Isabel Lucas
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Isabel Lucas (born January 29, 1985 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia) is an Australian actress. As a child Isabel Lucas lived in Melbourne, Australia, then in Switzerland for a year but later moved to a small mining town in Kakadu National Park in the Northern Territory with her sister, Swiss mother and Australian father. She now resides in Sydney's North Shore. Until October 2006, she played Tasha Andrews on the successful Australian TV soap Home and Away.
In school, Isabel was involved in drama and enrolled in courses with the Victorian College of Arts but had never pursued commercial roles until she was spotted at the Port Douglas market in Tropical North Queensland by Sharron Meissner, a Sydney theatrical agent. She auditioned for the role of Kit Hunter in Home and Away (now played by Amy Mizzi); while the producer of the show, Julie McGauran, felt that role was not right for Isabel, she was sufficiently impressed to have a new character (Tasha) created for her. Lucas won a Logie Award (for new popular talent) for her performance on the program.
Lucas is a spokesperson for the National Breast Cancer Awareness program.
Lucas dated co-star Chris Hemsworth on and off until June 2006.
Isabel Lucas supports and is an ambassador to many organizations including:
- World Vision
- The Humour Foundation
- Women Against Violence
- Seeing Eye Dogs Australia
- Oxfam Community Aid Abroad
- Global Green Plan[1]
and appeared in an American Television Commercial for Crest Toothpaste.
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