Vince Colosimo

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 and currently resides in Melbourne, Australia.

Vince Colosimo
Colosimo at the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards
Born	Vincenzo Colosimo (1966-11-11) 11 November 1966 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Occupation	Actor, businessman
Years active	1983–present
Spouse(s)	Jane Hall (1996–2007)
Children	2

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 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.[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 (2004) 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, and portrays a pirate leader.

Then in 2013, he appeared as a coffee shop ownernin The Great Gatsby alongside Leonardo DiCaprio.

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. 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] He was chosen to play Phil Olivetti in the fictional mini-series within the show.

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 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.

Other endeavours

Colosimo is part-owner of a cafe in Northcote, Espresso Alley, with Vince Mazzone.[9][10]

He also sampled his voice on Snitch by Vanessa Amorosi in on her 2009 album Hazardous (album)[11]

Personal life

He has a daughter, Lucia (2002), with his former wife, actress Jane Hall.[12] Colosimo and Hall worked together on A Country Practice in 1994. He lived in Westgarth, a suburb of Melbourne, until late 2015.[13] 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.[14]

Other

He was selected as one of the entrants to the Who's Who in Australia 2011 edition.[15]

In September 2016, Colosimo was charged by police after he was found in possession of Methamphetamine in Melbourne's north.[16] 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.[17]

Credits

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1983	Moving Out	Gino	Nominated – AACTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role
1984	Street Hero	Vinnie
1988	All The Way	Joe Bianchi	TV Mini-Series
1993	Seven Deadly Sins	Sloth	TV Mini-Series
2000	The Wog Boy	Frank
2000	Chopper	Neville Bartos
2001	Lantana	Nik Daniels	AACTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role Nominated — FCCA Award for Best Supporting Actor
2002	Walking on Water	Charlie	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 Kelly
2002	Secret Bridemaids' Business	James William Davis	TV Movie
2002	The Nugget	Dimitri
2003	Ain't Got No Jazz	Bartender	Short Film
2003	After the Deluge	Eric	TV Movie
2003	Take Away	Tony Stilano
2005	BlackJack: Sweet Science	Nick Delos	TV Movie
2005	Life	Michael Cardamone	TV Movie
2006	Opal Dream	Rex Williamson
2006	Solo	Keeling
2007	St. George		Short Film
2008	Emerald Falls	Ned Montoya	TV Movie
2008	Scorched	Michael Francia	TV Movie
2008	Body of Lies	Skip
2009	Daybreakers	Christopher Caruso
2010	Wicked Love: The Maria Korp Story	Joe Korp	TV Movie
2010	Wog Boy 2: Kings of Mykonos	Frank
2011	Panic at Rock Island	Hirsch	TV Movie
2011	Face to Face	Greg Baldoni	Newport Beach Film Festival Jury Award for Best Actor Nominated – IF Award for Best Actor
2011	Swerve	Sam
2013	The Great Gatsby	Michaelis
2013	The 34th Battalion	Donnelly	Pre-Production

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1994	A Country Practice	Sergeant Danny Sabatini	4 episodes
1997	Good Guys, Bad Guys	Zoran	Episode: Gone to the Dogs
1999	Halifax f.p.	Detective Johnson	Episode: Someone You Know
2000	Stingers	Paul Braun	3 episodes
2001–2002	Something in the Air	Joe Sabatini	29 episodes
2003	Kath & Kim	Jared	Episode: Obsession
2003	Without a Trace	Gus Finn	Episode: Trip Box
2004	The Practice	Matthew Billings	5 episodes
2005	Blue Heelers	Andrew Lapscott	3 episodes
2005	MDA	Dr. Andrew Morello	4 episodes
2005	We Can Be Heroes	Himself	Episode 6
2006	Two Twisted	Duncan	Episode: Love Crimes
2007	City Homicide	Ernie Calabrese	2 episodes
2008	Underbelly	Alphonse Gangitano	2 episodes Nominated – Logie Award for Most Outstanding Actor
2009	Carla Cometti PD	Luciano Gandolfi	Lead Role
2010	The Librarians	Adrian Green	3 episodes
2010	Australian Families of Crime	Narrator	Episode: Killer Couple: David and Catherine McBirnie
2010	Cops LAC	Dominic Salter	Episode: I'll See You
2012	Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries	Hector Chambers	Episode: Murder in Montparnasse
2013	Spartacus: War of the Damned	Herocleo	3 episodes
2013	Janet King	Jack Rizzoli	8 episodes
2014	Schapelle	Corby's Lawyer	TV Movie
2014	Fat Tony & Co.	Alphonse Gangitano	1 episode
2014	It's A Date	Harry	1 episode
2018	Underbelly Files: Chopper	Alphonse Gangitano	2 episodes
2019	Reef Break	Mr. Pink	3 episodes

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)[18]

Newport Beach Film Festival, USA

• 2011 – Jury Award for best actor for Face to Face.[18]

References

1. Who Do You Think You are? SBS television ancestry show, Vice Colosimo S4 Episode 24, aired April 2012
2. "smh.com.au – A star is reborn". The Sydney Morning Herald.
3. Vince Colosimo on IMDb
4. Examiner, Huddersfield (11 January 2010). "Fresh: Review of Daybreakers".
5. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 26 January 2010. Retrieved 25 January 2010.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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. http://www.au.timeout.com/melbourne/restaurants/venues/1291/espresso-alley?DCMP=OTC-RSS-#picture0
10. "Espresso". The Age. Melbourne. 7 February 2012.
11. "Hazardous – Vanessa Amorosi – Songs, Reviews, Credits – AllMusic". AllMusic.
12. "Vince Colosimo wants his split". 24 May 2008.
13. "Category". Herald Sun. Retrieved 16 July 2018.
14. Kalina, Paul (28 February 2014). "Lunch with ... Vince Colosimo". The Age.
15. "Who's Who pack now boasts Siddle, Hamish and Andy and the Masterchef judges". heraldsun.com.au. 9 December 2010.
16. "Vince Colosimo to face court over alleged drug possession". News.com.au. 15 January 2017. Retrieved 6 July 2017.
17. "Actor Vince Colosimo fined $1000 for drug possession". News.com.au. 22 January 2017. Retrieved 6 July 2017.
18. "Vince Colosimo". IMDb.

External links

• Vince Colosimo on IMDb