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Chris Hemsworth Actor, Thor Though born in Melbourne, Australia, Chris Hemsworth saw quite a bit of the country in his youth when his family moved first to the Northern Territory before finally settling on Phillip Island to the south of Melbourne. He is brother to actors Liam Hemsworth and Luke Hemsworth. In 2004, he unsuccessfully... | |
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Cate Blanchett Actress, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Cate Blanchett was born on May 14, 1969 in Australia to an American father and an Australian mother. She has an older brother and an younger sister. When she was ten years old, her 40-year old father died of a sudden heart attack. Her mother never remarried, and her grandmother moved in to help her mother... | |
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Eric Bana Actor, Star Trek Eric Bana was born Eric Banadinovich on August 9, 1968, in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. He is the younger of two brothers. His father, named Ivan Banadinovich, came from Zagreb, Croatia, and worked as a manager for Caterpillar Inc. His mother, named Eleanor Banadinovich, came from a German family and was a hairdresser... | |
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Liam Hemsworth Actor, The Hunger Games Born on January 13, 1990, in Melbourne, Australia, Liam Hemsworth is the younger brother of actors Chris Hemsworth and Luke Hemsworth and the son of Leonie, an English teacher, and Craig Hemsworth, a social-services counselor; the Hemsworth family lived primarily on Phillip Island, a small island located south of Melbourne... | |
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Travis Fimmel Actor, The Experiment Travis Fimmel was raised on a 5500-acre farm located in Australia between Melbourne and Sydney. Until the age of 17 his life was spent at school and working on the family farm, morning and night-something he continues to relish on his trips back home. After high school, higher education called and he was accepted to Melbourne University... | |
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Portia de Rossi Actress, Cursed Portia de Rossi was born and raised in Geelong, Australia. Originally born Mandy Rogers, at 15, she changed her name to Portia, saying that it was the most daring thing she had ever done up until that point. After graduating from high school, she attended the University of Melbourne, and studied law... | |
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Emily Browning Actress, Sucker Punch Australian actress Emily Browning was born in 1988 in Melbourne, Australia. She has two younger brothers. Her start in acting came after a classmate's father, involved in the acting business, noticed her "acting all ditsy" in a school play. Emily found an agent and was soon filming on location for the Hallmark TV-movie... | |
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Emilie de Ravin Actress, Remember Me Emilie was born on 27th December 1981, and grew up in Mount Eliza, Victoria, Australia. When she was 15, she was accepted at the highly selective Australian Ballet School in Melbourne. However, after only a year, she dropped out and undertook acting courses. Her first starring role was on the fantasy drama... | |
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Radha Mitchell Actress, Silent Hill | |
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Anna Torv Actress, Pilot | |
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David Lyons Actor, Safe Haven | |
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Isabel Lucas Actress, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Isabel was born in Melbourne, Australia. Her father is Australian and her mother is Swiss. When she was age 6, her family moved to Switzerland for a year. They moved back to Melbourne for a while before moving to a very small mining town in the Northern Territory (population 1,000). Along with her sister, she attended the Jabiru Area School, which included both white and Aboriginal children... | |
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Louis Mandylor Actor, My Big Fat Greek Wedding | |
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Jesse Spencer Actor, Uptown Girls | |
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Ben Mendelsohn Actor, The Dark Knight Rises | |
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Billy Holden Transportation Department, Aquamarine Billy Holden was born in Melbourne Australia. Billy then moved to the USA with his parents where he started his acting career at Celebrity Studios at the age of 15 in Dallas Texas. Billy appeared multiple times in the TV series "Dallas", "Stormin Home", and "Pancho Barnes", among various TV commercials and then worked as a host on Channel 4's TV show called "kids for kids"... | |
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Holly Valance Actress, Taken Holly Rachel Valance was born on 11th May 1983 in Melbourne, to parents Rachel and Ryko. Holly's mother is from Southampton, England and her father hails from Yugoslavia. Both her parents were fashion models and her father is a pianist and guitarist. Her parents live in Melbourne with Holly's two younger sisters... | |
