"Time for some new Aussie faces to emerge" 26/12
Dec 27, 2006 23:15:41 GMT 10
Post by dededom on Dec 27, 2006 23:15:41 GMT 10
Time for some new Aussie faces to emerge
26th December 2006, 8:01 WST
www.thewest.com.au/aapstory.aspx?StoryName=343502
Russell Crowe says he's giving up on action movies, Cate Blanchett is putting Hollywood on the backburner in favour of Sydney theatre, and Nicole Kidman is standing by her man in Nashville as Keith Urban goes through rehab.
But there will still be plenty of other Aussie names to keep an eye on in 2007, both at home and abroad.
Actors Abbie Cornish, Emily Barclay and Sam Worthington are among the faces to look out for in 2007, while model Gemma Ward is set to make her acting debut.
Meanwhile, established Aussie actors Hugh Jackman and Melissa George will be rushed off their feet with seven films between them due for release in the coming year.
Reality TV shows Dancing with the Stars and Dancing on Ice look set to further the television careers of Home and Away's Chris Hemsworth, Lara "Bloody" Bingle and Jennifer Hawkins' main squeeze, Jake Wall.
Bec Hewitt, formerly Cartwright, is rumoured to be making a full-time return to television, while former model Sarah Murdoch is the summer fill-in for Jessica Rowe on the Nine Network's breakfast show Today.
In the music world it has been a case of old favourites being given new legs, with Bernard Fanning of Powderfinger fame and a heavily pregnant Clare Bowditch receiving the highest accolades at this year's ARIA awards.
Wolfmother also cleaned up at the awards, while making headway in their quest to break into the US market.
An unprecedented number from this year's crop of Australian Idols look set to launch recording careers in the new year.
And while he may not have won, Victorian singer Toby Rand is still living the rock and roll dream after coming second in the US reality TV competition Rockstar: Supernova, and his new band is currently recording an album in Los Angeles.
Actor Abbie Cornish began to make her presence felt in Hollywood, although arguably for the wrong reasons. The Australian starlet, who played a heroin addict with Heath Ledger in Candy, was widely rumoured to be behind the demise of celebrity golden couple Reese Witherspoon and Ryan Phillipe's marriage.
While filming an as-yet untitled movie with Phillipe, Cornish was spotted spending time off set with her co-star just before he and Witherspoon announced their divorce.
Whether rumour or fact, the story has certainly raised Cornish's profile in Hollywood, where she also appeared alongside Russell Crowe in Ridley Scott's recently released A Good Year.
As well as the film with Phillipe, Cornish will next year star in The Golden Age alongside fellow Australian Cate Blanchett, who is reprising her role as Queen Elizabeth I.
New Zealander Emily Barclay won rave reviews and an AFI best actress award for her role as a teenage mother who plots to kill her father in the black comedy Suburban Mayhem.
She is proving just as popular overseas. Barclay will begin production on British film Bronte in the new year.
She will play one of the famous Bronte sisters opposite Michelle Williams, Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Ben Chaplin.
His performance in the title role of the contemporary retelling of Macbeth showcased Sam Worthington's versatility as an actor.
The NIDA-trained Worthington was noticed by many in the 2003 comedy Gettin' Square, and appeared opposite Abbie Cornish in the 2004 film Somersault.
Worthington will next be seen in big budget action film Rogue, starring alongside Michael Vartan and fellow Aussies Radha Mitchell and John Jarratt.
International model Gemma Ward, who regularly glides the catwalk for the likes of Versace, Gucci, Chanel and Alexander McQueen, has turned her hand to acting.
The 19-year-old will appear with Liv Tyler in the suspense thriller The Strangers as one of three masked intruders.
Later in 2007 she will appear in The Black Balloon, playing the girlfriend of a man who's brother is autistic.
Hanging up his dancing shoes after a hugely popular stint as The Boy From Oz on Broadway and on tour, Hugh Jackman is back in film and again taking Hollywood by storm.
