Vince Colosimo

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Vince Colosimo
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Colosimo at the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards
Born
Vincenzo Colosimo

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Occupation(s)Actor, businessman
Years active1983–present
Spouse Jane Hall (1996–2007)
Children2

Vincenzo Colosimo is an Australian stage, television and screen actor. He has worked in both Australia and the United States. He is of Italian descent and lives in Melbourne, Australia. He was previously married to Australian actress Jane Hall.

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Early 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 Carlton North. [1]

Career

Film

Colosimo has had success in film and television in Australia and abroad. He debuted in the coming-of-age story Moving Out in 1983 and featured in 1984's Street Hero . [2]

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 (2003); and Opal Dream (2006). [2] In 2008, he starred alongside Leonardo DiCaprio in the 2008 American film Body of Lies . [3] In 2010, Colosimo starred in the sequel Wog Boy 2: Kings of Mykonos . [3] Colosimo also appeared in the vampire film Daybreakers , starring alongside Sam Neill, Willem Dafoe and Ethan Hawke. [4]

In 2011 he starred in the film Face to Face , and in 2012 he starred in Starz "Spartacus" Season 4, portraying a pirate leader.

In 2013 he appeared as a coffee shop owner in The Great Gatsby alongside Leonardo DiCaprio.

He appeared in the 2018 film The Second .

Television

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 . [3] Vince also starred as himself in episode 6 of the hit ABC series We Can Be Heroes . [3]

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). [5]

2008 was a busy year for Colosimo. He portrayed Melbourne gangland figure Alphonse Gangitano in the Channel 9 series Underbelly (in a guest role); 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. [6]

In early 2009, Colosimo appeared in Carla Cametti PD , a six-part series that aired on SBS. [7] In 2010, he had the leading male role in the tele-movie, Wicked Love: The Maria Korp Story about the Maria Korp case.

In 2012 he and his ancestors featured in the SBS show, Who Do You Think You Are? [8]

He reprising his role of Alphonse Gangitano in the Underbelly sequel/spin-off series Fat Tony & Co. in 2013, featuring in one episode.

In May 2022, Colosimo appeared as a contestant on the sixth season of The Celebrity Apprentice Australia . [9]

Other endeavours

Colosimo was part-owner of a cafe in Northcote, Espresso Alley, with Vince Mazzone. [10] [11]

He also sampled his voice on "Snitch" by Vanessa Amorosi in on her 2009 album Hazardous (album) [12]

Personal life

He has a daughter, Lucia (born 2002), with his former wife, actress Jane Hall. [13] Colosimo and Hall worked together on A Country Practice in 1994. He lived in Westgarth, a suburb of Melbourne, until late 2015. [14] The mother of his second child is Australian actress Diana Glenn with whom he had a son, Massimo, in April 2014. The couple separated two months after the birth of Massimo. [15] [16] [17]

In September 2016, Colosimo was charged by police after he was found in possession of methamphetamine in Melbourne's north. [18] In January 2017, he appeared in court where he had pleaded guilty and was fined $1000 without conviction and was put under a good behaviour bond for a year. [19] [16]

In October 2022, Colosimo was fined $2500 for drunk driving and lying to the police about his identity. [20]

Credits

Film

YearTitleRoleNotes
1983 Moving Out GinoFeature film
Nominated – AACTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role
1984 Street Hero VinnieFeature film
1988 All the Way Joe BianchiTV miniseries
1993 Seven Deadly Sins SlothTV miniseries
2000 The Wog Boy FrankFeature film
2000 Chopper Neville BartosFeature film
2001 Lantana Nik DanielsFeature film
AACTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Nominated — FCCA Award for Best Supporting Actor
2002 Walking on Water CharlieFeature film
Nominated – AACTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role
Nominated — FCCA Award for Best Leading Actor
Nominated – IF Award for Best Actor
2002 The Hard Word Detective Mike KellyFeature film
2002 Secret Bridemaids' Business James William DavisTV movie
2002 The Nugget DimitriFeature film
2003Ain't Got No JazzBartenderShort Film
2003 After the Deluge EricTV movie
2003 Take Away Tony StilanoFeature film
2005 BlackJack: Sweet Science Nick DelosTV movie
2005LifeMichael CardamoneTV movie
2006 Opal Dream Rex WilliamsonFeature film
2006 Solo KeelingFeature film
2007St. GeorgeShort film
2008 Emerald Falls Ned MontoyaTV movie
2008 Scorched Michael FranciaTV movie
2008 Body of Lies SkipFeature film
2009 Daybreakers Christopher CarusoFeature film
2010Wicked Love: The Maria Korp StoryJoe KorpTV movie
2010 Wog Boy 2: Kings of Mykonos FrankFeature film
2011 Panic at Rock Island HirschTV movie
2011 Face to Face Greg Baldoni Newport Beach Film Festival Jury Award for Best Actor
Nominated – IF Award for Best Actor
2011 Swerve SamFeature film
2013 The Great Gatsby MichaelisFeature film
2013The 34th BattalionDonnellyPre-Production
2014 Schapelle Corby's LawyerTV movie
2023 Wog Boy 3: Wog Boys Forever FrankFeature film
2022 Girl at the Window ChrisFeature Film


