Isabel Lucas - Biography

Last Editor: wren7maps				Isabel Lucas Biography -   Name : Isabel Lucas Born : 29 January 1985 (1985-01-29) (age 24) Flag of Australia Melbourne, Australia Occupation : Actress,model

Isabel Lucas Trivia -

Isabel is of Swiss origin on her mother's side. She speaks French and German in addition to her native English. She received the Australian TV Week Logie Award for Best New Talent (April 18, 2004). The "Home and Away" (1988) writers created the character of "Tasha Andrews" especially for her. She studied drama at the Victorian College of Arts, and the Queensland University of Technology. She is a big animal lover. She has lots of animals on her family's acreage in North Queensland, including birds, guinea pigs, horses, dogs and cats. Along with other protesters (including "Heroes" (2006/II) star Hayden Panettiere), she paddled out on surfboards to a pod of dolphins off the coast of Japan to protest the killing of dolphins on Thursday 1st of November 2007. She got involved in a car crash with Shia LaBeouf in July 2008. Lucas escaped with only scratches and bruises but LeBeouf was left with a crushed hand needing extensive surgery. LeBeouf's car had been hit by another vehicle traveling at 70mph and running a red light.

Isabel Lucas Detailed Biography -

Born on 29 January 1985, Isabel Lucas is an Australian actress who is best known for her role as Tasha Andrews on the Australian television soap opera Home and Away (2003–2006) and for her active role in various environmental awareness organisations including Greenpeace International. Lucas shifted to Los Angeles in early 2008 and has since been featured in film and television projects including Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen and Rights Revoked, a documentary shot with friend and actress Elissa Sursara for Animal Planet. Acting career of Isabel  Lucas is quite remarkable. She got enrolled in the Victorian College of Arts but had never pursued commercial roles until she was spotted at the Port Douglas market by Sharron Meissner, a Sydney theatrical agent. She gave audition for the role of Kit Hunter in Home and Away (now played by Amy Mizzi). Though the producer of the show, Julie McGauran, felt that the role was not right for Isabel, she was sufficiently impressed to have a new character, Tasha Andrews, created for her. Lucas won a Logie Award (for new popular talent) for her performance on the program. Tasha Andrews on Home and Away was Lucas' first television role. She also made appearance in an American television commercial for Crest toothpaste. Lucas is presently working on her film debut, the forthcoming vampire thriller Daybreakers, that has been set for release in January 2010 and starring Ethan Hawke. Lucas has been cast as Gwen in the Steven Spielberg World War II miniseries titled The Pacific. She also appeared in Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen as Alice. In a recent article, Lucas refused to speculate on her latest casting. The reports have suggested that though 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 shifting 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. So far as her personal life is concerned, Isabel Lucas was born in Melbourne, 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 German and French as well as her native English. Lucas went to a high school named St. Monicas in Cairns, Australia. Lucas dated her former Home & Away co-star Chris Hemsworth until June 2006. She dated American actor Adrian Grenier 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 Shia LaBeouf's car. She was not seriously injured, but he was cited with a misdemeanour DUI. In October 2007, Lucas was part of a group of 30 people from Sea Shepherd Conservation Society (including American actress Hayden Panettiere and Australian Surfing Instructor Vaya Phrachanh) who took part in a protest against whaling in Taiji, Wakayama, Japan.The group paddled out on surfboards to the whales 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 Japanese police. There is still an outstanding arrest warrant for Lucas in Japan.Many Japanese consider this kind of act as an attack on their culture. 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 National Breast Cancer Foundation and supports quite a number of organisations. These include World Vision, The Humour Foundation, Women Against Violence, Seeing Eye Dogs Australia, Oxfam Community Aid Abroad, Global Green Plan, Save the Whales Again.