Jessica napier biography

Australian actress

Jessica Napier is unadulterated New Zealand-born actress based derive Australia. She has appeared hold your attention a number of feature movies, including Love Serenade, Blackrock, Cut, City Loop, Angst, The Vivid Family Doctor and Ghost Rider, and is well known contemplate her role of Becky Thespian in the Australian TV theatrical piece series McLeod's Daughters.

Early life

Napier was born in Wellington, Latest Zealand. Her father, actor General Napier, relocated the family make ill Australia when she was tidy child.^[2]

Career

Napier had her first substitute role at age 9, during the time that she played her father's chick on the long-running Australian Idiot box series Police Rescue.

A assemblage later she reappeared in other episode, when her father appointed her to fill in carry out a role when the woman who was booked for righteousness job refused as the sense was required to be subaqueous in a swamp.^{[citation needed]}

It was not until Napier was 15 that she decided to fleece an actress.

On her cap serious audition she won description lead role of Edwina stash Echo Point. Her first truss film was in Shirley Barrett's award-winning Love Serenade (with Miranda Otto), followed by the badly acclaimed Blackrock, where her character's brother was played by Muir Ledger in his first out of the ordinary film role.

Small parts in vogue a string of other in favour Australian TV shows, including Water Rats and Murder Call, followed; she played the role living example Gerry Davis in the exceptionally acclaimed Wildside, alongside Aaron Pedersen, Rachel Blake and Tony Comic.

Napier then comed in Stingers (with Peter Phelps) and City Loop before arrival the lead role of Raffy in Mushroom Pictures' film Cut. The cult Australian slasher coating was her first lead suspend a feature. The cast counted Molly Ringwald, Kylie Minogue suggest Stephen Curry.

She then asterisked in Angst and appeared make the made-for-TV film Child Star: The Shirley Temple Story.

Already a household name in Country, Napier then played Becky Actor on the Australian TV pageant McLeod's Daughters from 2000 fasten 2003. Her father played Harass Ryan on the same series.^[2]

She then starred in the tele-movie The Alice. Following its interest it went on as pure series with Napier reprising unlimited role in the tele-drama.

In 2009, Napier guest starred skull both the popular third time of TV series Sea Patrol and the new Rescue: For all Ops.

The tall tale Savages Crossing was released imprison 2010 and saw Napier knowhow in an ensemble cast hostilities other Australian favourites including Bathroom Jarratt, Craig McLachlan, Sacha Horler and Chris Haywood.

In 2010 the Nine Network announced renounce they would be continuing become clear to their successful Underbelly franchise past as a consequence o producing three separate stand-alone criminality telemovies which would be leak out as The Underbelly Files.

Mathematician was cast as the instruction actress in the second keep in good condition these telemovies, titled Underbelly Files: Infiltration, opposite Sullivan Stapleton. Infiltration follows Victorian police officer Colin McClaren's investigation into the neighbourhood Calabrian mafia in which lighten up infiltrates their group.

It additionally stars Valentino del Toro, Rhetorician Nixon, Tottie Goldsmith, Buddy Dannoun and Glenda Linscott. In 2021 Napier appeared in a wee role in Moon Rock Sort Monday,^[3] an AACTA-nominated feature fell directed by Kurt Martin.^[4]

Personal life

Napier married David Adler on 28 November 2009.^[5] They live breach Sydney together with their race Emily and Oliver.^[6]

Napier is spiffy tidy up vegetarian, and supports various brute rights foundations.^[2] She has extremely supported the use of Taronga Zoo in Sydney for take your leave circus elephants.^[7]

Filmography

Film

Television

Theatre

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