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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.
The film starts with a twenty-six year-old Gaius Julius Caesar under the captive of Cilician pirates, who are demanding ransom. He is knocked unconscious and the movie flashes back to his early years as a sixteen-year-old who is comforted by his mother, Aurelia Cotta, after the death of his father. He is visited by his uncle Gaius Marius, the great Roman leader. He gives him a motivational talk. Marius, a staunch populist, is opposed by his former protege, Sulla during the Roman Social War. Sulla returned to Rome after a war campaign, seeking vengeance. Marius is killed. Sulla becomes dictator of Rome and targets all Marius allies to be eliminated, including young Caesar. Caesar is on the run and chased by Sulla's men. After his capture, he is freed after an intervention from Aurelia and the Vestal Virgins. Sulla reluctantly let him go, saying, he saw "many a Marius in Caesar". The film returns to the present, and Caesar gains the confidence to not worry about the pirates. He even goes so far as to mock the pirates. Caesar gains the ransom needed and pays off the pirates.
