Silvia Colloca (born 1977 or 1978) is an Italian-Australian actress, opera singer, cookbook author, and television cookery show personality.
Early life and education
Silvia Colloca was born in
Milan to Loredana and Mario Colloca.
She trained as an opera singer in Italy.
Career
Singing
Colloca is a
mezzo-soprano singer. She worked as a
musical theatre performer in Italy. 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 Records 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 Charts Core Classical and Classical/Crossover charts.
Acting
Colloca's first major film role was in
Van Helsing, in which she played Verona, one of
Dracula's brides.
Television
Made in Italy with Silvia Colloca,
an Australian 10-part TV series, premiered on SBS TV in November 2014, coinciding with the publication of the book of the same name.
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 .
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.
Cook Like an Italian,
Personal life
On 25 September 2004, at the medieval castle of Montalto in
Tuscany, Italy, she married the Australian actor
Richard Roxburgh, who played Dracula in Van Helsing. They have two sons and a daughter.
Filmography
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Casomai (2002) as Cannes award hostess
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Van Helsing (2004) as Verona oldest bride
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The Detonator (2006) as Nadia Cominski
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Virgin Territory (2007) as Sister Lisabetta
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Lesbian Vampire Killers (2009) as Carmilla
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Out of the Night (2010) as Roberta
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Triple Happiness (2010)
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L'Apocalisse delle scimmie (2012) as Tossica
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Nerve (2013) as Elena
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Dante's Inferno Animated (2013, Short) as Beatrice (voice: Italian version)
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Little Tornadoes (2022) as Maria
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The Twelve (2022) as Sonia Spears
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Sting (2024) as Maria
Published works
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Silvia's Cucina, Penguin 2013.
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Made in Italy, Penguin 2014.
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La Dolce Vita, Penguin 2016.
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Love Laugh Bake, Pan Macmillan 2018.
Music career
In 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
and was the second biggest album in that genre in Australia in 2022.
Albums
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