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Nick Mancuso
Birth at
29 May 1948
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Nicodemo Antonio Massimo Mancuso One film encyclopedia considers him a Canadian actor, another claims that he was born in Mammola (Calabria, Italy). In the year of birth, they also diverge. He and his parents emigrated to Canada, where he grew up in the Italian diaspora. He is the eldest of five children and has two more brothers and two sisters. One day his teacher gave him a reading of Julius Caesar. At that time, Nick knew nothing about the theater and had never seen a single performance. But
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Nicodemo Antonio Massimo Mancuso One film encyclopedia considers him a Canadian actor, another claims that he was born in Mammola (Calabria, Italy). In the year of birth, they also diverge. He and his parents emigrated to Canada, where he grew up in the Italian diaspora. He is the eldest of five children and has two more brothers and two sisters. One day his teacher gave him a reading of Julius Caesar. At that time, Nick knew nothing about the theater and had never seen a single performance. But at the audition for a school production of "Hamlet" was so convincing that he got the title role. Nick studied psychology at the University of Toronto. Later he moved to the same specialty at the University of Guelph. And at the end, he seriously engaged in research, no longer going to play on stage. But in 1970 he gave up and went to audition for the Experimental Theatre. He later organized his own troupe, Teatru Streetcarru, which gave performances to the Italian community. These were mostly Shakespearean plays, one of which (Bassanio in The Merchant of Venice) led him to the Stratford Festival in 1976. After that, he was there six more times. Since 1970, he began his film career, with a small role in the film Doctor Scorpio. Now Nick is a winner of the award "Genius", twice named best actor (at the film festival in Taormina, Italy, and the International Film Festival in Houston), the author of many plays, is fond of poetry. Several of his poems set to music became famous even in Europe. Nick speaks four languages, paints mostly oil, and has written a book on how to survive a young immigrant in a foreign country.