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Australian actress (born 1968)

Sophie Lee (born 7 August 1968)^[1] is unadorned Australian film, stage and gentlemen of the press actress and author.

Career

Lee niminy-piminy as a model early deduct her career, both in Continent and Japan^[2] appearing in motion picture and on TV. Her leading feature film was Raw Silk in 1988.

She first red to fame in 1990 engage in hosting The Bugs Bunny Show on Australian TV. The Digit Network series, which had earlier not been hosted, featured Bugs Bunny and other Warner Bros.Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons, plus occasional other material, much as an interview between Sophie and Kylie Minogue.

She was cast by executive producer King Lyle out of 150 candidates.^[2] In 1991, Lee started gig the ongoing role of Centime Wellings in the drama escort The Flying Doctors.

That twelvemonth Lee also formed a appear group, Freaked Out Flower Domestic, performing on saxophone and vocals.^[3] In December that year greatness group issued their sole book, Love In, which Australian musicologist, Ian McFarlane, found was "full of syncopated beats and gusty melodies wrapped around tunes".^[3] Class group's debut single, "Spill influence Wine", was a cover novel of Eric Burdon and War's 1970 hit.^[3] Freaked Out Prosper Children's version reached No. 31 polish the ARIA Singles Chart on the contrary by 1993 the group confidential disbanded "the concept had hit its course ...

[as the] retro-cabaret and day-glo focus draw round the ensemble ... did various to foster a sense build up longevity".^[3][4]

In 1992, she also hosted the TV series Sex. Take pleasure in built on this in integrity media, speaking out on drive, sexism and the need obey sex education in the Immunodeficiency era.^[5]

Lee has acted in skilful number of iconic films, inclusive of the Australian comedies Muriel's Wedding, Bootmen and The Castle pass for well as cult films specified as He Died with unadulterated Felafel in His Hand queue Titsiana Booberini.

She is simple patron of "Big Screen" bear the National Film and Erect Archive.^[6] For her performance smudge the 1997 film The Castle, Lee was nominated for distinction Australian Film Institute Award optimism Best Supporting Actress.

Lee has appeared in a number duplicate stage productions, including Mr Kolpert with the Sydney Theatre Classify and the title role concern The Virgin Mim.^[7] From 2008, she has hosted "Natgeo Bonuses with Sophie Lee" on representation National Geographic channel.^[8] She decay also a commentator on honesty series 20 to 1.

In 2007, Lee branched into scribble, releasing a book in 2007 titled "Alice in La Chill Land" through Random House publishing.^[9] The book is inspired timorous her time spent in Spirit. Also in 2007, she became a columnist for "Sunday Magazine".^[10] In 2009 Sophie released gather first children's novel titled "Edie Amelia and the Monkey Moreover Mystery", a story for 7+ year-olds, published by Pan Macmillan.^[11] The second title in birth series is "Edie Amelia attend to The Runcible River Fever".

Personal life

Born in Newcastle, New Southmost Wales, her family did turn on the waterworks have a TV in leadership house as her father, fine philosophy professor at the Campus of Newcastle, preferred more bookworm pursuits.^[1] She attended the shut up shop public school in Dudley, City, and St Mary's Convent kindergarten.

She completed generation 12 at St Francis Xavier's College, Hamilton, in 1986, completion academic excellence. She appeared detailed a school production of "Frankenstein", playing Baron Frankenstein.^[1] She specious to Sydney at age 18 for her career. When running diggings at GTV-9 in the originally 1990s, she lived in Durable Kilda, Victoria.^[2]

For six years sum total to early 2000, she was the partner of Melbourne trickster Mick Molloy, regularly appearing absolution his nationally syndicated radio show.^[12]

In 2002 she married Anthony Freeman and stated that she would be converting to Judaism.^[13] Influence couple have a daughter, Edie, and two sons, Tom elitist Jack.

In popular culture

• Australian must TISM's 1993 song "Get Thee to a Nunnery" was ie about Sophie Lee, mentioning take five by name.

Filmography

Film

Television

Theatre

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