Rachael Finch is a 20-year-old TV presenter and model from Townsville, Queensland, Australia, The 5′9″ 175cm will represent Australia in the Miss Universe 2009 in in Nassau, Bahamas on August 23, 2009.
In 2004 She won the 2004 ‘Young Model Challenge’ contest in Australia. Rachael Finch, who now lives in Alexandria, Sydney, works for Platinum Television, a company that provides video contents for bars and events, and is an ambassador for the Heart Foundation. Read more
Isla Lang Fisher (born 3 February 1976) is an Australian actress and author. She began acting on Australian Television, playing Shannon Reed on the Australian soap opera Home and Away, and has since become known for her roles in the 2005 comedy Wedding Crashers, opposite Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson, 2007’s Hot Rod. and 2009’s Confessions of a Shopaholic.
Fisher was born in Muscat, Oman to Scottish parents from Bathgate and Stranraer. They resided in Muscat because of her father’s job as a banker for the United Nations. Her name, after the Scottish island of Islay, is pronounced eye-la; she has four brothers. Fisher spent her infancy in Bathgate before moving with her family to Perth, Western Australia, when she was nine months old. Fisher has said that she had a “great” upbringing in Perth with a “very outdoorsy life”. She began appearing in commercials on Australian television at the age of nine, before going on to win roles in popular children’s television shows Bay City and Paradise Beach. She attended Methodist Ladies’ College and appeared in lead roles in school productions.
Sophie Charlene Akland Monk (born 14 December 1979) is an Australian pop singer, actress and occasional model. She was once a member of female pop group Bardot and has since established a solo career with the release of an album, Calendar Girl. More recently, she turned her hand to acting, appearing in films such as Date Movie and Click. She dated Ryan Seacrest in early 2008.
Monk’s professional music career began in 1999 when she responded to an advertisement at the recommendation of her mother which requested girls with vocal and dance experience. The advertisement was for the Australian television series, Popstars, a TV talent show which aimed to create a successful new girl group. Monk, who has been trained in classical and pop singing and has been performing since she was eight years old, drove all night to audition. In one audition, she performed a rendition of Marilyn Monroe’s famous “Happy Birthday, Mr. President”, working on her previous experience as a Monroe impersonator at Warner Bros. Movie World. After numerous rounds of singing and dancing workshops, Monk was selected as a member of the group, which was named Bardot.
Jaymee Ong (born 21 September 1979 in Australia) is a ½ Chinese, ½ Caucasian Australian model and actress. She is currently the co-host of The Contender Asia. She is also the host of AXN’s “E Buzz” in Singapore.
Born and raised in Australia, Jaymee Ong caught the attention of a famous Australian photographer at a hair salon at the age of 15. She soon began her modelling career, which successfully launched her as the top Asian face in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore and Malaysia.
Nicole Trunfio (born 16 March 1985) is an Australian model from Merredin, a small country town in Western Australia.
Trunfio is the youngest girl in a family of 4 children. She attended St Mary’s Primary School in Merredin. Later Trunfio and her family moved to Australind, where she attended Parkfield primary and then Australind Senior High School.
She has a tattoo of a clothes hanger on the back of her neck. She is a close friend of fellow Western Australian model Gemma Ward.
Yvonne Strahovski (born 30 July 1982) is an Australian actress.
Born in Maroubra, a suburb of Sydney, as Yvonne Strzechowski, she adopted the more phonetic spelling of Yvonne Strahovski as her stage name. Read more
Megan Gale (born August 7, 1976) is an Australian supermodel and actress. Born in Perth, Western Australia, Gale is of half-British, half-Polynesian heritage and is the youngest of three children, one of them being an older brother.
Megan Gale has been described in an article as “Italy’s hottest star since Sophia Loren” whilst Roselyn Della Sabina (a singer songwriter) was named next after Megan Gale.
Modelling
At 24, while studying at university, she won a modeling competition and was cast by Australian casting director Toni Higginbotham, to appear in a series of advertisements for the Italian telecommunications commercials,
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