Silvia Colloca[2] (born 23 July 1977) is an Italian-Australian actress, opera singer, cookbook author, and television cookery show personality.[3][4][5][6] She has published six cookbooks.
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| Born | Silvia Colloca 23 July 1977 Milan, Italy |
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| Years active | 2002–present |
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| Children | 3 |
Life and career
editColloca was born in Milan to Loredana and Mario Colloca. Her first major film role was in Van Helsing, in which she played Verona, one of Dracula's brides. On 25 September 2004, at the medieval castle of Montalto in Tuscany, Italy, she married the Australian actor Richard Roxburgh who played Dracula in that film. They have two sons and a daughter. The family currently resides in Sydney.[7][8]
Colloca is an opera-trained mezzo-soprano and worked as a musical theatre performer in Italy before becoming a film actress. She appeared in 2015 as Orfeo in Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice in Sydney, and as The Queen in Lindy Hume's production of Snow White for Opera Queensland and La Boite theatre in 2016. Her debut album, Sing Like an Italian, was released by Decca in October 2022. She performs four numbers alongside arias and art songs by international stars singers. The album made its debut at No. 1 on the ARIA Core Classical and Classical/Crossover charts.[9]
Television
editMade in Italy with Silvia Colloca,[10] an Australian 10-part TV series, premiered on SBS TV in November 2014, coinciding with the publication of the book of the same name.[11] Colloca took a film crew home to meet her Italian family, showcasing three picturesque regions of Italy, Abruzzo where her family is from, Marche, and Molise, using her mother's kitchen to present cucina povera (peasant cuisine).[11][12]
Silvia's Italian Table, an eight part reality and cooking series debuted on ABC on 6 October 2016. In each episode, Colloca invites a group of celebrities to cook and eat with her and engage in entertaining and intelligent conversation. Guests featured are Kathy Lette, Lisa McCune, Tom Gleeson, Magda Szubanski, Matt Moran, Ken Done, Sarah Ferguson, Merrick Watts, Claire Hooper, Amanda Vanstone, Pia Miranda and Ian Thorpe.[13][14]
Cook Like an Italian,[15] an Australian 10-part TV series, premiered on SBS Food in November 2020. A second season premiered in April 2021 and third season in May 2022.[16]
Filmography
edit- Casomai (2002) as Cannes award hostess
- Van Helsing (2004) as Verona
- The Detonator (2006) as Nadia Cominski
- Virgin Territory (2007) as Sister Lisabetta
- Lesbian Vampire Killers (2009) as Carmilla
- Out of the Night (2010) as Roberta
- Triple Happiness (2010)
- L'Apocalisse delle scimmie (2012) as Tossica
- Nerve (2013) as Elena
- Dante's Inferno Animated (2013, Short) as Beatrice (voice: Italian version)
- Little Tornadoes (2022) as Maria
- The Twelve (2022) as Sonia Spears
- Sting (2024) as Maria
Published works
edit- Silvia's Cucina, Penguin 2013.
- Made in Italy, Penguin 2014.
- La Dolce Vita, Penguin 2016.
- Love Laugh Bake, Pan Macmillan 2018.
Music career
editIn 2022, Colloca signed with Decca Records and released Sing Like An Italian in October 2022. The album peaked at number 1 on the ARIA Classic Album Chart[17] and was the second biggest album in that genre in Australia in 2022.[18]
Albums
edit| Title | Details |
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| Sing Like An Italian |
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References
edit- ^ "I met Dracula and fell in love: Silvia Colloca's journey to Australia". News. Retrieved 4 December 2015.
- ^ Ella Archibald-Binge (7 January 2015). "I met Dracula and fell in love: Silvia Colloca's journey to Australia". SBS News. Retrieved 22 December 2022.
- ^ "Who is Silvia Colloca?". Food. 16 October 2014. Retrieved 4 December 2015.
- ^ "I met Dracula and fell in love: Silvia Colloca's journey to Australia". News. Retrieved 4 December 2015.
- ^ "Silvia Colloca steps out of the kitchen to take on the operatic role of Orfeo". The Sydney Morning Herald. 5 March 2015. Retrieved 4 December 2015.
- ^ "Silvia Colloca to lead audience through gallery in modern take on Orpheus tragedy". The Sydney Morning Herald. 7 February 2015. Retrieved 4 December 2015.
- ^ "Silvia Colloca's secret ingredient for the sweet life". Daily Life. 26 July 2015. Retrieved 4 December 2015.
- ^ "Miranda tapped for Play School role". NewsComAu. 24 November 2015. Retrieved 4 December 2015.
- ^ Jo Litson (21 November 2022). "Cooking up an album". Limelight. Retrieved 22 December 2022.
- ^ "Made in Italy with Silvia Colloca". SBS. Retrieved 28 November 2014.
- ^ a b "Australia's own kitchen goddess Silvia Colloca reveals her culinary secrets on Made in Italy on SBS". The Daily Telegraph. Sydney. Retrieved 27 November 2014.
- ^ "ABC TV launches 2016 programming with spotlight on local drama". The Sydney Morning Herald. 25 November 2015. Retrieved 4 December 2015.
- ^ "Silvia's Italian Table: Complete Series".
- ^ "Educational videos for the Australian curriculum".
- ^ "SBS summer highlights". TV Tonight. Retrieved 5 June 2022.
- ^ "Upfronts 2022: NITV, SBS Food, World Movies". TV Tonight. Retrieved 5 June 2022.
- ^ "ARIA Classic Album Chart" (PDF). ARIA Charts. 20 February 2023. Retrieved 19 March 2023.
- ^ "ARIA TOP 50 CORE CLASSICAL ALBUMS CHART" (PDF). ARIA Charts. 2022. Retrieved 19 March 2023.
External links
editMedia related to Silvia Colloca at Wikimedia Commons
- Official website
- Silvia Colloca on Facebook
- Silvia Colloca at IMDb