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When hunky, twenty-year-old heart-throb Heath Ledger first came to the attention of the public in 1999, it was all too easy to tag him as a "pretty boy" and an actor of little depth. He spent several years trying desperately to sway this image, but this was a double-edged sword. His work comprised nineteen films, including 10 Things I Hate About You (1999), The Patriot (2000), A Knight's Tale (2001), Monster's Ball (2001), Ned Kelly (2003), The Brothers Grimm (2005), Lords of Dogtown (2005), Brokeback Mountain (2005), Casanova (2005), Candy (2006), I'm Not There (2007), The Dark Knight (2008) and The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009). He also produced and directed music videos and aspired to be a film director.

Heath Ledger was born on the fourth of April 1979, in Perth, Western Australia, to Sally (Ramshaw), a teacher of French, and Kim Ledger, a mining engineer who also raced cars. His ancestry was Scottish, English, Irish, and Sephardi Jewish. As the story goes, in junior high school it was compulsory to take one of two electives, either cooking or drama. As Heath could not see himself in a cooking class he tried his hand at drama. Heath was talented, however the rest of the class did not acknowledge his talent. When he was seventeen he and a friend decided to pack up, leave school, take a car and rough it to Sydney. Heath believed Sydney to be the place where dreams were made or, at least, where actors could possibly get their big break. Upon arriving in Sydney with a purported sixty-nine cents to his name, Heath tried everything to get a break.

His first real acting job came in a low-budget movie called Blackrock (1997), a largely unimpressive cliché; an adolescent angst film about one boy's struggle when he learns his best mate raped a girl. He only had a very small role in the film. After that small role Heath auditioned for a role in a T.V. show called Sweat (1996) about a group of young Olympic hopefuls. He was offered one of two roles, one as a swimmer, another as a gay cyclist. Heath accepted the latter because he felt to really stand out as an actor one had to accept unique roles that stood out from the bunch. It got him small notice, but unfortunately the show was quickly axed, forcing him to look for other roles. He was in Home and Away (1988) for a very short period, in which he played a surfer who falls in love with one of the girls of Summer Bay. Then came his very brief role in Paws (1997), a film which existed solely to cash in on guitar prodigy Nathan Cavaleri's brief moment of fame, where he was the hottest thing in Australia. Heath played a student in the film, involved in a stage production of a Shakespeare play, in which he played "Oberon". A very brief role, this offered him a small paycheck but did nothing to advance his career. Then came Two Hands (1999). He went to the U.S. trying to audition for film roles, showcasing his brief role in Roar (1997) opposite then unknown Vera Farmiga.

Then Australian director Gregor Jordan auditioned him for the lead in Two Hands (1999), which he got. An in your face Aussie crime thriller, Two Hands (1999) was outstanding and helped him secure a role in 10 Things I Hate About You (1999). After that, it seemed Heath was being typecast as a young hunk, which he did not like, so he accepted a role in a very serious war drama The Patriot (2000).

What followed was a stark inconsistency of roles, Ledger accepting virtually every single character role, anything to avoid being typecast. Some met with praise, like his short role in Monster's Ball (2001), but his version of Ned Kelly (2003) was an absolute flop, which led distributors hesitant to even release it outside Australia. Heath finally had deserved success with his role in Brokeback Mountain (2005). For his portrayal of Ennis Del Mar in in the film, Ledger won the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor and Best International Actor from the Australian Film Institute, and was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role and for the Academy Award for Best Actor.

Ledger was found dead on January 22, 2008 in his apartment in the Manhattan neighborhood of SoHo, with a bottle of prescription sleeping pills near-by. It was concluded weeks later that he died of an accidental overdose of prescription drugs that included pain-killers, sleeping pills and anti-anxiety medication. His death occurred during editing of The Dark Knight (2008) and in the midst of filming his last role as Tony in The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009).

Posthumously, he shared the 2007 Independent Spirit Robert Altman Award with the rest of the ensemble cast, the director, and the casting director for the film I'm Not There (2007), which was inspired by the life and songs of American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan. In the film, Ledger portrayed a fictional actor named Robbie Clark, one of six characters embodying aspects of Dylan's life and persona.

