Lou D'Amato

Lou DAmato is an American Actor born to Frances Louis DAmato and has an older sibling Karen His father is of Italian decent and his mother has IrishScottishFrench ancestry His paternal great grandfather came over from Italy and settled in Brooklyn NY where he opened a bakery shop and raised a family Although Lou is based in New York he is considered a bicoastal actor as he also has a place he stays in Studio City CA when filming in LA Lou has come full circle after many years of dabbling in local theater commercials and background work while working fulltime With the full support of his wife Debbie Lou decided to leave the corporate world of finance to pursue his passion of acting on a fulltime basis His first foray was to focus mainly on developing his actors instrument by honing in on fundamental skills Since then he has trained in LA at the Aaron Speiser Acting Studio a studio Lou highly recommends HB Studios in NYC where he was fortunate to study under the late Jill Clayburgh at her Master class for FilmTV and then back to LA at The Acting Corps to get a taste of Meisner He continued to coach with Jill after classes ended at HB until her schedule became too demanding For several years now Lou has not only been a successful actor but is now working with a long time friend Guile Branco at the production company BrightKnightEntertainment and still cant believe he is living his dream and because of that he takes each day as a gift His wife Debbie is the focal point of his life and is the inspiration behind his move into acting Since his departure from the corporate world he has come to realize acting has been the toughest and most demanding career he has ever been in but LOVES every minute of it Lou has always been a sports fan and played several sports in High School and college including football baseball and boxing He later decided to give his favorite sport hockey a try when he was in his mid 30s and in 98 played in Toronto during a round robin championship of which his team won the equivalent of the Stanley Cup trophy Lou is a great admirer of Clint Eastwood both in front and behind the camera It was that seventies flare of entertainment that really immersed him into film and acting After seeing the movie Dirty Harry he was sold Today Lou looks for scripts that encompass originality something he says seems harder to find these days