Isabel Lucas (born 29 January 1985) is an
AustraliaAustralia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the continental mainland , the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans...
n actress perhaps best known for her role as Tasha Andrews on the Australian
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Home and AwayHome and Away is a Logie Award-winning Australian soap opera that has been produced in Sydney by the Seven Network since July 1987. It premiered in January 1988 and is the second longest-running drama on Australian television, winning more than 30 Logie Awards.The show initially focused on the...
(2003–2006) and for her active role in various
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awareness organisations including Greenpeace International. Lucas moved to Los Angeles in early 2008 and has since been featured in film and television projects including
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.
Lucas was born in
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, Victoria, Australia.
Isabel Lucas (born 29 January 1985) is an
AustraliaAustralia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the continental mainland , the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans...
n actress perhaps best known for her role as Tasha Andrews on the Australian
televisionTelevision is a widely used telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images, either monochromatic or color, usually accompanied by sound. "Television" may also refer specifically to a television set, television programming or television transmission...
soap operaA soap opera, sometimes called "soap" for short, is an ongoing, episodic work of dramatic fiction presented in serial format on television or radio. The name "soap opera" stems from the original dramatic serials broadcast on radio that had soap manufacturers such as Procter & Gamble,...
Home and AwayHome and Away is a Logie Award-winning Australian soap opera that has been produced in Sydney by the Seven Network since July 1987. It premiered in January 1988 and is the second longest-running drama on Australian television, winning more than 30 Logie Awards.The show initially focused on the...
(2003–2006) and for her active role in various
environmentalEnvironmentalism is a broad philosophy and social movement regarding concerns for environmental conservation and improvement of the state of the environment...
awareness organisations including Greenpeace International. Lucas moved to Los Angeles in early 2008 and has since been featured in film and television projects including
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.
Early life
Lucas was born in
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, Victoria, Australia. As a child, Lucas lived in Cairns, in Far North Queensland. She also had stints in Switzerland, Kakadu, and Australia's Northern Territory. She has a Swiss mother and an Australian father and speaks
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and
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in addition to her native
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. Lucas went to a high school named St Monica's College in Cairns, Queensland, Australia.
Career
Lucas enrolled in the Victorian College of Arts but had never pursued commercial roles until she was spotted at the
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market by Sharron Meissner, a
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. She auditioned for the role of
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in Home and Away (now played by
Amy MizziAmy Mizzi is an Australian actress. She starred as Kit Hunter in the Australian soap opera Home and Away in 2003 and early 2004. Mizzi's departure from Home and Away was announced on 13 February 2004 but she continued to appear on a recurring basis throughout 2004 and returned in August 2005...
); although 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 Andrews, created for her. Lucas won a
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(for new popular talent) for her performance on the program. Playing Tasha Andrews on
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was Lucas' first television role. She also appeared in an American television commercial for Crest toothpaste.
Lucas has been cast as Gwen in the
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,
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. She also appeared in
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as Alice. In a recent article, Lucas refused to speculate on her latest casting. Reports have suggested that although assigned to the William Morris Talent Agency in Los Angeles through the auspices of Meissner Management, Lucas obtained the role of Alice in her native Australia before moving permanently to America. It has been claimed that Lucas was handpicked by Steven Spielberg. However, Michael Bay, director and producer of
Transformers, has denied that Spielberg influenced the decision to cast her. Her next theatrical release is Daybreakers (January 8 '10).
Most recently, Lucas appeared in a tv commercial for
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tourism.
Personal life
Lucas dated her former Home & Away co-star
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until June 2006. She dated American actor
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during 2008, but they split up in August. She suffered a minor head injury in July 2008 in a car accident while she was a passenger in
Transformers co-star
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's car. She was not seriously injured, but he was cited with a misdemeanour
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. He was arrested filming the second Transformers due to a previous warrant.
Activism
In October 2007, Lucas was part of a group of 30 people from Sea Shepherd Conservation Society (including
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actress
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and Australian Surfing Instructor Vaya Phrachanh) who took part in a protest against
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in
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,
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. The group paddled out on surfboards to the
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s to attempt to stop the hunt, but they were forced to turn around after being intercepted by one of the fishing boats. They drove straight to Osaka airport and left the country to avoid being arrested for trespassing by the
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. There is still an outstanding arrest warrant for Lucas in Japan. Many Japanese consider this kind of act as an attack on their culture. However, in a news interview, Lucas stated that this was for purely economic reasons as polls show that 70% of Japanese oppose whaling. Taiji's fishery cooperative union argues that these protesters "continue wilfully to distort the facts about this fishery" and that the protesters' agendas are "based neither on international law nor on science but rather on emotion for economic self-interest." Lucas is a spokesperson for the
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, and supports many organisations including, World Vision, The Humour Foundation, Women Against Violence, Oxfam Community Aid Abroad, Global Green Plan, Save the Whales Again.
Filmography
| Year |
Film |
Role |
Notes |
| 2003-2006 |
Home and Away Home and Away is a Logie Award-winning Australian soap opera that has been produced in Sydney by the Seven Network since July 1987. It premiered in January 1988 and is the second longest-running drama on Australian television, winning more than 30 Logie Awards.The show initially focused on the...
|
Tasha Andrews |
58 episodes |
| 2009 |
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|
Alice |
Minor Role |
| The Pacific The Pacific is a World War II television drama miniseries, produced by HBO, Seven Network Australia and Dreamworks, which is currently in production. It is similar, although unrelated, to Band of Brothers...
|
Gwen |
Mini-series |
| The Waiting City |
Scarlett |
post-production |
| The Cove |
Herself |
Minor Role |
| 2010 |
Daybreakers Daybreakers is an upcoming 2010 vampire film written and directed by Peter and Michael Spierig. The film stars Ethan Hawke, Willem Dafoe and Sam Neill. Filming took place in Australia from July to September 2007. Daybreakers is scheduled to be released on January 8, 2010.-Premise:In 2019, a plague...
|
Alison Bromley |
awaiting release |
| Red Dawn Red Dawn is an upcoming 2010 war film being directed by Dan Bradley and written by Jeremy Passmore, Carl Ellsworth and Tony Gilroy based on the 1984 film of the same name. The remake stars Chris Hemsworth and Josh Peck as brothers Jed and Matt Eckert. The film is scheduled to be released on...
|
Erica |
Pre-Production |