Top 10 Hottest Australian Actresses In Hollywood
10. Miranda Otto (42) Born December 16, 1967 in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. Mostly known for playing Éowyn, the kings daughter who fell in love with Aragorn in The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers and The Return of the King. Miranda Otto also acted in movies such as The 13th Floor, What Lies Beneath, Flight of the Phoenix, War of the Worlds, The Starter Wife, Cashmere Mafia and In Her Skin
9. Nicole Kidman (43) Born Nicole
Mary Kidman on June 20, 1967 in Honolulu,
Hawaii. Though Nicole wasn’t born
in Australia,
her parents are in fact Australians and when Nicole was 4, the family returned
to their native land. Kidman is mostly known for movies such as Eyes Wide Shut,
Moulin Rouge!, The Others, The Hours, Cold Mountain,
The Stepford Wives, Bewitched and The Golden Compass.
Kidman first married Tom Cruise in 1990 with whom
she adopted a daughter, Isabella Jane, and a son, Connor Anthony. They
separated in 2001. Kidman married country singer Keith Urban in 2006 and had
their first daughter, Sunday Rose Kidman Urban, on July 7, 2008.
8. Cate Blanchett (41) Born
Catherine Élise Blanchett on May 14, 1969 in Melbourne, Australia.
Blanchett is mostly known for her award winning role in Elizabeth as Queen Elizabeth II, as well as
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. Other movies include The Talented Mr.
Ripley, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The Aviator and
Robin Hood.
Blanchett and her playwright husband and
screenwriter husband Andrew Upton married in 1997 and have three sons: Dashiell
John (born December 3, 2001), Roman Robert (born April 23, 2004) and Ignatius
Martin (born April 13, 2008).
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7. Naomi Watts (42) Born
Naomi Ellen Watts on September 28, 1968 in Shoreham,
Kent, England. Watts
didn’t actually move to Australia
until she was 14 but her grandmother was Australian so she gets a pass. Watts is known for movies such as Children of the Corn
IV, The Ring, King Kong, The Painted Veil, Funny Games and The International.
Watts has been
dating actor Liev Schreiber since 2005. They have two sons together, Alexander
“Sasha” Pete born in 2007 and Samuel “Sammy” Kai born in 2008.
6. Rose Byrne (31) Born Mary Rose
Byrne on July 24, 1979 in Balmain, Sydney,
New South Wales, Australia.
Mostly known for playing Ellen Parsons in the FX Network drama Damages but has
also been in several known movies such as Star War Episode II, Troy, Wicker
Park, Marie Antoinette, 28 Weeks Later, Knowing and Get Him to the Greek.
Byrne has a tendency to date directors such as
Gregor Jordan and Brendon Cowell. She dated Cowell for over six years and he
even followed her all the way from Sydney to New York bu they broke up in the
beginning of 2010.
5. Poppy Montgomery
(35) Born Poppy Petal Emma Elizabeth Deveraux Donahue on June 19, 1975 in Sydney, New South
Wales, Australia.
Montgomery is
known for playing Samantha Spade in the TNT drama Without a Trace but has also
acted in some random unknown movies such as Dead Man On Campus, Blonde and
Murder In The Hamptons.
Montgomery
and boyfriend, actor Adam Kaufman, have a son together, Jackson Phillip
Deveraux Montgomery Kaufman, born on December 23, 2007.
4. Yvonne Strahovski (28) Born
Yvonne Strzechowski on July 30, 1982 in Sydney,
New South Wales, Australia
to Polish parents. Mostly known for playing special agent Sarah Walker on
Chuck. Strahovski also acted a in a few unknown movies such as Gone, I Love You
Too and Matching Jack.
She sent in her audition tape for Chuck while she
was in the states auditioning for Bionic Woman. After Chuck producers saw her
undeniable chemistry with Zachary Levi, she immediately got the part of he
3. Anna Torv (32) Born April 15,
1978 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Mostly known for her role as Agent Olivia Dunham of the Fringe division in the
FOX drama Fringe. Torv had appeared in other TV Series like White Collar Blue,
Young Lions, The Secret Life of Us and Mistresses as well as the British movie
version of Frankenstein.
In December 2008, Torv married her Fringe co-star
Mark Valley, who also stars in his very own
FOX drama named Human Target where he plays Christopher Chance. Unfortunately
they divorced two years later.
2. Emilie De Ravin (28) Born
December 27, 1981 in Mount Eliza,
Victoria, Australia.
Mostly known as playing Claire Littleton on the ABC drama Lost. De Ravin is
also famous for the role Tess Harding on Roswell,
Curupira on Beastmaster and for the movie Remember Me, opposite Robert
Pattinson (Edward of Twilight).
Married boyfriend of three years, actor Josh
Janowicz, in Melbourne, Australia on June 19, 2006.
Unfortunately six months after they married they decided to separate. De Ravin
now lives in Los Angeles
with her poodle Bella.
1. Portia De Rossi (37) Born
Amanda Lee Rogers on January 31, 1973 in Horsham,
Victoria, Australia.
Mostly known for playing lawyer Nell Porter on the FOX network drama Ally
McBeal. She also appeared in shows such as Veronica’s Closet, The Twilight
Zone, Arrested Development and Better Off Ted.
In 2004 De Rossi began dating comedian and talk
show host Ellen DeGeneres and for the first time came out as being openly gay.
On August 16, 2008, De Rossi and DeGeneres tied the knot in their Beverly Hills home.
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