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Nicky Whelan Actress, Hall Pass Nicky Whelan is an Australian actress and model, best-known for her role as "Pepper Steiger" in the Australian television series, Neighbours. She is the granddaughter of AFL Brownlow Medallist Marcus Whelan. Whelan has completed work for the movie, Hollywood & Wine, in Los Angeles. She costarred with David Spade... | |
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Bella Heathcote Actress, Dark Shadows Born Isabella, "Bella" Heathcote is an actress from Australia. Her first roles include playing Amanda Fowler on the Australian television soap opera Neighbours, for which she is best known. She was a recipient of a Heath Ledger Scholarship in May 2010. Tim Burton cast Heathcote as Victoria Winters in his film adaptation of Dark Shadows in February 2011, which will be out in 2012. | |
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Anthony Chidiac Director, Turn It Up! Anthony Chidiac is an Australian innovator and pioneer in digital audio and video and Recordable DVD Technology. He produced the first commercially broadcast audio recording remixed entirely without leaving the digital domain (Michael Jackson's "Can't Let Her Get Away"), and is noted for first demonstrating the ability to be able to record... | |
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Rachel Griffiths Actress, Blow Her mother, Anna Griffiths, is an art consultant. Her uncle is a Jesuit priest. Has two older brothers. One brother, Ben, is a ski instructor. Lived on the Gold Coast, Queensland until age five, then moved to Melbourne. Attended Star of the Sea Catholic Girls' College, did well at school and learned ballet... | |
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Xavier Samuel Actor, The Twilight Saga: Eclipse | |
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Caitlin Stasey Actress, Tomorrow, When the War Began Caitlin Jean Stasey is an Australian actress who is well known for her roles as Francesca Thomas in The Sleepover Club, Rachel Kinski in Neighbours and Ellie Linton in the film adaptation of John Marsden's best seller 'Tomorrow When the War Began' Caitlin is from Victoria, Australia, She began taking an interest in acting/performing when she was about six years of age... | |
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Barry Humphries Actor, Finding Nemo His father was an affluent construction manager. Barry was a very intelligent boy who attended Melbourne University. There, he began in revues and doing some impersonations. He moved to London around 1960 and began his TV career. He has created numerous characters, including Dame Edna Everidge and Sir Les Patterson. | |
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Vince Colosimo Actor, Body of Lies Vince Colosimo has worked a lot in theatre, television and film since the early 1980s. He is widely known for his role in the hugely successful theatre production of The Wogboys, which toured nationally in the mid 1990s and was later adapted to a feature film in 2000. Colosimo's theatre work has also included productions of A Streetcar Named Desire... | |
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Kylie Minogue Actress, Moulin Rouge! Kylie Ann Minogue was born on 28 May, 1968. The eldest of three children, Kylie's acting career began early, but it was her role as Charlene in the Australian soap Neighbours which established Kylie as an international star. Her singing career began purely by accident when a record company executive heard Kylie's rendition of Little Eva's 1962 hit "The Loco-Motion"... | |
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Costas Mandylor Actor, Saw IV | |
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Flea Actor, The Big Lebowski Michael Peter Balzary was born on the 16th of October 1962, in Melbourne, Australia. When he was four, his parents divorced and Michael, his sister Karen and his mother Patricia headed for New York, but they didn't stay long and soon ended up in L.A. (in 1972), where his step-father, a jazz musician named Walter Urban Jr... | |
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Steve Irwin Self, The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course Steve Irwin was the director of the Australia Zoo in Queensland, Australia, and host of Animal Planet's series The Crocodile Hunter. The son of naturalists Bob and Lyn Irwin, he spent his entire life studying, living and working with animals. He grew up at the Queensland Reptile and Fauna Park, where he took part in the daily feeding... | |
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Leigh Whannell Actor, Saw Leigh Whannell grew up in Melbourne, Australia, where, at the age of four, he developed an obsession with telling stories. Whether it be through acting, writing or filmmaking, his primary love was getting a reaction from an audience. In 1995, at the age of 18, he was accepted into the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology's prestigious Media Arts course... | |
