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George Robert Lazenby was born September 5, 1939 in Goulburn, New South Wales, Australia, to Sheila Joan (Bodel) and George Edward Lazenby. He moved to London, England in 1964, after serving in the Australian Army. Before becoming an actor, he worked as an auto mechanic, used car salesman, prestige car salesman, and as a male model, in London, England. In 1968, Lazenby was cast as "James Bond", despite his only previous acting experience being in commercials, and his only film appearance being a bit-part in a 1965 Italian-made Bond spoof. Lazenby won the role based on a screen-test fight scene, the strength of his interviews, fight skills and audition footage. A chance encounter with Bond series producer Albert R. Broccoli in a hair salon in 1966, in London, had given Lazenby his first shot at getting the role. Broccoli had made a mental note to remember Lazenby as a possible candidate at the time when he thought Lazenby looked like a Bond. The lengths Lazenby went to to get the role included spending his last pounds on acquiring a tailor-made suit from Sean Connery's tailor, which was originally made for Connery, along with purchasing a very Bondish-looking Rolex watch.
Lazenby quit the role of Bond right before the premiere of his only film, On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969), citing he would get other acting roles, and that his Bond contract, which was fourteen pages thick, was too demanding on him.
In his post-Bond career, Lazenby has acted in TV movies, commercials, various recurring roles in TV series, the film series "Emmanuelle", several Bond movie spoofs, TV guest appearances, provided voice for several animated movies and series, and several Hong Kong action films, using his martial arts expertise.- Producer
- Actor
Mark Webber is a nine-time Formula-1 Grand Prix winner, widely recognized as one of the greatest racing drivers of his generation. After retiring from Formula-1 in 2013 at the end of his 12th season, he joined Porsche for their return to Le Mans and the FIA World Endurance Championship in 2014. Though victory at the 24 Hours evaded him, he was crowned FIA World Endurance Champion in 2015, a year before he announced his retirement from professional racing.- Grant Freeman was born on 23 August 1979 in Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia.
- Tony Srejic believes through his experience in life that being a compassionate and charitable person is what matters to him. He dedicates his life to helping and serving others. He is of Catholic faith and volunteers as a Pastoral Worker in the Church. He is married to his long time friend Franca Srejic.
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David Wiesner was born on 12 September 1983 in Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia. He is an actor, known for Anzac Girls (2014), The Colour of Kerosene (2012) and Love, CV (2013).- Heather McKay was born on 31 July 1941 in Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia. She is an actress, known for Double Negative (1980), Sporting Nation (2012) and This Is Your Life (1975). She has been married to Brian H. McKay since 13 December 1965.
- Glenn Lazarus was born on 11 December 1965 in Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia. He has been married to Tess Lazarus since 1990. They have three children.
- Desmond Rolfe was born on 24 July 1912 in Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia. He was an actor, known for Number 96 (1972), Red Sky at Morning (1944) and The Stranger (1964). He died on 26 October 1979 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
- Actress
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Hannah was born on 27 October 1994 in New South Wales, Australia. Keenly dramatic from an early age, Hannah finally persuaded her doting parents, Elaine and Peter, to enrol her in acting classes at the age of ten (indeed, so persuasive was Hannah that her parents had, in fact, applied for her to be admitted for early entry to Law School). Despite being the youngest in her acting class, Hannah regarded her tender years as an asset and exploited her mastery of 'pester power' to secure fabulous kiddie roles. Clearly her youth would never interfere with her determination to perform. Hannah has maintained her passion for acting and has built a steady repertoire of performances, with almost eight years' experience treading the boards.
Having lived most of her life in Canberra, Hannah has taken advantage of the broad range of opportunities offered by the national capital - and the fact that Canberra is conveniently located close to Sydney, the true home of performance opportunity. Most of her training has been at that beacon for talent, Canberra's National Acting School, where she has studied under the watchful eye of acting teacher par excellence and now good friend, Bobby Farquhar. Hannah won a scholarship to study full time from 2009 to 2010 and managed to persuade her way into an extension of the scholarship until she left in December 2012 (her parents regarded this as further evidence of a brilliant legal career gone to waste). She also gained a host of frequent travelling points for the road to Sydney, where she attended a broad variety of courses conducted by well-known and highly respected directors and actors prominent in the Australian television and film industry. In December 2009 Hannah joined a class at The Australian Film and Television Academy (TAFTA), one of Australia's most highly regarded acting institutions. Despite the fact that, once again this was an adult class and Hannah was the youngest student, she refused to be daunted and made the most of what was a rare and valuable opportunity. Her 'pester power' clearly remained undiminished.
