Adamo Paolo Cultraro was born in Toronto, Canada and spoke only Italian in his youth. At an early age, Adamo displayed a flair for the arts, becoming an accomplished artist, prolific drawer, draftsman and wood carver. A true writer, Adamo wrote some of his first short stories at age six, and wrote a vampire novella at age ten that was way ahead of its time. At age twelve he was directing elaborate small scale stage plays that he would put on for his friends using his sister's Barbie dolls as actors.

For someone with much talent, Adamo did shockingly poorly at school, barely being able to maintain a C average all the way up to high school even though his IQ was found to be 177. Adamo has a firm command of English, Italian, French, and is fairly proficient at Spanish besides a smattering of a half a dozen other languages. College wasn't even an option after high school and so Adamo went straight to work as a draftsman in a structural steel plant. Within three years he was 3rd in command of 120 people and basically running the place. Adamo prides himself on being a skilled and accomplished salesman par excellence, a skill that's been well used in his emerging Hollywood career.

Involved with firearms at an early age, Adamo was also licensed as a Class 7 Federal Firearms Licensee and has an intimate knowledge of a range of firearms platforms which gives his action films an authenticity that many directors can't achieve without outside help. Coupled with his lifelong study of martial arts, Adamo is poised to become the quintessential action movie writer-director.