Sylvia De Fanti
Fluently multi-lingual, Italian actress Sylvia De Fanti was born into life as a 'citizen of the World'. Her father, an international business man moved the family to Panama when she was 6 months old, after she was born in Montreal while he was finishing a project there. The next move was to Hong Kong where at age 5, she attended an English-language school. Her parents decided it was important that Sylvia and her brother Roberto (now founder/CEO of a European Football agency) be raised in their native Italy, and so at age 12, Pino and Paola returned with their two children to Rome, and where she has lived ever since. After two years at Rome's Universita La Sapienza, Sylvia was accepted to La Sorbonne, where she enrolled in a Human Sciences curriculum that included courses in Cinema, Postmodernism and Women & Gender Studies. In Paris, she stoked her feminism and human rights activism, perfected her French, honed her acting skills and went on stage for the first time. She returned to her studies in Rome, while also continuing her intense acting training - also studying mime and LeCoq - before pursuing a career as an actress. Sylvia graduated Cum Laude with an M.S. in Science of Communication in Cultural Anthropology. She wrote her thesis on Chaos Theory and Complex Identity. In 2004 she co-founded Angelo Mai, an independent creative space and cultural production center, which is frequented by renowned international performers and creatives from the music, literature, art, film & TV worlds, with revered global status as "the" must-visit for the hip and cultured who visit Rome. At Angelo Mai, Sylvia co-launched Bluemotion, a resident theater company, widely credited with the launch of new wave of modern English dramaturgy in Italy. She participates in productions, when her schedule allows, sometimes in roles that also highlight her abilities for singing and playing bass guitar. Another of Sylvia's passions - Teatro Valle Occupato - was a seminal cog in the #occupy movement wheel, lauded by The New York Times and The Guardian as a maverick institution established to empower Italy's workers in the fields of art, entertainment and culture. The organization was bestowed with the European Cultural Foundation's prestigious Princess Margriet Award; one of several humanitarian and cultural awards Sylvia accepted the prize, on the group's behalf. Sylvia has worked with respected American, Italian, French, and Spanish directors both on screen and on stage. A series regular on season nine of Italy's hugely popular and longest-running television series, Incantesimo, Sylvia first English language TV lead role was the stern 'Mother Superion' on Netflix U.S. Original global #1 series "Warrior Nun". Offered a role in Nanni Moretti's 2020 film Three Stories, she was unable to participate due to the conflict in the production schedule of Warrior Nun.
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Sylvia Grace Crim
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Sylvia Hoeks
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