Vince Colosimo

Vincenzo Colosimo (born 11 November 1966) 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.

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.

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.

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.

Colosimo and Hall worked together on A Country Practice in 1994.

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).

He has a daughter, Lucia (born 2002), with his former wife, actress Jane Hall.

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.

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

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

His American credits include popular shows such as The Practice (2004) and Without a Trace (2003).

From 2005 until late 2007, Colosimo had guest roles in Blue Heelers (2005), MDA (2005), Two Twisted (2006) and City Homicide (2007).

In 2008, he starred alongside Leonardo DiCaprio in the 2008 American film Body of Lies.

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.

In early 2009, Colosimo appeared in Carla Cametti PD, a six-part series that aired on SBS.

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

In 2010, Colosimo starred in the sequel Wog Boy 2: Kings of Mykonos.

Colosimo also appeared in the vampire film Daybreakers, starring alongside Sam Neill, Willem Dafoe and Ethan Hawke.

In 2010, he had the leading male role in the tele-movie, Wicked Love: The Maria Korp Story about the Maria Korp case.

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

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

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.

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

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.

He lived in Westgarth, a suburb of Melbourne, until late 2015.

In September 2016, Colosimo was charged by police after he was found in possession of methamphetamine in Melbourne's north.

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.

Again in April 2021 he was arrested for driving while under the influence of the same drug, facing court and a jail threat.

From 2018 his partner has been Sabella Sugar, a producer with Ultrafilms.