Jackman has been busy in 2006, releasing six films including X-Men: The Last Stand, The Prestige and lending his voice to Happy Feet and Flushed Away.
Next year he is set to appear in four more films, and he already has two more lined up for 2008 - including the Baz Luhrmann project with Nicole Kidman, currently called Australia.
One-time Summer Bay resident Melissa George is moving into the big league in Hollywood after the international success of the TV series Alias and horror flicks The Amityville Horror and Turistas.
She has three films and two TV shows in the pipeline for 2007.
George will star opposite Ron Livingston in Music Within, with Stellan Skarsgard and Selma Blair in Waz, and she is currently filming 30 Days of Night in New Zealand with Josh Hartnett and Ben Foster.
Home and Away's Chris Hemsworth, model and tourism ambassador Lara "Where the bloody hell are you?" Bingle, and Jennifer Hawkins' hunky boyfriend Jake Wall are all hoping to further their television careers after competing on Dancing with the Stars or Dancing on Ice.
Talk of various prime time presenting gigs for Bingle and Wall are circulating while Hemsworth is rumoured to be getting set to take on Hollywood.
Fresh from the tennis circuit where she and baby Mia are following husband Lleyton Hewitt, Bec Hewitt looks set to make a full time return to the box.
Hewitt was back on the small screen presenting Network Nine's Abba Mania with Richard Wilkins this year.
Model Sarah Murdoch is another mum making a return to the spotlight.
Murdoch has taken over for the summer from Jessica Rowe on the Nine Network's Today show. Rowe, who network boss Eddie McGuire famously once wanted "boned", plans to return after maternity leave. But if Murdoch does well she may earn herself a more permanent TV gig.
Network Seven's Sunrise weatherman Grant Denyer has had a busy 2006.
He won Dancing with the Stars in May this year, after which he was given the prime time presenting slot on the network's celebrity singing competition It Takes Two.
But Denyer has now outgrown Sunrise and is expected back next year on the network's travel show The Great Outdoors.
Father and son Drew and Abe Forsythe have both enjoyed success this year. Actor Drew is the voice and body behind Network Ten animated chat show host David Tench, a brainchild of real life host Andrew Denton.
Abe Forsyth meanwhile has been starring in the TV drama Tripping Over, which has attracted rave reviews and promising viewing figures. The show, which divides its time between the UK and Australia and is produced in collaboration with Channel Five in Britain, also stars Aussies Daniel MacPherson, Lisa McCune and Brooke Satchwell.
A second season for 2007 has recently been announced.
Powderfinger lead singer Bernard Fanning found new legs as a solo artist and was awarded best male artist and album of the year for his debut Tea and Sympathy at the ARIAs.
Clare Bowditch, who's been gaining in status as Australia's indie princess since she began singing solo in 2000, won best female artist. Expect a pause in her career, though, because she accepted her award while heavily pregnant with twins.
Rock band Wolfmother was also recognised at the ARIAs with best group, best rock album and best breakthrough album.
This year they also made friends with Jackass star Johnny Knoxville and provided the music to the stuntman's second feature film, helping the band break into the lucrative US market.
Many contestants from this year's Australian Idol look set to launch recording careers in the new year, with some suggesting this year's batch have been the most talented crop yet.
Smooth-as-Guinness voiced Irishman Damien Leith deservedly took out the title and the Sony BMG recording contract, but fellow contestants Jessica Mauboy, Dean Geyer, Lisa Mitchell and Bobby Flynn are also set to be signed up.
Toby Rand came second in the US reality TV competition Rockstar: Supernova, but won plenty of international exposure in the series, which aired to tens of millions of viewers in the US, Asia, Europe and Australia.
Now he's back recording an album with his band Juke Kartel, which he says will also support Supernova when they tour Australia in March next year.