A few months before his death, Ledger had finished filming his performance as the Joker in 'The Dark Knight (2008). His untimely death cast a somber shadow over the subsequent promotion of the $185 million Batman production. Ledger received more than thirty posthumous accolades for his critically acclaimed performance as the Joker, the psychopathic clown prince of crime, in the film, including the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, a Best Actor International Award at the 2008 Australian Film Institute Awards (for which he is the second actor to win an acting award posthumously after Peter Finch who won an Oscar for Network (Best Actor 1977)), the 2008 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor, the 2009 Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor - Motion Picture, and the 2009 BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actor.

The second of four children, Australian actress Melissa George was born in Perth, Western Australia in 1976. The daughter of Pamela, a nurse, and Glenn George, a construction worker, Melissa initially expressed interest in various forms of dance rather than acting. During her childhood, George studied tap, ballet, and jazz, later transitioning into professional rollerskating - similar to figure skating on ice.

By age 16, George had won several awards at various National Rollerskating Championships in Australia, and subsequently began modeling after dropping out of high school. George met a casting agent while doing modeling work, and was given a role on the popular Australian soap opera Home and Away (1988); George moved to Sydney and worked on the show for three years until deciding to pursue other projects.

In 1996, George left Australia and moved to Los Angeles in search of bigger roles. She garnered various supporting parts in films such as Dark City (1998) and Steven Soderbergh's crime thriller The Limey (1999), before landing a key part in David Lynch's acclaimed neo noir mystery film, Mulholland Drive (2001). While in Bali in 1998, George met future husband, Chilean filmmaker Claudio Dabed; the two were married in late 2000.

The early 2000s would have George playing bit parts in several American television shows, including Friends (1994) and Monk (2002), ultimately landing a recurring role on the hit Alias (2001) alongside Jennifer Garner and Michael Vartan. Through the later part of the decade, George had roles in various horror and thriller films, beginning with the 2005 version of The Amityville Horror (2005), as well as the commercially-successful thriller Derailed (2005) alongside Clive Owen, Jennifer Aniston and Vincent Cassel.

George finished the decade with several more horror films, including Turistas (2006) and 30 Days of Night (2007), as well as independent horror titles such as The Killing Gene (2007), The Betrayed (2008) and Triangle (2009). George was also active in television work, landing a role on the popular medical drama Grey's Anatomy (2005). Her greatest critical success would come with a role on In Treatment (2008), playing the love interest of Gabriel Byrne, which would garner her a Golden Globe nomination in 2009.

Though a veteran of television in both Australia and the United States, George has achieved considerable success in her film career, which has hardly spanned over a decade.

Jessica De Gouw is an Australian actress. She is known for her role as Helena Bertinelli/The Huntress in the television series Arrow, as Mina Murray in the NBC TV series Dracula, and as Elizabeth Hawkes in the WGN series Underground.

Jessica grew up in Lesmurdie, an eastern suburb of Perth, Western Australia, where she attended Lesmurdie Senior High School. She appeared in an episode of The Sleepover Club, as well as a short film. In 2010, she graduated from Curtin University at the age of 22, majoring in performance studies. She also appeared in another short film the same year.

De Gouw moved to Sydney in order to have a greater opportunity for acting roles. She appeared in a number of TV series, mostly in guest starring roles. In 2012, she debuted in the film Kath & Kimderella as Isabella, Kath and Kim's maid. She moved to Los Angeles later that year and landed the recurring role of the Helena Bertinelli/The Huntress in the action-adventure series, Arrow. In 2013, De Gouw was cast in the NBC series Dracula as Mina Murray alongside Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Oliver Jackson-Cohen. The series lasted only 10 episodes, and NBC announced on 9 May 2014 that the show would not be renewed for another season. In 2016, De Gouw was cast as fictional abolitionist Elizabeth Hawkes in the WGN series, Underground. She played the lead role Ren Amari in the 2017 feature film OtherLife based on the novel Solitaire by Kelley Eskridge.