Television

YearTitleRoleNotes
1994 A Country Practice Sergeant Danny SabatiniTV series, 4 episodes
1997 Good Guys, Bad Guys ZoranTV series, episode: "Gone to the Dogs"
1999 Halifax f.p. Detective JohnsonTV series, episode: "Someone You Know"
2000 Stingers Paul BraunTV series, 3 episodes
2001–02 Something in the Air Joe SabatiniTV series, 29 episodes
2003 Kath & Kim JaredTV series, episode: "Obsession"
2003 Without a Trace Gus FinnTV series, episode: "Trip Box"
2004 The Practice Matthew BillingsTV series, 5 episodes
2005 Blue Heelers Andrew LapscottTV series, 3 episodes
2005 MDA Dr. Andrew MorelloTV series, 4 episodes
2005 We Can Be Heroes HimselfTV series, episode 6
2006 Two Twisted Duncan CrossTV series, episode: "Love Crimes"
2007 City Homicide Ernie CalabreseTV series, 2 episodes
2008 Underbelly Alphonse Gangitano TV miniseries, 2 episodes
Nominated – Logie Award for Most Outstanding Actor
2009 Carla Cometti PD Luciano GandolfiTV series
2010 The Librarians Adrian GreenTV series, 3 episodes
Australian Families of Crime NarratorTV series, episode: "Killer Couple: David and Catherine McBirnie"
Cops LAC Dominic SalterTV series, episode: "I'll See You"
2012 Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries Hector ChambersTV series, episode: "Murder in Montparnasse"
2013 Spartacus: War of the Damned HerocleoTV series, 3 episodes
Janet King Jack RizzoliTV series, 8 episodes
2014 Fat Tony & Co. Alphonse Gangitano TV miniseries, 1 episode
It's A Date HarryTV series, 1 episode
2017 The Warriors Mark SpinottiTV series
2018 Underbelly Files: Chopper Alphonse GangitanoTV miniseries, 2 episodes
2019 Reef Break Mr. PinkTV series, 3 episodes
2024 Last Days of the Space Age Rocco GilibertoTV series, 7 episodes

Awards

AFI Awards

Logie Awards

Newport Beach Film Festival, USA

References

  1. Who Do You Think You are? SBS television ancestry show, Vice Colosimo S4 Episode 24, aired April 2012
  2. 1 2 "smh.com.au – A star is reborn". The Sydney Morning Herald. 4 April 2002.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Vince Colosimo at IMDb
  4. Examiner, Huddersfield (11 January 2010). "Fresh: Review of Daybreakers".
  5. "Vince Colosimo: Behind Closed Doors: MDA". Australian Broadcasting Corporation . Archived from the original on 26 January 2010. Retrieved 25 January 2010.
  6. "Category". Herald Sun. Retrieved 16 July 2018.
  7. "Category". Herald Sun. Retrieved 16 July 2018.
  8. Who Do You Think You are? SBS television ancestry show, Vince Colosimo, Series 4 Episode 4, aired 17 April 2012
  9. Knox, David (22 May 2022). "Celebrity Apprentice 2022: Meet the Cast". TV Tonight. Retrieved 22 May 2022.
  10. "Time Out | Best Things to do and Events in Cities Worldwide".
  11. "Espresso". The Age. Melbourne. 7 February 2012.
  12. "Hazardous – Vanessa Amorosi – Songs, Reviews, Credits – AllMusic". AllMusic.
  13. "Vince Colosimo wants his split". 24 May 2008.
  14. "Category". Herald Sun. Retrieved 16 July 2018.
  15. Kalina, Paul (28 February 2014). "Lunch with ... Vince Colosimo". The Age.
  16. 1 2 "Underbelly star faces jail, court told, but not till he's back from Cannes". 27 May 2022.
  17. "About".
  18. "Vince Colosimo to face court over alleged drug possession". News.com.au . 15 January 2017. Retrieved 6 July 2017.
  19. "Actor Vince Colosimo fined $1000 for drug possession". News.com.au . 22 January 2017. Retrieved 6 July 2017.
  20. Woods, Emily (10 May 2023). "Actor Vince Colosimo faces co".
  21. 1 2 "Vince Colosimo". IMDb.