AAP
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"smooth as Guiness" - tee hee
26th December 2006, 8:01 WST
www.thewest.com.au/aapstory.aspx?StoryName=343502
Russell Crowe says he's giving up on action movies, Cate Blanchett is putting Hollywood on the backburner in favour of Sydney theatre, and Nicole Kidman is standing by her man in Nashville as Keith Urban goes through rehab.
But there will still be plenty of other Aussie names to keep an eye on in 2007, both at home and abroad.
Actors Abbie Cornish, Emily Barclay and Sam Worthington are among the faces to look out for in 2007, while model Gemma Ward is set to make her acting debut.
Meanwhile, established Aussie actors Hugh Jackman and Melissa George will be rushed off their feet with seven films between them due for release in the coming year.
Reality TV shows Dancing with the Stars and Dancing on Ice look set to further the television careers of Home and Away's Chris Hemsworth, Lara "Bloody" Bingle and Jennifer Hawkins' main squeeze, Jake Wall.
Bec Hewitt, formerly Cartwright, is rumoured to be making a full-time return to television, while former model Sarah Murdoch is the summer fill-in for Jessica Rowe on the Nine Network's breakfast show Today.
In the music world it has been a case of old favourites being given new legs, with Bernard Fanning of Powderfinger fame and a heavily pregnant Clare Bowditch receiving the highest accolades at this year's ARIA awards.
Wolfmother also cleaned up at the awards, while making headway in their quest to break into the US market.
An unprecedented number from this year's crop of Australian Idols look set to launch recording careers in the new year.
And while he may not have won, Victorian singer Toby Rand is still living the rock and roll dream after coming second in the US reality TV competition Rockstar: Supernova, and his new band is currently recording an album in Los Angeles.
Actor Abbie Cornish began to make her presence felt in Hollywood, although arguably for the wrong reasons. The Australian starlet, who played a heroin addict with Heath Ledger in Candy, was widely rumoured to be behind the demise of celebrity golden couple Reese Witherspoon and Ryan Phillipe's marriage.
While filming an as-yet untitled movie with Phillipe, Cornish was spotted spending time off set with her co-star just before he and Witherspoon announced their divorce.
Whether rumour or fact, the story has certainly raised Cornish's profile in Hollywood, where she also appeared alongside Russell Crowe in Ridley Scott's recently released A Good Year.
As well as the film with Phillipe, Cornish will next year star in The Golden Age alongside fellow Australian Cate Blanchett, who is reprising her role as Queen Elizabeth I.
New Zealander Emily Barclay won rave reviews and an AFI best actress award for her role as a teenage mother who plots to kill her father in the black comedy Suburban Mayhem.
She is proving just as popular overseas. Barclay will begin production on British film Bronte in the new year.
She will play one of the famous Bronte sisters opposite Michelle Williams, Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Ben Chaplin.
His performance in the title role of the contemporary retelling of Macbeth showcased Sam Worthington's versatility as an actor.
The NIDA-trained Worthington was noticed by many in the 2003 comedy Gettin' Square, and appeared opposite Abbie Cornish in the 2004 film Somersault.
Worthington will next be seen in big budget action film Rogue, starring alongside Michael Vartan and fellow Aussies Radha Mitchell and John Jarratt.
International model Gemma Ward, who regularly glides the catwalk for the likes of Versace, Gucci, Chanel and Alexander McQueen, has turned her hand to acting.
The 19-year-old will appear with Liv Tyler in the suspense thriller The Strangers as one of three masked intruders.
Later in 2007 she will appear in The Black Balloon, playing the girlfriend of a man who's brother is autistic.
Hanging up his dancing shoes after a hugely popular stint as The Boy From Oz on Broadway and on tour, Hugh Jackman is back in film and again taking Hollywood by storm.
Jackman has been busy in 2006, releasing six films including X-Men: The Last Stand, The Prestige and lending his voice to Happy Feet and Flushed Away.
