About Nick Mancuso

Nicodemo Antonio Massimo Mancusois an Italian-Canadian actor, artist, playwright, and director. Beginning his career as a stage actor, he had his breakthrough role in the 1981 drama Ticket to Heaven, for which he won the Genie Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor.

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I have been an actor now for 40 years having worked in over 10 countries and three languages.

Nick Mancuso

Canadian actor

At root fame is a sham. I’m not going to live forever and if I am I certainly need don’t you to tell me that so that I will buy a car or a box of dried up crackers.

Nick Mancuso

Canadian actor

Sex is the great equalizer.

Nick Mancuso

Canadian actor

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.

Nick Mancuso

Canadian actor

Every citizen in every country in the world now grows up in two nations. Their own and Hollywood.

Nick Mancuso

Canadian actor

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.

Nick Mancuso

Canadian actor

Fame is everywhere; the 15 minutes are now the dominant themes of our times.

Nick Mancuso

Canadian actor

Death and sex are the dominant reality of our day.

Nick Mancuso

Canadian actor

The actor’s life is the road. Always has been, always will be. That is his cross and his glory.

Nick Mancuso

Canadian actor

I started to act in highschool and became a professional actor at 19.

Nick Mancuso

Canadian actor

I have always been a Malibu Man, like all actors.

Nick Mancuso

Canadian actor

A few nights ago I went to a Hollywood screening of a small independent film made by Sally Kirkland, an old friend of mine who also did terrific job acting in it. There were other actors in it and they were all terrific.

Nick Mancuso

Canadian actor

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.

Nick Mancuso

Canadian actor

I went to a catholic public school St Helens and learned English by watching bugs bunny cartoons.

Nick Mancuso

Canadian actor