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Colosimo at the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards.
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Born |
Vincenzo Colosimo 11 November 1966 Melbourne, Australia |
Occupation | Actor, businessman |
Years active | 1983–present |
Spouse(s) | Jane Hall (????–2007) |
Partner(s) | Diana Glenn |
Children | 2 |
Vincenzo Colosimo (born 11 November 1966) known professionally as Vince Colosimo is an Australian AFI Award winning stage, television and screen actor. He has worked in both Australia and the United States. He is of Italian descent.
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. He has a daughter, Lucia (2002), with his former wife, actress Jane Hall. Colosimo and Hall worked together on A Country Practice in 1994. He lived in Westgarth, a suburb of Melbourne, until late 2015. His current partner is Australian actress Diana Glenn with whom he had a son, Massimo, in April 2014.
He was selected as one of the entrants to the Who's Who in Australia 2011 edition.
Colosimo has had some success on film, mainly in Australia. He made his film debut in the coming-of-age story Moving Out in 1983 and featured in 1984's Street Hero.
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). In 2008, he starred alongside Leonardo DiCaprio in the 2008 American film Body of Lies. In 2010, Colosimo starred in Wog Boy 2: Kings of Mykonos (the sequel to The Wog Boy). Colosimo also appeared in the vampire film Daybreakers, starring alongside Sam Neill, Willem Dafoe and Ethan Hawke.