Next year he is set to appear in four more films, and he already has two more lined up for 2008 - including the Baz Luhrmann project with Nicole Kidman, currently called Australia.
One-time Summer Bay resident Melissa George is moving into the big league in Hollywood after the international success of the TV series Alias and horror flicks The Amityville Horror and Turistas.
She has three films and two TV shows in the pipeline for 2007.
George will star opposite Ron Livingston in Music Within, with Stellan Skarsgard and Selma Blair in Waz, and she is currently filming 30 Days of Night in New Zealand with Josh Hartnett and Ben Foster.
Home and Away's Chris Hemsworth, model and tourism ambassador Lara "Where the bloody hell are you?" Bingle, and Jennifer Hawkins' hunky boyfriend Jake Wall are all hoping to further their television careers after competing on Dancing with the Stars or Dancing on Ice.
Talk of various prime time presenting gigs for Bingle and Wall are circulating while Hemsworth is rumoured to be getting set to take on Hollywood.
Fresh from the tennis circuit where she and baby Mia are following husband Lleyton Hewitt, Bec Hewitt looks set to make a full time return to the box.
Hewitt was back on the small screen presenting Network Nine's Abba Mania with Richard Wilkins this year.
Model Sarah Murdoch is another mum making a return to the spotlight.
Murdoch has taken over for the summer from Jessica Rowe on the Nine Network's Today show. Rowe, who network boss Eddie McGuire famously once wanted "boned", plans to return after maternity leave. But if Murdoch does well she may earn herself a more permanent TV gig.
Network Seven's Sunrise weatherman Grant Denyer has had a busy 2006.
He won Dancing with the Stars in May this year, after which he was given the prime time presenting slot on the network's celebrity singing competition It Takes Two.
But Denyer has now outgrown Sunrise and is expected back next year on the network's travel show The Great Outdoors.
Father and son Drew and Abe Forsythe have both enjoyed success this year. Actor Drew is the voice and body behind Network Ten animated chat show host David Tench, a brainchild of real life host Andrew Denton.
Abe Forsyth meanwhile has been starring in the TV drama Tripping Over, which has attracted rave reviews and promising viewing figures. The show, which divides its time between the UK and Australia and is produced in collaboration with Channel Five in Britain, also stars Aussies Daniel MacPherson, Lisa McCune and Brooke Satchwell.
A second season for 2007 has recently been announced.
Powderfinger lead singer Bernard Fanning found new legs as a solo artist and was awarded best male artist and album of the year for his debut Tea and Sympathy at the ARIAs.
Clare Bowditch, who's been gaining in status as Australia's indie princess since she began singing solo in 2000, won best female artist. Expect a pause in her career, though, because she accepted her award while heavily pregnant with twins.
Rock band Wolfmother was also recognised at the ARIAs with best group, best rock album and best breakthrough album.
This year they also made friends with Jackass star Johnny Knoxville and provided the music to the stuntman's second feature film, helping the band break into the lucrative US market.
Many contestants from this year's Australian Idol look set to launch recording careers in the new year, with some suggesting this year's batch have been the most talented crop yet.
Smooth-as-Guinness voiced Irishman Damien Leith deservedly took out the title and the Sony BMG recording contract, but fellow contestants Jessica Mauboy, Dean Geyer, Lisa Mitchell and Bobby Flynn are also set to be signed up.
Toby Rand came second in the US reality TV competition Rockstar: Supernova, but won plenty of international exposure in the series, which aired to tens of millions of viewers in the US, Asia, Europe and Australia.
Now he's back recording an album with his band Juke Kartel, which he says will also support Supernova when they tour Australia in March next year.
AAP
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"smooth as Guiness" - tee hee
(harmless! I'm starting to sound like Winter! 
)
! I think they ALL deserve record contracts! 
Can honestly say I liked ALL the top 12 this year...even Joseph that got voted out first (bad song choice) . What a sweetie ...and still at school!
