Sylvia De Fanti

Italian actress, Sylvia De Fanti was actually born in Montreal, while her father - an international business man - was working there. Becoming a fluently multi-lingual, globe-trotting stage and screen performer was pre-ordained. At age 2, her parents moved the family to Panama, before moving again, this time to Hong Kong. It was here, starting school at age 5, that Sylvia learned to speak, read and write in English, attending a private, English-language school. Her parents decided it was important to them that Sylvia and her brother Roberto (now a European Football agent) be raised in their native Italy, and so at age 12, her family returned to Rome. As a teen she was often approached by modeling agents who aggressively pursued her, intent on convincing her to pursue that career, but Sylvia had no interest in such things.