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Anna Torv is an Australian actress known for her role as FBI agent Olivia Dunham on the Fox television series Fringe. Anna Torv was born in... Melbourne, Victoria, Australia to Susan and Hans Torv and grew up on the Hinterlands of the Gold Coast, Queensland. Anna's father Hans Torv is of Estonian descent, but was born in Stirling, Scotland. She has been estranged from her father since the age of 8. She has one sibling, a younger brother, Dylan. Her paternal aunt is writer Anna Maria Torv Murdoch Mann, who was married for 31 years to billionaire media mogul Rupert Murdoch. Torv graduated from Benowa State High School in 1996. She graduated from Australia's National Institute of Dramatic Art with a degree in Performing Arts in 2001. In 2004, Torv joined the cast of the Australia's acclaimed television drama The Secret Life Of Us playing Nikki. Torv appeared in the BBC series Mistresses. She also played the voice of the main character Nariko in the video game Heavenly Sword. Torv plays FBI Agent Olivia Dunham in the American television series Fringe. She currently films Fringe in Vancouver, British Columbia since production moved there starting season 2.
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Rebecca Rigg is an Australian actress. She was once best known by Australian audiences as the bratty but troubled teenager, Gabrielle "Gabe" Baker,... in the 1980s drama series A Country Practice. Rigg was born in the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. Her Australian television appearances include the television series Rafferty's Rules ; the television special Joh's Jury , as well as a starring role in the Australian comedy television series Willing and Abel . She also appeared in the television mini-series Emma, Queen of the South Seas. She made guest appearances in other Australian television series, including The Flying Doctors, G. P., Blue Heelers and Winners – Quest beyond Time. Rigg also had a role as Nurse Amy as part of the Mr Bad storyline on hugely popular Australian soap – E Street – where she met future husband Simon Baker who was also a cast member. As a young girl she was also in the Australian film Fortress, which was about the kidnapping of a teacher and a small class of students.
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Emma Laura Snowsill OAM is an Australian professional triathlete and multiple gold medalist in the World Championships and the Commonwealth Games.... She won the gold medal in triathlon at the 2008 Olympics. Snowsill won the 2000 International Triathlon Union World Championship in the 16–20 years age category plus the gold medal at the 2000 Sydney Youth Olympic Festival Triathlon at age 19. She was awarded a scholarship with the Australian Institute of Sport and was voted 16–19 years female Triathlete of the Year 2000. She is studying for a degree in health science . In 2003, Snowsill became ITU World Champion for the first time in Queenstown, New Zealand. She was the 2004 ITU World Cup Champion and ranked first in the world but was not selected for the Australian team for the 2004 Athens Olympics. In 2005, Snowsill took her second world crown in Gamagori, Japan, in 35 °C temperatures and 90% relative humidity. She has won the "Grand Slam" of Chicago, City of Los Angeles, London and New York Triathlons plus multiple ITU World Cup events.
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Joseph "Joey" Massey is an Australian actor. Massey was born in Gold Coast, Australia. His first role was in the 2006 film Aquamarine. He also... appeared in 2007's The Condemned. In 2006 and 2007, he appeared in the television series H2O: Just Add Water. He is the son of Anna Waters Massey and the brother of Cleo Massey.
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Margot Robbie is an Australian actress. She is known for her role as Donna Freedman on the soap opera Neighbours, which earned her two Logie Award... nominations. In 2011, Robbie began appearing as Laura Cameron in the ABC drama series Pan Am. Robbie was born on 2 July 1990 and grew up on the Gold Coast in Australia. Robbie split her time between the beach and her grandparents' farm, before moving to Melbourne when she was seventeen to begin acting professionally. She graduated from Somerset College on the Gold Coast in 2007. Robbie has been acting professionally since 2007, when she starred in two feature films, I.C.U. and Vigilante, both directed by Aash Aaron. After impressing the director with her performance during an audition, she won the lead in I.C.U. without an agent at the time. She has also acted in commercials and featured in a guest role in City Homicide as Caitlin Brentford in 2008. Robbie began appearing as Donna Freedman on Neighbours from June 2008. The character was originally only a guest role, but she was soon promoted to a regular cast member.
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Luke Mitchell is an Australian actor and model. Mitchell trained at the Film and Television Studio International and worked with professionals such... as Joss McWilliam, Iain Gardner, Kim Krejus, Craig McMahon and Dean Carey. He traveled around Australia with international entertainment company Sudden Impact Entertainment and worked in their live theatre shows. Whilst working in Melbourne he successfully auditioned for the guest-role of Chris Knight in Neighbours and appeared in 11 episodes. He then moved back to the Gold Coast to play the part of Will in H2O: Just Add Water. In 2008, Mitchell filmed the gay-themed romance Performance Anxiety, which was selected as part of the 9th Annual Brisbane Queer Film Festival as a screening for cast and crew. In June 2009, Mitchell relocated to Sydney and, As of 2010, he is starring as Romeo Smith in Home and Away. Mitchell won his first acting award, a 2010 TV Week Logie for Most Popular New Male Talent, for his role on Home and Away. Mitchell comes from a tennis-loving family and played from the age of five to nineteen. He aimed to go professional but gave it up after realising it was the only thing in his life.
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Cody Robert Simpson is an Australian pop singer from Gold Coast, Queensland, who is currently signed to US record label Atlantic Records. Simpson... was born to Brad and Angie Simpson. He has two younger siblings, Tom and Alli. He is also a talented swimmer, winning two gold medals at the Queensland Swimming Championships. Simpson trained at the Miami Swimming Club under coach Ken Nixon. Simpson's mother Angie works as a volunteer at the club. Simpson began to record songs in his bedroom during the summer of 2009 on YouTube, performing "I'm Yours" by Jason Mraz, "Cry Me a River" and "Señorita" by Justin Timberlake, "I Want You Back" by the Jackson 5, and his own songs, "One" and "Perfect". He was subsequently discovered on YouTube by Shawn Campbell, a Grammy-nominated record producer who has produced for Jay-Z and other artists. Simpson's rise to recognition was featured on The 7.30 Report in December 2009. He released his debut single, "iYiYi" , on 15 May 2010. It was digitally released on 30 May 2010. The music video for "iYiYi" was released on 30 June 2010.
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