Editing Silvia Colloca (section)

==Life and career==
Colloca was born in [[Milan]] to Loredana and Mario Colloca. Her first major film [[Role (performing arts)|role]] was in ''[[Van Helsing (film)|Van Helsing]]'', in which she played Verona, one of [[Dracula]]'s brides. On 25 September 2004, at the medieval [[Castello di Montalto|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.<ref>{{Cite web|title = Silvia Colloca's secret ingredient for the sweet life|url = http://www.dailylife.com.au/dl-people/interviews/silvia-collocas-secret-ingredient-for-the-sweet-life-20150725-gikllg.html|website = Daily Life|date = 26 July 2015|access-date = 2015-12-04}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title = Miranda tapped for Play School role|url = http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/tv/abc-announces-exciting-new-developments-for-2016/news-story/3a17e563e1ec004ea1f9fe25ee17e76e|publisher = News.com.au|date = 24 November 2015|access-date = 2015-12-04}}</ref>

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 [[Christoph Willibald Gluck|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 Company|La Boite]] theatre in 2016. Her debut album, ''Sing Like an Italian'', was released by [[Decca Records|Decca]] in October 2022. She performs four numbers alongside arias and art songs by international stars singers. The album made its debut at No.&nbsp;1 on the [[ARIA Charts|ARIA]] Core Classical and Classical/Crossover charts.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://limelightmagazine.com.au/features/cooking-up-an-album/|url-access=subscription|title=Cooking up an album|author=Jo Litson|date=21 November 2022|access-date=22 December 2022|magazine=[[Limelight (magazine)|Limelight]]}}</ref>