The Official Starz Spartacus site has been updated with a new episode still and a log line for the episode: CONTAINS SPOILERS
Spartacus leads a bold mission to free Crixus from Roman captivity, but a storied gladiator from the House of Batiatus complicates matters. Ilithyia's scheming puts her marriage to Glaber at risk
STARZ Studios takes you beyond the arena with an inside look at Spartacus: Vengeance. Plus, go behind the scenes with the cast and crew as they discuss the new season.
Starz has released new promo pics and bios for the characters and the actors.
Ilithyia
Ilithyia is the alluring and cunning wife of Glaber. Wanting nothing more than a life of comfort and upward mobility in Rome, she is dismayed to be bound to her husband?s unfortunate burden of extinguishing the rebellion in Capua. Returning to the city where she witnessed, and caused, so much bloody intrigue threatens to destroy the standing she has long thought rightfully hers.
Played by Viva Bianca
Learn more about Viva Bianca
Viva Bianca plays Ilithyia in the STARZ Original series
"Spartacus: Vengeance."
Since graduating from WAAPA (Western Australia Academy of Performing Arts) with the best actress award, Bianca has established a career that moves fluidly between film, television and theater.
In film, she starred in the lead role of Ophelia in the psychological thriller Bad Bush, directed by Sam Genocchio, and played Becky in Accidents Happen, a comedy starring Geena Davis and directed by Andrew Lancaster.
She has had guest leads on Australian television series such as ?All Saints, "Blue Heelers," "Marshall Law," and "The Strip" Her theater experience includes "Twelfth Night," "Dancing at Lughnasa," "Queen C" and "This Is a Play."
Now based in Sydney, she grew up in Melbourne, Australia, the daughter of film composer Cezary Skubiszewski, whose scores include director Gillian Armstrong?s 2007 Death Defying Acts, starring Catherine Zeta-Jones and Guy Pearce.
Updated the Spartacus Season 2 Episode Guide with a longer log line for Episode 2
Spartacus and his men liberate a Roman villa, but its slaves are wary. Oenomaus throws himself into the brutal Pits, and Glaber supports Lucretia?s prophecies, despite Ilithyia?s protests.
Starz is sending out their Spartacus: Vengeance press DVD with two episodes of the second season. As mentioned yesterday, the first episode is called Fugitivus and airs on 27 January.
The second episode is called "A Place In This World" and airs 3 February!
Spartacus Vengeance will be with us soon (27 January 2012) and the first episode name has been released via the Michael Hurst Official site
27 January 2012, 10:00 p.m. on Starz: Spartacus: Vengeance ep. 2.1 "Fugitivus" Michael is a producer this season, and has directed the first and sixth episodes
Hot Ticket - 2 December 2011 - The Sydney Morning Herald
Viva Bianca experienced grim realities in Kings Cross while filming X.
Screenwriter Belinda McClory calls her latest creation, X, a ''love letter'' to Kings Cross. This boggles the mind, given that the film, about a hellish night endured by two hookers in Kings Cross, features not just an asphyxiation-by-plastic-bag but also a non-stop parade of hollow-eyed, drug-addicted youngsters.
Still, whatever problems await the catalogue clerk in the National Library of Australia, who will inevitably have to figure out where to shelve the film - romance shelf? Horror? - one must spare a thought for the lead actress Viva Bianca, who plays Holly, a veteran escort who plans on doing one last job before getting out of the business. She requires the help of another prostitute (played by Hanna Mangan Lawrence). But the job becomes a nightmare and they are soon on the run from a drug gang.
After a month of guerrilla-style shooting in Kings Cross during the night - ''surrounded by the real street prostitutes, real young drug kids and the real owners of these [strip] clubs'' - Bianca's body and mind were shot.
That's how the actress, a graduate of the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts found herself in a 10-day silent retreat at a meditation centre in the Blue Mountains.
Bianca says the film is unique in featuring female characters rising up against adversity ''in the way that we, throughout film history, are constantly watching male characters do''.
Unfortunately, suffering in the name of art has recently become a way of life for her.
Bianca has just finished filming episodes for the second season of Spartacus: Blood and Sand, the Sam Raimi-produced American gladiator TV drama in which she plays the wife of a thwarted Roman general who is constantly ''fighting for her life''.
''I would be writing emails to the writers in America, 'Why are you torturing me? I actually have to live this. I have to go home and survive every day'.
''They were like, 'It's good, you're doing the work, we're getting it on the screen. Keep going','' she says.
X
DIRECTOR Jon Hewitt.
STARS Viva Bianca, Hanna Mangan Lawrence, Peter Docker.