Editing Silvia Colloca

{{Short description|Singer, actress, author and TV cooking personality}}
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{{Infobox person
| image       = Silvia Colloca.jpg
| caption     = Colloca in 2012
| name        = Silvia Colloca<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2015/01/07/i-met-dracula-and-fell-love-silvia-collocas-journey-australia | title=I met Dracula and fell in love: Silvia Colloca's journey to Australia | access-date=2015-12-04 | website=News }}</ref>
| birth_name   = Silvia Colloca
| birth_date   = {{Birth date and age|1977|07|23|df=y}}
| birth_place  = [[Milan]], Italy
| occupation   = {{flatlist|
*Actress
*opera singer
*author
*television personality
}}
| spouse       = {{marriage|[[Richard Roxburgh]]|2004}}
| children     = 3
| years_active = 2002–present
}}

'''Silvia Colloca'''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/i-met-dracula-and-fell-in-love-silvia-collocas-journey-to-australia/dw6lib3h6|title=I met Dracula and fell in love: Silvia Colloca's journey to Australia|date=7 January 2015|author=Ella Archibald-Binge|access-date=22 December 2022|publisher=[[SBS World News]]}}</ref> (born 23 July 1977) is an Italian-Australian actress, opera singer, cookbook author, and television cookery show personality.<ref>{{Cite web|title = Who is Silvia Colloca?|url = http://www.sbs.com.au/food/article/2014/10/16/who-silvia-colloca|website = Food| date=16 October 2014 |access-date = 2015-12-04}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title = I met Dracula and fell in love: Silvia Colloca's journey to Australia|url = http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2015/01/07/i-met-dracula-and-fell-love-silvia-collocas-journey-australia|website = News|access-date = 2015-12-04}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title = Silvia Colloca steps out of the kitchen to take on the operatic role of Orfeo|url = http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/private-sydney/silvia-colloca-steps-out-of-the-kitchen-to-take-on-the-operatic-role-of-orfeo-20150305-13vtka.html|website=The Sydney Morning Herald|date = 5 March 2015|access-date = 2015-12-04}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title = Silvia Colloca to lead audience through gallery in modern take on Orpheus tragedy|url = http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/spectrum-now-2015/silvia-colloca-to-lead-audience-through-gallery-in-modern-take-on-orpheus-tragedy-20150207-1387dn.html|website=The Sydney Morning Herald|date = 7 February 2015|access-date = 2015-12-04}}</ref> She has published six cookbooks.

==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>

==Television==
''Made in Italy with Silvia Colloca'',<ref>{{cite web|title=''Made in Italy with Silvia Colloca''|url=http://www.sbs.com.au/food/programs/made-in-italy|publisher=SBS|access-date=28 November 2014}}</ref> an Australian 10-part TV series, premiered on [[SBS (Australian TV channel)|SBS TV]] in November 2014, coinciding with the publication of the book of the same name.<ref name="telegraph">{{cite web |url=http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/entertainment/television/australias-own-kitchen-goddess-silvia-colloca-reveals-her-culinary-secrets-on-made-in-italy-on-sbs/story-fni0cc2c-1227057476408 |title=Australia's own kitchen goddess Silvia Colloca reveals her culinary secrets on Made in Italy on SBS|work=The Daily Telegraph|location=Sydney|access-date=27 November 2014 }}</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 {{langnf|it|[[peasant foods|cucina povera]]|cuisine of the poor}}.<ref name="telegraph"/><ref>{{Cite web|title = ABC TV launches 2016 programming with spotlight on local drama|url = http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/tv-and-radio/abc-tv-launches-2016-programming-with-spotlight-on-local-drama-20151124-gl73hl.html|website =The Sydney Morning Herald|date = 25 November 2015|access-date = 2015-12-04}}</ref>

''Silvia's Italian Table'', an eight part reality and cooking series debuted on [[Australian Broadcasting Corporation|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 (journalist)|Sarah Ferguson]], [[Merrick Watts]], [[Claire Hooper]], [[Amanda Vanstone]], [[Pia Miranda]] and [[Ian Thorpe]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://iview.abc.net.au/collection/silvias-italian-table|title = Silvia's Italian Table: Complete Series}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.enhancetv.com.au/browse/series/350547/silvias-italian-table|title = Educational videos for the Australian curriculum}}</ref>

''Cook Like an Italian'',<ref>{{cite web|title=SBS summer highlights|url=https://tvtonight.com.au/2019/12/sbs-summer-highlights.html|publisher=TV Tonight|access-date=5 June 2022}}</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>{{cite web|title=Upfronts 2022: NITV, SBS Food, World Movies|url=https://tvtonight.com.au/2022/02/upfronts-2022-nitv-sbs-food-sbs-world-movies.html|publisher=TV Tonight|access-date=5 June 2022}}</ref>

==Filmography==
* ''[[Casomai]]'' (2002) as Cannes award hostess
* ''[[Van Helsing (film)|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 film)|Nerve]]'' (2013) as Elena
* ''[[Dante's Inferno Animated]]'' (2013, Short) as Beatrice (voice: Italian version)
* ''[[Little Tornadoes]]'' (2022) as Maria
* [[The Twelve (Australian TV series)|The Twelve]] (2022) as Sonia Spears
* ''[[Sting (film)|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>{{cite web|url=http://cdn.aria.com.au/pdfs/325AFFEAFFED4C5636288ABB5CDF263DF5D6E35F4FB857313B0141F0815C9E39/ARIA%20Core%20Classical%20Albums%20Chart.pdf?seq=39|title=ARIA Classic Album Chart|website=[[ARIA Charts]]|date=20 February 2023|access-date=19 March 2023}}</ref> and was the second biggest album in that genre in Australia in 2022.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://cdn.aria.com.au/pdfs/2910E7A106934D3EAAC19EF3F35036B4D851DC120620472146FF4C24A55BF0A3/ARIA%20Top%2050%20Core%20Classical%20Albums%20Chart%20-%202022.pdf?seq=39|title= ARIA TOP 50 CORE CLASSICAL ALBUMS CHART|website=[[ARIA Charts]]|date=2022|access-date=19 March 2023}}</ref>

===Albums===
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center;" border="1"
|+ List of albums, with selected details
! Title
! Details
|-
! scope="row" | ''Sing Like An Italian''
|
* Released: 14 October 2022
* Format: CD, digital
* Label: Decca (4845420)
|}

==References==
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==External links==
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* {{official website|https://silviascucina.net/}}
* {{Facebook|silviascucina}}
* {{IMDb name|id=1278926|name=Silvia Colloca}}

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[[Category:1977 births]]
[[Category:Italian film actresses]]
[[Category:Italian mezzo-sopranos]]
[[Category:Chefs of Italian cuisine]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:Actresses from Milan]]
[[Category:Australian television chefs]]
[[Category:Australian women chefs]]
[[Category:21st-century Italian singers]]
[[Category:21st-century Italian women singers]]