Bianca Amato is a South African actress known for her work in American theatre, as a prolific audiobook performer and for her portrayal of Philippa De Villiers in the original cast of the South African soap opera Isidingo.
13 Facts About Bianca Amato
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In 2002, Bianca Amato was granted a United States Permanent Resident Card as an "Alien of Extraordinary Ability" in the arts and emigrated to the United States.
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Since 2009 Bianca Amato has guest starred in several US TV series.
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In 2015, Bianca Amato portrayed Delia Alexander in the 2015 PlayStation Network series Powers.
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Bianca Amato later costarred as Calantha in The Broken Heart in 2012, and played the leading role of Olga Knipper in Neva in 2013.
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Bianca Amato starred as Amanda in a production of Noel Coward's Private Lives directed by Maria Aitken, first presented in 2012 at the Huntington Theatre Company in Boston, and again in 2014 at the Shakespeare Theatre Company's Lansburgh Theatre in Washington, DC In 2014 she portrayed Regan in the Theatre for a New Audience production of King Lear in New York.
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Bianca Amato has narrated over 40 audiobooks, including most of the historical novels in the Cousins' War series written by Philippa Gregory, and Charles Stross' 2008 science fiction novel Saturn's Children.
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Bianca Amato voiced the 2006 gothic novel The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield, which had risen to No 1 on The New York Times Best Seller list in its second week of publication.
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Bianca Amato won the Vita Award for Best Newcomer for Under Milk Wood and the Fleur du Cap Theatre Award for Best Supporting Actress for Greek, both performed at the Baxter Theatre in Cape Town, South Africa.
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Bianca Amato later won the Star Tribune Award for best performance of 2004 for playing Eliza Doolittle in Pygmalion at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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Bianca Amato was nominated for a 2013 Best Actress IRNE Award for Private Lives.
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Bianca Amato has received ten AudioFile Earphones Awards and two Audie Awards for her audiobook performances.
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Bianca Amato is married to Neil Kuny, with whom she has a daughter.