1. Lorenzo Quinn was born on 7 May 1966 and is a contemporary Italian sculptor and former actor.
13 Facts About Lorenzo Quinn
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Lorenzo Quinn is the eighth son of actor Anthony Quinn.
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Lorenzo Quinn was born on 7 May 1966 in Rome, Italy, the son of Mexican-American actor Anthony Quinn and his wife Iolanda.
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Lorenzo Quinn began practising art as a painter in the early 1980s when he enrolled at the American Academy of Fine Arts in New York City.
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Lorenzo Quinn acted professionally in the late 1980s, portraying the young Italian violin maker Antonio Stradivari in the 1988 Italian film Stradivari, directed by Giacomo Battiato.
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Lorenzo Quinn subsequently played the Spanish surrealist artist Salvador Dali in Dali, alongside English actress Sarah Douglas portraying his wife Gala.
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Lorenzo Quinn won the best new actor award at the Biarritz Film Festival for his work on Dali.
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Lorenzo Quinn has worked on commissions for the Sports Academy ASPIRE in the Gulf states and many in Spain where he currently lives with his wife and children.
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Lorenzo Quinn has a permanent exhibition at the Rafart Gallery in Almenar, Spain.
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Lorenzo Quinn designed the Ride The World trophy for the MOTO GP championships.
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Lorenzo Quinn donated the sculpture Hope to the Blind Museum in Madrid, Spain.
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Lorenzo Quinn designed the Children In Need award which was awarded to Heather Mills and Phil Collins in 2005.
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In July 2022 Lorenzo Quinn returned to Venice with a new sculpture: Baby 3.0, a mesh sculpture of a baby overlooking the Grand Canal in the garden of the Metropolitan City of Venice.