Athlete whose sport is the javelin.

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Former member of the Sydney Dance Company.

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Krista since leaving Neighbours has done many acting jobs including Blue Heelers, Shock Jock, Fat Pizza. Films include Fat Pizza and Horseplay and has just finished co-starring with Kym Gyngell in The Writer.

She was also the first face of fosters for the Australian Grandprix.

She resides in LA to further her career.

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In her standard black garb and pierced every which way, Australian singer/songwriter Kasey Chambers looks the part of an indie Lilith Fair rocker, kicking her way into adulthood.

In a way, that's what she is. But for 24-year-old Chambers, the rock & roll is tempered with strains of Hank Williams, Gram Parsons and Emmylou Harris. Her songs, full of honesty and grit, come straight of the Americana roots-music tradition, via the Australian outback.

"I'm not much like my generation/ their music only hurts my ears," she croons on "Cry Like a Baby," the opening track on her stunning debut CD The Captain.

Ever since the CD's U.S. release last fall, Chambers has torn a wide swath through the contemporary alternative country music scene. She charms audiences (like the one at her first Snazzy show at Kuumbwa last November) as well as critics, who praise her scratchy fresh sound: "The Macy Gray of [alternative] country," said one.

Along the way Chambers has collected a solid fan base of heavy hitters from the tell-it-like-it-is school of songwriting. Steve Earle calls her "the best female hillbilly singer" he's heard in years. Chambers herself was shaken when her idol, Lucinda Williams, sat front row at every show when she headlined in a Nashville run. Williams later said that Chambers was her favorite new artist.

Fronting a fine family ensemble, the Dead Ringer Band--which features her father Bill Chambers on lead guitar, brother Nash as producer and mum Diane handling the merchandise--this Australian troubadour is indie in the truest form.

Chambers' own story is as fresh as her music. It's an exotic tale to American ears, full of dingoes and 'roos, and hippie parents who tuned their kids to a Nashville pitch while sitting around campfires in the Australian outback.

She was just a baby, her brother Nash a toddler, when her parents decided to leave civilization behind for a simpler life in the bush. For nine years the family traveled Australia's Nullabor Plains following the fur trade. At night they sang songs for entertainment--Chambers' muse was nourished by Johnny Cash, Hank Williams and Jimmy Rogers.

At 13, she won a songwriting contest. It was enough to convince her that she had a knack, and encouraged by her parents, she began to record her life in lyrics. By then the family had taken their campfire habitual into pubs and inns across south-central Australia, playing a mix of American country-western and their own originals, eventually garnering national fame in the country music community.

At the core of all the attention is, of course, the music. Songs Chambers wrote between the ages of 15 and 22 are delivered in an unaffected and honest manner. Her sound often invites comparisons to Iris DeMent, Julie Miller, Emmylou and even a young Dolly Parton. She warbles and twangs, belts out long notes and catches air on the high ones. She skips through ditties like "This Flower" ("Well this flower is my soul/But it's not half of what I owe/I should give you every rose that ever grew"), holds a lonely cry in the achingly painful "Don't Go" and gives it up in the Appalachian foot-stomping "Last Hard Bible."

Showing all the pluck and mettle of a young woman who can snare her own dinner, on "We're all Gonna Die Someday," Chambers wails: "They can kiss my ass lord, they can kiss my ass. If they want to kiss my ass well they better do it fast 'cos we're all gonna die someday."

If The Captain is any indication, it's a safe bet we're going to be hearing a lot more from Kasey Chambers.

Source: http://www.metroactive.com/papers/cruz/03.21.01/chambers-0112.html

Official home page: http://www.kaseychambers.com/default.asp

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Born in Wellington, she floated through a number of university courses before drama school. After working in Australia for a few years, her extraordinary performance as Janet Frame in Jane Campion's An Angel at My Table both put her on the map and then left her in role-less limbo for well over a year after the film's success. Parts for 'a fat girl in a cardie' were few and far between it seemed but they followed none the less when she relocated to Europe after toying with the idea of going to Hollywood.

She was the breast-flashing, amoral medical student Juliet in Danny Boyle's Shallow Grave and the hardened hack in Michael Winterbottom's Welcome to Sarajevo . She now lives in London with her partner, the journalist Alexander Linklater, who has written of his misgivings about Fox's decision to act in Intimacy.

Source: http://film.guardian.co.uk/interview/interviewpages/0,6737,515108,00.html

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Katrina Devine plays Minnie Crozier, Receptionist at the Shortland Street clinic.

Katrina joined Shortland Street in 1994, at the age of 13-years-old. She completed her education while on the show.

Throughout her childhood, Katrina pursued drama during at school, appearing in various amateur and school productions.

Born in Northern Ireland, Katrina immigrated to New Zealand with her family when she was six. In keeping with her Irish background, she trained and competed in Irish dancing through to her teens.

Katrina is also a talented vocalist and has performed live on stage for large-scale musical productions several times during her time on Shortland Street.

Source: http://shortlandstreet.nzoom.com/stars/story.html?story_stars_katrina_devine.inc

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Kate Keltie was born on the 23rd February 1986. Kate Keltie started acting at the age of 5 years old. In the early 1990's she scored a role in the short running ABC learning program, More Than Words- where she played Rosa, a little girl with an alien-type creature for a friend. Since then she has had several guest appearances on shows such as Blue Heelers, and an appearance in the TV movie, Hallifax F.P: Without Consent. In 1999 she scored a role in the sci-fi series, Thunderstone, which has recently finished it's third and final season. Also in 1999 she got the part as Michelle Scully in the long running soap opera, Neighbours. Right now Kate is still starring in Neighbours, and there are no plans to leave.

Source: http://katekeltieuk.homestead.com/

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The Irrefutable Truth About Demons (2000) aka Truth About Demons (2001) (USA)

"Shortland Street" (1992) TV Series. Dr. Bridget Hastings (1997-2000)

Lemming Aid (1994)

"Marlin Bay" (1992) TV Series. Ginny Gannaway.

Filmography as: Actress, Notable TV guest appearances

"Duggan" (1999)

Source: http://www.imdb.com

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Born on the 18th February 1986 in Sydney, Kate Garven is Home and Away's Jade Sutherland. This is Kate’s first television role and was thrilled when she got the part.

“Working on Home and Away is so much fun. The cast are great and they have made me feel like I am already part of the gang”, she says.

Kate plays Jade Sutherland who moves to Summer Bay with her family from the city. Her parents Rhys (Michael Beckley) and Shelley (Paula Forrest) want their children to have a better lifestyle and decide to make the move.

Kate now studies by correspondence due to her Home and Away workload. She enjoys history and maths.

While this is her first television role, Kate has done numerous commercials since the age of 7. Kate has always had a passion for acting and did some courses at the Sydney Talent Company.

In 1999 Kate was a finalist for the IA awards for ballet.

Kate lives at home with her mum, dad, older sister Emma (23), brother Matthew (19) and her other sister Lisa (17). They share their home with their pets Mitsey, a beagle poodle, their cat Tilly and a peacock called Andrew. Kate is fortunate enough to live on 25 acres.

Source:http://kate-garven.hypermart.net/frames.htm

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