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01-05-2005 05:55 PM |
Bringing this over. ;)
From Melbourne's Herald Sun (Australian Newspaper)
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Emilie a Ravin beauty
03jan05
REMEMBER the name Emilie de Ravin because we think it's a name you're going to be hearing a bit of.
With a hit US television series about to air in Australia and breathtaking looks, the Melbourne girl could very well be our next big thing.
De Ravin stars alongside Party of Five's Matthew Fox as a pregnant teen stranded on a desert island in Channel 7's new series, Lost.
The brainchild of Alias creator J.J. Abrams, Lost is in its third month of screening in the US and has been nominated for a Golden Globe for this month's awards show.
It was also the second highest rating new drama in the US this year after Desperate Housewives.
The 23-year-old de Ravin -- who grew up in Mt Eliza and went to Toorak College -- fell into acting almost accidentally after several years of performing with the Australian Ballet School.
"I just thought I had always wanted to try this and if I don't now I'll never do it . . . and I loved it," she said.
"I know I've made the right decision (to pursue acting) but I do miss the ballet."
A few auditions later, de Ravin landed a role in TV show Beastmaster and later Roswell.
She told The Eye last week that life is going just brilliantly for her and after hearing her schedule, we know what she means.
In Melbourne to visit family for Christmas, de Ravin will head back to exotic Hawaii this week where filming for Lost continues.
Then she's off to the Golden Globes on January 16 and later to the Sundance Film Festival in Utah where the independent film she stars in, Brick, will premiere.
Amid that hectic line-up, she is also hoping to spend some time in LA where she lives with her two favourite things, actor boyfriend Josh and poodle Bella.
She said Josh and Bella would definitely be the two things she would choose to take to a deserted island.
"Also a good book but I'd probably get bored of that after a while and a good brush because my hair gets quite tangled."
Lost screens on Channel 7 from next month.
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Emilie to become a local hero
By FIONA BYRNE
02jan05
PETITE blonde Emilie De Ravin's days of spending Christmas and New Year tramming around Melbourne, unnoticed, for bargains at stocktaking sales are numbered.
De Ravin, 23, is poised to follow Sarah Wynter, Portia De Rossi, Julian McMahon and Anthony La Paglia as an Australian making good on the small screen in the US.
She is one of the leading lights in popular US drama series Lost, which also stars Matthew Fox and Dominic Monaghan, which Channel 7 will air later this month.
While the former dancer has a significant fan base overseas, thanks to her role in the sci-fi series Roswell, she remains mostly unknown in hometown Melbourne.
De Ravin and her actor boyfriend of 2 1/2 years, Josh, spent Christmas and New Year in Melbourne with De Ravin's parents and two sisters.
The ambitious actor said she had no qualms leaving the comfort of home for the uncertainty of LA at 18.
"I went there by myself, then Mum came out when I knew I was going to stay," she said. "She helped me find a place and helped me move in.
"I was always very independent, so while it was scary it was also exciting. It was a challenge, which I like."
De Ravin's profile is likely to soar this year as she joins the Aussie onslaught headed by Naomi Watts and Poppy Montgomery at the Sundance Film Festival in Utah later this month.
She will be there supporting Brick, the film in which she has a feature role.
And she will be at the Golden Globes -- Lost has been nominated as Best TV Drama.
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