Singer, actress, author and TV cooking personality
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Colloca in 2012
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Born
| Silvia Colloca
(
1977-07-23
)
23 July 1977
(age 46)
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Occupations
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- Actress
- opera singer
- author
- television personality
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Years active
| 2002?present
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Spouse
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Children
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Silvia Colloca
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(born 23 July 1977) is an Italian-Australian actress, opera singer, cookbook author, and television cookery show personality.
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She has published six cookbooks.
Life and career
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Colloca 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.
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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.
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Television
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Made in Italy with Silvia Colloca
,
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an Australian 10-part TV series, premiered on
SBS TV
in November 2014, coinciding with the publication of the book of the same name.
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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).
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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
.
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Cook Like an Italian
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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.
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Filmography
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Published works
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- Silvia's Cucina
, Penguin 2013.
- Made in Italy
, Penguin 2014.
- La Dolce Vita
, Penguin 2016.
- Love Laugh Bake
, Pan Macmillan 2018.
Music career
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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
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and was the second biggest album in that genre in Australia in 2022.
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Albums
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References
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External links
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