Dacre was born in 1994 in Perth, Western Australia. His mother is Australian-Canadian and his father is a New Zealander. At the time of his birth both of his parents were working in the film industry and he spent many hours during his childhood on film sets where he developed a love of acting. Dacre was accepted into WAAPA to undertake his 3 year Bachelor of Arts in Acting.

Katherine Langford is an Australian actress. She is known for starring as Hannah Baker in the 2017 Netflix series 13 Reasons Why (2017), based on the novel of the same name, for which she received a Golden Globe Award nomination. In 2018, she appeared as Leah Burke in the romantic comedy-drama film Love, Simon (2018).

Langford was born in Perth and raised in Perth, Western Australia. She is the eldest daughter of Elizabeth Langford, a pediatrician, and Stephen Langford, a flying doctor and director of medical services at the Royal Flying Doctor Service Western Operations. She began voice lessons in 2005, and received classical, jazz, and contemporary vocal training. She was offered a place at Perth Modern School for her senior high years, where she studied music and drama, and was sports captain and a nationally ranked swimmer.

Initially during her time at high school, Langford was interested in medicine and politics, in addition to musical theatre. However, in 2012, when Langford was 16, she attended Lady Gaga's concert, the Born This Way Ball, which inspired her to learn how to play the piano. She shared video of herself singing three original songs she wrote: "I've Got a Crush on Zoe Bosch," "Young and Stupid," and "3 Words." "Young and Stupid" is an anti-suicide song she wrote in 2013 after three Perth teens took their lives. For her final year at Perth Modern, Langford stopped swimming and switched her focus to music and performance. She was successful in a number of musical eisteddfods and drama competitions. Langford appeared in the school's production of Hotel Sorrento in 2013 and graduated that same year.

After graduating high school, Langford was determined to become an actor. However, she was rejected from every acting school she applied to, on the grounds she was too young and did not have enough life experience. This led her to begin enrolling in acting classes and workshops in Perth, juggling three part-time jobs, and later finding herself an agent. From 2014 to 2015, Langford studied at the Principal Academy of Dance & Theatre Arts, majoring in Music Theatre, and appeared in a production of Godspell. She was then one of five selected to participate in the National Institute of Dramatic Arts Advanced Actors Residency in 2015. In the same year, she trained at Nicholson's Academy of Screen Acting and portrayed the role of Juan Perón's mistress in the 2015 production of Evita. Langford was offered a position in the Bachelor of Arts program in Acting at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts and intended to begin studies in 2016. However, she never enrolled and instead pursued professional roles.

Langford appeared as the lead character in a small independent short film, Daughter (2016) which debuted at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival. At the end of 2016, after declining the offer from Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, Langford auditioned and was asked to test for Riverdale, and Will, a television series centered on the young life of William Shakespeare. She did not get either role, which were instead given to Lili Reinhart, and Olivia DeJonge.

Langford auditioned for the role in the mystery teen drama TV series 13 Reasons Why over Skype and had only 10 days to get an O-1 visa as she had not worked in the United States before. She has received critical acclaim for her portrayal of the American high school student Hannah Baker in 13 Reasons Why. Langford researched the role, speaking with a representative of the sexual assault awareness campaign "It's On Us" and a psychiatrist who specializes in adolescence. In December 2016, she signed with the William Morris Endeavor agency.

In 2018 Langford appeared in her first feature film, Love, Simon, an adaptation of the coming-of-age novel Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda, by Becky Albertalli.

