The first dollar I earned as a creative was in 2011 for a national Nestle print campaign in Australia. It was with my first signed agent and I remember pausing outside the audition to change from sneakers into cherry red shoes. I had been inspired by their attached audition storyboard and I dressed accordingly. So, I arrived in a light colored 1950’s style knee length flowy dress with bright red cherries all over it.

Auditions are a funny thing. They often require an inordinate amount of imagination as the auditioning space is often void of props or ambience. For this audition they needed to see what it would look like for the talent to be upside down on a swing. So in this airconditioned office space, I hoisted myself onto the only provided armchair, skirt carefully controlled and flung my hair upside down with delight as I endeavored to replicate the joy they were hoping to find. I must have done something right. Two days later I had booked the job. The beloved cherry dress now lives in my three year olds dress up box and the red shoes still in my closet.

The job was a blast to shoot. An hour outside of Sydney we drove to a farm where we shot in a field with some pet deer, one named Bambi, who were cared for by their handler. Trudging through mud and avoiding the ran showers became my day’s adventure. My sole mission to keep the white dress, that they had custom fit to me, clean.

When the campaign launched a few months later nationally. The campaign’s tagline was plastered everywhere – “A dream come true”. It was more than just a tagline for me as I had taken a huge leap 12 months before prior when I moved from Western Australia to Sydney to pursue training in acting while working full time. This first creative job was an extravagant gift and a reminder that I was on the right track.

I am an actor and voice over artist both live performance and on camera. This includes live theatre and event hosting. I also do television commercials, feature films, tv series, training videos and voice over for animation, business and tv commercials.

I originally completed a bachelor of business after leaving school and worked in hospitality, human resources and IT for many years while travelling the world. In my late twenties I felt as though something was missing. I realised I didn’t want to be the general manager of a hotel or HR executive. After a timely health scare, with some skin cancer and breast lumps, a still small voice inside me asked me “If time, age and money were of no barrier what would you do?” I had only one answer to that question “Acting.” It was something I had done in my teens and given up to pursue a more responsible career path in business.

In response to this realization I signed up for a weekly class in 2009. That turned into a summer intensive and then a part time course in Sydney that required me to move interstate. After a year I auditioned for a school in New York City and with a part scholarship packed up and went to study full time for a full year. By the end of 2011 I was in New York which paved the way for my career to begin in both Australia and the USA.

In October 2020, after 6 months of the film and television industry nationally being shut down due to covid, my husband was offered a job in Wilmington in North Carolina as a second Assistant Director. We had 72 hours to pack up a rental car in New York City and move as a family with a 1 year old baby to our new home for the next 6 months.

We had been based in NYC for nearly 10 years but now in the middle of a pandemic in a brand new state we had no community at all. Covid was a hard time to make new friends. Being at home with my baby daughter as her sole care giver while my husband worked long filming hours was at times quite isolating. I made a decision during that 6 month period to take a career pause from acting and spent time working on sleep, wellbeing and bonding with my beautiful baby girl. It was a hard decision for me as in some ways, I felt like a failure. I was unable to do it all at the same time and I didn’t know if I paused my career I would ever be able to get it back.

Now, 3 years later we have been on the road moving multiple times a year from project to project in the south east of the USA. We have experienced life in Georgia, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Texas and travelled to many others for short term work. After my 6 month rest break, I signed with a south east USA agent and have had more auditions and bookings than I ever did before. There is something about saying yes to the uncomfortable, the slow, the pauses and the pivots the leaves so much space for the extraordinary.