As Hannah will tell anyone who asks (and lots of people who don't), her most memorable experience as an actor thus far has been studying in Los Angeles, 'where stars are born'. She has been to Los Angeles on three separate occasions, proving that Aussie accents are still the rage in the City of Angels. The first course she attended was a Hollywood Immersive with director Lilly Dawson (sadly, no relation!) and involved full-day classes with prominent acting mentor Margie Haber at the Margie Haber Studios in Los Angeles. The second and third times Hannah travelled to Los Angeles she did so as a member of the Australian Institute for Performing Arts with Marg Haynes. She studied at a number of other renowned academies including the Young Actors' Space, Second City and Improv Olympic. Hannah found all these courses extraordinarily valuable in raising her acting to a new level and pushing her well beyond the limits of what she had achieved in Australia. She loved the thrill of performing in the US (an experience she hopes to repeat again and again if only her parents would selflessly take on those second, third and fourth jobs that would provide her the income to fly there several times a year).
Hannah is currently undertaking tertiary training in the Professional Actors Program at Actors College of Theatre and Television in Sydney (and is finally the same age as the rest of the students). This is a course that she knows will equip her to make her way in her chosen profession anywhere in the world (but preferably Los Angeles).
Acting aside,Hannah also enjoys writing and creating her own scripts and dabbling in monologues which she frequently uses for auditions. She was a member of the writing team for Canberra Dramatics' rewrite of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet in which she later played Rosaline, a part that was brought to life in the writing process. The play was renamed Take their life re-imagined and was nominated for a Canberra Area Theatre award for most creative piece. Hannah's creative monologues clearly proved their worth.
Those creative monologues proven golden again when Hannah won a place as a semi-finalist in the 2010 Vancouver Acting Competition. She was particularly delighted with this as her entry involved a monologue she had written and filmed called Anna T Mitchell.
Despite her tender years, Hannah has already attracted the interest of Australian television. She scored a part in the popular Australian television series Packed to the Rafters, in which she played a schoolgirl, and won a role as Samantha in Tricky Business in 2012. She has won roles in corporate films including The Chaplain, a motivational production for troubled children designed to encourage them to discuss their plight with the school chaplain. The film proved highly successful and was screened in all Canberra schools. Hannah's other corporate roles included the 'difficult employee' in a training film created by Gatecrasher Media for Upton Martin Management Training and designed for a leadership development program for the Defence Science Technology Organisation and the Commonwealth Scientific Industrial Research Organisation. Hannah has also appeared in a television commercial advertising the Canberra Film Festival. This was a new experience for Hannah whose facial features were used to create an animated television commercial called 'The Fifty Foot Woman'. Hannah tried to explain that she isn't fifty foot, but without success.
Hannah continues to develop her film work with some of her footage recently included in a 3D short film called BlackOut3D by Winifred Yang which is currently in the editing room. Some photos from this film are attached and illustrate the extraordinary nature of this production. The striking make-up is the work of SharpFX, which boasts a portfolio that includes The Hobbit, Matrix 2 and 3, Ghost Rider, House of Wax, Anacondas, Troy, Queen of the Damned, Babe 2, Prey and The Dark Lurking.
Throughout her school years, Hannah was involved in a number of live stage productions and performed in a broad variety of roles. Her favourites include Jekyll and Hyde, in which she played both Nellie and a male role, Simon Stride; The Wedding Singer, in which she once again performed in multiple roles including Linda and a number of other characters; and Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest in which she took the lead role of Gwendolen Fairfax.
Hannah has just completed a role in her first professional film, Good Monster, Bad Monster. This film is part of the Anthology Locks of Love by Evan Croker. The film is scheduled to premiere in the near future and promises to be both extraordinary and surprising and, by all accounts, truly ground-breaking. When asked what inspired Hannah to begin acting, she often recounts her memories of watching her first Doctor Who episode on television with her dad in 2005. Ever since, it has been her dream to win a role in a Doctor Who episode. Hannah is keen to play the Doctor's assistant, although she feels she is more likely to be cast as an alien! She adds that this would not faze her and she would be equally glad to apply her considerable talents to portraying an alien of spectacular dimensions.- John Barilaro was born on 14 November 1971 in Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia. He was previously married to Deanna.