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Imogen Bailey
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Born
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Occupation
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Model, actress, singer
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Known for
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Neighbours character Nicola
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Imogen Bailey adalah model terkenal dari Sydney, Australia ini mendapat peran pada opera sabun terpanjang di Inggris, ‘EastEnders’. Imogen yang dijuluki the next Kylie oleh pers Inggris ini sebenarnya tak berharap banyak, meskipun mengincar kesempatan yang bisa membuatnya lebih mencuat lagi. Untuk urusan akting Imogen pernah berakting dalam film ‘Man-Thing’ yang dibintanginya bersama aktor Jack Thompson. Model cantik ini muncul ke permukaan ketika menjadi model bikini untuk majalah internasional Ralp dan FHM.
Imogen
Bailey (born 7 July 1977, Canberra) is an Australian model, actress and singer. As a
model she has been featured on the cover of men's
magazines, including Ralph, FHM
Australia, Black+White and Australian Playboy. On TV Bailey has
appeared in various reality shows, Celebrity Big Brother
(July-August 2002), Skating on Thin Ice (2005), and Celebrity Survivor (2006), which was set
in Vanuatu.
In 2008 she portrayed Nicola West on Australian TV soap opera, Neighbours
for six months. As a singer her vocals were featured on the 2003 single
"If U Want Me" by United Kingdom dance musician, Michael Woods. It peaked at No. 46 on the UK
Singles Chart and No. 1 on the component, UK dance chart; No. 62 on the ARIA
Singles Chart and No. 5 on its Dance Charts. In August 2012 Bailey
participated in the second season of the Special Broadcasting Service (SBS) TV
documentary series, Go Back to Where You Came From.
She is an advocate for animal rights and has worked on many People for the Ethical
Treatment of Animals (PETA) campaigns. Bailey also supports efforts to
dispel myths about asylum
seekers in Australia. She shares her home base between Sydney and Los
Angeles.
Biography
Early years
Imogen
Bailey was born on 7 July 1977 in Canberra. For
her primary school years she lived in the Pambula region, initially on a farm and
later in a milk bar in town. At nine years old one of her poems was published
in the local newspaper in nearby Merimbula.
For secondary education she attended Melrose High School in Pearce and then Phillip
College in Canberra. She attended a TAFE institute and studied
marketing.
Career
Modelling
Bailey
started her modelling career in the late 1990s, initially photographed for
advertisements in fashion magazines, she prepared self-published calendars from
2000 starting with "Imogen Odessey 2000". As a sports model, in
January 2001, she appeared in Inside
Sport. She appeared in bikinis, and eventually nude, for men's
magazines including in Ralph, FHM
Australia, Black+White and Australian Playboy.
She
noted that the entertainment industry tended to typecast models: "For me
the girl I am in a photo shoot is a character that is portrayed by me for the
shoot. If I am doing a sexy shoot then I play the sexy model. Now the problem
comes when you want to cross over into other avenues in the industry such as
singing or acting and people in the industry see you as just 'sexy'".
Television
In
August 2001 Bailey appeared as Carmen Jefferson for one episode of TV soap
opera, Home and Away. She has also appeared in
several reality shows including Popstars (February 2000, Australian version), Celebrity Big Brother
(July-August 2002), Skating on Thin Ice (2005), and Celebrity Survivor (2006),[11]
which was set in Vanuatu
in the South Pacific.
From
January 2008 for six months Bailey portrayed Nicola
West on TV soap opera, Neighbours. Prior to landing the role she had
undertaken acting lessons for some eight months. The character made her popular
with a wider young female audience in Australia. In the series, Nicola is
Miranda Parker's younger sister, the character was involved in controversial
story lines including an incestuous relationship with an adoptive nephew, Riley
Parker.
In
August 2012 Bailey participated in the second season of the TV documentary
series, Go Back to Where You Came From,
on Special Broadcasting Service (SBS).
Music
Bailey's
vocals were featured on the 2003 single "If U Want Me" by United
Kingdom dance musician, Michael Woods. It peaked at No. 46 on
the UK Singles Chart and No. 1 on the component,
UK dance chart. It peaked at No. 62 on the ARIA
Singles Chart, No. 5 on its Dance Charts, and No. 2 on its
Hitseekers Chart.
In
that year she also featured on Supafly's cover version of Prince's "Erotic
City". After Hurricane Katrina (August 2005) she provided a
track, "Force of Nature", for a charity album by various artists, Hurricane
Healing.US: Music That Heals, Vol. 1 (2005).
Activism and charity work
The Hot Potato
In
2013, Bailey joined John Jarratt and Hunters & Collectors front man Mark
Seymour to change thinking on asylum seekers. Bailey became the face of the
Hot Potato Campaign, which tackled the issue by visiting ten rural towns in ten
days, speaking to people using an ice-breaker of a free hot potato meal. The
campaign hoped to dispel myths about asylum seekers which persist in Australia.
Animal rights
Bailey
is outspoken on the subject of animal rights and has lent her likeness to many People for the Ethical
Treatment of Animals (PETA) campaigns. In February 2007 appeared caged
in a makeshift cramped enclosure as part of a campaign for the Human Battery
Cage: to highlight "the inhuman practice of chicken battery farming".
She told the media that "People expect Australia to be leading the world
in animal welfare. There is no excuse for the way they are treated, there are
always alternatives". The rights to sit in the cage with Bailey and Lindsay
McDougall (guitarist for Australian punk band Frenzal
Rhomb), were auctioned off on eBay by Animal Liberation. In December that
year Bailey launched a website, imforanimals.com, which focused on drawing
attention to the abuse and cruelty towards animals.
Personal life
At
16-years-old Bailey left her family home in Canberra, she moved to Sydney and started
a personal relationship with an older man, Ahmed, a Lebanse-Australian and
practising Muslim. On the SBS series, Go Back to Where You Came From
(August 2012), she revealed that he was her partner for eight years. When
staying with his family she regularly wore a hijab, and sometimes
a burqa:
"She
was a bikini model by day who read the Koran by night. She fasted during
Ramadan and even, on occasion, wore a burqa".[5][14]
Their relationship ended prior to 2001 as she focussed on modelling, "[he]
was ready to do the marriage and babies thing. But my career as a model was
blossoming, so we went in separate directions".
In
September 2008 Bailey revealed she had had anorexia
nervosa, in an interview with UK magazine, NOW: "I went through a minor, but
still not very good, anorexic stage and actually got down to less than
40 kg". Her weight loss occurred over about a year from 2000 to 2001
and was influenced by "being surrounded by other anorexics and the stress
of a break-up from an unfaithful boyfriend". Family and friends intervened
and she sought assistance for her condition.
Filmography
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Year
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Title
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Role
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Notes
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2005
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Sarah
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2005
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Veronica
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2007
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Princess Chamsous Sabah
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English
dub
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2008
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Nicola West
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88
episodes
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2009
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Ella
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Season
1, episode 1: "In the Family Way"
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2009
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Ariel Clarke
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2011
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Hazel Crow
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Source: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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