Lou D'Amato is an American Actor born to Frances & Louis D'Amato and has an older sister Karen. His father is of Italian decent and his mother has Irish/Scottish ancestry. His paternal great grandfather came over from Italy and settled in Brooklyn NY, where he opened a bakery shop and raised a family. 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 play his favorite sport, hockey when he was in his 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 bi-coastal actor based in NY with a home away from home in Studio City, Ca. He lives with his wife Debbie and dog Yogi on the East coast.While studying acting at HB Studios in NY, he was fortunate to be accepted in the late Jill Clayburgh's master class "Working on/off camera". Lou learned so much with Jill he asked her if she would continue coaching him after the class ended and she graciously accepted.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. Show less «