42 Facts About Vincent Gallo

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Vincent Gallo was born on April 11,1961 and is an American actor, director, writer, producer, musician, and model.

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Vincent Gallo has won several accolades, including a Volpi Cup for Best Actor, and been nominated for numerous more, including the Palme d'Or, the Golden Lion, and the Bronze Horse.

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Vincent Gallo went on to become a successful painter and musician, working with Jean-Michel Basquiat and Lukas Haas.

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Vincent Gallo later transitioned into the film and television industry, receiving small roles in works including Goodfellas.

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Vincent Gallo soon starred in films including Arizona Dream, The House of the Spirits, Palookaville, The Funeral, Stranded, Tetro, Metropia, Essential Killing, and The Legend of Kaspar Hauser.

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Vincent Gallo has directed and starred in numerous short films, including The Agent, and several music videos, such as Going Inside and Cosmopolitan Bloodloss.

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Vincent Gallo's films possess a cult following, especially in Japan, and have been praised by many filmmakers and actors.

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Vincent Gallo was born on April 11,1961, in Buffalo, New York to Sicilian parents.

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At the age of 12, Vincent Gallo worked for the local mafia in Buffalo, helping them to perform small crimes, such as carjacking and shoplifting.

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Vincent Gallo's mother did not allow him to decorate his own room, and forbade him from owning a guitar, leading Vincent Gallo to secretly hide one underneath his bed.

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Vincent Gallo headed to New York City, and took up various jobs, including working in high-fi guitar shop and as a dishwasher.

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Vincent Gallo went on to race motorbikes professionally, without training, in Formula II.

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Vincent Gallo made the short film "If You Feel Froggy, Jump" and appeared in the 1981 film Downtown 81 with painter Jean-Michel Basquiat.

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In 1984, Vincent Gallo acted in The Way It Is by Eric Mitchell, which included actors Steve Buscemi and Rockets Redglare.

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French director Claire Denis hired Vincent Gallo to act in several films such as the short film Keep It for Yourself, the made-for-TV US Go Home, and its follow-up feature Nenette et Boni.

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Vincent Gallo did not attend the ceremony to accept his award in person, leaving the duty to the film's director Jerzy Skolimowski, who tried to get the actor to reveal himself, leading the audience in a chant of his name.

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Vincent Gallo plays the two largest roles in the film, the English-speaking Sheriff and the Italian-speaking assassin.

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Vincent Gallo co-starred with Koichi Sato and Yoo Ji-tae in Junji Sakamoto's 2013 film, Human Trust.

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In 2022, Vincent Gallo appeared in Shut In, his first acting role since 2013.

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In 1998, Vincent Gallo had his directorial debut film, Buffalo '66, which was nominated for an award for "Best First Feature" at the Independent Spirit Awards.

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Vincent Gallo had difficulties working with actress Christina Ricci, who starred in the film alongside him.

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Ricci said that Vincent Gallo mocked her weight several years after the film released, and that she has no interest in ever seeing his other films.

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In 2003, Vincent Gallo starred in and directed the film The Brown Bunny, which chronicles a motorcycle racer's cross-country road trip and co-starred Chloe Sevigny.

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Vincent Gallo retorted by calling Ebert a "fat pig with the physique of a slave trader" and put a hex on Ebert, wishing him colon cancer.

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In 2010, Vincent Gallo's Promises Written in Water was shown at the 67th Venice International Film Festival and the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival.

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In 2013, Vincent Gallo's website listed that he had directed, written, produced, and acted in his fourth feature film, April.

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Vincent Gallo has created numerous short films, including The Agent, which was nominated for Best Short Film at the 67th Venice International Film Festival.

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The Agent starred Sage Stallone, and has only ever been screened twice, with Vincent Gallo possessing no plans to ever re-release the short film to the public.

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Vincent Gallo played electric bass and sang in the mid-1970s in several adolescent garage bands such as Blue Mood; a progressive rock cover band named Zephyr which did one performance at Lincoln Park, Tonawanda, New York in 1978; The Good ; The Detours; and the Plastics.

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At the age of 16, Vincent Gallo moved to New York City and was a later member of the band Gray, with visual artist Jean-Michel Basquiat.

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In 1984, Vincent Gallo appeared as a dancer on an unsold TV pilot for a hip-hop dance show called Graffiti Rock.

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Vincent Gallo played in a band called Bohack, which recorded an album entitled It Took Several Wives.

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When Bohack disbanded, Vincent Gallo turned his attention to acting, directing, and composing in films.

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Vincent Gallo wrote songs for the soundtrack of the 1998 film Buffalo 66.

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Vincent Gallo played in a rock band with Lukas Haas called Bunny, and Gallo put out his own album which he wrote, performed and produced under Warp Records, titled When.

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Vincent Gallo directed music videos for the songs "Going Inside" by John Frusciante, and "Anemone" by L'Arc-en-Ciel.

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Vincent Gallo later did a fashion campaign and photo shoot with G-Star Raw jeans in Fall 2011.

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From 2017 through 2018, Vincent Gallo appeared as a model, photographed in black-and-white, in the Saint Laurent SS18 campaign.

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In 1984, Vincent Gallo was married to a woman for just 10 weeks, before their relationship ended.

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Vincent Gallo was close friends with musician Johnny Ramone, prior to Ramone's death in 2004.

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Conversely, actress Christina Ricci described her experience with Vincent Gallo as "working with a crazy lunatic man", and vowed to never work with him again.

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Vincent Gallo's cult following remains especially popular in Japan, having begun shortly after Buffalo '66 was released in the country in 1999.