Kimberley Joseph

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Kimberley Joseph
Born	August 30, 1973 (1973-08-30) (age 34) Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Kimberley Joseph (born August 30, 1973) is a Canadian-Australian actress and former model, and is known for her appearances in Home and Away, Cold Feet and Lost.

Contents 1 Biography 1.1 Early life 1.2 Career 1.3 Personal life 2 References 3 External links

[edit] Biography

[edit] Early life

Kimberley Joseph was born in 1973 to Joe and Wendy Joseph in Vancouver, British Columbia. Three years later her family moved to Gold Coast, Queensland, where she attended St Hilda's School for nine years. She then spent another four years at school in Montreux, Switzerland. She began a degree in Arts and Commerce at Bond University but did not complete it, having moved on to her career in acting.^[1]

[edit] Career

Joseph's first role was in the soap opera Paradise Beach playing Cassie Barsby. Like her late co-star Megan Connolly, she went on to a role in Home and Away as Joanne Brennan and played Nemesis in Hercules: The Legendary Journeys. She also played the recurring role of Dr. Grace Connelly in All Saints in 2004

In 1995 she co-hosted the Australian domestic Gladiators as well as all three "Ashes" specials and an edition of International Gladiators. She co-hosted some episodes of Hey Hey its Saturday at this time and she also posed naked for the celebrity art nude magazine Black+White.

Four years later she moved to New York to study at the Atlantic Theater Company (where her future Lost co-star Matthew Fox also attended). Joseph then moved to Los Angeles to "get away from that soap-star/TV presenter image and do some proper acting".^[2] While there she secured an audition in the UK for Cold Feet, a programme she knew nothing about. Her character, Jo Ellison, was introduced in the fourth series and she appeared until the series ended, boosting her profile in Britain. Following the end of Cold Feet in 2003, Joseph received her American Green Card and moved back to Los Angeles.^[1]

In 2004 she appeared as a flight attendant in the pilot of the ABC series Lost (where she spoke the first lines of the series). Her character was supposed to have died in the pilot episode, but she was liked by the producers so much that she was kept alive.^[3] She returned at the beginning of the second season, when it was revealed that she had survived the crash along with other passengers from the tail section of the plane. It was at this point that Joseph's character was given the name, Cindy Chandler. She appeared in several episodes, playing a large role in the episode "The Other 48 Days" before her character disappeared in the episode "Abandoned". She returned to Lost in its third season in 2007, featuring in advertising for the series return after a hiatus. Kimberley's character appeared in the episode "Stranger in a Strange Land" when it was revealed Cindy was living with the others. Kimberley returned to Lost in the May 02 2007 episode "The Brig."

Although a producer suggested she not go changing too much after filming the first episode, Joseph had her hair cut. When she came back to film season 2 she was supposed to have been on the island for 50 days and yet her hair was shorter because she had cut it in the interim. Joseph was then required to wear a Rambo scarf around her head, which "just looked ridiculous."^[3]

Kimberley appeared on the TLC show Take Home Chef, in the episode "Kimberly" (sic) that first aired June 15 2007. She was seemingly chosen at random in a grocery store, as is the show's typical episode. She and host chef Curtis Stone, a fellow Australian, then recognized each other from TV shows the other had been on back home.

She will appear in the upcoming movie Frost/Nixon playing tennis ace Evonne Goolagong

[edit] Personal life

In 2003, Joseph was embroiled in tabloid allegations that she had an affair with Cold Feet co-star James Nesbitt.^[4]. She is currently single.^{[citation needed]}

Joseph lives in LA with the dog that she rescued.^[3] Kimberley is fluent in Spanish and French.^{[citation needed]} She has studied ballet in Switzerland.^{[citation needed]}

Joseph has been involved in Aid International projects highlighting the effects of Soviet nuclear testing. In 2003 she visited Semey, Kazakhstan, where she photographed victims of radiation poisoning. The photographs were displayed in the Scottish Parliament building in 2004.^[5]

Preceded by N/A

Co-Host of Gladiators (with Aaron Pedersen and Mike Hammond) 1995-1997

Succeeded by Zoe Naylor (2008 revival)

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Kimberley Joseph official website
• Kimberley Joseph at the Internet Movie Database