A native of Perth, Australia, Helene Joy trained at the prestigious Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts. Her early career began on the stage where she performed various roles with the famous Sydney-based Bell Shakespeare Theatre Company. She went on to play such classic roles as Juliet,Ophelia,and a very young Lady Macbeth, with the Melbourne Theatre Company. She also appeared on television in the Australian series Man From Snowy River and Water Rats and many others, before moving to Toronto via Vancouver, B.C. to continue her career. Joy's most recent credits include the leading role in the award winning period drama for Canadian and British Television The Murdoch Mysteries (now in it's 11th season), for which she has received both Golden Nymph and multiple Canadian Screen Award nominations for Best Lead Actress in a drama. She also starred in the the award winning drama series Durham County (Season 1-3), for which she won a 2008 Gemini Award for Best Leading Actress. She was nominated for a Gemini yet again for this role in 2010 as well as for a Golden Nymph. In 2006, Joy earned Gemini nominations for her roles in the Shaftesbury Films productions of Under The Dragon's Tail: A Murdoch Mystery, and ReGenesis. In 2005, she won a Leo Award for Best Actress in the feature length film Desolation Sound. Joy's many credits also include a series lead role in An American In Canada; a recurring guest role on This Is Wonderland, and guest-starring roles on episodes of many other series..She has also lent her voice to numerous animation series for Canadian, British and Australian television including The Eggs, The Faireez, The Story of Og, Pearlie and The Detentionaires. She can occasionally be seen on stage with the Award winning Company Theatre of Toronto. She now spends her time between New York and Toronto.

Edgley was born in Perth. She is the daughter of concert and circus promoter Michael Edgley, known for bringing the Moscow State Circus to Australia during the 1980s. Her mother, Jeni Edgley, is involved in managing a 250-acre health retreat. As a child, Gigi Edgley performed both in and out of school. She also took several years of ballet, jazz, and character dance. She became mainly interested in acting and had her first professional theatrical engagement at the Twelfth Night Theater. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the Queensland University of Technology in 1998. In 1999 she began acting steadily in Australia on T.V. As a believer in the school of method acting, Gigi has developed a broad set of skills and experiences for her roles. She is proficient in ballet, jazz, character dance, singing, and martial arts. Her early TV and film work included several independent productions (with later Farscape (1999) co-star Anthony Simcoe), as well a guest star spot on the popular Australian series Water Rats (1996) and a role in Australian TV Mini-Series titled The Day of the Roses (1998).

She is undoubtedly best known for her role as Chiana on the science fiction TV series Farscape (1999). She originally was hired for only one episode, and her character was supposed to die at the end of the hour. The creators however decided to keep her around for a few more episodes. At the beginning of Season 2, she was promoted to be a regular on the show. She appeared in total of 68 episodes of the series. Her character's nickname (Pip) was actually coined by her co-star Ben Browder.

Between seasons, she has appeared in other guest starring roles on TV, including the popular internationally aired series The Lost World (1999) and BeastMaster (1999). After the cancellation of Farscape she pursued other projects including a role in the Australian TV drama BlackJack (2003). She has also appeared in many popular Australian TV shows such as The Secret Life of Us (2001) and Stingers (1998).

In 2004 She reprised Her role as Chiana in the SciFi Channel miniseries Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars (2004).

In 2006 She starred as the female lead in critically acclaimed Australian Drama/Thriller Last Train to Freo (2006). Her role was nominated for a Best Actress in a Lead Role by the Film Critics Circle of Australia. She also had a minor supporting role in the 2007 USA Network TV miniseries The Starter Wife (2007). Also in 2007 and 2008 she garnered two feature length movie roles. In 07 it was the Sci-Fi movie, Showdown at Area 51 (2007), and in 08 she was back at work down under in the movie Newcastle (2008). In 2009 She began work on the Aussie T.V. series Rescue Special Ops (2009) as Lara Knight.

Davis was educated at Loreto Convent and the Western Institute of Technology and graduated from the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) in 1977. She found international success with the role of Adela Quested in A Passage to India (1984). Her performance was nominated an Academy Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role. She went on to receive another Academy Award nomination (this time for Best Actress in a Supporting Role) for her performance as Sally in Woody Allen's Husbands and Wives (1992). Davis and Allen would go on to be a longtime collaborators; Allen once described Davis as "one of the most exciting actresses in the world".

Emma Booth was born in 1982 in Perth, Western Australia, Australia. She is an actress and producer, known for The Gloaming (2020), Hounds of Love (2016) and Once Upon a Time (2011). She has been married to Dominick Joseph Luna since 2013.

Toby Schmitz was born on 4 May 1977 in Perth, Western Australia, Australia. He is an actor and writer, known for Black Sails (2014), Right Here Right Now (2004) and Three Blind Mice (2008).

