Sunday July 19, 2009
By MUMTAJ BEGUM
Be charmed by the wave of Australian talent sweeping US television. They are waltzing to Tinseltown and into our living rooms…
In the TV-scape, too, the Australians are proving to be an asset. Here, we take a look at 14 hardworking Australians (in no particular order) who are (or have been) regulars in our living rooms.
13. Emilie de Ravin (Lost) – It would not be right if Australia was not represented in a series that had characters of virtually every nationality! Before embarking on Lost, the 27-year-old has been chalking up an impressive resume that includes Roswell, NCIS and CSI: Miami. After Lost, she secured a tiny role in the current gangster movie Public Enemies and a considerably bigger part opposite Robert Pattinson in Remember Me.
http://www.star-ecentral.com/news/story.asp?file=/2009/7/19/tvnradio/4311040&sec=tvnradio
In a story from Variety, Summit Entertainment has picked Emilie de Ravin (Lost), Pierce Brosnan and Chris Cooper to star with Robert Pattinson (Twilight) in Remember Me.
The movie will be directed by Allen Coulter. It begins production in New York on June 15. Lena Olin is currently in talks to be added to the cast.
Pattinson is a man who is very much effected by the death of his brother. This has split up his parents (Brosnan and Olin). De Ravin will play a young woman who, after undergoing a similar tragedy, decides to make her life the best it can be. Chris Cooper might play the role of her father.
The script was written by Will Fetters and rewritten by Jenny Lumet (Rachel Getting Married).
http://www.movieweb.com/news/NEuwwyyCsR4exC
We wouldn’t mind being stranded on a desert island with Lost’s de Ravin, much like her character Claire’s fellow passengers on Oceanic Flight 815. Absent from the Lost stage for a while now, de Ravin turns up in this summer’s Public Enemies, alongside the equally hot Christian Bale and Johnny Depp.
http://www.ew.com/ew/gallery/0,,20274181_3,00.html
Marc-Andre Grondin, Ellen Barkin and Famke Janssen are starring in “The Chameleon,” a psychological thriller being directed by Jean Paul Salome.
Grondin, a French-Canadian actor nominated for a Cesar in France, is making his English-language debut, as is Salome.
The script, written by Salome and Natalie Carter, revolves around the reunion of a young man (Grondin) and his family after being positively identified in an unsolved missing-persons case. The reunion turns bittersweet when suspicions arise about whether he really is their son.
Barkin will play the mom, and Janssen is an FBI agent. Nick Stahl and Emilie de Ravin also star.
The project was inspired by a real person profiled in an August article in the New Yorker titled “The Chameleon: The Many Lives of Frederic Bourdin.” Bourdin assumed at least 39 identities, three of them missing teens.
Bill Perkins, Cooper Richey, Ram Bergman and Marie-Castille Schaar are producing. Perkins and Richey are also financiers.
ICM packaged the project and is handling North American rights. ICM also reps Salome.
Grondin, repped by ICM and Marc Hamou at Thruline, ap¬peared in “Che.”
The CAA-repped Barkin next appears in “Brooklyn’s Finest” opposite Richard Gere.
Janssen, repped by CAA and Brookside Management, co-stars in Pierre Morel’s “Taken” opposite Liam Neeson.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/film/news/e3i79da12a20aa4355a8ae27240c7c6217a
Dead or alive, Claire Littleton will be once more be found on Lost when the series returns for its sixth season – but in the meantime, actress Emilie de Ravin has kept herself busy, costarring with Cybill Shepherd in Lifetime Networks’ adaptation of Nora Roberts’ High Noon premiering March 21, and with Johnny Depp, Christian Bale and a veritable who’s who of Hollywood talent in the upcoming gangster film Public Enemies.
But she’s most excited about playing a 12-year-old. With a beak.
“I am so excited right now – I just booked my first animated job!” de Ravin exclaims. “It’s this movie called The Guardians of Ga’hoole and Zack Snyder is directing it. It’s a movie about this group of Australian owls and it’s just a wonderful story. It’s adapted from the [Kathryn Lasky] books.”
And how does an actress devoted to throwing herself, heart and soul, into embodying her characters prep to become an adolescent owl?
“That was the thing!” de Ravin laughs. “I was auditioning and I was, like, ‘Huh! What kind of voice?!’ So I just sat at home for a day and created some voices and went in and … yep!”
Watch for the premiere of The Guardians of Ga’Hoole in late 2009 or early 2010.
http://channelguidemag.wordpress.com/2009/01/23/losts-emilie-de-ravin-gets-animated/
