Kestie Morassi

Kestie Morassi is an Australian actress born in Adelaide, Australia, where she lived until she was 13 years old. She is currently best known for her performance as backpacker Kristy Earl in 2005's acclaimed horror "Wolf Creek", for which she was nominated for an AFI for Best Supporting Actress 2006. Morassi has been in the business for almost ten years. The attractive actress has worked consistently in both local and international television, including "BeastMaster", "Stingers" and "The Secret Life of Us" before making the transition to films in 2002 alongside an all-star cast including Bryan Brown, Toni Collette, Sam Neill and John Goodman in "Dirty Deeds" which saw her nominated for a Best Supporting Actor award by the Film Critics Circle of Australia. Morassi has also appeared in "Darkness Falls", "Travelling Light", "Strange Bedfellows", "Thunderstruck", "The Illustrated Family Doctor", and "Josh Jarman" before getting her international break in the UK box-office success "Wolf Creek", which screened at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival.

In recent work, Morassi played whip-cracking brothel manager Natalie in Foxtel's groundbreaking drama "Satisfaction" and portrays sultry and infatuated criminal defense lawyer Zarah Garde-Wilson in the Nine Network TV drama series "Underbelly". Closing credits indicate a body double was used for some scenes.

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