Solenn Marie Adea Heussaff-Bolzico (Tagalog pronunciation: [ˈhjusap]; born July 20, 1985) is a Filipino actress, model, singer and painter. She was one of the official castaways of Survivor Philippines: Celebrity Showdown. She made it to the final 3. In December 2010, she signed a recording contract with MCA Music, a movie contract with Regal Entertainment, and a television contract with GMA Network and GMA Artist Center.
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Early life
Solenn Marie Adea Heussaff is the second child of Cynthia Adea, a Filipina, and Louis Paul Heussaff, a former sailor in the French Navy from Douarnenez, in Brittany, who is now the head of a service company SOS for the petroleum industry. She has an older sister named Vanessa and a younger brother named Erwan.
Education
After graduating from Eurocampus (now European International School), Heussaff went on to study fashion design in Studio Berçot, Paris for three years. She also took a 6-month course in basic beauty/fashion make-up, body painting and prosthetics at L'école Fleurimont, Paris. She then proceeded further studies at the Make Up Forever Academy.
Career
Early career
Before she entered showbiz, she was an endorser of several products in and outside the country. She endorsed top brands such as Pop Cola, Kotex, Vitress Hair Solutions, Asian Secrets, Colgate, Argentina Corned Beef, Century Tuna, Greenwich Pizza and Pasta, Robinsons Land Corporation, Kenny Rogers Roasters, Axe, Holiday Ham and Milo NutriUp.
Survivor Philippines: Celebrity Showdown
She became one of the fan favorites in the reality show Survivor Philippines: Celebrity Showdown. She was also one of the most controversial castaways and even became one of the trending topics on Facebook and other social networking sites during the airing of the show. She ended up being one of the top three finalists alongside Ervic Vijandre and Akihiro Sato. The latter was declared winner.
Acting career
After Survivor Philippines, GMA Network already had several projects lined up for her. She became one of Richard Gutierrez's leading ladies in the film My Valentine Girls alongside Lovi Poe. In the film, she played the role of Richard's best friend who later became his girlfriend.
She was also chosen as one of the leading ladies of Richard Gutierrez in Mars Ravelo's Captain Barbell, a telefantasya which began airing in March 2011. She currently has a makeover show on GMA News TV which also started airing in March 2011. Her role was that of a reporter named Janna. She had a limited airing time in the show because of other projects such as Joey Gosiengfiao's Temptation Island in which she starred alongside Marian Rivera, Heart Evangelista, Lovi Poe and Rufa Mae Quinto.
In 2014, Heussaff played the female lead character in the independent film Mumbai Love opposite Kiko Matos.
Music career
Heussaff released her self-titled debut album on July 17, 2011, on Party Pilipinas. She then had her first autograph signing at SM Mall and Astroplus The Block on the same day. She held her first major concert from August 19 to 26, 2011 at Teatrino Promenade, Greenhills.
She released her second album entitled SOS on August 23, 2013. On August 25 after Heussaff performed her latest single, "Diva" featuring Ron Henley from her second album, she was awarded her first platinum award for her self-titled album.
In 2016, Heussaff released her third album, Solenn, on September 2 after a year of production. The album was inspired about love and she co-wrote most of the songs.
Personal life
Heussaff is the sister of Erwan Heussaff, a food content creator, entrepreneur, and media producer who is the husband of actress Anne Curtis.
In 2012, Heussaff began dating Nico Bolzico, an Argentine businessman. In December 2014, she announced their engagement. They had their civil wedding in December 2015 in Esperanza, Argentina. Then the couple had another wedding on May 21, 2016, in Combourg, France.
They have two daughters together, Thylane Katana (born January 1, 2020) and Maëlys Lionel (born December 14, 2022).
