) as Dr. Romalino
2022L'immensità as Felice
2021Red Notice as Director Gallo
2021Breathless as Oscar Romano
2021Caught by a Wave as Antonio
2020Light in the Tropics as Unknown
2019Storia di Nilde as Unknown
2019Tornare as Marc
2019Evil (1 Episode) as Sternest Priest
2018Unbroken: Path to Redemption as Anthony Zamperini
2017Sicilian Ghost Story as Padre di Luna
2017Veleni as Stars
2017The Habit of Beauty as Ernesto
2017It’s the Law as Pierpaolo Natoli
2016Catturandi - Nel Nome del Padre (12 Episodes) as Natale Sciacca
2016Abbraccialo per me as Unknown
2016Leonardo da Vinci: The Genius in Milan as Unknown
2016American Crime Story (1 Episode) as Versace Spokesman
2015The Wannabe as Richie
2015Soundtrack - Ti spio, ti guardo, ti ascolto as Paolo
2014Unbroken as Anthony Zamperini
2014Madam Secretary (1 Episode) as Italian Ambassador Vittorio Civarelli
2014Darker Than Midnight as Unknown
2014War Story as Filippo
2013Vinodentro as Giovanni
2013The Blacklist (1 Episode) as Marcus
2013The Volcano Exiles as Unknown
2013Girl on a Bicycle as Paolo Moretti
2012Elementary (2 Episodes) as Guillaume de Soto
2010Longlasting Youth (4 Episodes) as Simone Nicolai
2010La scuola è finita as Aldo Talarico
2009Did You Hear About the Morgans? as Girard Rabelais
2009The Good Wife (1 Episode) as Judge Ciccone
2008Einstein as Albert Einstein
2007Gossip Girl (1 Episode) as Emilio Pivano
2006Golden Door as Salvatore Mancuso
2002Respiro as Pietro
2002Ciao America as Unknown
2001Prison Song as Store Owner
1999Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1 Episode) as Inspector Rossi
1997Once We Were Strangers as Unknown
Crew
1993Under the Nails ... Thanks