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Vincent Gallo
Actor, Producer, Director, Editor, Composer
Born April 11, 1961 (61 years)
Vincent Gallo is American director, producer, screenwriter, actor, singer-songwriter, and painter best known for his films The Brown Bunny (2003) and Buffalo '66 (1998).
Vincent Gallo (born April 11, 1961) is an American film actor, director, producer, screenwriter, singer-songwriter, and painter. Although he has had minor roles in mainstream films such as Goodfellas, he is most associated with independent movies, including Buffalo '66, which he wrote, directed, did the music for and starred in; The Brown Bunny, which he also wrote, directed, produced, starred in and photographed; Arizona Dream; The Funeral; and Palookaville. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Gallo was a painter in the New York City art scene showing with famed art dealer Annina Nosei, performed in a rap duo and was part of the first hip hop television broadcast Graffiti Rock, and played in an industrial band called Bohack which released an album title It Took Several Wives.
In the early 2000s, he released several solo recordings on WARP records. Gallo is known for his outspoken views and generally sarcastic nature, once stating: "I stopped painting in 1990 at the peak of my success just to deny people my beautiful paintings; and I did it out of spite." Gallo was awarded the Coppa Volpi for Best Actor at the 67th Venice International Film Festival for his performance as a wordless escaping Muslim prisoner in Jerzy Skolimowski's Essential Killing. His own feature film Promises Written In Water, which he wrote, directed, produced and starred in, also screened In Competition at the festival.
Filmography
| 2022 | Shut In · as Sammy |
| 2012 | The Legend of Kaspar Hauser · as The Pusher / The Sheriff |
| 2011 | Loosies · as Jax |
| 2010 | Essential Killing · as Mohammed |
| 2009 | Tetro · as Angelo 'Tetro' Tetrocini |
| 2009 | Metropia · as Roger Olofsson (voice) |
| 2007 | Oliviero Rising · as Oliviero |
| 2007 | Dirt (TV Series) · as Sammy Winter |
| 2006 | Moscow Zero · as Owen |
| 2003 | The Brown Bunny · as Bud Clay |
| 2002 | The Groovenians · as Nixon |
| 2001 | Stranded · as Luca Baglioni |
| 2001 | Get Well Soon · as Bobby Bishop / Kevin Moss |
| 2001 | Trouble Every Day · as Dr. Shane Brown |
| 2000 | Hide and Seek · as Frank |
| 1999 | Freeway II: Confessions of a Trickbaby · as Sister Gomez |
| 1998 | Goodbye Lover · as Mike |
| 1998 | L.A. Without a Map · as Moss |
| 1998 | Johnny 316 · as Johnny |
| 1998 | Buffalo '66 · as Billy Brown |
| 1997 | Truth or Consequences, N.M. · as Raymond Lembecke |
| 1996 | The Funeral · as Johnny |
| 1996 | Nénette et Boni · as Vincenzo Brown |
| 1995 | Angela · as Preacher |
| 1995 | Palookaville · as Russell Pataki |
| 1995 | The Perez Family · as Orlando |
| 1993 | The House of the Spirits · as Esteban García |
| 1993 | Arizona Dream · as Paul Leger |
| 1990 | Goodfellas · as Henry's 70's Crew |
| 1986 | Crime Story (TV Series) · as Charlie Riccio |
| 1985 | The Equalizer (TV Series) · as Tony Santiago |