Tammy Macintosh is an Australian TV actress, who was born in Perth, Western Australia. Tammy is best known for her roles in Australian TV drama Police Rescue (1989), mystery series Jeopardy (2002), alien adventure series Farscape (1999), Tammy was also a part of Australia's most followed drama series All Saints (1998) joining the series in 2002 and staying until the series' final episode in 2009, after her run on All Saints, Tammy would go to Queensland for the navy patrol series Sea Patrol (2007), and would later join the cast of Australian award winning drama Wentworth (2013) as Karen 'Kaz' Proctor in 2015 before leaving the series in 2019 during the series' seventh season claiming her time on the series was ending on her terms, Macintosh would in 2019 join Wentworth co-star Leah Purcell in filming of The Drover's Wife.

Macintosh is married to Mark Yeats and they have one child together.

Belinda Bromilow was born on 21 May 1975 in Perth, Western Australia, Australia. She is an actress, known for The Great (2020), Doctor Doctor (2016) and Happy Feet (2006). She is married to Tony McNamara.

Gemma Ward was born in Perth, Australia in 1987 and started her model career in the year 2002.

When she was 15 years old, she was discovered in the audience of Search for a Supermodel (2000), an Australian television show. At the age of 16, she was selected by Anna Wintour (fashion editor) to be feature in the "It Girls" of the supermodel world.

According to modeling and fashion statistics, she was the youngest model on the Vogue cover. Gemma has joined top brand fashion designer shows, such as Christian Dior, Prada, Gucci, Yves Saint-Laurent, etc. Working next to fashion models like Karolina Kurkova, Gisele Bündchen and Natalia Vodianova.

Kate Beahan was born on 12 October 1974 in Perth, Western Australia, Australia. She is an actress and assistant director, known for The Wicker Man (2006), Flightplan (2005) and The Matrix Revolutions (2003).

Multi-talented Renee Lim is an actress, dancer, presenter and medical doctor. Born in Perth, Australia, she graduated from Hampton Senior High School and attended the University of New South Wales, to study medicine. When she's not acting or performing in one of her entertainment fields, she works as a doctor in Sydney, Australia. Best known for her role as Mae, in Please Like Me (2013).

Freya Tingley was born in Perth, Australia (the most isolated city in the world) on March 26, 1994. From a very young age, Freya took to performing, where she explored modeling, singing, dancing and the like, but it finally clicked when she enrolled in an acting school. The ability to inhabit other characters, far away from her own personality, provided a creative high unlike anything she had experienced. With an admiration for character actors such as Meryl Streep and Dustin Hoffman, she decided to follow in their footsteps.

Taking the leap of faith at the tender age of seventeen, Freya's supportive mum allowed her to move to Hollywood to "give it a shot for a year" -- her only plan B being a bakery in Perth where she had a part-time shift. Now, it is true that Freya makes a great muffin with raspberries and white chocolate, but it is hardly her calling. Determined, she went on hundreds of auditions and on the very day of her 18th birthday, she booked Netflix's second original series Hemlock Grove, helmed by horror master Eli Roth.

The rest, as they say, is history as she went on to play a variety of characters in both TV and film including originating the "Wendy Darling" character in the Peter Pan segment of Once Upon a Time for ABC, as well as Franki Valli's troubled daughter in the film adaptation of the Broadway smash Jersey Boys, directed by Clint Eastwood -- a personal hero of Freya's, and like Clint, she has plans to make the transition from actor to actor/director in the near future.

She still cooks muffins with raspberries and white chocolate, but is proud to call the film industry her vocation, and most importantly, her passion.

Paige Butcher was born on 6 October 1979 in Perth, Western Australia, Australia. She is an actress, known for Something's Gotta Give (2003), Big Momma's House 2 (2006) and Maxim the Real Swimsuit DVD Vol. 2 (2005). She has been married to Eddie Murphy since 9 July 2024. They have two children.

Pallavi Sharda is an international film & theatre actress and classical Indian dancer. In 2022 she starred in Netflix rom com 'Wedding Season', directed by Tom Dey.

