Silvia Colloca

Silvia Colloca (born 1977 or 1978 ) is an Italian-Australian actress, opera singer, cookbook author, and television cookery show personality.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref> She played Verona in the 2004 vampire film Van Helsing, where she met her husband, Australian actor Richard Roxburgh. She is known in Australia for hosting the cookery show Silvia's Italian Table.

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 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.<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>

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,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> an Australian 10-part TV series, premiered on SBS TV in November 2014, coinciding with the publication of the book of the same name.<ref name="telegraph">Template:Cite web</ref> 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 Template:Langnf.<ref name="telegraph"/><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

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.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Cook Like an Italian,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> 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.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

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.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Filmography

• 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

• Silvia's Cucina, Penguin 2013.
• Made in Italy, Penguin 2014.
• La Dolce Vita, Penguin 2016.
• 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<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> and was the second biggest album in that genre in Australia in 2022.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Albums

List of albums, with selected details

Title	Details
Sing Like An Italian	Released: 14 October 2022 Format: CD, digital Label: Decca (4845420)

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