Nick Mancuso

Trivia

• The acting bug bit again, however, and he was soon drawn to various Canadian theatre groups in the 1970s.
• . During this time, he became artistic director for the Vancouver Playhouse Theatre, at the same time building up his classical resume at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival.
• TV and film soon came his way in the late 1970s, and he tackled roles both in Hollywood, first as TV's Dr. Scorpion (1978) (TV), and back in his homeland, where he won the prestigious Genie award for the movie Ticket to Heaven (1981) as a man caught up in a religious cult.
• He impressed moviegoers as well with his moody, sexy presence in the US film Heartbreakers (1984) co-starring Peter Coyote.
• Nick is an Italian-Canadian cinema and stage actor.

Quotes

• "We are the world. We are the people and we deserve better not because we're worth it but because no worth can be put on the incalculable, on the infinite, on life."
• "The actor's life is the road. Always has been, always will be. That is his cross and his glory."
• "I'm not invited. I'm not on the A list, haven't been on it in 20 years and my feet have never trod its red fluffy carpets."
• "I went to a catholic public school St Helens and learned English by watching bugs bunny cartoons."
• "I was on a founding members of the Canadian theatre movement in the late 60's till the mid 70's and performed theatre from Halifax to Vancouver and all places in between."
• "I started to act in highschool and became a professional actor at 19."
• "I have been an actor now for 40 years having worked in over 10 countries and three languages."
• "I have always been a Malibu Man, like all actors."
• "Fame is everywhere; the 15 minutes are now the dominant themes of our times."
• "Every citizen in every country in the world now grows up in two nations. Their own and Hollywood."