Pallavi's Hollywood credits include 'Tom & Jerry', Oscar nominated film 'Lion' and in the UK, Pallavi has essayed leading roles in Gurinder Chadha's period drama 'Beecham House' and Netflix series 'The One'. In Australia, Pallavi was the lead actress in the lock-down comedy 'Retrograde' which garnered Most Outstanding Comedy at the 2021 Equity Awards. Her other Australian credits include 'The Twelve' (Sam Neill) and 'Les Norton' (Rebel Wilson & David Wenham). Pallavi has been awarded the 'Rising Star' award by the Casting Guild of Australia. Her Bollywood credits include 'Begum Jaan', 'Hawaizaada' and 'Besharam'.

Trained in the classical dance form of Bharatha Natyam, movement is a large part of Pallavi's performing arts repertoire, particularly her free form fusion dance style which she showcases in her live performances. Pallavi is the first Australian to break into Bollywood and has been a pioneer in the realm of multicultural representation on Australian screens, becoming the first Indian origin actress to lead projects in both Australian television and film.

Lisa was born on the 17th of February, 1971 and grew up in Perth, Australia. She entered WAAPA (West Australian Academy of Performing Arts) and graduated in 1990 at the age of 19 with a musical degree. Moving over to Melbourne, after a short lived stay in Sydney when Lisa was awarded the Coles contract (Lisa starred on advertisements on television and in the newspapers). Lisa's career began with her auditioning for Annie Jone's role in Newly Weds, and a role in Home and away, both of which she did not win. But In 1993 she auditioned for the role of Ros Patterson, in a new Australian Drama Blue Heelers, and won the lead role of Maggie Doyle instead. Maggie Doyle fast became one of the most loved characters on T.V. and with it so did Lisa. In 1995 she won the silver Logie for Best new talent. and continued on in 1996, 1997, 1998 and 1999 to win the silver Logies for most popular female Actress. Her popularity soared so much that she even went on in 1997 to win the Gold Logie for most popular personality, she again won in 1998, 1999, and 2000. Becoming the first woman in Australian T.V. to win 4 consecutive Gold Logies. in her final gold Logie speech she begged the viewers of Australian T.V. to put Maggie Doyle to rest, as she managed to win this Logie even though her character was only seen on the screen for a very short time that year. Lisa also won for her role as Maggie Doyle, people's choice awards and Variety club awards. During her six years on Blue Heelers Lisa became best friends with her work-mate and onscreen love interest Martin Sacks. it was here that she also me her soul-mate, and husband Tim Disney, who was the stand-by props man on the show. Lisa also took part in many musicals throughout the breaks of the Blue Heelers filming Schedule. She stared in productions including "A Little Night Music", "Into the Woods", and "She Loves Me". After Leaving Blue Heelers Lisa went on to star in the Musical "The Sound of music" playing the role of Maria, this was a very popular production and Bryce Courtney's - "The potato factory" mini series. The other starring role Lisa had at this time was to become a mother for the first time to Son Archer. After a short break after giving birth, Lisa was lured into a new T.V. role of Ros Marshall, the younger and more promiscuous sister of sibling lawyers in "Marshall Law" which Also stars Alyson White as her sister Verity, and her Blue Heelers Co-star William McInnes as Dylan Boyd, Verity's ex-husband, and lawyer. Marshall Law is a different role from Blue Heelers, but so far the show is going well, it is just about to start production on its second series. Lisa also currently is Starring in the Melbourne version of Sam Mendes reprise of Cabaret (Tina Arena is starring in the Sydney version)

Charlotte Maggi was born on 17 May 2004 in Perth, Western Australia. Charlotte is an actor, known for Rebel Moon - Part One: A Child of Fire (2023), Rebel Moon - Part Two: The Scargiver (2024) and The Run.

Rachael Blake was born on 26 May 1971 in Perth, Western Australia, Australia. She is an actress, known for Sleeping Beauty (2011), Lantana (2001) and Gods of Egypt (2016). She has been married to Tony Martin since 21 December 2003.

Zoe Ventoura was born on 19 August 1981 in Perth, Western Australia, Australia. She is an actress, known for Packed to the Rafters (2008), More Beautiful for Having Been Broken (2019) and Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (2017). She has been married to Daniel MacPherson since 2015.

