Vincent Gallo
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Vincent Gallo (born April 11, 1961) is an American actor, director, model, musician, painter and former motorcycle racer.
Though he has had minor roles in mainstream films such as Arizona Dream, The Funeral and Palookaville, he is most associated with independent movies, including Buffalo '66, which he wrote, directed, scored and starred in and The Brown Bunny, which he also wrote, directed, produced, starred in and photographed.
In the early 2000s, he released several solo recordings on Warp Records.
Early life
He was born in Buffalo, New York to Sicilian parents. Both were hairdressers, and his father retired to be "a gambler."
Career
During Gallo's creative period in the 1980s, when he worked as a musician and painter in New York City, he also started exploring film. He made the short film "If You Feel Froggy, Jump" and appeared in the 1981 film Downtown 81 with painter Jean-Michel Basquiat. Gallo appeared in Eric Mitchell's 1984 film The Way It Is (1985), which included actors Steve Buscemi and Rockets Redglare. After appearing in obscure 1989 film Doc's Kingdom, he began acting in smaller films like Goodfellas, The House of the Spirits, and The Perez Family. Claire Denis, a French entrepreneur, recruited Gallo to appear in several films, including the short film Keep It for Yourself, the made-for-TV version of Go Home, and its sequele Nénette et Boni (1996)).
Buffalo 66, his directorial debut film, was nominated for, but not win, an award for "Best First Feature" at the Independent Spirit Awards in 1998. Gallo performed this drama for $1.5 million as the writer, producer, lead actor, and composer/performer of the soundtrack. "The demise of Buffalo '66 brought him a large fan base."
Gallo appeared in and directed The Brown Bunny, a motorcycle racer's multi-country road trip, in 2003, as well as co-starring Chlo Sevigny. The film, which featured a scene of Sevigny's unsimulated oral sex on Gallo, received largely critical feedback at its Cannes premiere and became a media scandal in part due to Gallo's use of a still image from a sex scene on a billboard. In part, the critical response explored whether Sevigny had been coerced into a Gallo sex act. The Brown Bunny "premiered to a lot of bluster at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival," Andrea LeVasseur of Allmovie says. The Brown Bunny, according to film critic Roger Ebert, was the worst film in Cannes history. Gallo revived Ebert's "fat pig with the body of a slave trader" and placed a hex on him, wishing him colon cancer. "I am fat, one day I will be skinny," Ebert said, "but Mr. Gallo will still be the director of The Brown Bunny." Gallo and Ebert appeared to have reconciled, and Ebert ended up giving a thumbs up to a re-edited version of The Brown Bunny. Gallo's analysis of the re-edited version as "far fetched and an outright lie" in a 2018 article, written shortly after Ebert's death.
Gallo won the Volpi Cup for Best Actor at the 67th Venice International Film Festival in 2010, but he doesn't have a direct role in the film. He did not attend the ceremony in person to receive his award, abandoning the film's producer Jerzy Skolimowski, who attempted to convince him to reveal himself, leading the audience in a chant of his name. Gallo was not present at the launch of Gallo.
Gallo stars in Davide Manuli's La leggenda di Kaspar Hauser, a modern-western adaptation of the German legend of Kaspar Hauser, which premiered at the 2012 International Film Festival Rotterdam. Gallo plays two of the film's leading characters, the English-speaking Sheriff and the Italian-speaking assassin.
In Junji Sakamoto's 2013 film Human Trust, he co-starred with Kichi Satae and Yoo Ji-tae.
Gallo performed electric bass and sang in the mid-1970s in many adolescent garage bands, including Blue Mood; a progressive rock cover band named Zephyr; and The Good (with Bernie Kugel and Larry Galanowitz) who appeared in Lincoln Park, Tonawanda, New York; and the Plastics. Gallo, a 16-year-old boy from New York City, was a later member of the band Gray, alongside visual artist Jean-Michel Basquiat. Gray has worked with Kansas City, CBGB's, Hurrahs, and the Mudd Club. On the soundtrack to Gray's film Downtown 81, a few of Gray's tracks appear.
Gallo was a member of Bohack, a band that released an album called It Took Several Wives. Gallo switched his attention to acting, directing, and composing in films when Bohack disbanded. He produced songs for the soundtrack of the 1998 film Buffalo 66. Bunny, a rock band from Lukas Haas, and Gallo produced When, his own album, which he wrote, performed, and released under Warp Records.
In San Francisco, Vincent Gallo headlined the 3rd Annual San Frandelic Summer Festival.
Gallo produced music videos for John Frusciante's songs "Going Inside" and "Anemone" by L'Arc-en-Ciel. He has appeared in Lit's "Bitter" and "Cosmopolitan Bloodloss" by Glassjaw, as well as My Vitriol's "Grounded" film.
Gallo also appeared as a model in the H&M Spring 2009 collection with Eva Herzigova.
He (using the term "prince Vince") appeared as a dancer on an unmanned television pilot for a hip-hop dance competition called Graffiti Rock in 1984.
In Caspar Vega's 2012 book The Eclectic Prince, he makes a fictionalized appearance.
In Fall 2011, Gallo shot G-Star Raw jeans for a fashion campaign and photo shoot.