Bianca Biasi | |
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Born | Sydney, New South Wales, Australia | 13 May 1979
Website | www |
Bianca Biasi (born 13 May 1979) is an Australian producer, director, actress and author who has more recently specialised in projects involving supernatural or reportedly haunted locations, [1] mostly on Sydney's northern beaches.
She appeared in soap opera Home and Away as Constable Pia Correlli.
In 2006, she made her feature film debut in Burke & Wills (Cake Productions) in the role of Asha.
As of 1 January 2014, Biasi's studio had four films in post-production: The Quarantine Hauntings, The Parkway Hauntings, Delirium and The Q Station Experiment. [2]
The location on Wakehurst Parkway was the subject of "countless anonymous stories online that speak of a girl in a white dress that appears on the Middle Creek Bridge as unsuspecting drivers go through her, or a nun apparition that sits in the back seat of cars," The Daily Telegraph reported. It also reported that both films, The Parkway Hauntings [3] and The Quarantine Hauntings [4] would be released in 2015.
Bianca is also an outspoken advocate of LGBT rights in Australia and has appeared with her partner in media coverage across various outlets as a same sex mothers of twin girls, [5] to raise awareness of the increased risk of violence against same sex parents in the lead up to divisive debate that preceded the 2017 Same-sex marriageplebiscite and subsequent legislation allowing same sex marriage.
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