Vince Colosimo

Vincenzo Colosimo
Colosimo at the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards.
Born	(1966-11-11) 11 November 1966 Melbourne, Australia
Occupation	Actor, businessman
Years active	1983–present

Vincenzo Colosimo (born 11 November 1966) known professionally as Vince Colosimo is an Australian-born AFI Award winning stage, television and screen actor. He has worked in both Australia and the United States. He is of Italian descent.

Personal life

Colosimo was born in Melbourne, one of four children of Italian-born parents from Calabria. He grew up in the inner city suburb of North Carlton.^[1] He has a daughter, Lucia (2002), with his former partner, actress Jane Hall.^[2] Colosimo and Hall worked together on A Country Practice in 1994. He lives in Westgarth, a suburb of Melbourne, in a house once owned with Hall.^[3]

He was selected as one of the entrants to the Who's Who in Australia 2011 edition.^[4]

Career

Film career

Colosimo has had some success on film, mainly in Australia. He made his film debut in the coming-of-age story Moving Out in 1982 and featured in 1984's Street Hero.^[5]

Other credits include the cult movie Chopper (2000), in which he played Melbourne drug dealer Neville Bartos opposite Eric Bana, The Wog Boy (2000) Lantana (2001), Walking on Water (2002), The Nugget (2002), Take Away (2004) and Opal Dream (2006).^[5] In 2008, he starred alongside Leonardo DiCaprio in the 2008 American film Body of Lies.^[6] He is scheduled to act in Australian-based director Mario Andreacchio's movie entitled "The Last Dragon" in 2009. In 2010, Colosimo starred in Wog Boy 2: Kings of Mykonos (the sequel to The Wog Boy).^[6] Colosimo also appeared in the vampire film Daybreakers, starring alongside Sam Neill, Willem Dafoe and Ethan Hawke.^[7]

In 2011, he starred in the film Face to Face. In 2012, He Starred in Starz "Spartacus" Season 3, and portrays a pirate leader.

Television career

Despite several movie roles and guest roles in A Country Practice (1994), Good Guys Bad Guys (1997) and Stingers (2002), it was not until his performance as Joe Sabatini in Something in the Air in 2001 and 2002 that resulted in wider exposure.^{[citation needed]} In 2003, he starred in the telemovie, After the Deluge. In 2003 and 2004, he played Dr. Rex Mariani in The Secret Life of Us.^[6] Vince also starred as himself in episode 6 of the hit ABC series We Can Be Heroes.^[6] He is chosen as the actor to play Phil Olivetti in the fictional mini-series within the show.^{[citation needed]}

From 2005 until late 2007, Colosimo had guest roles in Blue Heelers (2005), MDA (2005), Two Twisted (2006) and City Homicide (2007). His American credits include popular shows such as The Practice (2004) and Without a Trace (2003).^[8] 'In 2008, Colosimo had a busy year. He portrayed Melbourne Gangland figure Alphonse Gangitano in the Channel 9 series Underbelly (in a guest role), played in Channel Ten's telemovie Emerald Falls and Channel Nine's Scorched. He also appeared in Top Gear Australia's "Star in a bog-standard car" section in the first episode.^[9]

In early 2009, Colosimo appeared in Carla Cametti PD, a six-part series that aired on SBS.^[10] In 2010, he had the leading male role in the tele-movie, Wicked Love: The Maria Korp Story.

In 2012 he and his ancestors featured in the SBS show, Who Do You Think You Are?^[11]

He was announced in late 2013 that he would be reprising his role of Alphonse Gangitano in the sequel/spin-off series Fat Tony & Co. which will not be placed under the Underbelly franchise (due to financing reasons) and will focus on the rise and fall of Tony Mokbel, who also featured in the original series, played by Robert Mammone.

Business

Colsimo is part-owner of a cafe in Northcote, Expresso Alley.^[12][13]

Film

Television

Awards

AFI Awards

• 1982 – Nominated for 'Best Actor in a Lead Role' (for Moving Out)
• 2001 – Won for 'Best Actor in a Supporting Role' (for Lantana)
• 2002 – Nominated for 'Best Actor in a Lead Role' (for Walking On Water)
• 2008 – Nominated for 'Best Guest or Supporting Actor in a Television Drama' (for Underbelly)

Logie Awards

• 2009 – Nominated for – Most Outstanding Actor' (for Underbelly)^[14]

Newport Beach Film Festival, USA

• 2011 - Jury Award for best actor for Face to Face.^[14]

References

External links

• Vince Colosimo at the Internet Movie Database