Isabel Lucas

Isabel Lucas
Lucas at the open of the Christian Dior couture Sydney CBD store in January 2013.
Born	(1985-01-29) 29 January 1985 Melbourne, Australia
Nationality	Australian
Occupation	Actress, model
Years active	2003–present

Isabel Lucas (born 29 January 1985)^[1] is an Australian actress and model. She is best known for her roles in Home and Away (2003–2006), Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009), Daybreakers (2009), The Pacific (2010), Immortals (2011), and Red Dawn (2012). In 2014, she will appear alongside Nick Jonas in the thriller film Careful What You Wish For.

Early life

Lucas was born in Melbourne, Australia,^[2][1] the daughter of Beatrice, a special needs teacher, and Andrew, a pilot.^[3] Her father is Australian and her mother is Swiss, and she speaks German and French in addition to her native English.^[1] As a child, Lucas lived in Cairns, Queensland. She also lived in Switzerland and Kakadu, in the Northern Territory.^[4] Lucas attended St. Monica's College in Cairns.^[5]

Career

Lucas at the 2011 WonderCon

Lucas was involved in drama during her school years and attended courses at Victorian College of Arts and Queensland University of Technology. But Lucas had never pursued commercial roles until Sharron Meissner, a Sydney talent agent, claims to have discovered Lucas while she was vacationing in Port Douglas. In fact, it was a pre-arranged meeting. Even today, the media claim she was 'discovered under a mango tree in Port Douglas'. She auditioned for the role of Klit Hunter in Home and Away; 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.^[1] Lucas won a Logie Award (for new popular talent) for her performance on the series.^[1]

In 2009, she appeared in the vampire science-fiction thriller film Daybreakers with Willem Dafoe. While working with Steven Spielberg on the World War II miniseries The Pacific, Spielberg suggested Lucas for the role of Alice in the sequel Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, where he served as executive producer for the film with Michael Bay as the director.^[6]

In 2009, she was cast in the remake of the 1984 film Red Dawn, alongside Josh Peck and Josh Hutcherson, and Home and Away, alongside then real-life former boyfriend Chris Hemsworth.^{[citation needed]} The film was originally going to be released in late 2010, but due to financial problems it was pushed back to September 2011,^{[citation needed]} then officially released in November 2012.

In 2011, Lucas played the goddess Athena in the fantasy film Immortals and signed on to appear in Terrence Malick's film Knight of Cups.

In November 2012, Lucas was featured as the main character in the music video for "Give Me Love" by British singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran.^[7]

In March 2013, it was announced that Lucas will star alongside Nick Jonas in the 2014 thriller Careful What You Wish For.^[8]

Activism

In October 2007, Lucas was part of a group of 30 people from Surfers for Cetaceans, including American actress Hayden Panettiere, surfers David Rastovich and Vaya Phrachanh who took part in a protest against dolphin culling in Taiji, Wakayama, Japan.^[9] The group paddled out on surfboards to the dolphins 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 Kansai International Airport and left the country to avoid being arrested for trespassing by the Japanese police. There is still an outstanding arrest warrant for Lucas in Japan. In a news interview, Lucas stated that the cull was grounded on purely economic reasons, claiming polls show that 70% of Japanese oppose whaling. Taiji's fishery cooperative union argues that these protesters "continue willfully 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".^[10]

Lucas is a spokesperson for the Australian National Breast Cancer Foundation^[11] and supports many organisations, including World Vision,^[12] The Humour Foundation,^[13] Women Against Violence,^{[14][citation needed]} Oxfam Community Aid Abroad,^[15] Global Green Plan,^[16] Save the Whales Again^[17] and Sea Shepherd.^[18]

In 2010, Lucas and the Summit on the Summit team climbed to the top of Mount Kilimanjaro to raise awareness about the global clean water crisis.^[19]

Lucas, a vegetarian,^[20] was nominated as one of Australia's Sexiest Vegetarian Celebrities on PETAAsiaPacific.com for 2010.^[21]

Filmography

Lucas at the Paris Hilton: Marquee The Star Sydney, 30 March 2012

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Isabel Lucas.

• Isabel Lucas at the Internet Movie Database