Armand Assante has distinguished himself as one of the most chameleonic and prolific actors of his generation. He loves to film outside the United States: only in 2016 he filmed in Uzbekistan, Turkey, Italy and Romania, where he starred in The Wanderers, directed by Dragos Buliga, filmed in the most isolated and beautiful regions in our country, and has the potential to become a cult movie obsession.
For his diverse and prestigious career, in 2015, the star received the award for the entire activity of the Garden State Film Festival.
Although he is mostly known as an actor, few know that Assante is also a director. In 2012, he won the documentary short film award at Gasparilla International Film Festival in Tampa, Florida with Dialogue From the Steps.
Assante, who will be present in Braşov to introduce The Wanderers, the film present in the competition, is already accustomed to our country. In 2006, she starred in California Dreamin’, the dark comedy of much-regretted Cristian Nemescu, inspired by an incident in the Bosnian conflict that won the Au Certain Regard at Cannes, as well as another 21 international awards.
An intense and super-professional actor, Assante has been obsessed with music and rhythms since childhood. In his adolescence, he was a professional drummer and singer and considered himself a traveler who spent his entire life on the road. Every piece of art in his home has been gathered from the places he has visited all over the world.
In 1997, Armand Assante received an Emmy Award for “Best Actor in a Television Movie” for the way he portrayed John Gotti in HBO’s biographical drama. His international fame is owed to several excellent films, from Ridley Scott’s American Gangster to The Mambo Kinds or 1492 Conquest of Paradise. In 1990, he received a Golden Globe nomination for his performance in Sidney Lumet’s ‘Q & A’, and in 1986 he won a special prize at the USA Film Festival for his role in Belizaire, The Cajun. Other famous titles are Paradise Alley, Little Darlings, Private Benjamin, I, The Jury, Unfaithfully Yours, The Penitent, Fatal Instinct, Trial By Jury, Judge Dredd and many other independent productions.
In television, Assante has been nominated for both an Emmy Award and a Golden Globe for Jack the Ripper. In January 2000, he filmed in Australia a remake of Stanley Kramer’s famous film On the Beach, which received a Golden Globe nomination for the best miniseries.
Genuine New Yorker, Assante is the son of an Italian American artist and an Irish-American musician and poet. Although he considers himself a citizen of the world, he is still very close to his family in Naples and Rome.
