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Dina Panozzo (born 1966 ) is an Australian-born actress of Italian descent.

Early life

Panozzo's parents emigrated to Adelaide from northern Italy, on a ship called 'Queen Neptuna'. Her mother was 19 and a housewife, her father a labourer and later a carpenter. Growing up in Adelaide in the 1970s, Panozzo became passionate about Adelaide’s thriving amateur theatre scene, in particular, Adelaide Theatre Company.

Career

Panozzo is best known for her regular roles in the television series Carla Cametti PD and Bed of Roses. She has also appeared in a recurring role in Packed to the Rafters and guest roles in many Australian series, including A Country Practice, Water Rats, and White Collar Blue. Panozzo also had regular roles in the short-lived comedy series Wedlocked and the soap opera Richmond Hill. Featured film roles include Black & White & Sex and Fistful of Flies.

Her theatre roles include Popular Front (Theatre Works, 1987), ABC (Belvoir Street Theatre, 1988), Sisters (Malthouse Theatre, 1991), S.O.S. Sex, Overkill and Salvation of the Soul (Belvoir Street Theatre, 1991), and A Little Like Drowning (Belvoir Street Theatre, 1992). She also wrote, co-directed and starred in Varda Che Bruta...Poretta which played in multiple venues from 1992 to 1994.

Filmography

Film

Television

Television (as self)

Theatre

As writer/director

Awards and nominations

Personal life

Panozzo is married to television producer Phillip Tanner. After all attempts to conceive ended in miscarriage, the couple adopted a two year old boy from Guatemala called Luis. In 2004, at the age of six, Luis had an award-winning Nickelodeon TV series, called Cooking for Kids with Luis, and caught the attention of Oprah Winfrey.

Dina Panozzo is the elder sister of actress Oriana Panozzo.

References

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16. Payne, Pamela (5 October 1992), "Emphatically Italian but hardly Italianate", The Sydney Morning Herald
17. Evans, Bob (16 January 1993), "An Aussie larrikin with Italian style", The Sydney Morning Herald
18. Weinger, Peter (16 November 1993), "A soapie star cleans up her act", The Age
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23. https://suzygoessee.com/2018/03/12/5-questions-with-dina-panozzo-and-david-soncin/
24. https://nightwrites.com/2022/01/08/set-piece-anna-breckon-nat-randall-with-performance-space/#more-2175
25. https://ausstage.edu.au/pages/contributor/3699
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External links

• Dina Panozzo at IMDb

• Australian television actresses
• Australian people of Italian descent
• Living people