Australian actor and former elite cyclist Nathan Page, best known internationally for his nuanced portrayal of Detective Inspector Jack Robinson in Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries (2012), was born into an air force family in Perth on 25 August 1971. He moved frequently around the country while growing up and went to school predominantly in Canberra and Melbourne.

Page started cycling at the age of 14 in Canberra "as a random new thing to try". He subsequently raced up through the ranks to the state level in NSW and began to compete at the national level within the year. He had the attention of the Australian Institute of Sport by the time he was 16, at which time he moved to Adelaide with a scholarship. His international career in individual and team pursuit took off immediately: He left for Europe for an initial tour of three months with the trips becoming longer as he grew older. He retired from the sport at 19 because of a combination of numerous injuries and the now commonly known drug culture in the sport.

Page channeled the toughness and discipline acquired as an athlete into acting, starting with a Tuesday night drama class and going on to study at the Centre for Performing Arts (now Adelaide College of the Arts) for three years. His early roles were on the Adelaide stage, where he played a variety of roles ranging from Shakespeare's Duncan in Macbeth and Faust in UR Faust to Nick in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? He first appeared in a feature film in 1999, in Strange Fits of Passion (1999). In 2000, he starred along Kylie Minogue as the character of Len in Sample People (2000). His first appearance as a recurring character on a television show was in the third season of The Secret Life of Us (2001) in 2003. His other notable roles on TV include that of Ray "Chuck" Bennett in three episodes of Underbelly (2008), Alasdair "Mac" Macdonald in Paper Giants: The Birth of Cleo (2011), and Henry Stokes in six episodes of Underbelly (2008).

Page's breakout role, however, was that of Detective Inspector Jack Robinson in the Australian show Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries (2012), based on Kerry Greenwood's well-known novel series. While this character is comparatively minor in the books, it was conceived from the very planning stages of the TV series as being the romantic male lead against the Indiana Jones/James Bond-style female lead, Phryne Fisher (played by the incomparable Essie Davis). The combination of Nathan's matinee-idol-style good looks, unique voice, and nuanced acting ensured that his character drew an immediate global fan following. He reprised the role in Miss Fisher & the Crypt of Tears (2020).

Page returned to the stage in 2016 in Deborah Bruce's The Distance and Patrick Barlow's The 39 Steps.

Nathan Page is also a voice actor, and has voiced numerous television commercials in Australia.

He lives outside Melbourne with his long-term partner and their two young sons.

Sam Delich is an Australian actor of Croatian and Dutch heritage. Born in Perth, Western Australia, Sam found himself running amok the WA coastline until channeling his energy into his formal acting training at the age of seventeen when he auditioned and was accepted into one of the world's most prestigious acting schools, the Western Australian Academy Of Performing Arts(WAAPA). After graduation, Sam was quickly honored as one of the top ten finalists for the revered Heath Ledger Scholarship.

His diverse slate includes a leading role in the Netflix hit "Territory" garnering critical acclaim for his work as the mentally unhinged "Rich Petrakis", a series regular as the sleazy antagonist "Wayne Doull" in Australia's first Disney+ Original "Last Days of the Space Age" a series regular as the roguish Irish immigrant "Ray Skinner" in the BBC hit "Ten Pound Poms", a lead role as the violent antagonist "Des Kelly" in Kiah Roache Turners highly anticipated "Beast of War" and a comedic turn as a special guest star in the CW comedy "Good Cop, Bad Cop". With an ability to disappear into his roles and undertake various genres, Sam has marked himself as an actor who cannot be pigeonholed and one of Australia's top young artists to watch out for.

Alongside this, his screen career has seen him work with acclaimed local and international directors, including Joseph Kosinski in "Spiderhead" for Netflix, Nash Edgerton in "Mr Inbetween" for FX, and Joe Begos in the US feature "Christmas Bloody Christmas", for which he played the supporting lead role.

Myles Pollard was born on 4 November 1972 in Perth, Western Australia, Australia. He is an actor and producer, known for X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009), McLeod's Daughters (2001) and Looking for Grace (2015). He has been married to Brigitta Wuthe since October 2006. They have one child.