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Vernon Wells Actor, Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior Strong featured Australian actor born in rural Victoria in December 1945 whom initially worked in a quarry, and then as a salesman. Got himself noticed by casting agents and started to appear in Australian TV commercials, print ads, local Australian TV shows such as "Homicide" and "Matlock Police". His first cinema appearance was a minor role in Felicity... | |
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Brett Tucker Actor, The Great Raid | |
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Thomas M. Wright Actor, Van Diemen's Land | |
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Eliza Taylor Actress, Episode #1.5380 Eliza Jane Taylor (born on 24 October 1989 in Melbourne, Australia) is an Australian actress who is perhaps best known for her regular role as Janae Timmins on the Australian television series, Neighbours. Eliza has just finished feature film Patrick (2013), alongside Rachael Griffiths and nabbed the lead in CW pilot, The Hundred. The Hundred is Taylor's first American production. | |
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Paul Mercurio Actor, Strictly Ballroom Blame it on Elvis. It was the lusty gyrations of The King in Jailhouse Rock that inspired nine-year-old Paul Joseph Mercurio to dance. His mother, Jean, responded with her usual supportive posture and enrolled Paul in a local ballet school. From there (with a short surfing break) it was on to John Curtin College of the Arts... | |
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Nick Cave Soundtrack, The Proposition Nick Cave is a man of many talents. Musician. Songwriter. Screenwriter. Novelist. Actor. The Australian was born in Warracknabeal, Victoria in 1957, and would go onto form the alternative rock band Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, who have since successfully released a string of hit albums. In film, Nick has starred in two films with Brad Pitt: Johnny Suede by Tom DiCillo and The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford... | |
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Helen Reddy Soundtrack, Airport 1975 The #1 Grammy-winning "I Am Woman" became not only THE anthem of the feminist movement during the radical 1970s, but also the signature song for its crop-haired composer and singer Helen Reddy. Three decades later this is the hit people still remember her for, despite the fact she had an abundance of other "top ten" records over the course of her long career... | |
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Russell Boyd Cinematographer, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World | |
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Asher Keddie Actress, X-Men Origins: Wolverine | |
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Nathan Phillips Actor, Snakes on a Plane Currently best known for his role as backpacker Ben Mitchell in Wolf Creek. He began his career in the traditional rites-of-passage for Australian actors with a role in Neighbours in 1999. He worked entirely in television until 2001, with roles in Child Star: The Shirley Temple Story, Something in the Air and The Saddle Club (2001)... | |
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Marny Kennedy Actress, Golden Girl Marny Kennedy is an Australian actress, singer, and dancer. Her first major role was as Taylor Fry in the Australian children's television series "Mortified", which debuted on the Nine Network in 2006, the ABC Network in 2008 and The Disney Channel. As well as showing in Australia, Mortified aired internationally; winning various awards... | |
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Bill Hunter Actor, Finding Nemo Bill Hunter was one of Australia's acting legends, having worked with almost every notable Australian director and actor of the last thirty years - evidence of his genuine popularity among the public and acting fraternity alike. He started out in Australian television in the '60s (a hotbed of well written and directed drama)... | |
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Pippa Black Actress, Episode #1.5734 Pippa Black (born 16 October 1982) is an Australian actress. From 2005 to 2009, Black played Elle Robinson in the soap opera Neighbours. Black played Tonya in the NBC series Outsourced from 2010 to 2011. Black made small appearances in Australian television shows, student films and children's theatre before playing Elle Robinson in soap opera Neighbours for four years... | |
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Abbey Lee Self, The Victoria's Secret Fashion Show | |
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Wil Traval Actor, Primal | |
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Cameron Daddo Actor, Inland Empire | |
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Bob Morley Actor, Road Kill | |
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Carla Bonner Actress, Episode #1.6019 | |
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Ditch Davey Actor, We've All Been There | |
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Gary Sweet Actor, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader | |
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