Vincent Papa

Vincent was born in Neuchâtel from immigrants Italian parents to Switzerland . He grew up there till his parents moved back to south of Italy. Since 1976 Vincent's been living during the years in Italy, first in Caserta, in Naples for the university, in Milan and ultimately in Rome. Since his childhood he has been deeply moved and taken by the fairy tales his grand mother used to tell him, for her vivid, warmth and imagery way to tell him the fantastic and sometime mythological stories, he's been taken also for the TV shows and by the black and white movies he used to watch and that he brought them all then every day as material in his daily child's games. He loved watching every year the traditional Italian carnival's masks and he always has been captured above all by the mask of Pulcinella Neapolitan character. Since his childhood he has loved to paint in water colors and expressing his emotional inner life throughout the pencil's drawing and water colors's painting. Vincent has only started at the age of thirty-three his acting career, studying at a private acting school in Milan and from then never stopped to work on his craft with many different acting coaches and starting to work in the entertainment business in Italian and International projects. Since 2005 he is working in theater, TV shows and in films. He is part into the last Peter Greenaway's movie Lucca Mortis (Tower Stories) with stars as Dustin Hoffman and Helen Hunt, and into the Bobby Moresco last movie Maserati - The Brothers with stars as Antony Hopkins, Andy Garcia and Jessica Alba. Lately he has played in Rome in Italy from 2018 to 2024 in Lyle Kessler's drama play Orphans in the character of Harold. Vincent loves painting in acrylic on canvas also, has been participating at different exhibitions.