Viva Bianca

{{short description|Australian actress (born 1983)|bot=PearBOT 5}}

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| image = Viva Bianca by Gage Skidmore.jpg

| caption = Bianca at San Diego Comic-Con in July 2010

| imagesize = 220px

| name = Viva Bianca

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=y|1983|11|17}}

| birth_place = Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

| birth_name = Viva Skubiszewski

| occupation = Actress

| years_active = 2000–present

| children = 2{{cite web | url=https://www.instagram.com/vivabianca | title=Instagram }}

}}

Viva Bianca (born Viva Skubiszewski; 17 November 1983,{{cite web|url=http://www.tvguide.com/celebrities/viva-bianca/298137|title=Viva Bianca: Biography, Latest News & Videos|publisher=TV Guide Online|access-date=14 April 2010}} {{IPAc-en|s|k|uː|b|ɪ|ʃ|ɛ|v|s|k|i}}; {{IPA|pl|skubiʂɛfski|lang}}) is an Australian actress best known for her role as Ilithyia on the Starz network series Spartacus: Blood and Sand and Spartacus: Vengeance.

Bianca graduated from the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts where she received a best actress award.{{cite web|url=http://www.starz.com/originals/spartacus/cast/Ilithyia/VivaBianca/Pages/VivaBianca.aspx|title=Viva Bianca|publisher=Starz Entertainment, LLC|access-date=14 April 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120315135559/http://www.starz.com/originals/spartacus/cast/Ilithyia/VivaBianca/Pages/VivaBianca.aspx|archive-date=15 March 2012|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}} She is the daughter of Cezary Skubiszewski, a Polish Australian composer for film, television and orchestra. Bianca cites Cate Blanchett and Heath Ledger as Australian actors who have influenced her.{{cite web|url=http://www.monstersandcritics.com/smallscreen/features/article_1537713.php/Spartacus-baddest-bad-girl-Ilithyia-Viva-Bianca-interview|title=Spartacus' baddest bad girl Ilithyia, Viva Bianca interview|last=MacIntyre|first=April|access-date=7 May 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120629084356/http://www.monstersandcritics.com/smallscreen/features/article_1537713.php/Spartacus-baddest-bad-girl-Ilithyia-Viva-Bianca-interview|archive-date=29 June 2012|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}

Career

Bianca has appeared in many Australian TV Series such as Eugenie Sandler P.I., Marshall Law, All Saints and The Strip. She has also appeared in the Australian films Accidents Happen and Bad Bush.{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2130586/|title=Viva Bianca|publisher=IMDb|access-date=28 April 2010}}

Bianca starred as Ilithyia, the daughter of Roman senator Albinius and wife of legatus Gaius Claudius Glaber, in the Starz originals series Spartacus: Blood and Sand{{cite web|url=http://www.starz.com/originals/spartacus/cast|title=Spartacus: Blood and Sand » Cast |publisher=Starz Entertainment, LLC |access-date=28 April 2010}} and Spartacus: Vengeance. She starred opposite Kirk Barker in A Prince for Christmas (2015).

In 2023, she joined the cast of Neighbours in the role of Chelsea Murphy.{{cite web |last1=Alexander |first1=Susannah |title=Neighbours newcomer Chelsea to hatch mysterious Paul plan |url=https://www.digitalspy.com/soaps/neighbours/a46392936/neighbours-chelsea-murphy-paul-robinson-plan/ |website=Digital Spy |access-date=15 January 2024 |date=15 January 2024}} She made her first appearance on 16 January 2024.{{cite magazine |editor1-link=(Future plc) |title=More soaps |magazine=TVTimes |date=13–19 January 2024 |issue=440 |pages=29}}

Filmography

class="wikitable sortable"
Year ! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable" \| Notes
2000 \|Eugénie Sandler P.I. \|Adriana \|Episode: "1.11" Episode: "1.12"
2002 \|Marshall Law \|Tiffany \|Episode: "The Perfect Sister"
2003 \|Blue Heelers \|Tammy King \|Episode: "Too Hard Basket"
2006 \|All Saints \|Michaeley Kratt \|Episode: "Breaking Point"
2008 \|{{sortname\|The\|Strip\|The Strip (NZ TV series)}} \|Serena \|Episode: "1.12"
2009 \|Accidents Happen \|Becky \|
2009 \|Bad Bush \|Ophelia \|
2010 \|Spartacus: Blood and Sand \|Ilithyia \|13 episodes
2011 \|X: Night of Vengeance \|Holly Rowe \|
2011 \|Panic at Rock Island \|Paige \|TV movie
2012 \|Spartacus: Vengeance \|Ilithyia \|10 episodes
2014 \|Scorned \|Jennifer \|
2014 \|The Reckoning \|Detective Jane LambertThe Reckoning (2014 film) \|
2014 \|Turkey Shoot \|Cmdr Jill Wilson \|
2015 \|A Prince for Christmas \|Emma \|TV movie
2016 \|Just Add Magic \|Trudith Winters \|Episode: "1.8"
2016 \|Showing Roots \|Dee \|TV movie
2017 \|Blind \|Deanna \|
2018 \|Wedding Swingers aka Porthole \|Laura \|Can't Have You (original title)
2018 \|Minutes to Midnight \|Emily \|Completed
2024 \|Neighbours \|Chelsea Murphy \|40 episodes

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Year

! Title

! Role

! class="unsortable" | Notes

2000

|Eugénie Sandler P.I.

|Adriana

|Episode: "1.11"
Episode: "1.12"

2002

|Marshall Law

|Tiffany