Vittorio Rossi

Gregory J. Reid (Université de Sherbrooke)

Ed. by Glen Nichols, Mount Allison University
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.1.2: Canadian Writing and Culture (Anglophone): The Twentieth Century and beyond, 1900-present.
Vol. editors: Nicole Kennedy (University of Newcastle), Kerry Myler (Birmingham Newman University), Glen Nichols (Mount Allison University), Justin Parks (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway), Wendy Roy (University of Saskatchewan), Denis Salter (McGill University), Sean Seeger (University of Essex), Karis Shearer (University of British Columbia)

Dates

Born 16 Apr 1961
Activity 1990-ongoing

Places

Born in Canada
Active in Canada

Activities

Primary

Playwright / Dramatist
Theatre actor

Resources

In French-speaking Quebec, Vittorio Rossi is best known as an actor, due largely to his role as Detective Tom Celano in the television series Omerta: La loi du silence, which held the highest viewer ratings in Quebec in 1996, 1997 and 1998, and his cameo appearance as the American nemesis who strangles the film's heroine in the award-winning film Post Mortem (1999). Although his acting credits in American and Canadian films and television are substantial, in the English-speaking world, Rossi is more readily and widely identified as a playwright. Rossi is considered to be the first playwright of note to present a distinctly Italian-Canadian voice on the English-Canadian stage.

Rossi is the youngest of the five children of Silvio Rossi and Carmela Ialongo who immigrated to Canada from the town of Cerro al Volturno,...

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Citation: Reid, Gregory J.. "Vittorio Rossi". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 09 February 2005 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=5493, accessed 05 December 2025.]

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