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Biography |
Emma Harrison is a fashion model and actress. She was born
in Christchurch, New Zealand, and raised in Australia.
Harrison started modelling at the age of 15, when she was
spotted in the audience of a beauty contest and was signed
by a local modelling agency. She started her television
career with commercials, including Palmolive and Kentucky
Fried Chicken.
After she was signed, she spent the next two years working
with Impulse and Coca-Cola. She also served as a feature
model for many hair and beauty lines. Harrison also appeared
in many pop culture magazines, eventually making appearances
for many designers, including Donna Karan.
Harrison was discovered by the casting director of the
popular TV series "Neighbours" and the team behind the show
decided to write her into the program as part of the
starring cast. In her part as Joanna Hartman she was
nominated for Best New Talent at the Logie Awards.
Emma travelled to England where she was already known,
thanks to Neighbours. While in the UK, she hosted two
television programmes, appeared on the covers of many
magazines such as FHM, Loaded, Maxim, and Inside Sport and
was selected as a presenter for the BAFTA Awards. Emma also
appeared in the Australian Playboy as well as recording a
celeb special for Playboy TV in an effort to distance
herself from her Neighbours good-girl image.
She has appeared in commercials for Budweiser, Taco Bell,
Subway, ABC Sports and TNT and has had appearances on "Ally
McBeal" and "Just Shoot Me".
Harrison has had two roles in her brief feature film career.
She was in the Coen Brothers' "Intolerable Cruelty" (seen
briefly as 'Santa Fe Tart #6') and an extra in Robert
Altman's "The Company" (as a waitress).
In 2004 Emma appeared in eight installments of E!'s Style
Network's "Style Court" and she also appeared in a reality
show called "Butler Bootcamp". |
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