- Born
- Nicknames
- SunFlower
- Helen of Troy
- Bunny
- Hamstey
- The Gerbil Vienne
- Height5′ 8″ (1.73 m)
- An actress and singer born on the day of French Independence (Bastille Day), Silvana works on dramatic projects with depth & interesting or strong characters. Her preferred material are well-written comedies, or dramas about strong women who went against the odds and made a difference. On the flip side, Silvana also is very good with light comedy, having excellent timing for it!
Classically and Meisner-trained in New York City and Los Angeles, she has studied with the legendary Robert Easton, as well as Michelle Danner, Larry Moss, Uta Hagen's H.B. Studios, and spent summers studying Shakespeare and theatre at London Academy of Music and Drama, Shakespeare & Company, the San Francisco Shakespeare Festival, William Esper's Levin Theatre, and the Peterborough Players in New Hampshire. Silvana also has a B.A. with Honors in Theatre Arts, from Rutgers University.
With a lot of experience also in both film & modern stage roles, she has a very wide range of modern characters she can play, from a young FBI agent, to the warm & old-fashioned Izzy in 'Crossing Delancey', to the New Age singer Stardust, to Jenny in Neil Simon's 'Chapter 2' and Rosalind in 'As You Like It'... and everything in between.
Silvana spent her early childhood in Manaus, a city on the river of the Amazon of Brazil. In South America at the time, soap operas were the rage, and even little kids would stay up to watch them! But Silvana fell in love with acting even before that, when she would go with her grandmother Sylvia to see children's traveling productions at the turn-of-the-century built Opera House, and she decided to become an actress after seeing the movie Ben-Hur at the local cinema.
And when she saw an article in the newspaper about a casting call for her favorite tv show, Sitio do Picapau Amarelo (The Farm of the Yellow Woodpecker), Silvana knew she was going to be an actress. (she didn't make it to that audition as it was very far away, in Rio de Janeiro but the acting bug definately bit. Soon Grandma Sylvia was taking her to acting and dancing rehearsals in various productions around Manaus.
She has appeared in a wide range of stage roles (classic & modern) in New York and L.A. as well as indie film projects.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Simon C. Bonneville - Silvana's family moved to the U.S.A. when she was in the 6th grade to the suburbs of Central New Jersey. Silvana went to high school in Manalapan, New Jersey, and college at Rutgers University, where she earned a dual B.A. with Honors in Theatre Arts and Econonmics. Right after graduating, Silvana took a bus across the Hudson river and moved to Manhattan to become an actress.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Meghan Lee
- Silvana is a talented and gifted singer and songwriter, who surpassed 15,000+ auditionees in Los Angeles and got through five days of straight callbacks for Simon Cowell's television singing contest, The X-Factor. She sang Karen Carpenter's "Superstar," Bill Wither's "Ain't No Sunshine," and her own original song, Kittykat's "Beirut," a song about peace, love, harmony, and a greener, cruelty-free planet.
Previously, Silvana has also successfully auditioned for America's Got Talent, as a Singer.
Silvana is the founder of Planet Earth/ Harmony, a new Global Movement in Consciousness and in Kindness.
Silvana is an accomplished visual artist/ painter, and was the solo artist featured at the Malibu Colony Starbucks for two months in November and December of 2010. Since then, Silvana's work in art and music has been shown at several art galleries in Silver Lake and Santa Monica and many places in between, at various benefits for animal charities including a gala event in the Hollywood Hills for Farm Sanctuary; and for Stephen Unger's Arts Free foundation's auction for abused children. Silvana has also performed live several times with the United Animal Advocates of Los Angeles in their Santa Monica Promenade Friday Night outreach events, and with Bob Linden's Vegan Radio outreach events in Beverly Hills.
Silvana also is a founding member of The Alternative Theatre in New York City; The Cyber Drama Players; Greek Dessert Films; Magical Stardust Films; The Boomtown Players Street Improv Team; The Alternative Theatre News (later The Soul of the American Actor), and more.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Cheryl C.
- SpouseHarrison Freed(April 23, 1992 - January 1995) (divorced)
- Yellow Sunflowers
- Once worked as a "Sea Lion" at Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco.
- Debuted her original pro-peace song "Beirut" (which she co-wrote in 2006 under the pen name of KiTtYkAt, with guitarist Mike Daniels) at Kulak's Woodshed in the North Hollywood, CA arts and music district, during a live web broadcast at the Monday Night Open Mic there, in the spring of 2007. Silvana sang & played the piano, and Mike played the guitar accompaniment.
- A lyric soprano who has performed with Casa Italiana Opera (2001-2, 2007), the UCLA Campus Choir (2004), and Glendale College Jazz Choir (2005). Silvana understudied the role of Liu in a spring 2007 production of Puccini's "Turandot;" and before that she was seen as both a gypsy and a nun in a downtown Los Angeles production of Verdi's "Il Trovatore."
- Living with musician and Romanian opera composer John Jewell, whom she met at Casa Italiana Opera after a rehearsal for a production of Turandot. John got on his knees and offered Silvana a lead role in another play he'd been cast in, Judita, about two young lovers in 17th Century Croatia, who also lead a revolution against the Turks. Silvana got the role, and they've been friends ever since.
- Silvana can be seen near the stage at the Orpheum and Wilshire Bell Theatre, in one of the televised episodes for the 2008 season of America's Got Talent. Silvana auditioned (and was called back twice) by singing and playing the keyboard, with a traditional Hebrew arrangement for 'Rock of Ages', and the gospel hit 'Ain't Misbehavin'. She attended the audition quite by chance, having gone to it with a friend who needed a ride and being asked if she wanted to sing too.
- Life is short, go for it.
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