Vincent Gallo
Gender: Male
Born: 11th April 1961 (currently 51 years old)
Nationality: United States of America
Movies: Buffalo '66, The Brown Bunny, Truth or Consequences, N.M., Trouble Every Day, Palookaville, The Funeral, Cord, Tetro, Arizona Dream, Get Well Soon, Stranded: NxE1ufragos, Metropia, Nénette et Boni, Doc’s Kingdom, Alex, L.A. Without a Map, Freeway II: Confessions of a Trickbaby, Promises Written in Water, Moscow Zero, Angela, The Perez Family, Oliviero Rising, Essential Killing, Get Well Soon, La leggenda di Kaspar Hauser, La leggenda di Kaspar Hauser, 2 Days in New York, Loosies
Vincent Gallo is an American film director and actor. Though 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
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